Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Is a comparison of COV of channel demand versus orders sufficient? Or a similar comparison of customer orders or planned orders? Or planned orders to purchase orders?) And how do we measure it? (Is I don’t know.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Clear operating strategy and definition of supply chain excellence across plan, source, make and deliver. Most companies buy decision support technology, but do not redefine work to improve decisions. What Does Good Look Like? For me, there are ten characteristics that define a great S&OP process: Clear and Actionable. Governance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Container Import Volume Year-over-Year Comparison. Theme 2: Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies. In 2023, consumers will be less forgiving and poised to buy from retailers whose delivery performance is commensurate with the rest of the shopping experience. Figure 1: U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2021

Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches. I disagreed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Note the comparison to the larger population. 3) Buy Technologies that Supply Chain Planners Will Love. Over 65% of supply chain planning happens in Excel spreadsheets. Many times it is the result of the purchase of supply chain planning technologies purchased based on IT standardization. One of the reasons?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. Metrics comparison of Kellogg Co. One that is going to eat you up! You got it! vs. General Mills, Inc. A Case Study.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

There is an inverse relationship between margin and supply chain excellence. Note that in this comparison of the top three medical device companies in Figure 1, that Zimmer is substantially underperforming against the other two, and that all three companies are going backwards in operating margin. I don’t think so. My Challenge.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2018

Buying a car is overwhelming. I find the process of negotiation, and comparison shopping tiring. We sit on 9,000 quantitative responses and we want to better understand the drivers of supply chain excellence. Supply chain planning satisfaction is a driver of excellence. This week, after ten years, I am test-driving cars.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. I lost track of how many carrots we had and ended up buying more when we really didn’t need any. In a make to stock environment, if I have a 6 month cumulative lead time, my forecast is being used to buy inventory today for something I’m going to sell in 6 months.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For this blog post, never mind the comparison. Buying strategies need to be defined, and the interface needs to be bi-directional. PWC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey reports that 83% of manufacturers say that supply chain technologies have not delivered the expected results. Let’s not quibble on the percentages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Here are the three questions that I would like people to ask: Table 1: Comparison of Results for Best of Breed Solution Providers to ERP Expansionists in Supply Chain Planning. By purchasing planning and transactional systems for a common vendor, they had one throat to choke and they were familiar with the architectural elements.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. eAuctions technology can reduce the cost of purchasing products and services by up to 20%. eAuctions save money in comparison to a regular BAFO tendering process.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Data source: eMarketer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. Unfortunately, this PFEP “tune-up” often uses very time-consuming and manual Excel analysis that limits the frequency of optimization. It translates a buying requirement into a purchase order for requisition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Table 2: Gartner Top 25 Comparison to Peer Group Results As large manufacturers work the conference circuit in the industry to increase brand awareness for their supply chain efforts, they feed the perception that their stories demonstrate supply chain leadership. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Apparel Performance and Improvement Comparison.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

Can we build collaborative platforms for role-based discussions across commercial (sales and marketing) and operations (manufacturing, logistics, and purchasing) teams? Demand latency is the time to translate the purchase in the channel to an order.) Figure 1 shows a potential representation of outside-in, self-service planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

The study is primarily a comparison of best-of -breed solution providers (Logility, JDA, Kinaxis and OM Partners) versus SAP and Oracle. Buying these solutions is far more complicated than is represented in a simple four-box quadrant. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence. It is complex.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

SCMDOJO Procurement Track The Procurement Track is a comprehensive program that equips individuals with the in-demand skills and expertise to excel in procurement and supply chain management. The content focuses on practical skills development and career advancement across various procurement disciplines.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We buy our necessities online twice as much as we did before, we no longer need travel agents to book our trips, and our money transactions do not need a trip to the bank anymore. However, most of the complex web of global supply chains are still planned through excel spreadsheets. What gives?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” This type of benchmarking is the most powerful in the comparison of like competitors. As a result, buyers should buy based on today’s functionality.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2024

What is purchasing? I asked one of our purchasing management experts exactly that question so you can hear it directly from the horse’s mouth. What is Purchasing in Logistics? In short, purchasing is a transaction: you buy an item or a service. Why do people get confused between purchasing and procurement?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. The River of Demand. #3

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. It is a comparison of business pain for the past five years and future five years. Buying patterns are changing quickly, and the insights are multi-dimensional.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 21, 2021

There are several ways to earn money from bitcoins, but one of the safest and easiest ones is buying and holding bitcoins. There are several ways through which you can invest in bitcoins, but if you want to earn maximum profits with excellent ease and comfort, there is no better option than making a long-term investment in it.

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DynaSys

MARCH 5, 2019

For example, European consumers prefer to buy in their region (75%), then abroad (19%) or at the airport (6%). These statistics are similar for Asian consumers who represent the major consumer market with 62% buying luxury goods in Asia, 16% buying luxury goods at the airport, and 22% buying abroad.

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Precoro

JUNE 6, 2022

Suppliers can provide raw materials for manufacturing products or act as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the buying company. Retail shops are vendors for each individual customer buying sneakers. It would make more sense to buy lemonades rather than produce them in-house. Blurred lines. You might have wondered.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting. Too few companies have the discipline to measure Forecast Value Add–comparison to the naive forecast–and drive improvement. Simply put, it is expensive.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

More than 60 percent of marketers also envision leveraging AI to create dynamic landing pages, websites, programmatic advertising and media buying. In-fact, this example of analyzing data based on a user’s purchase history or online shopping behavior is the future for e-commerce.

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Kinaxis

JULY 19, 2016

They expect to be able to make purchases and receive service in that same lightening quick timeframe. Easy Scenario Comparisons. Thanks, in part, to the rise of the Internet of Things, customers are more informed than ever before, and they expect to be able to retrieve details about a person, business, or product in seconds.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

Volatility in pricing trends are opportunities to lock in contractual rates, though shippers and logistics providers must also maintain flexibility to leverage spot buys as needed. If so it may be impossible to conduct an apples-to-apples comparison. When analyzing freight spend, the devil is in the details. He currently serves as Sr.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 18, 2013

For centuries, retailers endeavored to excel during the “moment of truth” – that moment in time when shoppers made the ultimate purchase decision in the store. Those Moments of Influence include the moments of discovery, exploration, comparison, socialization, selection, and post-sale communication.

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The omni-channel consumer is here and this holiday season, their expectations will not only affect the impending Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping rush, but also shape how their purchase decisions are made throughout the year. Buy Online, Pick Up In Store” may be convenient, but not without issues.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

If you don’t do adequate research and comparison shopping, you will end up facing unexpected expenses down the road or website downtime due to performance issues. You won’t have to worry about purchasing expensive hard drives or spending hours uploading documents since everything is saved online. Conclusion.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Multichannel selling allows customers to shop and purchase through whichever channel they prefer. Each channel offers a separate opportunity to interact with the brand and make purchases. When businesses are looking to buy from other businesses, the B2B model comes into play. What is multichannel selling? What is B2B eCommerce?

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Precoro

JANUARY 30, 2023

As a company slowly grows, purchase management becomes more and more complicated. The need to manually create, store, manage, and analyze the ever-growing purchase orders and all associated documents can be pretty cumbersome. Plus, find a comparison table of some free purchase order software and paid programs.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

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