Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I know that your primary focus is procurement. The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) If you are at the North American CSCMP conference, stop by and listen to the story of Nicole Miera from LKQ and Margo Cohen from Nestle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

I need it for my conference on September 10th-11th, 2014. He is responsible for manufacturing, procurement, supply chain planning, logistics, quality, social responsibility and final product engineering. Which metrics do you think matter to supply chain excellence? I am behind. The heat is on. No backing out.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

One of the goals of the conference was to challenge the audience to redefine work. In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. The question is, “Why?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. That has recently changed.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. Supply chain excellence happens when leaders manage complex non-linear flows.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. As I squeezed into the middle seat of a crowded conference room, I got the stare. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

The older tools from CAPS Logistics, SNO from Oracle, and Manugistics Network Planning are giving way to new technologies like the Logictools product (purchased from IBM), the Solvoyo product for concurrent planning, the Quintiq technology for concurrent optimization, and the Llamasoft technology platform for optimization and simulation.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

That was my opening question to the executives attending last month’s Elemica reveal 2014 Conference in Frankfurt. Several customers addressed those questions in excellent case study presentations: Dr. Bernhard Herzog, Oxea GmbH – “Business Impact of a Supply Chain Operating Network”. Improve process quality for vendors and BASF.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In When I hear them at a conference, I squirm uncontrollably in my seat.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Fatigue during home video conference meeting call. Today, many of us are on conference call after conference call in an endless loop of meetings with little time to question the effectiveness. In my recent work with clients, I have been thinking a lot about S&OP and how we screwed it up. I want to break this cycle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. I kept pressuring this client to use their channel data locked into the Excel files in their sales account teams. Mistake #3. My challenge? Measure it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This team is not buying the message. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. In response to filling out the survey, we will share the results with respondents on a one-hour conference call. “Lucky me,” I thought, and smiled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

If a planning project short-circuits the conference room pilot stages, it will be difficult to ever maximize the value from the investment. The third issue is the lack of understanding that global processes–to maximize the economies of scale in transportation and material buying–need strong governance.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 31, 2016

The procurement Summit 2016. Building on the huge success of eWorld Procurement & Supply – which has been running bi-annually in London since 2001 – the new Procurement Summit will bring together 150 purchasing and finance professionals from across the commercial, public and third sectors. Procurement Automation.

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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. Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The River of Demand. #3

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

My goal in this blog post is to answer a series of questions I got from the audience when I spoke at a couple of conferences this week. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. A strong center of excellence tied to network design is essential.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The focus was on automating procurement. On March 26, 2015, I nsight Venture Partners (“Insight”) purchased E2open for $8.60 Taking the company private, the investment by Insights gives E2open capital to purchase companies. The conference is designed to challenge teams to think different and drive better outcomes.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

According to the Conference Board, despite lockdowns and COVID-19 related restrictions, consumer confidence in Asia rose in the last quarter of 2021 to 128 points from 126 points. Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. As a result, consumer behaviour is likely to become more and more unpredictable.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Cycle stock is the management of stock required to cycle through production runs and procurement buys effectively. More and more companies purchasing inventory technologies, but failing to give planners time to plan. Buying the technology and not having clear processes and accountability does not help.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

If the word collaboration was listed on a card as a drinking game at supply chain conferences, we would be drunk at many. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. Here I share perspective on cash-to-cash abuse. My takeaway?

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 17, 2014

So mark your calendar with the relevant supply chain conferences. Supply Chain Management & Optimization Conference. eWorld Purchasing & Supply. 13th annual supply chain standard Logistics & Supply Chain Conference. 9th Turkey Trade & Export Finance Conference. Supplier Management Excellence.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

An excellent Warehouse Management System (WMS) can help reduce costs by automating cycle counting, and maintaining location control. Create a consortium of buyers (a client and several of their suppliers) to buy needed logistics supplies (i.e. transportation fuel) at a reduced cost that comes with buying in greater quantities.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 6, 2015

The Global Procurement & Supply Chain Conference is a 2 days event being curated by the industry’s leading procurement & supply chain executives and features high-level discussion on your most pressing challenges including: Achieving excellence in internal collaboration and integration. Url: [link].

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

” – Sir Winston Churchill Having just returned from the 2023 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Global conference in Detroit, these words are very fitting to encapsulate the essence of the event. Short-term visibility at the Purchase Order/ASN level is insufficient. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

I am speaking at the Zycus Horizons conference this week, being held at the Reynolds Plantation in Georgia. As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. As we’ve noted in prior posts, talent is the key to procurement organizations.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

When customers have transparency into product availability, delivery timelines, and order status, they are more likely to complete purchases and continue shopping with a business. At the same time, it makes excellent sense to have a good SEO software solution to keep track of how your marketing strategies perform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services. At an MIT conference last year, Tom Linton, Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer at Flextronics, presented his top 10 list of supply chain trends. The robots keep coming.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I just returned from the Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Conference in Detroit. Furthermore, having short-term Purchase Order/ASN-level visibility is insufficient. I look forward to seeing you at next year’s conference! I am feeling energized by what I learned and the people I spoke to while there.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 6, 2016

So mark your calendar with the relevant supply chain conferences. Logy Conference. eWorld Purchasing & Supply. 2nd Annual Global Process Improvement & Operational Excellence Summit. Sedex Conference. SCM & Optimization Conference. Turkey Trade & Export Finance Conference 2016.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 21, 2023

Parents got notifications that school was cancelled, employees got notice to stay home, the world started buying most of their goods online, and the global supply chain did a collective * gulp. We’ve had many ups and downs since March of 2020, but one up that has continued its upward trend, is e-commerce purchase volume.

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HICX Solutions

JANUARY 13, 2023

In this episode of Supplier Experience Live Podcast from HICX, we welcomed Canda Rozier , a Procurement Evangelist and Consultant. She also often contributes to sourcing industry publications, speaks at procurement conferences and events globally and is winner of the 2019 Sourcing Star Award of the SIG Future of Sourcing Award.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 28, 2024

The supply chain field offers a wealth of opportunities for women, making it an excellent career choice for many reasons: 1. The demand for strategic thinking and problem-solving skills creates a path for women to excel. Maryna has: 5 years of experience in procurement training and consulting.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Digitising processes provides transparency of these operational processes and will deliver reliable data, allowing manufacturers to make more effective business decisions to maximise productivity and drive operational excellence. Unleashed Software’s Business Intelligence tools are a case in point.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. This issue is that the orders have inherent order latency (The time for customer purchases to translate to manufacturing orders). Let’s start by addressing the barriers. Barrier #1. Inside-out Thinking.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 27, 2019

This year’s Sustain, EcoVadis’ annual event and one of the world’s top conferences on sustainable global supply chains, saw more grandeur than ever before. An inspiring global-message video featuring children, adults and teenagers from all over the world kick-started the conference and set the tone for the entire event. Ignite Change.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

At a CSCMP conference session, participants offered case after case of how business decisions—both unintentional and intentional—can wreak havoc on transportation spend. During one Father’s Day season, Ulta Beauty rewarded consumers of specific products by offering an additional gift with purchase.

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