Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. The conference did not disappoint. Teams need a single source of the truth that creates a seamless workflow, enabling immediate action.

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Logility

JANUARY 13, 2022

Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022. Time: 10:00 am ET. A live webcast of the presentation will be accessible via American Software’s website and archived for a limited time at www.amsoftware.com/investor-relations. For more information about American Software, please visit www.amsoftware.com , call (404) 364-7615 or email kliu@amsoftware.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. Because procurement is a major theme of the conference, I could not help but talk to the top executives of this business unit about the new Elon Musk biography.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Results from The Conference Board’s C-SUITE OUTLOOK survey showed supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and rising inflation to be 3 of the 5 high impact external factors on the minds of CEOs. However, I am surprised at the degree that localized sourcing is being considered.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2021

Trade-offs of commercial programs with source, make, and deliver to maximize value to the customer and improve margin.). Doing a conference in the pandemic is a risk. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the Supply Chain of 2030. Maturity Model. All in-person attendees must be vaccinated.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I smiled on the week following the conference as the accolades piled up in my inbox. Attending the conference was Alexia Howard, Senior Research Analyst – US Foods for Sanford C. Following the conference, Alexia asked for me to share the methodology with over 150 financial analysts. 110 supply chain leaders attended.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

SAP is embedding its generative Joule across the SAP Ariba source-to-pay solution portfolio to make it easier for their customers to manage routine inquiries, such as status updates, summarization, and frequently asked questions. I have been to other vendors’ procurement conferences and cannot recall seeing similar functionality.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Here we share the answers to the questions that we get the most often about this research: What is the source of data? We placed them in the industry that they were the most like, e.g., the primary source of revenue. Yes, we will do this study yearly in the preparation for our annual conference. What is the Supply Chain Index?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My first focus was on China sourcing. As the world for non-essential workers moved to on-line meetings, conference calls, and uncertainty, essential workers redefined the workplace to mitigate risk. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) Explore alternative analytics and data sources to eliminate black holes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. Brent pointed out that Covid created small interruptions for many companies in terms of sourcing semiconductor chip materials. In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA.

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ivalua

APRIL 23, 2020

Do you remember the days when we used to attend these things called “conferences”? Next month, on May 5 th and 6 th , I’m looking forward to what looks like an interesting and worthwhile virtual Procurement conference – Ivalua NOW 2020 Virtual Edition. . In a big room, with hundreds of other people, none of them wearing masks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

Supply chain management as a discipline—a set of flows combining the processes of source, make and deliver together to drive value– is relatively new. Use new forms of open-source analytics to continually mine the market data to answer the questions in the face of uncertainty. Data-Driven Testing to Fill the Conference Void?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. They are not active on conference circuits. With more than forty-five years of experience in the industry, I struggle with the lack of progress and the current level of Groupthink. Is this success?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Supply Chain 2022 Predictions — APEJ Implications. Tender documents and responsible source guidance are requiring suppliers to show evidence of their actions to support ESG initiatives, as well as the actions of their suppliers. Companies, both large and small, are changing. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2021

No network crosses over the source, make, deliver processes. In addition, Nulogy does an excellent job of managing outsourced manufacturing for consumer products, but not bi-directional sourcing or logistics flows. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the Supply Chain of 2030. Ariba’s process is onerous.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Source Wikipedia. Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. It is for this reason that I sit on the back row at most conferences watching, listening, and smiling. Definition: Brass tacks are a type of pin or nail.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Source: Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Now, speaking at September's Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in London , P&G’s product supply director Onofrio Caradonna reveals how the company is applying planning capabilities to its distributor network.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2014

Yesterday, I spoke at the Eye for Transport conference on the Big Data opportunity in supply chain. When I go to an analytics conference today, I feel like the dumbest person in the room. The second company reads market data through syndicated sources. My mind is moving to the click-clack of my keyboard on this quiet morning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2024

Scale drives profitability,” Turner told a group of industry analysts on April 22 nd , the day before the Coupa Inspire user conference began. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, sourcing, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 22, 2017

Source: Andrew Downard, Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, May 2017. Business is moving fast and there is so much new data now speeding through the pipes that Gartner says it’s not possible to plan a supply chain without some level of automation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 16, 2021

A member of my team is a member of global sourcing. The person looks at alternative sourcing over ten years. In the past, sourcing was a manual activity. We were dealing with a legacy of fragmented data sources, all different regarding data types used (e.g., The conference is in Franklin, TN on September 7th-10th, 2021.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2023

FreightWaves’ SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. pageviews a month and over 1.5B monthly impressions.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FreightWaves’ SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. FreightWaves provides current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Go to the source. Set up a time for digital marketing teams, data scientists, sales account teams, and supply chain groups to brainstorm on using various data sources to improve the models. 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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. They are designed to have minimal impact on the performance of the underlying source systems. Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. I believe this claim.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

The announcement came on May 15th at the company’s annual user conference, Momentum. Manhattan Associates, a leading supplier of supply chain and omnichannel management software solutions, recently had a major product release that will shake up the supply chain planning market. The BOM transformation creates a feasible plan for procurement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Risk management solutions scrape data from hundreds of thousands of online & social-media sites, but Autoliv also has access to sources of information that they pay for. The implementation was not trivial.

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ivalua

APRIL 15, 2020

The conference will address a number of critical issues, such as: How to accelerate the digital transformations required to free capacity, improve decision-making and enable scalable collaboration with suppliers and stakeholders?

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Logility

MAY 10, 2022

In conjunction with the release, the company will host a conference call at 5:00 pm ET to discuss its results with the investment community. financial markets close on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. For more information about American Software, please visit www.amsoftware.com , call (404) 364-7615 or email kliu@amsoftware.com.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

John is CEO of FreightPath , an innovative talent firm that offers both a comprehensive learning management system and a direct candidate sourcing solution. FreightPath addresses multiple industry challenges by offering both a comprehensive learning management system and a direct candidate sourcing solution.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 16, 2023

Featuring over fifty Gartner experts and more than 140 research-driven sessions, this year’s conference gathered over 3,700 supply chain professionals from across North America and beyond. Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2023 has wrapped up its 3-day event in Orlando, Florida.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

During his tenure in the industry, he built innovative pricing and forecasting models, leveraging internal and external data sources to improve internal decision-making and increase profitability. Prior to joining DAT, Adamo led the pricing and decision science teams at FedEx.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

As an old gal attending multiple conferences (more than I would like at times), I have listened to speakers waft eloquently about the value of concepts like networks, big data, industry 4.0, Without tangible results, the concepts evaporate over time. Each has a cycle, typically a large investment, but leaves no fairy dust residue.

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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. At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. Similarly, after the conference, I started working with a chemical company to formulate a supply chain strategy. Allyson’s presentation was just that.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Association for Supply Chain Management ( ASCM ) hosted its annual conference, ASCM CONNECT , on September 18 – 20 in Chicago. The supply chain team conducted an in-depth analysis of 3 key projects and determined that 61% of components are internationally sourced, and most critical components are manufactured in Asia or Europe.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Brokerage & Managed Transportation: Handling all aspects of freight transportation, including carrier sourcing and contract management. Real-time Carrier & Brokers Spot Bidding: Finding the best rates for spot shipments. Gate, Yard, and Dock Computer Vision Asset Tracking: Using cameras to track assets within the yard.

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