Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2015

What is Lean Inventory Management? More firms are implementing lean inventory management techniques to reduce costs, improve flexibility and have more time to focus on their customers. Lean supply chain and inventory management enable Small Medium Businesses (SMB) to improve efficiency and increase profits.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 22, 2024

You lack visibility into your finances Inventory management is challenging and you either find yourself running out of material or overstocking your supplies, tying up cash. Does this sound familiar: “How can we have so much inventory in the warehouse and yet we never have the right materials for production?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

On Monday, November 27th, Logility announced the purchase of privately-held Halo Business Intelligence. This announcement continues the trend of supply chain software market consolidation. Logility is a well-established player in the supply chain software market. The company was spun out of the parent company American Software.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 6, 2022

Solutions enable real-time inventory availability and fulfillment optimization for retailers. BOSTON—June 7, 2022 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, today announced its acquisition of Onera, a provider of real-time inventory availability and fulfillment software solutions to retailers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2024

To manage continuous improvement, companies need a clear definition of excellence and organizational alignment to that goal. When I was an analyst at AMR Research (purchased by Gartner in 2010), I used the framework shown in Figure 2, as a framework to discuss supply chain excellence. What Drives Value?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

We find that the companies with the most marked improvement in a balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are smaller and less well-known. Today’s risk management solutions focus largely on supply sensing and early alerting. Will these solutions disrupt?

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

CAGR , the global supply chain management software market is expected to touch USD 50 billion by 2032. This one figure speaks volumes about how organizations worldwide want access to the best supply chain management tools to boost efficiency and value in their distribution and logistics network. The real challenge?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. The initial software product release name was Real-Time Forecasting. The product naming convention changed to Demand Sensing (DS) in 2005. History of Terra Technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 17, 2021

NBG Home Uses a Software Solution from CommerceIQ. NBG Home has implemented a solution from CommerceIQ to increase sales in their indirect channels. The CommerceIQ solution also helps there. The solution uses machine learning, analytics, and automation to drive purchasing. But the forecast can be very wrong.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Keeping up with customer demands, managing inventory, and making sure everything runs smoothly — it’s a lot to handle. Mobile ERP software is transforming warehouses just like yours. This guide is your roadmap to successfully integrating mobile ERP software. There’s a better way.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Whereas retailers once purchased merchandise largely based on the gut instinct of trend-savvy buyers and the push of whatever manufacturers tried to sell them, nowadays, they need to take a much more customer-focused and data-centered approach. Inventory is retailers’ greatest asset AND liability. Retailers are losing $1.75

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. SCaaS offers a solution by enabling hospitals to engage in strategic procurement, ensuring standardized operations throughout the contract duration. Let’s delve into this emerging concept.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 15, 2018

You may have added some best-of-breed add-ons for specialized applications such as multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO). While exploring a new approach to planning, a good place to start is with a tool familiar to many people, the Gartner five stage SCP maturity model. All are potential early demand signals. Demographics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

If we look back at history, 70% of companies implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), however two-decades later only 1% of companies use VMI processes to drive a better demand signal. I do believe in demand planning, but most companies overstate forecast improvements. Here I share my world view. Everyone has a bias.

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The beauty of today’s business software is that most are flexible enough to adapt to any business. Say goodbye to ugly and limited on premise software. And you no longer have to look high and low for vertical industry solutions. This means ready-made software can solve most problems faced by businesses. Quick Links A.

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ThroughPut

MAY 1, 2023

or the planners who are managing super-complex supply chains that include everything from your tiered suppliers, inventory to logistics and sales, the pressure has literally gone through the roof. Yes, we live in an era where demand drives supply. Are we able to intuitively align inventory to match demand?

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Vanguard Software

JUNE 22, 2021

While a period of continued disruption may seem like the wrong time to adopt a new supply chain model, recent global events serve as a call to action – shining a light on the need for collaborative, end-to-end solutions for business planning. Modern Solutions Enable Shock-Resistant Supply Chains. Fountain Tire Case Study. Register Now.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 30, 2015

This in-transit inventory can be tracked as being held in a ‘moving warehouse’ and is used to plan customer order fulfilment, enabling deliveries to be planned with the customer. One Network will interoperate with most ERP and logistics management software systems, providing the ETL environment to load the required data sets.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Managing transportation at this scale is the absolute challenge. In order to streamline the delivery, Coca-Cola implemented a vehicle routing software. The reason is that is the software vendor has a very good relationship with Coca-Cola''s legacy ERP software vendor. Many industries try to imitate Dell''s success.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

You never really know how it will all turn out, yet you need to be able to answer questions like these: How many units of inventory do you need to have on hand to be at full stock for each SKU? How often do you project to replenish inventory ? Maybe you only have a slight understanding of demand for your products.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 13, 2023

The good news, however, is they have plenty of options in their product assortments, store footprints, customer behavior and even virtual worlds as they face these economic headwinds, using tools including basket analysis, which shows what customers are buying, and assortment planning, which helps retailers decide what to sell.”

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Logility

JANUARY 16, 2018

Gartner defines demand sensing as "the translation of demand information with minimal latency to detect who is buying the product, what attributes are selling and what impact demand-shaping programs are having.“ This sounds a lot like the definition for demand planning to me. And now back to that crux.

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Arkieva

JUNE 23, 2016

These planning and scheduling decisions occur across a complex playing field organized by decision tier (strategic, tactical, operational, and relevant time response) and organization (corporate planning, factory, marketing, purchasing, etc.). Demand Management. Supply Planning or Match Assets with Demand (MAD).

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

The credit card company wants to identify purchase transactions that are fraudulent well before the customer receives their monthly bill. It pulls data sets with transaction histories with and without fraudulent purchases and applies machine learning to identify patterns associated with fraud. The coffee purchase was rejected.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. Supply chain management is increasingly making an impact on the overall functioning of the business and influencing C-suite decisions. Do you want to be managing people?

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

On the other hand, ERP, or enterprise resource planning, includes a wide array of business functions, like inventory tracking, accounting, finances, human resources, customer relationships, and more. Multiple business types may use ERP software, while MRP tools are mainly used by those directly involved in manufacturing operations.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

When I began my career there was no such thing as “Supply Chain Management” Supply Chain was not a title to be found anywhere on any organization chart. So what exactly is the definition of “Supply Chain Management”? Interestingly there are many views on how to define Supply Chain. Source: [link] ).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

A Focus on Horizontal Processes to Support Demand Flows. A Focus on Demand Flows. The river of demand has many tributaries. Each demand segment is a tributary forming the river. Learn to navigate the river of demand. Realize that, within the organization, the concept of demand as a flow is not well understood.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 24, 2022

ACCURATE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT. Accurate inventory management can ensure the right flow of items in and out of a warehouse. Generally, there are many inventory related variables like order processing, picking and packing, and this can become very time-consuming with a high tendency for error. WAREHOUSE EFFICIENCY.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2021

Suppliers for all materials and services have to be found, vetted, negotiated with, qualified, ramped up, tracked, managed, kept competitive and governed. That is the purview of Procurement. Cash is king and cash flow management is the source of life, or the cause of death, of any company.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2017

A few years ago I purchased a sofa from a well-known furniture store. The longer the lead time is, the more inventory you will need to hold and the greater the risk that you will have shortages of the things you really need. Supply Chain Software is Not the Solution. I was shocked and asked why it took so long. “We

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Demand Solutions

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Early in my career, I was head of inventory control for a large retail operation that ran as a co-op. If you’d just butt out and let us run purchasing the way we’re supposed to, we’d have all the inventory we need and we wouldn’t have to keep buying Christmas trees in February!” I know the feeling.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns, only 10% of companies are making progress. Unable to power additional year-over-year improvements at the intersection of cost and inventory, companies struggle. The CIO budget is hamstrung with system upgrades and software license payments. Let me explain.

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Demand Solutions

AUGUST 7, 2013

” Of course, “just in case” costs you money in the form of larger inventory. For our purposes, predictive lead time is the ability to know exactly when to purchase a product or supply so that it will be available for a specific date, no matter what time of year you’re ordering. Minimize inventory.

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Veridian Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Understanding more about the needs and wants of customers can help supply chain leaders make informed decisions, improve inventory management, and increase profitability. In recent months, conversations about how to improve forecasting in the supply chain have focused on a subject: demand sensing.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We enable them by providing high-quality supply chain on-demand courses, guides, best practices, tools, and mentoring from industry experts. We have Courses like S&OP deployment, Supply Chain Digitalization , , and Negotiation in Procurement.

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