Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Wikipedia Unleashing the Contrarian Here are my thoughts this morning over coffee: Gartner Top 25: Really A Celebration of Supply Chain Leadership? Designed to lift the profession and celebrate supply chain results, I struggle to find that the methodology supports either objective.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Inventory Management Introduction: In the rapidly evolving tech industry, maintaining optimal inventory management practices is crucial for sustained growth and competitiveness. This blog delves into industry-leading inventory management best practices.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Introduction: In the rapidly evolving tech industry, maintaining optimal inventory management practices is crucial for sustained growth and competitiveness. This blog delves into industry-leading inventory management best practices. Together, they ensure a responsive supply chain that adapts to changing demand.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Introduction: In the rapidly evolving tech industry, maintaining optimal inventory management practices is crucial for sustained growth and competitiveness. This blog delves into industry-leading inventory management best practices. Together, they ensure a responsive supply chain that adapts to changing demand.

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Logility

JANUARY 13, 2022

NASDAQ: AMSWA ), through its operating entities, delivers an innovative technical platform with AI-powered capabilities for supply chain management and advanced retail planning that is accelerating digital supply chain optimization from product concept to customer availability. Demand Management, Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

When it comes to running a company, when things break down executives have traditionally said “we need to improve our forecasting!” How much will demand be impacted? When companies talk about improving their forecasting, they are most often referring to demand forecasting. Absolutely! When will the recession hit?

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Logility

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

NASDAQ: AMSWA), a leading provider of innovative AI-powered supply chain management and advanced retail planning solutions, today announced that it will release its Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 financial results after the U.S. Demand Management, Inc. ATLANTA, GA (November 3, 2021) – American Software, Inc.

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Logility

AUGUST 16, 2022

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced its recognition as one of SupplyChainBrain ’s 2022 100 Great Supply Chain Partners. We benefited greatly from the industry expertise at Logility and from their local implementation partner Demand Management Systems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2024

In 2016, we finished a study on continuous improvement. In the study, when we asked for the top elements of business pain to drive continuous improvement for companies greater than 5B$ in annual revenue, as shown in Figure 1, we found the largest issues with cross-functional alignment and availability of talent.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. During the pandemic, the supply chain discussions take new importance. While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The supply chain career is new. Reflection.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. The implementation also involves leveraging weather data to improve forecasting. Pinnacle Propane Delivery to a Farm. This is also rare.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And where better to start than Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the supply chain market? As a result, we need to agree on some definitions before focusing on the supply chain space. Strong AI is designed to improve its own performance over time, to make “a better decision tomorrow.” Where does Machine Learning fit?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 6, 2022

Disruptions that have occurred during the pandemic have shown how many manufacturers have not managed their supply chains appropriately and have reaped the consequences in terms of insufficient inventory. There are ways to manage a supply chain amid disruptions but they require changes in the way the business works.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 11, 2021

Bowman, managing editor of SupplyChainBrain , asks, “Emerging from the pandemic, where do we go from here?”[2] ”[2] It’s a question with which supply chain professionals have been wrestling for months. Bowman seems to think supply chain professionals should have been better prepared.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

Time For A Supply Chain Check-Up? When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service. Ironically, I find organizations easily write big checks for technology implementations, but struggle to drive process improvement.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

When it comes to forecasting and demand management , a lot. For events like the Super Bowl, retail demand planners create forecasts using data from a variety of sources to adjust product demand profiles in anticipation of which product, or group of products might be in demand the most.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this October 10, 2023 2023 edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology we provide our capsule highlights of investments announced by supply chain management focused tech providers. No financial details were disclosed regarding this acquisition.

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Logility

JUNE 8, 2022

For the Supply Chain business, professional services revenues for the quarter ended April 30, 2022 increased by 11% to $6.0 With continued strain on the global supply chain, this past year truly underscored the need companies have for more accurate demand forecasting, inventory optimization and resilient sourcing strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2021

Despite the significant amount of effort involved in going from running a business on Excel spreadsheets to implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP), they are very grateful that their efforts to improve their supply chain agility were underway when the pandemic hit. The company has a sourcing team that vets the beans.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 6, 2022

As a supply chain analyst and an economics enthusiast, I was curious to learn more. It appears from these sources that retailers’ excess inventory is due to a rapid shift in demand patterns along with a reduction in purchasing power at the same time that inflation is discouraging some discretionary spending.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Source: The Enterprise System Spectator. In recent months four experts have weighed in on Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP). Lora Cecere of SC Insights was the first of the supply chain expert opinions I saw on DDMRP. He is a great thinker on inventory planning and demand management.”

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Manufacturers have incurred significant financial losses due to supply chain disruptions and the subsequent inventory management challenges. Companies struggling to manage their supply chains often lack data for decision making, have siloed systems and inefficient inventory management practices.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 18, 2014

by CJ Wehlage What would you say is the next great disruption coming to our supply chain world? However, there’s one great disruption already occurring, which has yet to truly “touch” supply chain. As a supply chain practitioner, do you notice something missing? Where is the supply chain nodes?

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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”? The Evolution of Supply Chain!

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Taulia

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Which makes cash flow management one of the most fundamentally important practices in business. What is cash flow management? Cash flow management is the process by which a business keeps track of and optimizes the cash coming in and going out. It’s central in working capital management. Measuring cash flow.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“Third quarter fiscal year 2021 saw continued adoption of our cloud services offerings with a 29% growth in Subscription Fees and a 24% increase in Annual Contract Value, reflecting the increasing momentum across the industry towards cloud-based supply chain transformation solutions,” said Allan Dow, CEO and president of American Software.

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Kinaxis

JULY 18, 2014

Even if you’re not you should check out Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. For the past several years, Supply Chain Insights has been delivering this research series. Think about those design, sourcing and delivery challenges. by Bill DuBois.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Around 69% of companies do not have complete visibility of their supply chains or that 46% of small businesses don’t track their inventory or don’t have an automated method to track it? If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s the volatility of the market and how the demand dynamics can change almost overnight.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS)! Starting and growing a business is already a daunting task without even considering the Supply Chain construct needed to make the business run. Expertise and capital availability does not usually prioritize Supply Chain.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Unsurprisingly, the average Fortune 500 company wastes about $250 million in wages and 530,000 days in managers’ time every year as a result of ineffective decision-making. Businesses, however, need real-time, relevant, and actionable intelligence to effectively manage increasingly complex supply chain networks.

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Logility

JUNE 8, 2021

Our performance reflects increasing adoption of cloud-based supply chain transformation solutions and our backlog as measured by our Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO) increased 51% to $116 million in the fourth quarter when compared to last year, which demonstrates the longer-term commitment of our customers to our platform and services.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented supply vs. demand shocks across our supply chains. The shock has shaken up age-old demand patterns and has amplified uncertainty and volatility across sectors. This is truly a stress test for Demand Management Processes.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For the Supply Chain business, professional services revenues for the quarter ended January 31, 2022 increased by 13% to $5.4 Because of this, I believe the adoption of AI and ML is going to continue to accelerate and enable companies to truly optimize operations and achieve sustainability long-term. and Demand Management, Inc.,

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2021

We continue to see increasing adoption of cloud-based supply chain transformation solutions, resulting in accelerating backlog growth as measured by our Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO), which increased 63% to $122 million in the first quarter when compared to last year. and Demand Management, Inc., Logility, Inc.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Gartner says, “To guarantee this, the supply chain operating model must change. Supply chains need to deliver new types of customer experiences, and they will do so through virtual ecosystems that are powered by new digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI),” says Gartner. See diagram above).

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 23, 2020

Speed in decision-making, speed in reducing cycle-times, speed in operations, and speed in continuous improvement. According to Gartner , supply chain organizations expect the level of machine automation in their supply chain processes to double in the next five years.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 25, 2015

’ The authors, Anandhi Narayanan, Senior Manager, Advanced Customer Solutions, Charles Thomas, Director, IT Customer Solutions, Stacey Greene, Director of Inventory Optimization and Robert Rejano, Processes and Applications Advisor, all with Celestica, describe the critical steps needed to drive inventory performance improvements.

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