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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Avoid implementing Aera on top of an existing SAP APO implementation.) Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Watermelon Metrics Don’t Drive The Right Results. I love the metaphor of watermelon metrics. What are functional metrics? Over time, this changed.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

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. While ToolsGroup and SAP (with the acquisition of SmartOps) are the nearest competitors, Terra prided itself on delivering better decisions through better math.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

At the time, DuPont, now acquired by DOW, boasted externally on internal adherence to SAP standardization for decision support. Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. Let me explain.

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Reflections on Integrated Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

However, in the polling data in the APICS webinar, we found that over 70% of the respondents had deployed solutions from the ERP-expansionists (either SAP or Oracle). Today, SAP and Oracle have market share dominance; however, the data is clear. The SAP and Oracle analyst relations groups are big machines. It is complex.

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2018: What Will It Look Like?

Supply Chain Insights

Here are my predictions for 2018: Supply Chain Excellence as We Know It Is Redefined. Supply chain excellence definitions evolve as companies explore the Art of the Possible. This includes SCOR, APICs, Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains, Gartner Hierachy of Metrics, etc. Confluence of Technologies. Fines and penalties will increase.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

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