Unleashed

AUGUST 11, 2020

Cost reductions in food manufacturing can be achieved by using food manufacturing software that improves ordering processes and minimises overstocking of expensive raw ingredients. The right software will also improve operational processes, boost warehouse efficiency and reduce waste. Working with fresh food.

Manufacturing Procurement 89

Manufacturing Procurement Inventory Management Software Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Software 89

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Today’s risk management solutions focus largely on supply sensing and early alerting. Some solutions now include proactive event management driving recommendations to correct/prevent disruption. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.) These are three very different solutions.)

Gartner 379

Gartner Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning 379

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The solution was too black box.

Optimal Sourcing 221

Optimal Sourcing Analytics Software Procurement Analytics Supply Chain Planning Software 221

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

I am speaking to companies that are being held hostage to SAP HANA upgrades with 70% cost overruns and 60% time schedule expansion. Similarly, SAP Ariba frustration is mounting in the market. Yet, the IT team is still mandating SAP standardization. For many, mandating SAP is job security for the IT implementation team.

Optimal Sourcing 173

Optimal Sourcing Manufacturing Procurement Supply Chain Planning Software Agile and Lean Supply Chain 173

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Recent releases of Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) refined but did not transform initial software concepts. While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. Traditional planning is batch.

Supply Chain Planning Software 202

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Modeling Software Supply Chain Network Software 202

Supply Chain Movement

JULY 21, 2016

the question of which tools they can use to support these processes is causing headaches for a lot of them. there are three options: to set to work with excel, to develop one’s own solution or to purchase an off-the-shelf tool. The Netherlands is far from an exception in terms of Excel use.

Supply Chain Planning Software 60

Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Software Demand Planning Software Modeling Software 60

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

They knew little about the software market. In the beginning, the inventory management solutions of LogicTools , Optiant and SmartOps pushed to take operations research to a new level through supply chain optimization. SmartOps was purchased by SAP. SAP released an S&OP solution using HANA in 2011.

Supply Chain Planning Software 218

Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Optimization Software SAP 218

SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. Companies with advanced supply chain practices excel in delivering quality third-party logistics management, SKU optimization, efficient transport management, and swift handling of B2B/B2C shipments.

Supply Chain Planning Software 105

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Optimal Sourcing 105

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

The solution solved a relevant industry issue. In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. Transora had a short history. Clear governance.

Supply Chain Design Software 264

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Procurement Analytics Manufacturing Procurement 264

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

As shown in Figure 1, users are more satisfied, the implementations are shorter and there is greater Return on Investment of solutions from Best-of-Breed solution providers—especially if the best-of-breed solution providers used are industry-specific. Today, SAP and Oracle have market share dominance; however, the data is clear.

Supply Chain Planning Software 150

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Scenario Planning Modeling 150

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. Instead, companies need to build it into digital process redefinition like digital path-to-purchase, digital procurement, digital agriculture, digital manufacturing or digital service.

Supply Chain Design Software 153

Supply Chain Design Software Manufacturing Procurement Network Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software 153

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In a development similar to buying your first colour TV (yes my dear daughter, we watched black & white telly) or the first microwave cooker, I have finally bought a Smartphone. CEO; you and your Supply Chain IT purchases. When you think about it, that is quite an investment which has not returned even 0.01% of the purchase price.

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 130

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Supply Chain Software Procurement Solutions Supply Chain Strategy 130

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8 Despite numerous acquisitions and product development efforts, SAP and Oracle are much larger industry giants. In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. SAP and several other companies passed on the opportunity.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 150

Prescriptive Analytics Software Supply Chain Network Software Supply Chain Design Software Analytics Software 150

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

As a result, when I was a Gartner analyst and technology providers would provoke me to write a Magic Quadrant on visibility solutions, I would laugh. This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. Figure 1 is a picture from a client.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 180

Prescriptive Analytics Software Manufacturing Procurement Procurement Analytics Analytics Software 180

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The industry is awash with technologists and consultants focused on selling solutions. As companies consider purchasing new solutions based on better planning engines—machine learning, rules-based ontological frameworks, narrow AI, pattern recognition, large language models, and sentiment analysis— I ask for the use of caution.

Supply Chain Planning Software 221

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Scenario Planning Agile and Lean Supply Chain 221

Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” There are too few people in the world who are really knowledgeable about inventory management software tools. However, let’s face facts.

Inventory Reduction 150

Inventory Reduction Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Inventory Management Software 150

Supply Chain Insights

AUGUST 11, 2017

The evidence is in; and it appears that consumer products manufacturers now have a wide range of choices for both cloud and on-premise solutions to managing the second largest line item in the company P&L. They will undoubtedly be taxed in their effort to choose the right solution. User Interfaces. Beautiful.

Vendor Strategies 110

Vendor Strategies Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Analytics Software 110

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. Increasingly, companies are evaluating business network solutions to close the gap on inter-enterprise visibility, but as they work on the problem, they find that they need to somehow interconnect business networks. The gaps are large.

Manufacturing Procurement 150

Manufacturing Procurement Procurement Analytics Supply Chain Network Software Procurement Solutions 150

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). These tools only answer the questions that we know to ask. We have built transactional buying relationships.

Supply Chain Design Software 288

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software Supply Chain Network Software 288

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. Growing at an overwhelming rate of 11.1%

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Software Analytics Software 52

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Here are the three questions that I would like people to ask: Table 1: Comparison of Results for Best of Breed Solution Providers to ERP Expansionists in Supply Chain Planning. The first evolution of technologies were built by best-of-breed solution vendors. This new solution was favored by the Information Technology (IT) organization.

Supply Chain Planning Software 320

Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Demand Planning Software Optimization Software 320

ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Author: Hubert Verweij , Head of Procurement Transformation, Capgemini Invent Sweden and Finland. Nowadays, Procurement practitioners primarily talk about emerging topics like the reduction of scope 3 emissions, supplier-enabled innovation and supply risk management. Maverick buying . Over, early, and late payments .

Optimal Sourcing 130

Optimal Sourcing Pricing Training Procurement Solutions Optimization Software 130

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Process industry leaders–chemical, consumer packaged goods, food/beverage–have greater issues using data, with software usability, and building effective connections to align and build effective relationships with trading partners. The processes are largely batch, using data with great latency (orders and purchase orders).

Supply Chain Software 150

Supply Chain Software Supply Chain Network Software Manufacturing Procurement Supply Chain Planning Software 150

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. The company also offers engineered-to-order solutions, such as control centers and medium-voltage drives. Solutions, for example, can take from 12 to 16 weeks to manufacture. The project included the centralization of SAP ERP and the augmentation with other software.

Supply Chain Software 30

Supply Chain Software Case Study Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software 30

Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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

Supply Chain Design Software 190

Supply Chain Design Software Inventory Reduction Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting 190

Precoro

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Rémi Lelarge, the Head of Procurement and Logistics at Electra, shared their story of building a comprehensive procurement process with Precoro. The startup that immediately chose Precoro For the first few months after Electra was founded, like many startups, the team had a manual procurement process and used spreadsheets.

Procurement Solutions 52

Procurement Solutions Pricing Training Purchasing Training Procurement Analytics 52

GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

No Purchase Orders were used. VMI is an excellent option for many dealers and distributors as it has the ability to increase inventory turns, reduce customer returns, reduce administrative costs and reduce lost sales. Software to Manage Vendor Managed Inventory. We only paid for fasteners as we used them.

Vendor Strategies 120

Vendor Strategies Inventory Reduction Modeling Software Modeling 120

Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are three main components involved: Barcoding hardware Barcoding software The barcode itself Here we’ll look in detail at all three of these components, as well as how barcoding is used as a critical part of online inventory management , warehousing and supply chain management – and some of its key benefits.

Inventory Management Software 96

Inventory Management Software Inventory Management Inventory Reduction Inventory 96

Enterra Insights

JANUARY 27, 2022

.”[1] A nationally-focused study published by SAP Canada and IDC Canada concluded, “Digital transformation will be the most valuable business investment Canadian companies can make as they enter 2022.”[2] And, according to the staff at MHI, “Digital technologies and tools are table stakes.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 182

Prescriptive Analytics Software Trends Predictive Analytics Software Analytics Software 182

RELEX Solutions

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nordic hardware wholesaler has selected RELEX Solutions to streamline its business and improve its supply chain planning processes. To make its operations more efficient and better support its customers’ needs, Arvid Nilsson was looking for a solution provider that could deliver a robust, proven solution and design strong planning processes.

Supply Chain Planning Software 28

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I worked for a software company for almost a decade and implemented demand management solutions in the 1990s for multiple companies. Most demand planning happens in Excel Ghettos not in the expensive technologies implemented in 90% of manufacturing companies. Here I share my world view. Everyone has a bias. Moving Forward.

Supply and Demand 159

Supply and Demand Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Software 159

ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

PKP Energetyka, launched the implementation of Ivalua’s state-of-the-art Procurement and Sourcing solution with the participation of OptiBuy. In recent years, the company has been consistently implementing advanced technological solutions, thus improving the quality, safety and effectiveness of its operations.

Optimal Sourcing 100

Optimal Sourcing Procurement Solutions Optimization Software Supply Chain Network Software 100

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2017

Examples include E2open, Elemica, GT Nexus (now owned by INFOR ), and SAP Ariba. As shown in Figure 2, few orders and purchase orders flow hands-free. When the group started, technology/software providers wanted to send sales people. There is friction in the process of data exchange. Investments in ERP are not the answer.

Supply Chain Network Software 153

Supply Chain Network Software Supply Chain Design Software Modeling Software Analytics Software 153

Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. » Impact of SMAC on Enterprise Software Applications. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Public Sector. Business Services.

Analytics Software 35

Analytics Software Supply Chain Network Software Supply Chain Planning Software Predictive Analytics Software 35

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. Should I migrate to SAP IBP? Get a cup of coffee.

Supply Chain Planning Software 234

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Supply Chain Software 234

Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Layaway: • The customer selects the product that she wants to buy. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Public Sector. Human Resources.

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 22

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Manufacturing Procurement Procurement Solutions Agile and Lean Supply Chain 22

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. The CIO budget is hamstrung with system upgrades and software license payments. There is a belief that the efficient response—the tightly integrated lean supply chain—defines supply chain excellence.

Supply and Demand 150

Supply and Demand Prescriptive Analytics Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software 150