Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 19, 2024

The supply network–shipments and production of trading partners–represents over 70% of the environmental impact of supply chain decisions. Despite the importance, the investment in networks to automate the information flow between trading partners remains low. Many systems without interoperability.

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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. Today I am writing my take on the acquisition of Terra Technology by E2open. It is a story of supply chain innovation. History of Terra Technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. Like riding a bumpy road, the supply chain leader is riding the ups and downs of changing market conditions facing greater variability day-to-day. Here, based on interviews with supply chain leaders, I share lessons learned. It will not be over soon.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). In 2018, Rockwell Automation won the Supply Chains to Admire Award.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2024

My takeaway is a serious concern by attendees on the impact of SAP RISE on global supply chains. Definition: “The RISE with SAP offering includes an AI-powered cloud ERP that’s managed and optimized by SAP. SAP is the maestro of charging customers for software upgrades. I listened.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

At the beginning of the third decade of supply chain management, a new class of applications was born. They were born from well-intentioned, bright professors from great schools – Boston College, Carnegie Mellon, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT )– in operations research. SmartOps was purchased by SAP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. Located in the United Kingdom (UK), he has more than twelve years of experience in progressive roles driving demand-drive projects for their global supply chain. Understanding the Lubricant Supply Chain. Overview of Shell.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. Sometimes, even the definition of a supply chain is not clear. 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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Let’s start with the definitions: Graph AI uses Machine Learning on graph-based technology to understand the relationships between variables to drive insights. Graph technology leverages graph structures to represent and store data. We have this today in most supply chain planning solutions. Let’s have fun!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

I asked companies to “Navigate through the hype focusing on the feasibility of scope and technology.” At the time, the popular belief was that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technologies would build multi-tier capabilities. Today, the multi-tier capabilities for supply chain management are coming from the born-again marketplaces.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supply chain planning and the results on user satisfaction. 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). The results confound me. Let me share the story.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Companies implementing supply chain planning (SCP) have traditionally been very big companies or companies with complex supply chains. Supply chain planning is not just for the big boys. In September of 2020, the company hired Jeff Baker to be their Vice President of Procurement and Integrated Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

The technology market is rife with unsubstantiated claims and myths. Each year, I publish a report analyzing the technologies in the S&OP space. I sent the report to technology vendors listed in the appendix with a deadline for feedback on factual accuracy for 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday. New technology is evolving.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The consulting team pitches a theme–vision of supply chain best practices, big data analytics, or demand-driven value networks– to the executive team, and a new project is initiated. Question 1: What drives a Successful Implementation of Supply Chain Planning? Supply chain planning is now on its third decade.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Recently, I hosted the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Net/net, the current architectures are hard-wired into back-office Information Technology deployments with layers of security and integration, and batch processing. The Supply Chain Executives were not interested in the project, and as a result, did not see the value.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Supply chain innovation is slowly simmering in the face of radical disruption. The supply chain visionary wants novel and new. I find technology providers pitching old–often wrapped in the cloak of ‘digital transformation.’ As a result, supply chain leaders continuously ask me to unravel market confusion.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Over his 30+ year career in the supply chain, Richard has worked with manufacturers around the world in operations, supply chain, and lean strategy roles to develop systems that can manage complex supply chains on a global scale. acquired by SAP). Richard previously founded and led Factory Logic, Inc.

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

Consultants and technology leaders are rebranding under a “digital umbrella” without clear definition. For the purposes of clarity, in this article, the term digital supply chain is the transformation of the atoms and electrons within the supply chain to unleash new levels of value. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Regional supply chain companies are attempting to define global requirements. They are well versed in requirements for regional supply chain planning, but they are attempting to redefine their processes and be more global. Success in Supply Chain Planning Is a Flip of a Coin. There is no one right answer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is over, but we hope the energy to define Supply Chain 2030 is just beginning. Today only 12% of supply chain teams are driving improvement, performing better than their competitors and driving value (as determined by Price to Tangible Book Value). What does it take?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

The premise of the Christensen’s book is that when companies focus on current customer needs, they fail to adopt new technologies or business models that will meet the customer’s unstated or future needs. I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector.

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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.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The design of the supply chain is fundamental to making this happen. In our interview of the Supply Chains to Admire Winners, we found a unique approach at Carter’s. Supply Chain Index.

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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. All that technology, functionality and connectivity simply wasted. By the way, I have purchased the same Smartphone for my wife. And guess what?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. In these sessions, the technology providers share their rational for the investment and invite questions. Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8

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AIMMS

JULY 9, 2015

A recent report by the ACE European Group identifies supply chains as of the biggest sources of concern for European businesses today. On the other hand, there is a rising need for smarter and more flexible tools as well as more staff with analytical capabilities. The challenges: demand, staffing and technology.

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Precoro

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Supply chain management, purchase requisitions and orders, budget management, and three-way matching – all these processes are integral to procurement as a whole. Managers utilize numerous dedicated tools to ensure the efficiency and simplicity of the procurement cycle and get real-time insights. Delays and Bottlenecks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 18, 2019

I spent time this week completing reference calls on the use of S&OP technologies. Seeking the next sequel in technology adoption, I want to write how the confluence of new technologies changed companies’ abilities to improve decisions. So, to find the new sequel, I also interviewed new technology entrants.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2022

In the 1990s, I transitioned from managing an emerging supply chain organization at a mid-sized manufacturing company to working for a supply chain planning company. When I joined the software company, I had just finished my MBA at Wharton School of Business. And “Companies do not have one supply chain, but many.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2022

In the 1990s, I transitioned from managing an emerging supply chain organization at a mid-sized manufacturing company to working for a supply chain planning company. When I joined the software company, I had just finished my MBA at Wharton School of Business. And “Companies do not have one supply chain, but many.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

Six years ago, on a snowy January afternoon, I wrote my first post for the Supply Chain Shaman. My goal is to write insights for the supply chain visionary. The Supply Chain Shaman is an independent blog. I manage a team at Supply Chain Insights and actively publish using an Open Content research model.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

What is the #1 technology topic Descartes CEO Ed Ryan gets asked about? Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. Will this include drone deliveries? DescartesEvolution keynote by Ed Ryan, complete with drone! pic.twitter.com/rDXqt2Q7rV.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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Precoro

JULY 29, 2024

In today’s digitalized world, more and more companies are moving away from paper and spreadsheet-based processes in favor of more accurate, simple, and efficient automation. However, with numerous e-procurement software vendors available, choosing the right tool can be overwhelming. Let’s break them down.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

The supply chain leader is incredibly busy and made even busier by having to navigate systems that don’t work well. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. Make digital supply chain transformation a priority.

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