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Gartner’s Five-Stage Maturity Model for Supply Chain Analytics

ToolsGroup

Gartner measures supply chain analytics maturity across seven different dimensions. There are supply chain and demand analytics models that describe the type of analytics being deployed (e.g., descriptive, prescriptive, etc.). Excel spreadsheets dominate, providing limited analytics.

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Control Towers: If Only There Was A Clear Definition

Supply Chain Shaman

There is no class of technologies, or common definition, for “control towers.” While there are many types of visibility (see Figure 1), the most common use case is either sourcing or transportation visibility. Contract manufacturing or 3PL data often will have a 24-hour latency due to batch integration. Business Use Cases.

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Tackling the Unknown: Trying to Figure Out New Forms of Analytics

Supply Chain Shaman

The new world of supply chain analytics is my current research project. There is a great need for improved supply chain analytics. The average company has over 150 technologies; yet, they cannot get to data. There is now an analytics layer evolving to connect operational technologies with employee productivity tools.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

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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5 Steps Supply Chain Planning Solutions Implementation Success

Logility

It’s important to plan a supply chain technology implementation carefully and to understand that the vendor and the client are partners on a journey to realize value for the client organization. That meeting of the minds is critical in seeking out a software vendor and to the success of the eventual implementation project.

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. End-to-End Definition Implementation of enterprise data architectures to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

We easily navigate the digital world in our personal lives, but enterprise software is not digital. of revenue on technologies which will quickly become legacy in the race to define digital processes. In the evolution of today’s analytics most companies are evaluating concurrent optimization of transactional data.