Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change. High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. For SAP users, it is the best and a much needed system of record. Reflections. Here is my advice.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 1, 2014

CRM and SRM functionality did not fit the needs for manufacturing-based companies (CRM was too lightweight. And SRM functionality, while automating indirect procurement, did not address the larger needs to automate direct material purchasing for a manufacturer.) 3) SAP Stumbles and Then Succeeds. I welcome the third act.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 19, 2024

In this research, 81% of brand owners and contract manufacturers primarily depend on communication through email and spreadsheets. Approximately 32% of manufacturing, across industries, is outsourced. Most of the network investment is in passing procurement transactional data. Most is silo’d.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The stories border on the ridiculous.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2013

The company partnered with SAP to launch a product offering, SAP Supply Chain Response by icon-scm, in 2010. SAP company passed on a thirty-day period of first refusal to acquire the asset allowing the purchase by E2open on July 31st, 2013. The founders bet the future of the company on the SAP partnership.

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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 Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Avoid implementing Aera on top of an existing SAP APO implementation.) Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement became an island–isolated from the demand signal except for MRP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Those without any chutzpah define the “supply chain” as an organizational function that focuses only on distribution, manufacturing and procurement. Last week, I was with a client that is working with SAP to run their supply chain planning system, SAP APO, on SAP’s HANA platform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first story is about a large regional food manufacturer. The first in the 1990s was Manugistics, the second in the early 2000s was SAP APO, and now their solution is SAS. The second story is about a regional beverage manufacturer. I have changed the names to provide anonymity. Let’s Be Customer Centric. The answer?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2015

It’s also a big reason why SAP and Descartes formally announced their partnership this morning focused on TMS connectivity (attendees of Descartes’ user conference last month were given a sneak peak of this announcement).

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

Of course trade-offs of higher manufacturing costs are balanced against reduced inventory costs, lower freight/logistics costs, lower duties and taxes, etc. As a consequence, systems integrators will move from doing big bang SAP/IBP rollouts to building integrated BoB solutions within open clouds.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 23, 2016

Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2016. URL: sapinsiderevents.wispubs.com/2016/Vienna/SCM-PLM-MFG-Procurement-CRM/. Attend Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2016 to: Improve agility, cost allocation, and visibility across the extended supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This manufacturer produces plastic reusable material handling containers and plastic fuel tanks. The Company operates eighteen manufacturing facilities, nine distribution centers located throughout North and Central America. Mr. Baker spent over 34 years leading procurement teams at The Dow Chemical Company.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The SAP staff observes, “The top supply chain optimization priorities havent really changed for decades, even centuries: Make sure customers are happy, increase efficiency and profitability, and balance supply and demand.”[2] ” Manufacturing optimization. ” SAP Explainer, 19 August 2024. [3]

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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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Taulia

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

­Driving decarbonization with technology In 2023, the SAP CPO Think Tank community has been closely examining how companies can accelerate supply chain decarbonization. This blog highlights key strategies from these recent forums on sustainable procurement and practical tips to achieve impactful results. How can technology help?

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Bristlecone

AUGUST 18, 2020

To remain competitive in today’s global economy and keep pace with market demand, industries like engineered products, complex assembly manufacturing, and aerospace and defense must continue to innovate and introduce new products. Manufacturing of new products requires the ability to make adjustments and design changes on short notice.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this volatile world, efficient procurement led by a CFO is not the answer. The manufacturing-centric company is used to strangling suppliers and demanding terms. In Figure 1, we show the overall performance of manufacturers and distributors. Performance of Manufacturers and Distributors During the Pandemic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

SAP SAP showed off Joule, its generative AI assistant. Joule can analyze the sustainability practices of suppliers and manufacturers that a retailer partners with. This process creates transparency across the entire supply chain, including manufacturers, suppliers, and facilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2018

However, companies like JDA, Logility, Oracle and SAP are hamstrung by software maintenance upgrades, promises to customers and evolution. One of the largest blights in the market is the SAP evolution of APO and the lack of clarity of the roadmap. Shifting and aligning manufacturing load across factories is critical.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

So for the last decade the Procurement teams have been pushing the ‘No-PO, No Pay’ mantra, it’s now even ‘Government Policy’. As resolution to tax fraud, legislation is being introduced across the globe that forces every business to use ERPs (Oracle, SAP, MS Dynamics etc.) or Accounting systems (e.g. Xero, Sage, Quickbook etc.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

EDI is too cumbersome, and SAP Ariba’s focus, despite the marketing hype, is primarily on managing indirect spending. (My The SAP acquisition of Ariba slowed innovation and the purchase, and then the failed promise of investment in Crossgate was disappointing to SAP supply chain business users. There is hope.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. The supply chain investments of the last decade focused on improving black & white processes–order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. Last month, I was at a chemical manufacturer, and the Chief Supply Chain Officer walked me to the elevator. For most leaders in supply chain and manufacturing, this is a new world, and not one that is well-understood or valued. Absolutely!

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. What did we find? Many try to start with technology. Let me give you example.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We saw this right at the start of the pandemic, when parts being manufactured in Wuhan province disrupted car manufacturers’ production lines around the world. These disconnections can seriously hurt manufacturers and retailers in today’s online, service-driven economy where consumer expectations are defined by the Amazon experience.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Rockwell this includes all processes end-to-end except for manufacturing. As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. From a manufacturing perspective, products vary significantly in complexity. Solutions, for example, can take from 12 to 16 weeks to manufacture. He is a humble and quiet leader.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

This allows shared services of procurement and transportation to function smoothly to achieve the economies of scale. Without this discipline, the global organization cannot actualize buying power in procurement or lower costs and improve costs/customer service in transportation. Planners need time to plan.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Demand-driven concepts are expansive they extend from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier, but the areas of sales and procurement are often very resistant to the demand-driven concepts. I also like the work that is happening at the Demand-driven Institute on the redesign of manufacturing to be more demand driven.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

Instead, companies need to build it into digital process redefinition like digital path-to-purchase, digital procurement, digital agriculture, digital manufacturing or digital service. Likewise, this is not something you can expect from partnering with SAP, Oracle or Infor. It is not sufficient to just digitize data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Note in Figure 1 the gaps from recent research between supply chain planning and manufacturing, logistics, and sales. The gap between logistics and procurement; and logistics and customer service increases process latency. These results herald upcoming issues for future manufacturing reporting earnings calls.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

While ToolsGroup and SAP (with the acquisition of SmartOps) are the nearest competitors, Terra prided itself on delivering better decisions through better math. The Terra solution complimented the functionality of the traditional APS vendors, i.e. Adexa, JDA, Logility, Kinaxis, SAP APO and Steelwedge. The Path Forward.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

Most deployments focus on functional excellence–manufacturing, transportation, customer service or procurement. In this shift, the legacy SAP Business Warehouse (BW) implementation are especially problematic. Manufacturing organizations struggle to find talent and bandwidth to drive B2B visibility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Rockwell this includes all processes end-to-end except for manufacturing. As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. From a manufacturing perspective, products vary significantly in complexity. Solutions, for example, can take from 12 to 16 weeks to manufacture. He is a humble and quiet leader.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. Molex has more than 80 manufacturing facilities around the world supported by an 18,000 strong supplier eco-system that provide raw materials, electronic components, and services. The Molex Supply Chain. But they were very basic.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Many of the challenges faced by the world’s automotive and equipment manufacturers can be mitigated via flexible production planning. Enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), modern planning solutions enable manufacturers to create smart, flexible production plans that are continuously updated in response to real-time data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

At the time, DuPont, now acquired by DOW, boasted externally on internal adherence to SAP standardization for decision support. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Let me explain. Mistake #5. Measurement.

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