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.)

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

My journey in Accounts Payable started back in 1998, when I worked on my first Accounts Payable automation solution combining scanning, OCR and workflow. So for the last decade the Procurement teams have been pushing the ‘No-PO, No Pay’ mantra, it’s now even ‘Government Policy’. or Accounting systems (e.g. Xero, Sage, Quickbook etc.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system. Incrementalism Is Not Enough.

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Supply Chain Network

MAY 23, 2012

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Ariba, Inc. Nasdaq: ARBA) today announced that SAP’s subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., The per share purchase price represents a 20% premium over the May 21 closing price and a 19% premium over the one month volume weighted average price per share. billion term loan facility.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

When it comes to inventory and driving improvement in the face of variability, there are five issues: Poorly Implemented Advanced Planning Solutions. Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. SAP and IBM failed the market. Software mergers & acquisitions also slowed innovation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

While many technology companies have co-opted the network of networks message, today there is no interoperability between network solutions. EDI is too cumbersome, and SAP Ariba’s focus, despite the marketing hype, is primarily on managing indirect spending. Companies want SAP IBP to work. We are looking for answers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Linda McKee, the director for global trade services management at SAP, expressed the idea this way, “I don’t think we currently have any real standard global trade scenarios. Thomson Reuters purchased the global trade compliance vendor Integration Point in 2018. Oracle’s solution combines TMS and GTC seamlessly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining Tools offer promise, but the typical social listening tools used in digital marketing like Coremetrics and Radian6 are grossly inadequate. These tools only answer the questions that we know to ask. The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. As a result, articles are written proclaiming demand-driven results and then the reader is given a solution that is anything but demand driven.

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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. The initial software product release name was Real-Time Forecasting. E2open sells a cloud-based solution for network collaboration. History of Terra Technology.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 30, 2021

As Tom Standage ( @tomstandage ), editor of The Economist ‘s ‘ The World in 2021 ‘, reminds us, the digital path to purchase is increasingly becoming the customer journey of choice. … SAP polled 1,000 U.S. ”[5] Having goods on-hand, however, is only part of the solution to addressing consumer pain points.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. After a decade of focus on IT standardization and hard-wiring planning into tight integration with SAP ERP, they are underperforming on growth and margin. The solution was too black box. Hence the solution couldn’t be much maintained.

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RFgen

JUNE 30, 2023

Prioritizing technology solutions in today’s digital environment is a necessity. The businesses of tomorrow need technology solutions that give real-time information in order to make key business decisions when it comes to inventory. Essentially, an ERP helps organizations run their business by acting as a single source of truth.

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In this blog post, I will delve into 5 issues companies typically experience with their S&OP software. This makes S&OP implementation a difficult process, especially when it comes to finding the right tools. image source: [link]. Finding Software to Drive S&OP: 5 Dysfunctions companies typically encounter .

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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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In 2017, a strategy consultant was hired to do a top-to-bottom assessment of the Boston University procurement program. Randall Moore was hired as the new chief procurement officer in May. Facilities sourcing and construction contracting were centralized in the procurement department. What SAP is doing is great!

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. The company also offers engineered-to-order solutions, such as control centers and medium-voltage drives. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006.

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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. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. The caution is that the word “visibility” is over used, and there are many solution options.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector. As I read the literature, I felt out of touch and old-fashioned. “How could I not know about supply chain planning software?” Software planning was in the middle of a hype cycle. ” I thought.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Demand latency is the time from channel purchase to order receipt.) While many companies attempt to improve the response by being reactive on traditional data sources, this is not the answer. Companies will seek solutions for autonomous planning or applications that can automate the sense and respond capabilities. What To Do?

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Bristlecone

MAY 21, 2021

Did you know that advanced analytics, when used in lieu of traditional statistical models, can help procurement departments increase cost efficiency by 3-8%? [1]. The procurement department of any business generates more data than is humanly possible to compute and comprehend through traditional means. Operational Procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. The company also offers engineered-to-order solutions, such as control centers and medium-voltage drives. Ernest Nicolas joined Rockwell Automation in 2006.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 11, 2016

The source of the content is research. With the evolution of Software as a Service (SAAS) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) technologies there are now more options. The purchase of supply chain solutions remains a complex sale with increased power by Line of Business Leaders. Focus of Spending Increases.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 5, 2017

This ended when Gartner purchased AMR Research in 2010. Sitting in a SAP presentation, using the term demand-driven at the recent SAP Insider conference, without grounding in the definition is painful for me. In the SAP presentation, I saw traditional supply-centric concepts rebranded as demand driven. Reflections.

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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%

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

But before I head out, grab your reading glasses and check out the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: SophiaTX Open Source Platform to Integrate SAP, Blockchain. Ryder Announces Breakthrough Solution to Help Commercial Rental Customers Comply with New Electronic Logging Device Regulations.

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Bristlecone

MAY 6, 2020

BITS Accelerates SAP Ariba Guided Buying Deployment and User Adoption. MAY 7, 2020 – Bristlecone , the trusted partner in supply chain transformation, is pleased to announce that its Bristlecone Industry-Specific Tactical Sourcing (BITS) solution is now an SAP-Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution for SAP Ariba.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

On Wednesday morning, when I finished speaking at the Foundation for Strategic Sourcing in Fort Lauderdale, an executive from J&J pulled me aside and said, “Our strengths, are now our vulnerabilities.” Likewise, this is not something you can expect from partnering with SAP, Oracle or Infor. Many feel overwhelmed.

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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.

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In this blog post, I will delve into 5 issues companies typically experience with their S&OP software. This makes S&OP implementation a difficult process, especially when it comes to finding the right tools. image source: [link]. Finding Software to Drive S&OP: 5 Dysfunctions companies typically encounter .

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ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

Invoice to Pay sits at the end of a Procurement process that starts with a need, moves through selecting and contracting with a supplier and ends with delivery of goods or services. . At each step of this Procurement process, data is gathered, suppliers are onboarded, and deliveries are accepted. Invoice to Pay from Ivalua.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Source: Laurie Cus. MercuryGate extends invoicing and document management solution with HubTran integration. SAP Launches Enhanced Supply Chain Execution Software for Faster Logistics Planning. HighJump Partners with Advantage2Retail to Bring Best-of-Breed Warehousing Software to Retailers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The change in front of us will transform the base-level definitions of source, make and deliver. The traditional focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) does not bridge the gap. I think that the current solutions for planning will become obsolete within ten years.

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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).

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Alloy

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Get full visibility with SAP and Alloy together Problems like stockouts and excess inventory continue to present a major challenge for every brand selling into retail. Today we’re excited to announce that our Alloy Intelligence application is now available on SAP® Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings.

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Synovos

APRIL 2, 2024

What is MRO procurement? Understand MRO procurement and your bottom line will benefit. The acronym refers to the materials required to keep your operation running, such as spare parts, engineering tools and test equipment. Why is handling MRO procurement so costly? MRO stands for maintenance, repair, and operations.

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