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Lora Cecere over at Supply Chain Insights has been writing for some time about Conquering the Supply Chain Effective Frontier . Lora characterizes this as a focus on long term resiliency of the supply chain, not just short term cost efficiency. She is …
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It is always dangerous to draw too many parallels between companies, and yet benchmarking is one of the most effective ways of expressing comparative performance. The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 , which was started by AMR nearly 10 years ago, is an annual …
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With good reason there is a lot of focus in the overall IT community on in-memory computing, including the usual Gartner Hype Cycle (subscription required). There is no doubt that over time, in-memory computing and supply chain planning will result in …
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I chose this picture because I was lucky enough to attend the first Supply Chain Insights (SCI) Summit held this past week in Phoenix, which was an eye-opener and inspiring, but also just a little scary. It was a little scary because it shows how much …
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I’m a ‘numbers guy’ and tend to gloss over ‘fluffy’ things like talent. Of course I understand and endorse the three-legged stool of People-Process-Technology and the need to keep the stool balanced by developing all the legs. Consequently when the panel …
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“Many business process directors are under pressure to help make the best possible process-related decisions to ensure desirable business outcomes, business differentiation and continuous innovation.” Sinur J., Schulte R., “Use Intelligent Business …
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This post is a continuation from a previous blog: check out part 1 . A Single Rapid Analysis Capability across Planning and Event Management. Because Intelligent Business Operations ( IBO ) deals with important exceptions, a very rapid analysis …
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We had our annual user conference, Kinexions (pronounced ‘connections’ – isn’t English a strange and fabulous language?) in late October with record attendance and great feedback. The theme of the conference was our tag line ‘Know Sooner. Act Faster.’ …
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Reflecting on our user conference at the end of October and the comments from several analysts, which I covered in a previous blog , I failed to mention the excellent 3-part coverage by Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters. Bob starts his coverage by …
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A couple of weeks ago we had a user and prospect conference in Tokyo, which I was fortunate enough to attend and present at. I covered the North American conference in two previous blogs – Part 1 and Part 2 . I was surprised when I worked out that it had …
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I am fascinated by the changes happening in the pharmaceutical industry and spent the latter part of last week in San Diego at the 6 th Biomanufacturing Summit getting some deep exposure to a sector that is growing very quickly. Very briefly and …
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Given the increasing trend in outsourcing in all industries, there is great amount of interest in visibility. It is the ‘money men’ that have pushed us in the direction of outsourcing and off-shoring, largely to get expensive assets off the books and in …