The journey to becoming data-driven requires owning the cycle of ingestion, storage, and usage. The adoption of new technologies makes this easier and drives process flexibility in schema and the preservation of semantics.
Today’s supply chains focus on cost reduction with the assumption that the reduction in cost will translate to margin. This is not the case.
The lack of organizational degrades value.
The sharing of concerns by the business leader on the evolution of SAP HANA to SAP RISE as heard at the Consumer Goods Forum. Here I share the concern, some options, and some background.
Do these dogs hunt is a blog challenging the validity of the concepts of autonomous planning, probabilistic planning and the use of artificial planning in planning systems.
The use of pattern recognition and orbit charts to study supply chain excellence.
Concerned about the impact of the Gartner Top 25 on the market, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, shares insights on the performance of the companies selected to be on the list.
What metrics should supply chain leaders use to drive value? Here we answer this question and share a metrics hierarchy for consideration.
The role of leadership in driving excellence in S&OP.
Reflection and restatement of formerly held beliefs of supply chain management by Lora Cecere.
Traditional supply chain planning approaches push all products through a common engine to produce time-phased output. The demand stream is analyzed for error and bias, but in traditional processes, companies do not see the patterns. Pattern identification is key to drive successful supply strategies. This is a missed opportunity in traditional approaches.
