Entries Categorized as 'SCM'
by Andrew White | June 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
Today Orchestra Networks announced the availability of their cloud-based MDM service offering, at http://smartdatagovernance.com/ The press suggested this was the worlds’ first cloud-based MDM offering. I don’t want to explore the specifics related to this one vendor, but since cloud computing is very highly hyped right now, we do get a number of inquiries from [...]
Category: Cloud MDM Open Source MDM Orchestra Networks SCM Talend Tags: Cloud-based MDM, MDM, Open Source Software MDM, Orchestra Networks, OSS MDM, Talend
by Andrew White | April 21, 2010 | Comments Off
I spotted an interesting article in the print edition of today’s US version of the Financial Times: Pressure grows on supply chains. Numerous industries relay on special items, parts, and services. Though often not of a significance in terms of cost or size, every part is needed, at the right time, to make thing work. [...]
Category: SCM Uncategorized Tags: SCM, Supply Chain
by Andrew White | March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
I heard by way of a Kinaxis newsletter, that reported (via Bob Ferarri’s SCM blog), that Dr. Tom Mentzer passed away February 28th 2010. I had the good fortune of meeting Tom many times. I always looked to Tom as a thought leader in the SCM arena, specifically in demand management and demand planning. I [...]
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by Andrew White | October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I had the good fortune to attend an IBM SCM event recently (Chicago, IL). IBM was sharing its updated SCM vision to the market, along with some interesting SCM survey data highlighting priorities facing SCM leaders. I will share more on this later – but there was an interesting case study by Wrigley. Wrigley’s Kristen Daihes, [...]
Category: Data Quality MDM SCM Tags: Data Quality, MDM, SCM
by Andrew White | September 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Well that was a fun week. I just had a week without travel (always a pleasure) where I spend most of the time on the telephone with users, or doing research. And this week was important because we are wrapping up our preparations for our up coming Gartner MDM Summit, 2009, in Los Angeles, October [...]
Category: Business to Business (B2B) Cloud MDM MDM Summit MDM of Product Data Multidomain MDM Multienterprise Operational MDM Procurement MDM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Regulation/Compliance SCM SaaS Tags: B2B, Cloud, MDM, MDM of Product Data, PLM, SaaS
by Andrew White | December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments
I was trolling my email “inbox” this morning and I read with interest an email from a vendor I met recently at a briefing. In November, Panjiva updated me on their business: their offering is based on knowledge gleaned from perusing all the inbound manifests for goods arriving in the US. By analyzing the data, [...]
Category: Cost Optimization SCM Value from Information Tags: Cost Optimization, Value from Information
by Andrew White | November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments
This morning I was perusing the web and one link referred to me an Industry Week article from October on supply chain risk management. My mind wandered to the potential value of risk management to another topic from this week, that being the US automakers going cap-in-hand to the US government for a bail-out. Before [...]
Category: Economy SCM Tags: Economy, SCM
