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, Senior [...]
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The importance of Data to Supply Chain – Master Data and All That
October 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Data Quality · MDM · SCM
A Week is a Long Time in Research
September 4th, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Business to Business (B2B) · Cloud Computing · MDM · MDM Summit · MDM of Product Data · Multidomain MDM · Multienterprise · Operational MDM · Procurement MDM · Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) · Regulation/Compliance · SCM · SaaS
“There is (information) gold in them there (data) hills”
December 10th, 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, [...]
Tags: Cost Optimization · SCM · Value from Information
A good dose of personal opinion – Supply Chain Risk Management and the bleeding US auto makers
November 20th, 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 [...]