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Andy Reese, Editor of Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine: Supply chain lessons learned during this recession

One of the lessons that supply chain executives may want to consider as a result of the current downturn is around the risk inherent in pursuing short-term business goals – or applying short-term thinking to business…. Read the Expert Blog Series interview HERE Continue

Added by Kirsten Watson on March 19, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Episode II - Comedy Series just released! "Married to the Job - Part II"

Hi folks, The second webisode of our "Married to the Job Series" that we produced with Second City was just released....Enjoy! The antics continue for ACME Manufacturing's supply chain staff — in particular, lovable slob Damon, the company's demand manager who works alongside his organized and conscientious wife, Sibley, ACME's supply manager in the comedy video series: Married to the Job — a joint production between The Second City Communications and Kinaxis. The second instalment is now out… Continue

Added by Kirsten Watson on March 17, 2009 at 3:34pm — No Comments

Economy will accelerate adoption of on-demand SCM solutions

by John Sicard The current economic uncertainty facing many companies in the world will likely be the accelerant needed to push the on-demand (or SaaS) model further into mainstream. The result will be a win-win for both consumer of the service, and service provider. Indeed, the on-demand industry has the potential for significant and positive growth in these trying times while legacy perpetual soft… Continue

Added by Kirsten Watson on December 22, 2008 at 5:12pm — No Comments

FREE white paper: Why You Need to Re-evaluate Your Approach to Supply Chain Planning

FREE white paper: Why You Need to Re-evaluate Your Approach to Supply Chain Planning. The supply chain planning approach developed in the early 1990’s is failing under today’s market pressures. Today’s environment requires more collaboration than control; more coordination than optimization. Demand and supply chain planning, monitoring and response needs to be performed by many users, o… Continue

Added by Kirsten Watson on December 5, 2008 at 3:07pm — No Comments

Supply chain risk management within the S&OP process - Larry Lapide, MIT

by Randy Littleson In this video, we sat down with MIT’s demand management research director, Larry Lapide, and discussed his views on sales and operations planning (S&OP). Larry comments that he’s always been a big fan of planning, but acknowledges that a plan can only take you so far. There’s a lot of uncertainty in demand and supply that will lead to some degree of plan inaccuracy o… Continue

Added by Kirsten Watson on December 2, 2008 at 11:52am — No Comments

Companies don’t compete, supply chains compete

by Randy Littleson Came across this good post entitled “Companies don’t compete; supply chains compete” which attributes this quote to the CIO of Nortel. I’m not sure you’d get everyone to fully agree with this given how many other pieces there are to the puzzle, but I think it’s more… Continue

Added by Kirsten Watson on December 2, 2008 at 11:41am — No Comments

Larry Lapide of MIT Demand Management Research Director on "The Future of Supply Chain Management"

by Randy Littleson We had the opportunity to sit down with Larry Lapide, MIT demand management research director, after his keynote at the Kinaxis user conference (Kinexions) and get his thoughts on the future of supply chain management. Larry talks about the effects of globalization, the impact of developed vs. developing nations and the implications to supply chain management.

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Added by Kirsten Watson on November 4, 2008 at 12:41pm — No Comments

It doesn’t have to be this way

From the Blog "The 21st Century Supply Chain" ' By Randy Littleson, VP Marketing, Kinaxis Found this interesting article in CIO talking about the ongoing battles between SAP and Waste Management over the failed ERP deployment. Of particular interest were these final statements: “It’s always incumbent on the software vendor to ensure their customers succeed with the vendor’s software,” Songini said. “According to… Continue

Added by Kirsten Watson on September 2, 2008 at 10:39am — No Comments

i2 bought by JDA

By Trevor Miles, Director, Product Marketing, Kinaxis The surprise was not that i2 was bought, but by whom and for how much. i2 was on the market for a long time with few takers, though there was little comment about SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Microsoft as suitors. This is in itself interesting as it would seem to indicate little perceived incremental benefit to the gorillas in the market. Even though these companies, to varying de… Continue

Added by Kirsten Watson on August 16, 2008 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

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