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There is a question I hear again and again in boardrooms: “Are we ready to proceed considering our supply chain maturity level?” It is usually asked just before a major decision: a new planning system, a network redesign, an omnichannel initiative. The implication is that some invisible gauge on the wall, labeled “maturity,” should tell us whether we are allowed to move forward....


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In supply chain, we talk a lot about speed. Speed of replenishment. Speed of response. Speed of recovery when something goes wrong. Yet when it comes to the systems meant to support these decisions, the conversation about speed quickly collapses to a single metric: how many weeks does it take to “go live” after signing a software contract? Most large supply chain software vendor...


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Download Scheduling white paper Full Transcript Scheduling is one of the most complicated areas of supply chain planning, and it doesn’t matter what vertical you’re operating in. In fact, most attempts at optimizing scheduling fail because they fundamentally miss the very problem they’re trying to solve. So today I will ask and answer three simple questions. On...


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When I started working on supply chain problems nearly twenty years ago, I expected the hard part to be physics: trucks, ships, pallets, containers, production lines. Instead, I found myself wrestling with screens that took several seconds to refresh, overnight batches that routinely spilled into the next morning, and “optimization” engines that had to be simplified until they w...


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Enterprise software vendors like to call their platforms the “digital backbone” of the firm. In the supply chain world, this backbone usually means ERP, with a supporting cast of MRP, WMS, TMS, CRM, and similar systems. For many organizations, the natural next step seems obvious: if ERP already runs the transactions, why not let it run the decisions as well? Add some planning mo...


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