The Rise and Decline of Supply Chain Cost Based Optimization

July 2, 2010

Optimization has proven much more tricky to implement that originally thought. Optimization where the company must agree internally in order to set costs, is far more difficult to implement than where the optimization is essentially a black box. What This Article Covers How did optimization become such an important component to supply chain planning software. …

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What To Do About the Success Rate of Supply Chain Projects

June 26, 2010

What This Article Covers What is the success percentage for supply chain IT projects? Why are the actual odds they constantly overestimated? What do studies say about optimism bias in projecting IT projects? Why does the overestimation of the probability of success itself reduce the success of a project? Feeling Confident…For No Reason Most supply …

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Anti Competitive Behavior in Supply Chain Software Goes Unnoticed

June 26, 2010

The supply chain software market is characterized by unfair competition between the big firms and the smaller firms. This reduces quality, increases prices and results in oligopolistic competition. Mergers and acquisitions and the co-option of advisory firms by the major vendors are major factors which allow this inefficient market to continue in its current state. …

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Lessons from the History of Supply Chain Software and Implementations

June 26, 2010

What This Article Covers Features of the supply chain planning market. Key lessons from supply chain software implementation history. Background While doing research for a book I performed research on the history of supply chain software in order to understand to place SAP SCM in a broader context. That chapter did not make the final …

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