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Boston University’s Sourcing Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2017, a strategy consultant was hired to do a top-to-bottom assessment of the Boston University procurement program. Prior to Mr. Moore’s arrival, BU had put in the full SAP spend management suite, formerly called Ariba. There are now 40 electronic catalogs in the SAP system. What SAP is doing is great!

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Leading Inventory Attack Teams with Richard Lebovitz

The Logistics of Logistics

Over his 30+ year career in the supply chain, Richard has worked with manufacturers around the world in operations, supply chain, and lean strategy roles to develop systems that can manage complex supply chains on a global scale. acquired by SAP). Richard previously founded and led Factory Logic, Inc.

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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

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Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application.

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Blue Yonder Pivots to a Partnership Strategy

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Take the transportation management system (TMS) market, for example. The two largest suppliers of enterprise applications – SAP and Oracle – had SI revenues that were less than 15% of their total TMS revenues. Blue Yonder recognized the need to transform into a Partner First organization as part of its core growth strategy.

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Beyond Trade Compliance

Logistics Viewpoints

Jackson Wood, director of industry strategy for global trade intelligence at Descartes. My first calls were with with Descartes and SAP. McKee from SAP agrees that many companies have moved past a narrow focus on following the law towards a major trend towards using GTC solutions for duty minimization.

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

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Linda McKee, the director for global trade services management at SAP, expressed the idea this way, “I don’t think we currently have any real standard global trade scenarios. Nevertheless, the argument that trade compliance is complementary to a company’s overall tax strategy certainly makes sense to many companies.

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Top Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes – Plus Indago Highlights (Q2 2023)

Talking Logistics

I’m sure many carriers, for example, are not celebrating the first half of the year. How would you characterize this year so far, from a supply chain and logistics perspective? Better or worse than expected? Any surprises? It depends on whom you ask, of course.

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