How To Improve Supply Chains With Machine Learning: 10 Proven Ways
Bottom line: Enterprises are attaining double-digit improvements in forecast error rates, demand planning productivity, cost reductions and on-time shipments using machine learning today, revolutionizing supply chain management in the process. Machine learning algorithms and the models they’re based on excel at finding anomalies, patterns and predictive insights in large data sets. Many supply chain challenges are […]
Friday Rant: When Will Infor Get Serious About Procurement?
Earlier this week, Infor announced it was acquiring Lawson, a slumping ERP provider with very limited procurement capabilities relative to SAP and Oracle, let alone best-of-breed procurement vendors. Given Infor’s furious acquisit…
jCatalog: Thriving and Supporting the SAP SRM Ecosystem (Part 1)
When I was over in the UK a couple of weeks ago, Peter Smith and I caught up with jCatalog’s Head of Marketing and Business Development, Kelly Babbit. Even though I’ve known Kelly and jCatalog for sometime, it was Peter’s first ex…
Back of the Napkin — A New Series and an Open Invitation
I’d like to invite all Spend Matters readers to participate in a new series we’ll post every Friday on Spend Matters titled “Back of the Napkin”. The goal is to bring a bit of visual substance, learning and, cough, humor to the world we inhabit. Each week, we’ll post a new sketch or chart — […]
SAP Influencer Summit, Dispatch 4: The SAP Procurement Portfolio (Part 1)
Even though I’ve written at length about SAP’s procurement portfolio
earlier this year, paying particular attention to recent developments
in the P2P (i.e., SRM) and E-Sourcing arenas, I thought it
worth spending a few posts providing an upd…
