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How To Improve Supply Chains With Machine Learning: 10 Proven Ways

How To Improve Supply Chains With Machine Learning: 10 Proven Ways

By Louis Columbus on May 20, 2019

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged analytics, Artificial intelligence, Centrify, erp, Infor, Inspectorio, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, sap, Supplier relationship management, supply chain management, Supply Chains, Zero Trust Privilege

Friday Rant: When Will Infor Get Serious About Procurement?

Friday Rant: When Will Infor Get Serious About Procurement?

By Jason Busch on April 29, 2011

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…

Posted in Business | Tagged Infor, Infor Global Solutions, Lawson, procurement, Supplier relationship management, supply chain

jCatalog: Thriving and Supporting the SAP SRM Ecosystem (Part 1)

jCatalog: Thriving and Supporting the SAP SRM Ecosystem (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on March 9, 2011

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…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ECommerce, jcatalog, sap, Supplier relationship management

Back of the Napkin -- A New Series and an Open Invitation

Back of the Napkin — A New Series and an Open Invitation

By Jason Busch on May 21, 2010

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 — […]

Posted in Business | Tagged business process outsourcing, performance management, procurement, SpendMatters, Supplier relationship management | 2 Responses

SAP Influencer Summit, Dispatch 4: The SAP Procurement Portfolio (Part 1)

SAP Influencer Summit, Dispatch 4: The SAP Procurement Portfolio (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on December 10, 2009

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…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged sap, Services Procurement, Supplier relationship management | 1 Response

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