Our annual Transportation Management Systems (TMS) Market Outlook Study was delayed this year due to other priorities, but it will get published after the holidays with a forecasted market size for 2009 and a five-year outlook through 2014. I won’t steal the report’s thunder here, but it’s sufficient to say that despite the strong value proposition of transportation management systems, the market was not able to fully escape the… Continue reading
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Looking for a work-related New Year’s resolution? How about transforming the way you establish and manage your outsourced logistics relationships with 3PLs? As I have written many times before, many 3PL-customer relationships, particularly those that are in their fourth or fifth year, seem to be stuck in a rut. Yes, in most cases these relationships are going okay, cost targets are being met and service levels are acceptable, but… Continue reading
Angélique Moon, Director of Product Management for Consumer Goods at Oracle, briefed me recently on Oracle’s Demand Signal Repository (DSR) solution. At the end of the presentation, Ms. Moon and I bemoaned the fact that the vocabulary used to describe these types of products is not very good. Shortly after, I had a similar conversation with Razat Guarav, the SVP of Sales at i2 Technologies (both Oracle and… Continue reading
Achieving robust forecasts is very difficult, if not impossible, in some industries. This is particularly true for companies in the semiconductor industry, which is very volatile because of its speed of innovation. Moore’s Law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware, in which the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years (equivalent to about 30 percent… Continue reading
Back in August 2003, I wrote a report titled “The Emergence of Supply Chain Operating Networks (SC-ON).” I recently reread the report and I was struck by how relevant the content remains today. Here is an excerpt of the executive summary:
Companies are no longer masters of their own destiny. They’re dependent on suppliers, service providers, customers, and many other external parties to succeed.
Whereas in the past business
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