I attended Oracle OpenWorld 2010 last week (Oracle is an ARC client). I always enjoy going to this conference; it provides a great opportunity to speak with very smart supply chain professionals and hear case studies of cutting-edge SCM processes.…
I attended the JDA user conference last week, FOCUS 2010 , which took place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. JDA completed its acquisition of i2 Technologies at the end of January, and what was most interesting to me was…
I recently spoke with Mike Spindler, the CEO of ShelfSnap, about the company’s entry into the “shelf-level collaboration” arena. (Quick aside: As I mentioned in a previous posting, I prefer the term “Shelf-level Collaboration Solutions” over Demand Signal Repository (DSR)…
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…
In my “What Causes Shelf Out-of-Stocks?” posting last week, I reviewed some research conducted by Walmart on the major causes of shelf-level out-of-stocks. One reason, occurring about 20 percent of the time, is phantom inventory. Phantom inventory occurs when the…
Shoplifting is at record levels ($115 billion from July 2008-June 2009) and this is causing supply chain problems, not only for the retailers, but also for consumer goods manufacturers. The Centre for Retail Research (CRR) published its annual Global…
