Oracle announced significant updates to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) software at the recently held Oracle Cloud World. The application suite includes procurement, inventory management, warehouse management, order management and transportation management. SCM tasks are mostly small-scale and repetitive, yet the processes they support are far from simple. They involve the intricate choreography of often complex activities that require the accurate communication and...
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Topics:
Product Information Management,
Operations & Supply Chain,
AI,
continuous supply chain,
Continuous Supply Chain & ERP,
Digital Applications
We’ve experienced an unusual, decades-long monetary policy in the developed world that emphasized interest rate repression as well as supply chain practices designed for lowest cost. This has produced a generation of chief financial officers likely unprepared to address the impact of fundamental changes now shaping a new, technology-driven approach to working capital optimization. Today’s CFOs must assess their working capital management processes and the systems that support them to balance...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain
Early last December, just before ChatGPT became the new, bright, shiny object, The Economist magazine ran a story proclaiming that we had finally arrived at the age of boring artificial intelligence (AI). From my perspective, it’s unfortunate that didn’t last and that AI has been relegated back to the buzzword league. AI will be an increasingly important feature of business software through the end of this decade. Ventana Research asserts that by 2026, almost all vendors of software designed...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Business Intelligence,
Business Planning,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
natural language processing,
continuous supply chain,
AI and Machine Learning
Digitally transforming core business processes became essential as organizations locked down in early 2020 because of the pandemic and the need to operate remotely presented a set of new challenges that were best addressed by software. Especially in the areas of sourcing, purchasing and payments, software has the ability to streamline processes, shorten process cycles, reduce unnecessary costs, provide greater visibility into cash flows, increase control and improve results. Digitizing...
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Topics:
ERP,
Office of Finance,
continuous supply chain
Maersk is closing its TradeLens joint venture with IBM that began in 2018. It was intended to enable port operators, customs authorities, freight forwarders and importers to track containers and their contents. The system was designed to substantially reduce the inefficiencies and delays created by paper-based systems used for customs, trade finance, tariffs and taxes as well as supply chain and logistics management. The initiative was designed to cut supply chain latency by reducing the time...
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Topics:
Operations & Supply Chain,
blockchain,
continuous supply chain
The cloud has come to dominate many business software categories, but until recently, enterprise resource planning for manufacturing and product-focused organizations has been a notable laggard. Cloud-based systems can be less costly to operate, perform better, be more secure and shift maintenance and update chores from the IT department to the vendor, freeing IT teams to concentrate on more strategic needs.
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Office of Finance,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
continuous supply chain
Ventana Research recently announced its 2023 research agenda for Operations and Supply Chain, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations across industries derive optimal value and improved outcomes from business technology.
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Product Information Management,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
Property Technology,
Supplier Relationship Management
Ventana Research uses the term “data pantry” to describe a method of data storage (and the technology and process blueprint for its construction) created for a specific set of users and use cases in business-focused software. It’s a pantry because all the data one needs is readily available and easily accessible, with labels that are immediately recognized and understood by the users of the application. In tech speak, this means the semantic layer is optimized for the intended audience. It is...
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Business Intelligence,
Data Management,
Business Planning,
Data,
Financial Performance Management,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Streaming Data Events,
Analytics and Data,
AI and Machine Learning
Kinaxis recently announced it has acquired a Netherlands-based company, MPO, a cloud-based software offering that orchestrates multiparty supply chain execution. The combination is designed to enable Kinaxis to extend its concurrent planning platform to handle core elements of supply chain execution. Kinaxis acquired all the shares of MPO for approximately US$45 million, with some of the final consideration dependent on performance. MPO will continue to operate as a standalone business, but...
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Business Intelligence,
Business Planning,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
AI and Machine Learning
Anaplan offers a cloud-based business planning platform that incorporates a modeling and calculation engine. The tool makes it relatively easy to add or expand the scope of plans that can be connected and monitored on a single platform. This Integrated Business Planning (IBP) approach enables organizations to use the software for financial planning or budgeting, sales, supply chain, workforce, marketing and IT planning. These are the types of plans in which companies often need to create models...
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Office of Finance,
Continuous Planning,
Business Intelligence,
Business Planning,
Financial Performance Management,
continuous supply chain,
AI and Machine Learning
Kinaxis is a sales and operation planning software company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Its RapidResponse is an S&OP platform for concurrent planning, designed to integrate an organization’s supply chain planning silos, accelerate planning cycles and optimize supply chain execution to match customer demand.
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Business Planning,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain
I first wrote about a new era of trade a few years ago to make the point that the period of optimizing supply chains for the lowest cost was over, and that companies needed to redesign them to achieve greater resiliency. That observation proved correct. Now we are hearing about “the end of globalization,” a hyperbolic phrase describing the effects of ongoing changes to the international political order that have been underway for more than a decade. These changes are forcing companies to make...
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Business Planning,
Financial Performance Management,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
continuous supply chain
Several years ago, I noted the importance of gaining resilience in managing supply chains. The world had entered a new era of trade following the financial crisis of 2007, as multilateral relationships were steadily fragmenting. For decades, sourcing and supply chain management was focused almost exclusively on achieving the lowest cost, and the world’s trade environment supported this approach. However, I observed that the new era of trade, supply chain planning and execution, would be more...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Continuous Planning,
Business Planning,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain
The work environment today demands that your organization advances the efficiency to execute business processes for continuous operations to have a positive impact on business performance. The capability to be responsive to any range of minor to disruptive business events is required to support business continuity and level of organizational readiness to meet the needs of digital business. Ventana Research asserts that in 2025, one-quarter of organizations will remain digitally ineffective in...
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Voice of the Customer,
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Contact Center,
Data,
Digital Technology,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Digital transformation,
natural language processing,
continuous supply chain,
agent management,
Process Mining,
Streaming Analytics,
Experience Management,
AI and Machine Learning
Subscription management and billing services help organizations offer unique benefits and enhance delivery to customers. By making services more personalized, organizations can acquire – and retain – more customers.
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Topics:
Sales,
Office of Finance,
Continuous Planning,
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Planning,
Product Information Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
natural language processing,
revenue and lease accounting,
continuous supply chain,
Subscription Management,
partner management,
Process Mining,
Streaming Analytics,
Supplier Relationship Management,
AI and Machine Learning
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications, as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Analytics,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Technology,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Conversational Computing,
collaborative computing,
continuous supply chain,
work experience management,
AI and Machine Learning
We are happy to share some insights about Viamedici EPIM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
We are happy to share some insights about Contentserv CS drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
We are happy to share some insights about Perfion drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
We are happy to share some insights about Winshuttle EnterWorks drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications, as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Human Capital Management,
Marketing,
Office of Finance,
Voice of the Customer,
Continuous Planning,
embedded analytics,
Learning Management,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Collaboration,
Data Governance,
Data Preparation,
Information Management,
Internet of Things,
Business Planning,
Contact Center,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Sales Performance Management,
Workforce Management,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Technology,
Digital Marketing,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Revenue,
blockchain,
natural language processing,
data lakes,
Total Compensation Management,
robotic finance,
Predictive Planning,
employee experience,
candidate engagement,
Conversational Computing,
Continuous Payroll,
collaborative computing,
mobile computing,
continuous supply chain,
Subscription Management,
agent management,
extended reality,
intelligent marketing,
sales enablement,
work experience management,
robotic automation,
AI and Machine Learning,
lease and tax accounting
We are happy to share some insights about inRiver PIM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
We are happy to share some insights about Riversand PX 360 drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
We are happy to share some insights about Magnitude Agility PIM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
We are happy to share some insights about Salsify ProductXM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
We are happy to share some insights about Pimcore Platform drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
We are happy to share some insights about Akeneo Serenity drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
We are happy to share some insights about Informatica's Product 360 drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
data operations,
Office of Revenue
Having just completed the 2021 Ventana Research Value Index for Product Information Management, I want to share some of my observations about how the market and category have advanced since our first examination over 15 years ago.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
Office of Revenue
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcases advances in the productivity and potential of business applications, as well as technology that contributes significantly to improved efficiency and productivity in the processes and the performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations that advance business and IT.
Read More
Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Data,
Digital Technology,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
blockchain,
continuous supply chain
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcases advances in the productivity and potential of business applications, as well as technology that contributes significantly to improved efficiency and productivity in the processes and the performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations that advance business and IT.
Read More
Topics:
Customer Experience,
Human Capital Management,
Office of Finance,
Contact Center,
Workforce Management,
Digital Technology,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
robotic finance,
employee experience,
continuous supply chain,
agent management,
work experience management
A couple of years ago, I started talking about a “New Era of Trade.” Its starting point was the world financial crisis in 2007, but the evidence that we were experiencing a shift only became obvious years later. I think “new era” is a better description of what’s going on than calling these bilateral ructions a “trade war.” I avoid that latter term because I believe it should apply to an environment that truly merits such a description, one similar to the period from the late 1920s and well...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Predictive Planning,
continuous supply chain
Ventana Research recently announced its 2020 research agenda for operations and the supply chain, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations across industries derive optimal value from business technology and improve outcomes. Organizations must shift their focus on technology investments to include not just operational productivity but the efficiency of the processes that impact customers’ and workers’ experiences.
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain
I’ve written before about blockchain’s significant potential. A lot of the current discussion on the topic centers on cryptocurrencies and financial trading platforms, both of which are already in operation. However, my focus is on its applicability to business generally, especially in B2B commerce, where I believe there is significant potential for it to serve as a universal data connector. There’s also a great deal of potential for blockchain to provide individuals with greater power in ...
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Topics:
Sales,
Human Capital Management,
business intelligence,
Collaboration,
Internet of Things,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Digital Commerce,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
blockchain,
candidate engagement,
collaborative computing,
continuous supply chain
Kinaxis recently held its annual user conference, Kinexions, which focuses on helping the company’s customers improve their execution of supply chain and sales and operations planning (S&OP). Its RapidResponse software handles S&OP, demand, supply, inventory and capacity planning. S&OP is a function sorely in need of improvement: Our research finds that only 22 percent of companies perform it well or very well.
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Analytics,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
business digital commerce,
AI and Machine Learning
What’s the easiest way to completely immobilize a 500,000-ton ship?
Lose a sheet of paper.
The paperwork that accompanies international trade is a serious source of friction, inefficiency — and therefore cost — in supply chain execution. Trade documentation requires massive amounts of paper that today can be replaced by digital data. In 2018, Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, teamed up with IBM to create TradeLens, a digital platform that utilizes blockchain technology as a...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Continuous Planning,
Internet of Things,
Data,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
blockchain,
continuous supply chain