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At 25 Erik started a consulting firm focused on writing EDI and B2B integrations for manufacturers.
Erik Kiser
CEO, Orderful
At 25 Erik started a consulting firm focused on writing EDI and B2B integrations for manufacturers. Through scaling the company he realized that there is a great opportunity to improve business for the manufacturers by providing a software hub approach. Orderful, Erik's second venture, started a few years later. Orderful has successfully raised funding from prestigious venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz, and is on a path to improve B2B and EDI trading for the world.
Cathy Morrow Roberson is a market analyst with a research and economics background. Roberson began her career as a librarian; she was then an analyst at an e-commerce start-up for a couple of years.
Cathy Morrow Roberson
Market Analyst, Logistics Trends & Insights LLC
Cathy Morrow Roberson is a market analyst with a research and economics background. Roberson began her career as a librarian; she was then an analyst at an e-commerce start-up for a couple of years. After that, she was an analyst at UPS Supply Chain Solutions supporting market, competitive and mergers & acquisition research and analytic needs for 11 years. After a brief stint with specialized consulting firms, Roberson now manages the logistics-focused market research firm, Logistics Trends & Insights LLC, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Chris’ key areas of research include transportation management systems, omni-channel logistics and fulfillment, business analytics, and retail technology.
Chris Cunnane
Senior Research Analyst, ARC
Chris' key areas of research include transportation management systems, omni-channel logistics and fulfillment, business analytics, and retail technology.
Prior to joining ARC, Chris was a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group covering retail and hospitality technology. He also has years of experience in the retail and wholesale industries in a number of sales, marketing, inventory management, and customer service roles.
Are your warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution operations as efficient and cost-effective as they can be? Are your operating costs as low as possible?
Steve Hopper
Founder, Acacia HR Solutions
Are your warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution operations as efficient and cost-effective as they can be? Are your operating costs as low as possible? Are your customers getting your products quickly and accurately? Do you have sufficient capacity for growth?
If not, I can help. The mission of Inviscid Consulting is to help businesses plan and improve supply chain operations to drive down operating costs, boost capacity, improve service levels, and mitigate risk.
I'll show you how you can streamline your mission-critical supply chain to eliminate waste and inefficiency. As a result, you'll save money and time in your operations.
My in-depth industry expertise includes:
- Supply chain industrial engineering
- Strategic distribution network planning & site selection
- Supply chain facility planning & design
- Economic evaluation & justification of alternative solutions
- Design, evaluation, estimation, specification, selection, & implementation of material handling systems & supply chain technology
- Lean supply chain operations planning, process improvement, & reengineering
- Improvement of capacity, labor productivity, & service levels
- Evaluation & selection of third-party logistics (3PL) providers
- Inventory reduction & optimization
Suman Sarkar is a partner with Three S Consulting and an international consultant who has advised more than forty Fortune 500 companies in strategy and operations.
Suman Sarkar
Partner, Three S Consulting
Suman Sarkar is a partner with Three S Consulting and an international consultant who has advised more than forty Fortune 500 companies in strategy and operations. His new book, Customer-Driven Disruption (Berrett-Koehler, 2019), is a blueprint for showing how companies must adapt to ever-changing global demographics and markets. It draws on the author’s extensive experience and features case studies from companies around the world that have thrived in volatile, highly competitive marketplaces. He has published numerous articles in business journals and his first book, The Supply Chain Revolution, is an Amazon top-seller in its genre.
Kelly Barner has held numerous roles in procurement since 2003. She is the Owner and Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point and MyPurchasingCenter.
Kelly Barner
Owner, Managing Director at Buyers Meeting Point, LLC
Kelly Barner has held numerous roles in procurement since 2003. She is the Owner and Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point and MyPurchasingCenter. Starting in 2009, she has covered procurement news, events, publications, solutions, trends, and relevant economics. Kelly is also the General Manager at Art of Procurement and Business Survey Chair for the ISM-New York Report on Business. Kelly has her MBA from Babson College as well as an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and she has co-authored three books: ‘Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals’, ‘Procurement at a Crossroads’, and 'Finance Unleashed’.
Joanna Martinez helps businesses being battered by disruptive forces, creating innovative ways to reduce costs or grow bottom-lines.
Joanna Martinez
Founder at Supply Chain Advisors LLC
Joanna Martinez helps businesses being battered by disruptive forces, creating innovative ways to reduce costs or grow bottom-lines. She is also an advisor and a frequent speaker on disruption and digitization. Joanna was named a Distinguished Alumna by Rutgers College of Engineering. Thinkers360 designated her a Top Global Thought Leader and Influencer in multiple categories.
Her book, A Guide to Positive Disruption, focuses on her experiences implementing change and provides a framework to follow to become a force for positive change yourself. Joanna’s current project is an online learning program for people interested in improving their understanding of digital concepts.
Most Recent Articles
You can’t possibly meet the customer’s demand if you’re left scrambling every time the market shifts. Which solution will give the best ROI for your specific needs? What are the best options on the market? This article will take you through our analyst-picked list of the top demand planning solutions. Luckily, supply chain visibility software can free you from tedious manual data entry and reporting while giving you actionable insights to guide your business better. In this article, we’ll delve into the features and limitations of the best SCM solutions, the different types of supply chains and associated techniques. Supply chains are awesome. At least, they are when they’re running efficiently. Managing your supply chain well reaps plenty of rewards, but it can also be one of the more complex aspects of your business to oversee. Enter SCM software integration. Mobile supply chain management is on the rise with tools and technologies that take the blood, sweat and tears out of your mundane processes in favor of faster, more accurate and efficient practices. That’s because the firm has revised its policy in favor of reusing materials for improved reverse logistics. Supply chains are the lifelines of businesses across the globe. They connect all of the processes required between the manufacture and the final delivery of a product to a consumer. So, in a nutshell, they are vital to nearly every economic system out there. However, these complicated business organisms need constant management and attention to stay healthy and competitive. Luckily for us, the benefits of supply chain management and the software suites designed to convey these advantages are widely available. Before you jump into the SCM software market, you’ll need a list of must-have requirements your business needs to succeed. Our comprehensive list of the most popular modules can jumpstart your selection process. JDA’s Supply Chain Now and Infor Supply Chain Management are two solutions that are often considered by SMBs, but what makes them different? Where do their abilities overlap? As you surely know by now, it’s exceedingly important to make sure the system you choose fulfills your requirements. That’s why we created a detailed comparison of JDA vs Infor, so you can decide with confidence which system is best for you. It’s hard to imagine an effective supply chain management solution that doesn’t rely on EDI or API. They both allow you to quickly and securely exchange data from system to system, which is a huge part of the supply chain management process. But even though both API and EDI are widely used across many different business software solutions, they do have their differences. These differences need to be understood in order to make an educated choice when choosing a software solution that best suits your business needs. When the term automation comes up, most people experience a brief sci-fi laden slideshow in their heads. It’s the year 2021, humanoid robots take to the streets disrupting life as we know it and clashing with their old human masters. Lucky for us, when it comes to the world of supply chain automation, robots are more about increasing efficiency and less the whole enslaving humanity angle. Making sure a complex system such as supply chain management runs smoothly is a difficult process. It involves multiple organizations, each of which have their own objectives and practices. Tracking shipments and monitoring inventory levels are just a few of the key aspects that need to be closely followed in order to ensure that orders are handled effectively.What Is Demand Forecasting? Different Types, Benefits and More
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