I have been thinking about leadership a lot lately. Perhaps it is the various styles of our elected officials – from local representation to the highest office in the land. Perhaps it is what we often see or don’t see… Read More
Do a search on “How to successfully implement new Transportation Management Technology” and you will get plenty of results laying out the steps in a logical way, usually pretty intuitive stuff either from a technical perspective or from an organization… Read More
Our team was tasked to design and implement a solution for a client that would drive Load Building functionality with Recommended Shipments from Blue Yonder’s Fulfillment application. Through a detailed analysis, we ended up selecting the TMS as the engine… Read More
ERP implementations are notoriously difficult to tackle. The list of failed projects is long and makes for entertaining, if lurid, reading: The Biggest ERP Failures of All Time, Eric Kimberling and ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the… Read More
This past week, three JBF Consulting colleagues and a dedicated group of subject matter experts, business leads and IT leads/analysts on the client-side spent this past week sequestered in a windowless conference room. We were hashing out the detail design… Read More
Analytics and Optimization Opportunities Uncovered During Initial Kick-off Kick-offs are typically our favorite part of a project. Spirits are high; you get to meet a whole bunch of new, interesting and engaged people; and, you also get to learn the… Read More
A couple of weeks ago, I visited with a large global CPG company to discuss (what else!) their challenges and opportunities with their TMS. This group had just finished up a multi-year “mega project” to re-platform their old system and… Read More
One and done? “Don’t worry, Mike. Phase 2 never comes.” That was the guidance whispered to me by a fellow consultant I was working with at a TMS kick-off meeting in the mid-1990s. The shipper, a large consumer package goods… Read More
