A new visitor to my new site kindly dropped a comment and asked this question. Thank you Pedro! First, make lists Let us start with a list of concerns in logistics and supply chain management. Logistics and supply chain management cover a very large number of functions such as product life-cycle management, demand forecasting, inventory and supply planning, procurement, manufacturing/ […]
Baby and the bathwater – A cautionary tale of systems migration
CommentaryI recently worked for a very large and well known company, to migrate their legacy procurement systems to cloud. To help you, my reader, to clearly understand legacy- when I requested the user manuals for these systems, I got PDF scans of cyclostyles! Long story short.. Really old systems which were continued to be used because.. they worked.. They had […]
Decentralization mind-shift
CommentaryAs a systems architect in the late 90’s to mid 2000’s, my mind was tuned to work in a particular way. Things were simple back then. Screens were limited to 80×24 character matrices. Commands were function keys.. F1 to F12 and then F13 to F24 using shift. That is, there can be no more than 24 actions on a screen. […]