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Pay more get more?

“Suitemates” is the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Episode 5 of a six-episode short video series – Double Down – has been just released, telling the fictional story of BILK Moore – the merger between two ERP companies and how their two CEOs end up behind bars for fraud and unethical business conduct

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Sweet Seduction

“Suitemates” is the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Episode 4 of a six-episode short video series – Suite Caroline -has been just released, telling the fictional story of BILK Moore – the merger between two ERP companies and how their two CEOs end up behind bars for fraud and unethical business conduct.

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Downgrades are upgrades

“Suitemates” is the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Episode 3 of a six-episode short video series has been just released, telling the fictional story of BILK Moore – the merger between two ERP companies and how their two CEOs end up behind bars for fraud and unethical business conduct. Their software is so full of bugs that even upgrading doesn’t fix it, it just adds new errors, that require new upgrades, that still won’t work because…

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Suites – what suites?

Today they take us back to their company presentation after their merger, announcing the new names of their software suites, where absolutely none of the names or ludicrous acronyms they come up with make any sense.

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ERP consultants: A nightmare

Suitemates is produced by Kinaxis, a Canada-based company that delivers RapidResponse, an award-winning on-demand supply chain management tool. In Suitemates they poke fun at what they call Big ERP and how supply chain consulting companies supposedly work.

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Blog Review: The Kinaxis Blog

Here is a high-quality blog for you, the Kinaxis Blog, or as they put it themselves: The 21st Century Supply Chain. And is it a correct tagline? Yes, I think so. The blog features Kinaxis executives and the occasional guest and provides insights on today’s supply chain trends and issues.

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Resilience X 10
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
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SME Risk Management
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The supply chain of the future
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Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
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Robustness, flexibility and resilience
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