How quickly time flies when you’re having fun. And fun it is, watching “Suitemates“, the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Canada-based supply chain software provider Kinaxis has just released this weeks episode, number five of a six-episode short video series that tells the fictional story of BILK Moore – the merger between two ERP companies. Driven by greed for more profit and ever more profit, the two respective CEOs end up behind bars for fraud and unethical business conduct, after selling their (useless) software for an exorbitant price, while throwing in extra (and equally useless) bonuses and freebies to make their customers think they’re getting a lot, when in fact they’re not.

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Time for my weekly reminder: “Suitemates“, the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Canada-based supply chain software provider Kinaxis has just released episode 4 of a six-episode short video series that tells the fictional story of BILK Moore – the merger between two ERP companies. In Suitemates, the two respective CEOs end up behind bars for fraud and unethical business conduct, after using seductive persuasion tactics to have customers sign whatever deal with whatever small print, and before they know it, they’re sucked in and hooke(re)d (my pun) on Bilk-Moore’s state of the art/crap ERP software.

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Time for episode three of “Suitemates“, the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis, a Canada-based supply chain software provider . Suitemates is a six-episode short video series that tells 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, after making sure 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…well, you get the picture, right?

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I have been swamped with work this week. In fact, so swamped that I forgot to watch episode two of “Suitemates“, the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis, a Canada-based business that delivers Rapid Response, a supply chain management tool. Suitemates is a six-episode short video series that tells the fictional story of a merger between two ERP companies and how the two CEOs ended up in jail for fraud and unethical business conduct, after luring their customers into buying more and more of a software that never delivers what it promises.

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I’m an academic … a transport economist who happened to stumble into supply chain management. Actually … I’m  a civil engineer by training who stumbled into academia, and first and foremost this is an academic blog, dedicated to the dissemination of research on supply chain risk. Little do I know, perhaps, of the real world of supply chain issues, even less perhaps do I know of supply chain consultants and how they trap their clients into buying whole suites of problem solving software packages I didn’t know existed. Maybe I should count myself lucky for not having been fooled by these two ERP executives. They aren’t so lucky themselves, in fact, as they end up in prison for being what they are.

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