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Marty Parker

Marty Parker serves as both the CEO & Founder of Adæpt Advising and an award-winning Senior Lecturer (Teaching Professor) in Supply Chain and Operations Management at the University of Georgia. He has 30 years of experience as a COO, CMO, CSO (Chief Strategy Officer), VP of Operations, VP of Marketing and Process Engineer. He founded and leads UGA’s Supply Chain Advisory Board, serves as the Academic Director of UGA’s Leaders Academy, and serves on multiple company advisory boards including the Trucking Profitability Strategies Conference, Zion Solutions Group and Carlton Creative Company.

Marty enjoys helping people and companies be successful. Through UGA, Marty is passionate about his students, helping them network and find internships and jobs. He does this through several hundred one-on-one zoom meetings each year with his students and former students. Through Adæpt Advising, Marty has organized an excellent team of affiliates that he works with to help companies grow and succeed. He does this by helping c-suite executives improve their skills, develop better leaders, engage their workforce, improve processes, and develop strategic plans with detailed action steps and financial targets. Marty believes that excellence in supply chain management comes from the understanding the intersection of leadership, culture, and technology, working across all parts of the organization to meet customer needs, maximize profit and minimize costs.

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December 17, 2025

SAP’s David Vallejo on the New Era of Planning: From Algorithms to Data-Driven Confidence

In a rapidly evolving global supply chain landscape, SAP’s David Vallejo believes the most exciting innovations are happening in planning—and that the industry is entering a fundamentally new era. At the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit 2025 in Denver, Vallejo, who leads global product marketing for SAP’s supply chain portfolio, joined Scott Luton to discuss how planning is transforming, why data now sits at the center of competitiveness, and what SAP is doing to help organizations make faster, more confident decisions.   A Shift From ERP-Centric to Data-Centric Vallejo described his team’s role as one that constantly scans the market—identifying trends, customer expectations, and the problems companies will need to solve next. Those insights help shape new innovations across the SAP ecosystem. He noted that SAP has moved decisively from an ERP-centric worldview to a data-centric one. This shift is essential, he argued, because the biggest advantage in modern planning lies in having the right data—clean, connected, contextualized, and ready to drive decisions. As Vallejo put it, “It’s all about the data that I need to make better planning decisions.”   Planning Models Are No Longer Static Reflecting on how planning has evolved since he entered the field two decades…
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February 6, 2026

Boxed for Success: How FabFItFun Saved Millions with EasyPost Enterprise + MagicLogic

As customization and volume surged, FabFitFun partnered with EasyPost Enterprise and MagicLogic to eliminate waste, reduce costs, and scale shipping with confidence. As FabFitFun evolved from curated to fully customizable subscription boxes, shipping complexity—and cost—rose quickly. Larger cartons, mixed ecommerce orders, and reliance on a single carrier network made it difficult to scale efficiently without sacrificing margins or speed. By implementing intelligent cartonization through MagicLogic and multi-carrier rate shopping via EasyPost Enterprise, FabFitFun transformed its fulfillment operation—cutting waste, improving resilience, and unlocking multimillion-dollar savings in record time. What You’ll Learn in This Case Study How FabFitFun eliminated 80% of overboxing through right-sized packaging How multi-carrier rate shopping drove millions in quarterly shipping savings Why cartonization delivered ROI in less than one week How enterprise shippers can reduce costs without slowing down growth This case study shows how enterprise brands can turn shipping from a cost center into a competitive advantage—delivering immediate financial impact, operational efficiency, and long-term scalability. Download the case study to see how FabFitFun did it—and what’s possible for your operation. DOWNLOAD NOW