HICX

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

HICX , a supplier experience management platform designed to give companies visibility into their supply chain, has raised $30 million in a round of funding led by U.S. private equity firm Wavecrest Growth Partners and Canada’s Espresso Capital. The funding constituted a mixture of $22 million equity and $8 million in debt.

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Supply chain Supply Supply chain management Supply chain management 52

Supply Chain Opz

APRIL 16, 2015

Triple-A Supply Chain In 2004, Professor Hau Lee of Stanford University published the article titled " The Triple-A Supply Chain " in Harvard Business Review. Nokia who had a contingency plan managed to locate 2 new suppliers and the new lead-time was only 5 days. Leagility In 1999, Naylor et al.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 86

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply chain Raw materials Supply 86

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since 2004 the city of Wuhan, at the center of the outbreak and in lockdown since January 23, has been a focal point of the Rise of Central China Plan, making it one of the country’s key inland hubs for advanced manufacturing. In the auto industry, China is the world’s major supplier of parts. Pharmaceuticals. Automobiles.

Networking 88

Networking Supply Supply chain Suppliers 88

Procurement Heads

AUGUST 11, 2022

It was back in 2004 in Romania – I am Romanian – and at the time I was working as a Marketing Assistant at British American Tobacco. I am an extrovert, so it was very easy for me to picture myself doing those negotiations with suppliers. When did your interest in procurement and supply chain begin?

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supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain Leadership 130

Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 27, 2022

The premise for the company was working with local companies across Alabama, Georgia, and Northern Florida developing tools to provide more visibility into their suppliers across their supply chain. Since then, I have developed AI models for a spend visbility application (2004 – 2005).

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain software solutions Supply chain Supply 115

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Days and years went by, and eventually, the ’93 Ford Escort was living in the hybrid-dominated world of the year 2004. Time and technology had progressed, and there were a plethora of better alternatives on the market in 2004. TCO is a widely recognized parameter for gauging the value of a supplier. She chose the hybrid route.

Procurement 50

Procurement Procurement team Supply Chain Efficiency Innovation 50

Planergy

JULY 14, 2022

How AP can improve relationships with your key suppliers. Read Only – 1990 – 2004 We owe the web as we know it to Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist who was working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. occurred between 1990 and 2004. Read-Write – 2004 – Present Web 2.0 Download Free Copy.

Purchasing 52

Purchasing Networking Data Spend management 52

The Good Spending

MAY 13, 2024

Lorenzo, iSoft's flagship software system, would be "available from early 2004." How did procurement award contracts to at least two suppliers who relied on iSoft without a working platform? BT and Fujitsu chose a US software firm, IDX, to work with, while Accenture and CSC chose a British software company called iSoft.

Procurement 64

Procurement Contract Stakeholder engagement Negotiation 64

Positive Purchasing

MARCH 10, 2022

This is what we’re expecting from our suppliers. That can’t just come from a category manager talking to an account manager – it needs to be a consistent message from the leadership of the buying organization that involves supplier education and recognition in order to hit these targets and put these programs in place.

Procurement 52

Procurement Sustainability Supply Chain Efficiency Suppliers 52

Arkestro

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Well, I’ve always had a passion for understanding and reducing costs, and in 2004 I turned that into a business opportunity by founding Advanced Purchasing Dynamics. was the ability to send RFQs to a large number of suppliers at once via email. was the ability to send RFQs to a large number of suppliers at once via email.

Procurement 52

Procurement supply chain software solutions supply chain budgeting Buyers 52

Supply Chain Opz

MAY 28, 2013

Anyway, the most widely cited maturity model is the work named " The development of a supply chain management process maturity model using the concepts of business process orientation " from McCormack and Lockamy III in 2004. Supply Chain Maturity Model. After that, set your own target to higher level. NPD Maturity Model.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 45

Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain software solutions Supply chain Supply 45

Barkers Procurement

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This requires all suppliers who bid for Government contracts, with a total value exceeding £5m, to demonstrate that they are taking action to reduce their carbon emissions in line with UK 2050 NetZero targets. Funding for decarbonising heat and buildings. The development of nuclear projects. How can employees play their part in Net Zero?

Ethics 52

Ethics Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain Suppliers 52

The Procuretech Podcast

JANUARY 18, 2022

Back in 2004, when she started applying AI to be leveraged for repetitive tasks in spend analysis and categorisation, it reduced this task from 9 weeks down to several hours. What questions should buyers be asking procurement software suppliers to determine their AI capabilities? That’s the potential that AI has.

Procurement 40

Procurement Procurement team Data Import 40

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2018

Passage of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 allowed U.S. One strong incentive for bringing the money home is the availability of financial technology products, including working-capital marketplaces, that speed up payments to suppliers while letting manufacturers hold onto their cash for longer periods of time.

Consumer demands 40

Consumer demands Demand Inventory Risk 40

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 7, 2020

At global strategy firm CVA, where I led the global logistics practice, supporting expansion projects and Chinese auto suppliers to strengthen their position in the European market. In 2004, I started to drive La Poste’s expansion outside of Europe. In 2001, La Poste had become a leading player in the express parcel business in Europe.

Leadership 70

Leadership Supply chain Networking Logistics 70

SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

Who could forget the Barbie deforestation scandal of 2011 , when Greenpeace discovered that toy manufacturer Mattel was sourcing packaging material from a supplier clearing rainforests from critical wildlife areas. . This was the largest difference in performance recorded since 2004. In many ways, he was eerily prescient.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain Sustainability Supply 52

Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I think the way Amazon sells other suppliers inventory is a simplistic finished good distribution example of S&OP. For example don’t build a bigger warehouse and new warehouse management systems if you can create more of a drop shop program of product from suppliers direct to customers.

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supply chain software solutions supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization Leadership 100

SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

Who could forget the Barbie deforestation scandal of 2011 , when Greenpeace discovered that toy manufacturer Mattel was sourcing packaging material from a supplier clearing rainforests from critical wildlife areas. This was the largest difference in performance recorded since 2004. At the same time, pressure from NGOs was on the rise.

Supply Chain Efficiency 40

Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain Sustainability Supply 40

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Founded by Jason Busch in 2004, they were the first of the major procurement and supply chain blogs. For example, if 80% of your spend is on direct materials from a handful of suppliers, then you probably don’t need an end-to-end Contract Lifecycle Management suite. Let’s start with Spend Matters.

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supply chain software solutions Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Founded by Jason Busch in 2004, they were the first of the major procurement and supply chain blogs. For example, if 80% of your spend is on direct materials from a handful of suppliers, then you probably don’t need an end-to-end Contract Lifecycle Management suite. Let’s start with Spend Matters.

supply chain software solutions 52

supply chain software solutions Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Procurement Insights

APRIL 21, 2024

” “A 2004 automotive study by the Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) found that of the 45 percent of their membership’s U.S.-based based customers who have contracted vendors, 33 percent of all purchases were from non-contract suppliers.

Contract 75

Contract Leadership Purchasing Price 75

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

For the Government, supplier diversity programs are something procurement professionals in the United States (US) have accepted as a key element to their procurement success. Since their inception more than 50 years ago, supplier diversity programs have spread beyond public procurements. Supplier Diversity on the World Stage.

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Suppliers Strategy Agile and Lean Supply Chain Ethics 246

ivalua

JULY 6, 2021

As mentioned in Part I of this series on supplier diversity , the United States has taken over half a century to develop its supplier diversity culture into what it is today. There have been impressive examples of supplier diversity efforts in other countries, as well. Raising the Bar in Supplier Diversity Down Under .

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Suppliers Ethics Buyers Procurement 130

Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

While AI had already been used in procurement for several years—mainly for automation, predictive analytics, and supplier insights—2023 saw a shift towards using generative AI specifically for tasks like: Creating procurement documents (e.g.,

Procurement team 52

Procurement team Supplier negotiation Procurement supply chain software solutions 52

Procurement Insights

JANUARY 19, 2025

Wikipedia SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) : SAP introduced its SRM solution in 2005, providing tools to manage supplier relationships and procurement activities. Manugistics : Focused on supply chain and logistics, Manugistics provided procurement tools to enhance sourcing and supplier management.

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supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency e2e Supply Chain Optimization 52

Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

“ I can only wonder how things might have been different had the June 2004 Mendocino Project materialized. Would Microsoft’s reported/purported plans to buy SAP turn the myth of a single-source solution into a reality?”

Stakeholder engagement 64

Stakeholder engagement Procurement Contract Collaboration 64

Procurement Insights

JANUARY 13, 2025

To do this effectively, the buyer must simultaneously engage critical stakeholders such as suppliers, courier companies and customs brokers, e.g., the Metaprise.

Buyers 69

Buyers Contract Negotiation Quality 69