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Enhancing Logistical Efficiency: Strategies for Improvement

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To optimize operations, reduce costs, and minimize environmental impact, a multifaceted approach is required. This article explores key strategies for enhancing logistical efficiency and thus improving profitability and reducing cost.

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Lean Six Sigma for SMEs: A Path to Continuous Improvement

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While Lean focuses on eliminating waste and optimizing processes to achieve seamless workflow, Six Sigma targets reducing variation and improving quality through data-driven analysis and statistical tools. – JIT deliveries cause congestion in the supply chain which leads to delays, pollution, shortage of workers, etc.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

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Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.

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SAP Spend Connect – See the bigger picture

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Better guidance and support within P2P ‘Guided Buying’ is a concept introduced in 2005 (actually, by one of the authors of this piece, Pierre Mitchell) many years before SAP launched a capability by the same name that helped with basic user guidance, search and ‘smart forms’ to go beyond free-text requisitions. using RAG ).

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How to Plan with a Company’s Vision in Mind

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Examples of an aspirational planning goal or BHAG can be: ‘our 6-month EBIT outlook will be within 2% error margin’, ‘we will decimate our budget cycle time’. ‘80% They both run their operations mostly on customer orders and hardly use other planning and forecasting than the yearly budget plan and financial outlooks.

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