Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Here’s a breakdown of the shifts over this period: 2011: Procurement as a Tactical Function Primary Focus on Cost Savings : In 2011, CFOs largely viewed procurement as a cost-control function , tasked with negotiating contracts, reducing spend, and maintaining compliance with budgets.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement 52

SCMDOJO

MARCH 28, 2023

Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their supply chains. By providing a secure and transparent way to track products from their origin to their final destination, blockchain for supply chain can help increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve trust between suppliers and customers.

Supply Chain Efficiency 116

Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization supply chain software solutions 116

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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. – Reduced flexibility and less ability to react to new conditions and circumstances.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 98

Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting Quality Supply Chain Optimization 98

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is arguably true that supplier performance management is considered a business practice for measuring, analyzing, and managing supplier performance to reduce cost, and risk and also drive continuous improvement. Therefore, the success of supplier performance management directly affects the quality of the entire supply chain.

Suppliers 84

Suppliers Management Quality Import 84

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

According to McKinsey research , in the five years immediately following the 2008 global financial crisis, total return to shareholders for companies with top-quartile procurement capabilities was 42 percent higher than the companies whose procurement operations were in the bottom quartile. This is to enable greater autonomy and agility. .

supply chain budgeting 52

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

Procurement Software

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Procurement is the function in companies that, on a general level, takes care of sourcing, managing vendors and tracking spend. The experience of COVID-19 also showed that poorly managed vendor master data contributed to some of the delivery delays and supply chain disruption. Typically, this is the CFO.

supply chain budgeting 52

supply chain budgeting Chief Procurement Officer supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Optimization 52

Procurement Insights

JUNE 24, 2022

Ironically, the first article in this blog about using spreadsheets was a guest post by Glenda Leatherman , a change management consultant, in March 2008. Coinciding with Andrew’s point of view was the release of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive ‘s white paper “ Are Spreadsheets Sabotaging Your Supply Chain?

Procurement 52

Procurement supply chain budgeting Buyers supply chain software solutions 52