Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 16, 2020

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms also paved the way for supply chain improvements. One article explained how supply chain management was among the first business functions that got significant technological upgrades to evolve and to harness data extracted from ERP systems.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Management: Streamlining supplier performance to meet demand. Project Management: Optimizing resource allocation to avoid bottlenecks in project timelines. Better Customer Satisfaction: Reduces delays and improves service delivery. Healthcare: Reducing patient waiting times by improving critical processes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 2, 2019

The 5 Levels of Supply Chain Transparency! The phrase “Supply Chain Management” was first coined in 1982. There are many different definitions of Supply Chain Management, as covered in our article What Exactly Is Supply Chain Management? Subscribe Here!

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Current State of Supplier Performance Management Nowadays, the interest in improving supplier performance management methods has increased due to the increase in global sourcing and that of the global economy in particular (Gordon Sherry R, 2008). Supplier evaluation is situational.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action™” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. This interview is with Raymon Krishnan, President of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society. University of Wales, Masters in Supply Chain Management offered in Singapore along with.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

The company won the ISM 2012 Award for Excellence in Supply Management (category:process). Resilience Project, its methods has been tested under many extreme circumstances such as, - 2008: Chengdu Earthquake in China. There are very unique ways how Cisco Handles major supply chain disruptions. A Case Study.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 22, 2024

Procurement Insights (2008) NOTE: While the above example deals with an Indirect Procurement Material situation, the same methodology is equally applicable to Direct Materials. ” – The Number 1 Question. How Can You Help Us?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The term “Blockchain” was first coined by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 as the name for the electronic transaction ledger to be used in support of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Blockchain technology can efficiently and effectively facilitate this digital tracking and management of all aspects of any Supply Chain.

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Procurement Heads

JANUARY 25, 2023

BC Ferries has a very aggressive goal to decrease our 2008 emissions levels (baseline year) by 27% by 2030, so what we are doing is working with a few elements to achieve that. Sustainable procurement is not about what I do in my department, but how my department supports the organisation. We see that disconnect in some organisations.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 20, 2019

What Supply Chain Management problem does this solve? The biggest problem in the transitional supply chain is lack of open and trustworthy information availability across the supply chain caused by multiple issues – trust, technology and legacy practices being the top ones.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 29, 2020

These universities produce outstanding SC research and some of them are from the top supply chain management course and program in the United States. Some authors are from leading supply chain operations management consulting companies. Obsolete and out-of-print books are not included. References - Moed, H.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 27, 2022

Supply chain once a shadow operation consumers weren’t aware of that was looked at as a basic operational function is now recognized as a strategic business arm responsible for driving resilience and innovation. while addressing ancilliary processes (tax, legal, change management, etc.)

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

To further complicate things the concept of 4th Party Logistics (4PL) was thrown into the mix by Andersen Consulting ( Now Accenture ), although it did come after the word 3PL was a universally accepted as part of the language of logistics and supply chain managers. Anyway, before we get to “What is a 3PL?”

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Whether it’s the quick and powerful response to make new vaccines and medications available to more urban and rural communities, or working to end the baby formula shortage —supply chain professionals are working behind the scenes to protect our way of life amidst unprecedented volatility.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Supply Chain Viewed as Stable : Procurements role in supply chain management was often taken for granted, as global supply chains were relatively stable at the time. Risk management was not a primary focus, and procurement was not seen as critical in addressing disruptions.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Supply Chain Perspective Service supply chain has recently emerged as the new research area. In general, it focuses on supply chain management of non-manufacturing companies such as those in the logistics and distribution, consulting and hospitality industries.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 23, 2019

While AWS was launched in 2002, Microsoft made an entry into the cloud market only in 2008, six long years later. One of the main reasons is that Amazon saw opportunity in this niche much earlier than others. This head start gave AWS a huge competitive advantage. However, this is not the only reason behind its astounding popularity.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 25, 2023

Spreadsheets In The Digital Age Here is an excerpt from one of the very first times I wrote about spreadsheets in this blog which was in October 2008: “It is perfectly possible to prepare a company’s annual accounts on spreadsheets, but it is much less time consuming and error prone to do the same job with an accounting software package.”

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Jaggaer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The financial meltdown of 2008 provided a further impulse. Whichever way you look at it, most SME (small to medium enterprises) and large companies alike have found managing supply chains and their spend very difficult compared to how it was just a few months ago. Resiliency and Agility is the Name of the Game.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action ” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. This interview is with Brad Jackson, Executive Vice President of Supply Chain Management and Device Sales at Rakuten Kobo. I first met Brad while at Celestica.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In 2012, Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) were focused on balancing cost control, global supply chain challenges, and the early stages of digital transformation. Economic recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, combined with emerging technologies and global competition, shaped their priorities.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 13, 2021

When the market crashed in 2008, and millions of Americans lost their jobs, we saw a greater need for wealth management. When the pandemic ravished the nation, we saw a need to keep supply chain employees safe. Our prior experience has taught us to answer to opportunities when industry-wide change is at the forefront.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 31, 2021

And since the US dollar has long been the world’s quote currency, its inflation is expected to trigger the next major wave of economic crisis, just like the one in 2008. The trillions of dollars of the fiscal stimulus have made the US government print more dollars.

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Una

JANUARY 31, 2024

Meanwhile, trade wars and rising tensions have led to what the Financial Times has described as a “great reshuffling” of global supply chains, with US FDI (foreign direct investment) in China falling from a peak of $20.9bn in 2008 to an 18-year low of $8.2bn in 2022.

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SPLC (Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council)

AUGUST 24, 2017

I’ve been with FCA (formerly Chrysler) for over 30 years, much of it in various elements of supply chain management. Chrysler began its sustainability journey in 2008, when two very energetic purchasing professionals (“intrapreneurs”) began advocating it. Bill’s Story.

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