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What is Purchase Price Variance (PPV) and How to Calculate it?

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This is where Purchase Price Variance (PPV) plays a crucial role and as per Emiliani, (2010), helps strategy makers evaluate spending and create well-structured cost-saving strategies. This negative variance can result from bypassing defined procurement processes, Internal mismanagement, or ineffective price negotiations with suppliers.

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At which point should end-to-end (S2C) source-customer visibility begin in the manufacturing process?

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EDITOR’S NOTE: In December 2010, I wrote an article about one of Time Magazine’s picks for the Top Innovations in 2008 – Made-in-Transit Packaging. I obviously think what EiKO is doing regarding process visibility is great – kudos to the company for its progressive customer-centric thinking.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

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Although logistics represents a whole system of space/time interdependencies, we believe that the discussion of its history and its chronological evolution still requires extensive studies to explore its origin and its advance in time, from a new point of view. The Seventh: Supply Chain Digitalization (2010’s).

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Supply Chain Collaboration – The New Way to Drive Value!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Sixty-five percent of procurement practitioners say procurement at their company is becoming more collaborative with suppliers, according to The Future of Procurement, Making Collaboration Pay Off, by Oxford Economics. Supplier collaboration has always been a function of maintaining a delicate balance between demand and supply.

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The 5 Levels of Supply Chain Transparency!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Time and technology have shifted expectations, and formed a consensus: What was once a luxury has become an imperative. Parallel with a lot of circulating business jargon, ‘supply chain transparency’ has become a buzzword with a certain sex appeal, to the sustainability crusaders of our time. Level 3: Physical-Digital Transparency.