The Network Effect

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Today I want to talk about an important concept in retail–Distributed Order Management (“DOM”). The traditional order management systems that most retailers use were basically configured to link to a discrete number of specific plants or warehouses.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sphera SCRM is the new name of riskmethods, an SCRM specialist that was founded in 2013 and has been extensively covered by Spend Matters. Although Sphera (the company, not the SCRM module) is a few years younger than riskmethods, it acquired riskmethods in 2022 to complete its ESG-focused offering with risk management capabilities.

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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

MAY 4, 2023

The collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013 shows us why. We cannot know all of the regulations and building codes in foreign locations, but we can use common sense and ask common sense questions about our supply chain partners.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When it comes to modern IT infrastructure, the role of Kubernetes —the open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, management and scaling of containerized software applications (apps) and services—can’t be underestimated. ” The Borg name fit the Google project well.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Tradeshift’s trajectory took a significant turn in 2013 as it secured a substantial round of funding, propelling its global expansion and further development of its platform. These acquisitions bolstered the capabilities of its platform, turning it into a comprehensive solution for supply chain management and procurement.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 20, 2025

In such an unpredictable environment, procurement leaders are advised to take a risk-management approach, focusing on cost efficiency, contract flexibility, and strategic supplier relationships to ensure institutional resilience. Since 2013, higher education R&D has grown at an average compound annual rate of 5.0%

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Vested Way

JANUARY 30, 2024

In 2013, the HealthcareCo set out to create a more “strategic” approach, by shifting to an integrated facilities management (IFM) solution. After a series of 20 facilitated workshops HealthcareCo and Supplier signed Europe’s first Vested Agreement for Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) in February 2017.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As a result of the disruption, cost management and supply chain visibility were suddenly top of mind for executive leadership teams. . Historically, the role of Procurement has been regarded as being exclusively aligned with cost management and supplier management , which is only part of the full picture.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As you read the title of today’s post, you may wonder what maverick spend, vendor rationalization and change management have to do with user adoption and AI Chatbots. The simple answer is the end of maverick spend , vendor rationalization , and change management. This disconnect meant that other measures had to be taken.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

As a start-up company in the garage, Amazon Supply Chain has made a giant leap that revolutionized many aspects of overall supply chain management. With more than 130 million stocking keeping units to manage and millions of transactions to control, this article will show you how they make it.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 14, 2021

Berkeley research teams Deputy foreign minister Gün Sirer, but instead, Ittay Eyal discovered selfish prospecting in an article published in 2013. Sirer and Eyal looked at the number of resources squandered and from both chain management. Understanding Selfish Mining. Selfish Mining Restrictions.

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ivalua

JULY 22, 2020

Top management dismissal. In fact, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) has somewhat similar guidelines on outsourcing for the US market in 2013. According to the EBA guidelines, outsourcing an activity shall never: Transfer bank’s senior management responsibility of running core management functions (e.g, General principals.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In 2013, Landmark Retail’s financial planning and analysis team faced challenges as they managed financial processes across more than 1200 stores. It took 3–4 months and needed stakeholder alignment across different countries, brands and functions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through the systems, IT staff can manage devices, control remote and local processes, log data, among other things. The ISO 9001 outlines the security standards that a quality management system (QMS) should meet. ISO/IEC 27001:2013. Primary Cybersecurity Threats Facing Manufacturing Companies.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 23, 2023

List of Top 10 Supply Chain Analytics Books 1) Supply Chain Metrics that Matter (Wiley Corporate F&A) 1st Edition This book offers an in-depth guide to understanding the link between corporate financials and supply chain maturity, evaluating the progress of over a hundred companies from 2006-2013.

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Are you a supply chain management professional who are looking for inspiring ideas to improve the operations of your supply chain? Background Early this year, I published one article named " 10 Greatest Supply Chain Management Books of All Time ". However, they asked further, "What are some good new books you recommend?".

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ivalua

MAY 28, 2014

The Cloud: Gartner stated that in 2013 cloud adoption rose by 40%, driven by the low total cost of ownership, which reduced both infrastructure and overall maintenance costs. Commodity managers, engineers, and quality managers are always on the road, where they still need to communicate and get their work done.

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Planergy

MARCH 12, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management. Back in 2013, Whirlpool re-shored appliance production to Ohio. What's PLANERGY? How to capture early payment discounts and avoid late payment penalties.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 22, 2022

The topic, Application of NFTs in Supply Chain Management, is buzzing in the supply chain & logistics space. A good example would be the Rana Plaza Tragedy of 2013. NFTs create metadata for every product in the system, and the managers can have a real-time location of any product at any time.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 30, 2023

Tim Cook Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, has a background in operations and supply chain management. Her work in supply chain management helped General Motors to become a successful and profitable company in the automotive industry, with a competitive advantage and high value.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 10, 2017

UltraShipTMS has won Stevie Awards in 2017, 2015, 2014 and 2013 across a number of categories including Gold Stevies for “ Product of the Year in 2013 ” and “Best Customer Support Department” in 2014 and a Silver Stevie also in 2014 for “IT Team of the Year”. The American Business Awards is the nation’s premier business awards program.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 22, 2024

Procurement Orthodoxy 3 – Repeatedly pushing out Payment terms Supplier Management During a Crisis (eWorld 2022 Special Podcast) – Procurement Insights (2022) NOTE: There are many reasons for a disconnect to occur between procurement and the supply network. ” – The Number 1 Question.

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ivalua

MARCH 1, 2019

Step 2: You have arrived at Best-in-Class – digitize the full Source-to-pay process globally and bring all spend under management. We won’t force you to choose either supplier management, or source to contract, or procure to pay. In 2013 they went live. More stakeholders, more users = more resistance. Be prepared.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 26, 2023

These films were chosen to inspire and educate both aspiring negotiators and seasoned procurement managers. A Hijacking (2013) The plot revolves around the hijacking and subsequent attempted release of a Danish cargo vessel and its crew. Today, we share our carefully compiled selection of the top ten negotiation-related films for 2023.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 18, 2019

The survey revealed that the community’s top five concerns are: Modernize application platform(s) (mentioned by 54% of respondents); Improve analytical capabilities (50%); Reduce operating cost (39%); Measure/manage performance and value (39%); Accelerate adoption of software tools (36%). Leverage supplier relationship management (SRM).

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Container management has come a long way. For decades, managing containerized environments was a relatively simple affair. Containers and Docker Container technology fundamentally changed in 2013 with Docker’s introduction and has continued unabated into this decade, steadily gaining in popularity and user acceptance.

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Situation Management Systems

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Impact of COVID-19 on Organizations When the COVID-19 crisis hit, many business leaders found themselves in emergency mode trying to figure out how to remain viable and manage a workforce that had suddenly become remote. Now they are dealing with questions of how to safely reopen and how or if to call workers back to their workplace.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Since the early December 2013, Amazon Prime Air, a program which aims to utilize a whole fleet of drones to make a delivery within 30 minutes, has been capturing the news headlines. On 2 Dec 2013, a twitter user named @QuantumPirate tweeted the above photo about drone delivery and it get almost 10k retweet to date!

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Procurement Heads

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

From then, seeking a new challenge, I moved to LV= to IT procurement a couple of years later and didn’t look back until earlier this year when I was presented with a great opportunity to head up the non-Claims Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) team here at Allianz Holdings, after first TUPE’ing across at the start of 2020.

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Accordingly, if organizations want to succeed and grow in the long-term, they need to cooperate, organize, and manage their logistics very wisely and mitigate its problems and risks simultaneously. LSPs generally endow tremendous inventory management and warehousing solutions, conveyance of orders and international logistics.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Survey results indicate that many core supplier management functions, including risk management, relationship management, performance management, innovation management, and CSR/Sustainability management, are still supported by generic applications such as Excel, SharePoint, and Teams or by no system at all.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 8, 2015

This is the third consecutive year UltraShipTMS, a growing provider of supply chain logistics IT solutions – Transportation Management System (TMS) software , private fleet management tools , and freight/route optimization solutions – has earned top honors at the “Stevies”.

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Supply Chain Trend

APRIL 2, 2018

Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) made it’s break through in the 80’s, when Material Requirement Planning (MRP) was the hottest planning methodology around, computer screens had monochrome green letters, our music and dress sense were questionable, and it was common for companies to have a command and control management style.

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Solvoyo

MARCH 17, 2023

Nil brings 18 years of corporate experience in process improvement & customer success before joining Solvoyo in 2013. With deep expertise in global project management, Nil is best known for getting things done. The post Nilufer Durak – COO appeared first on Solvoyo.

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Solvoyo

MARCH 17, 2023

Nil brings 18 years of corporate experience in process improvement & customer success before joining Solvoyo in 2013. With deep expertise in global project management, Nil is best known for getting things done. The post Nilufer Durak – Chief Operating Officer appeared first on Solvoyo.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 21, 2016

Those shippers with the right software tools in place back in 2013 were urged to run the past year’s volume reports through their optimizer tools. It’s no surprise that managing CSA without a technology to help is an issue for shippers. Using that data, they were able to model hypothetical load and lane corrections. Issue #2 | CSA.

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The Network Effect

JULY 2, 2014

Eventually Pitino became head coach at a number of programs over the years, most notably at Louisville where the Cardinals won the national championship in 2013. One plan + Managing Inputs vs Outputs + One solution =. He was mesmerized by the full court press. Pitino would never forget what he learned that night.

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