Procurement Insights

APRIL 4, 2025

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a reprint of the March 25th, 2015 article The Impact Of An M&A On The Procurement Department This morning I read a post by Roz Usheroff regarding the just announced merger between Kraft and Heinz, and how an employee can both survive and thrive when an M&A occurs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 13, 2020

And, I must say, I have always experienced a prevailing attitude among senior management that these transformations are black holes and money pits. There is a litany of cautionary tales: From Hershey’s widely reported $100 million failed ERP implementation in 2015 to our own personal stories. million or 36.9%. million or 15.9%.

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The Network Effect

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Why “Distributed Order Management” is a Top Retail Trend and Why You Should Care. Supply Chain’s Biggest Buzzwords: “Big Data” and “End-to-End Visibility” What is the Optimal Column Space for Your Warehouse? The Next Major Shift in Supply Chain Technology.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

. ​ Automotive supply chain facts Up to 50 percent of unscheduled downtime is due to a lack of spare parts or stockouts ( The Importance of Inventory Optimization in MRO, July 2015 , Aberdeen Group) Generally, 99% of [semiconductor] manufacturing foundries have no visibility where the part is going. Why is this happening?

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EazyStock

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

*This post was originally published June 2015; it was updated September 2018*. OmniFocus – Task-Management App. A nifty task-management app that has been released in its third edition that has redesigned its core features to add power to the app’s capabilities and has brought fresh design and new features.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

Understanding this differentiation is important for the manager trying to navigate autonomous planning: rather than assuming everything can be autonomous, the manager can take a more sophisticated view onto the people, process & technology needed to support the future of integrated planning. Hippold, Sarah, (2019). Kasparov, Garry.

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