Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 27, 2022

The disruption the global supply chain is facing today has been a long time coming, yet it seems to have caught the entire industry off guard. At the time of this article going live, I can imagine a lot of scrambling going on across importers up and down the country—and we’ve not even hit peak selling season yet.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. Rider (1970)). Bowersox, David J.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 21, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. A “Don’t Touch” Strategy will Dramatically Lean out your Supply Chain! Everyone involved in these Supply Chains is abiding by the social distancing and protective mandates we all are adhering to. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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HICX

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As an increasing number of organizations engage with vendors on a global level to fulfill their supply chains, the need for supply chain robustness has never been so critical. The Global Supply Chain Landscape: What is the current situation?

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By selecting and developing the right suppliers and establishing streamlined, transparent communication with them, manufacturers gain the agility and resilience to respond to customer demands, rise to the top, and navigate disruptions more easily. That makes agility a foundational part of your manufacturing strategy.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 28, 2024

I was recently delighted to be joined in webinar discussion by Iain Prince, Operational Transformation & Supply Chain Partner at KPMG. But to focus our attention even more sharply, let’s take our cue from Sir David Attenborough: “The decisions we make this decade are the most important in human history”. No pressure, then!

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Because procurement teams provide critical insights to inform business strategy , identifying opportunities to cut costs is one of the most important ways they do this. Finally, procurement teams are responsible for anticipating and responding to disruptions in the supply chain and their own process.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Don’t forget to check out our best practices , tools , and a list of helpful supply chain resources on the website! To maximize efficiency, distributors should adhere to the following set of guidelines for evaluating and planning their supply chain with the strategies mentioned below.

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Pipefy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To do this, procurement teams require visibility into their data, control over their processes, and a seat at the business strategy table. Today, quick fixes are being eclipsed by strategic agility that seeks to drive long-term business value and innovation. Among those executives in finance, the percentage rose to 67%.

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Solvoyo

MARCH 5, 2021

For businesses of all sizes, the digital transformation of supply chain planning became the most important initiative. . Considering this surge in digital transformation and the changing needs of 2021, here are some insights and tips for embarking on Supply Chain Digital Transformation projects.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Supply Chain Management is complex and truly mastered by few. For those of us who have made our careers in supply chain, one of the great challenges, and the attraction of the discipline, is the variety of differing opinions about what constitutes ‘excellence in supply chain’ and how it can be best achieved.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt. Procurement’s value became evident, as did the importance of the supplier relationships they had built. As a result of the disruption, cost management and supply chain visibility were suddenly top of mind for executive leadership teams. .

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Detective and the Distribution Centre Disaster! This change paradox, and the resultant paralysis, could only be solved by The Supply Chain Detective. To understand the challenge ahead it was important to understand the players involved.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. preferred terms are negotiated in sourcing but only captured if purchased against) Invoicing: The most important part of the process for the supplier–getting paid. Purchasing is also where value is captured (i.e.,

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Check out Brand Protection – The Definitive Role of the Supply Chain! The Supply Chain function within your company has many responsibilities. Yet often the Supply Chain is undervalued. Why is Supply Chain often undervalued? Pressures for Cost Reduction in Supply Chain.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

In this article, we are going to explore what procurement tracking is, its importance in business and the tools to be used when conducting it for its efficient execution. Procurement Tracking: Why is it Important? These tools allow for automated, integration to suppliers and visibility in procurement data at any time.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Eliminating network complexity and bolstering application connectivity In a world where consumers expect the best possible experience when interacting with an organization’s offerings, DNS continues to serve an important role in how we transact through applications and data.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Imagining the Supply Chain of the Future! Mike Mortson was recently interviewed by Oracle as a part of their Global Supply Chain Influencer program. This article was posted on Oracle’s Supply Chain Management blog. Email Address. Mike Mortson.

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Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 26, 2024

The increasing pressure from macroeconomic factors that include inflation, continued supply chain disruption, geopolitical tensions and ESG factors are primary areas of concern for the procurement professional. McKinsey has reported that supply chain disruption is costing companies 0.47% on average each year.

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Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 26, 2024

The increasing pressure from macroeconomic factors that include inflation, continued supply chain disruption, geopolitical tensions and ESG factors are primary areas of concern for the procurement professional. McKinsey has reported that supply chain disruption is costing companies 0.47% on average each year.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 14, 2020

Define the contours of your supply chain network from end-to-end – inbound from vendors to production facilities and outbound from DCs to customers. Game out how the risk(s) you’ve identified may impact each supply chain and be prepared with strategies to react in real-time to disruptions as they occur.

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Barkers Procurement

AUGUST 2, 2023

The increasing pressure from macroeconomic factors that include Inflation, Continued Supply Chain disruption and Geopolitical tensions are primary areas of concern for the procurement professional. McKinsey reports that supply chain disruption is costing companies 0.47% on average each year. How can Barkers help?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

How can you tell if your Supply Chain is broken? But before the situation gets to those extremes what are the clues that your Supply Chain is not working as well as it could, or should? But before the situation gets to those extremes what are the clues that your Supply Chain is not working as well as it could, or should?

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The Network Effect

MARCH 18, 2016

There’s an interesting report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Three Paths to Advantage with Digital Supply Chain , that illustrates the urgent need for companies today to transition to a digital supply chain, if they haven’t done so already. ” What is the Digital Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The backbone of all long-standing philosophies such as Just-In-Time , Lean manufacturing, and Kanbans were all designed around minimizing the amount of inventory on hand in any Supply Chain. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Is Just In Time Past Its Time? Get Our EBOOK HERE.

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The result is greater supply chain predictability, more accurate decision-making, and better business agility. Whether the purpose is savings or forecasting, strategic procurement involves three key business principles at its core for better decision-making and procurement maturity: predictability, agility, and precision.

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Pipefy

JULY 31, 2023

One way companies can become more agile and remain competitive despite economic uncertainties is end-to-end business process automation. By eliminating manual processes, human errors are minimized and productivity, agility, and process efficiency goes up. Those that fail to do so risk losing customers to competitors.

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Finale Inventory

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Scanning a label takes a fraction of the time needed to jot down even the briefest of details – and items are immediately visible in your online system with full product details available. This lack of visibility has an impact on the bottom line: Last year, out-of-stock products and deep discounting of excess merchandise cost merchants $244.5

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The Traffic Jam Supply Chain Model. Consider each of the nodes (suppliers, operations, distribution centres, stores) in your Supply Chain as being a “highway” Consider also that all of the goods that you are moving along these nodes are the “vehicles” travelling on those highways.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 5, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. We decided to attack this by introducing the Lean technique of Value Stream Mapping to the organization. The company had no experience in Lean process improvement. There was no visibility to any of this activity otherwise. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 11, 2023

Procurement teams are now responsible for driving value, achieving sustainable results, and helping businesses maintain their competitive edge despite market shifts and supply chain disruptions. Since early 2020, the spotlight has been on supply chains and supply chain management.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Recent trends have increased the strategic importance of an effective, transparent Invoice-to-Pay process, managed by AP. A recent study by Forrester found that the single greatest factor in increasing a supplier’s willingness to collaborate with and share innovations with a customer was timeliness of and visibility into payments.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 4, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Create a Responsive Supply Chain to Handle Peaks and Lulls! If you work in Business or Supply Chain you feel the results and the immense pressure caused by inaccurate forecasts. This can be highly disruptive and it is a very real Supply Chain nightmare scenario.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 13, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. When the pandemic ravished the nation, we saw a need to keep supply chain employees safe. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Enterprises now recognize the importance of leveraging innovative technologies to drive digital transformation and achieve cost efficiency. They identified the lack of an end-to-end perspective and the need to enrich process management methods. The path of digital transformation is fraught with challenges.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Improve CI/CD pipelines The continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline—commonly referred to as the CI/CD pipeline —is an agile DevOps workflow focused on a frequent and reliable software delivery process. You gain full-stack visibility to better understand your environment and speed up innovation.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Supply chain collaboration is a hot topic today and no wonder: companies that collaborate effectively across the supply chain have enjoyed dramatic reductions in inventories and costs, together with improvements in speed, service levels, and customer satisfaction. Supplier chain collaboration itself isn’t new.

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