Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Across industries, be it FMCG, medical, or automotive, companies with a vast, diverse product portfolio need to manage bills of materials for each product and variant.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today please get to know True ValueHub From our recent analyst-written Vendor Analysis : Here’s why True ValueHub matters: To the market — True ValueHub offers deep parts analysis (price/cost-focused) for direct materials using AI and deep supplier insights.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

12, 2019 — Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced another record year. Manufacturing clients adopted capabilities that help to launch and deliver more innovative, profitable products faster and better manage associated supply risk, including robust Bill of Materials (BOM) capabilities.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company achieves this by using an advanced Al paired with real-world, in-the-moment perspectives from a proprietary network of partners that deliver insights down to the bill of material level.

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Finale Inventory

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This partnership bridges the gap between seamless inventory management and precise financial reporting. Whether you’re a growing ecommerce business or an accountant managing multiple clients, this integration simplifies your workflow and saves you time. Who is A2X? Want to see the integration in action?

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

In this article, our analyst Bertrand Maltaverne looks at carbon management solutions. What does a carbon management solution do? Top 4 carbon management technology capabilities What’s the state of different procurement technologies in the market today and do they meet user demands? material) level.

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Procurement Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here, CPO Eric Espinasse describes some of the strategies he has employed to manage the market volatility, from building up inventory to advanced segmentation and closer supplier relationships. The other core challenge we face is the time we have to spend on relationship management vs contract optimisation.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2023

If you’re a supply chain management professional, you’re probably aware of how important it is to continuously improve your skills and knowledge in this field. Fortunately, there are numerous courses available to help you develop your expertise in supply chain management, regardless of your level of experience.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Spend Matters is delighted to announce the 2024 roster for our ‘Future 5’ list. For the sixth year in a row, our analysts have highlighted five start-ups that excited them the most. This year, the five companies that have proven themselves as potential future trend setters are BlueBean , ivoflow, Covalyze, Halo Ai and True Value Hub.

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ivalua

JULY 10, 2019

Redwood City, CA July 10, 2019 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced the availability of a pre-packaged suite of solutions for manufacturers. Ivalua’s suite empowers customers to better manage their spend and suppliers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 30, 2019

6 Trends to Make Supply Chain Managers the Heroes of Their Company! I had just inherited a new department into my organization, the Product Data Management (PDM) team. What then exactly is Product, or Master, Data Management? Product Data Management (PDM). Master Data Management (MDM).

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ivalua

AUGUST 18, 2015

If you work in strategic sourcing and supplier management, supplier collaboration enables you to achieve (or beat!) the bill-of-materials target cost through the entire product lifecycle. The value created here is a higher return on innovation investments, product leadership in the market, and top-line revenue growth.

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ivalua

MARCH 13, 2019

Afrika Morris, Senior Field Marketing Manager UKI at Ivalua. For example, when launching a new product, bill of materials automation that shows the available suppliers for every component and allows you to engage with each is critical. Watch their recent webcast to learn more.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 12, 2024

JAGGAERs Value Tracker within Supplier 360 is enhanced to give teams more strategic planning and supplier management capabilities with an updated view of a suppliers role in savings projects. Improved Bill of Materials (BOM) costing with role-based buyer views and new API capabilities. Version 24.3 Version 24.3

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ivalua

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In the world of supplier management, the risk register is becoming a prominent and high profile tool for manufacturers. The risk register is an active, fluid database that needs to be integrated into all supplier management and sourcing activities. Exploring product design changes in the face of rising component costs. Focus on it.

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ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

About 60 Procurement Managers, Directors, and Executives attended from top medical device manufacturing companies. Most organizations still have disparate systems like SharePoint, Access, Excel and Emails cobbled together to manage strategic supplier sourcing and supplier engagement processes and documents. Time is Money.

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ivalua

MARCH 29, 2019

First of all, to really make the most of what your suppliers can offer, you need to manage the basics of supplier management well. That means supplier master data management; spend and contract analytics; risk management and so on. Author: Peter Smith , Managing Director at Procurement Excellence Ltd.

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Procurify

AUGUST 23, 2022

To implement lean supply chain management, use only one purchasing group so that vendors reach one contact; this also helps ensure that vendors offer one contract and one price for all locations. Originally posted by Procurify Blog - 6 Ways Lean Supply Chain Management Can Benefit Your Organization. Lean Manufacturing. Warehousing.

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ivalua

APRIL 23, 2021

If procurement is unable to utilise the Bill of Material (‘BoM’) data in the PLM system that the Engineering team are utilising to develop the new product, then the barriers to collaboration are clear. .

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Once opportunities are identified, customers can manage and track the execution of the initiatives with the procurement performance management module. ivoflow offers a valuable solution for efficiently and effectively managing direct spend. It is fed by a combination of internal user data and third-party data.

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ivalua

APRIL 11, 2019

The venue was packed, but it stayed just about manageable in terms of numbers with some 500 people in attendance, from more than 20 different countries. She is the Professor in Purchasing Management at the University of Grenoble Alpes, and has run their master’s level course in Purchasing (Procurement) for the last 10 years.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The platform provides a framework called “analyze, strategize, realize” that allows customers to analyze internal requirements and external opportunities, strategize potential courses of action and realize the chosen strategy through procurement performance management and scenario planning. Any threats or challenges ahead?

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To potential buyers — COVALYZE can save category managers and buyers significant time and money, as it takes away many of the manual processes historically required of these roles. We asked COVALYZE’s co-founder and CEO Christian Haas: How did COVALYZE come into being? It’s a complex story.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2024

What is COVALYZE COVALYZE offers deep parts analysis (price/cost-focused) for direct materials. It uses its AI-backed cost analytics to support direct materials management and category management. Additionally, it also uses a third-party data provider to bolster inflationary data and materials data.

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Spend Matters

AUGUST 19, 2024

Here’s why True ValueHub matters: To the market — True ValueHub offers deep parts analysis (price/cost-focused) for direct materials using AI and deep supplier insights. This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.

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The Network Effect

AUGUST 25, 2014

When supply disruptions occur the brand owner, having outsourced its bill of materials to a Tier 1 supplier, lacks visibility into which companies in its upstream supply chain might have been impacted. Many-to-Many Network many-to-many network social supply chain management supply chain technology visibility'

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

While Its primary purpose is to manage the entire process, from procurement to delivery, efficiently and cost-effectively, it also coordinates with production to automate processes and planning, etc. These functions include procurement, production planning, inventory management, logistics, and customer service.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This demand would be translated to bills of material and component requirements through manual or semi-automated means. End to end electronic connectivity enables performance management and optimization of even the most complicated Supply Chains. But you must prepare your business to adapt to a Digital Supply Chain world!

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Arkestro

JUNE 29, 2023

We were able to clearly understand costs rather than waiting on emails and spreadsheets and manually compiling data – which was a big win for us,” stated the Materials Procurement Manager at a leading design build contractor. Now they are purchasing materials before they even launch construction projects.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 10, 2024

Many category managers and buyers struggle with data transparency and aggregation. To potential buyers — Covalyze can save category managers and buyers significant time and money, as it takes away many of the manual processes historically required of these roles. This content is for members only.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2024

manufacturing and direct materials), a rarity in the procurement spend analytics technology market. We asked Julia Klein, Senior Manager of Digital Marketing at ivoflow, the following: How did ivoflow come into being?

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EazyStock

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we step into the unknown of 2023, here are some key trends and issues affecting supply chain management to help you prepare your strategies. If you’re buying raw materials or components, review your bill of materials to see if it’s possible to substitute materials or items for cheaper options or source from alternative suppliers.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we step into the unknown of 2023, here are some key trends and issues affecting supply chain management to help you prepare your strategies. If you’re buying raw materials or components, review your bill of materials to see if it’s possible to substitute materials or items for cheaper options or source from alternative suppliers.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post we’re going to review Dynamics Business Central’s inventory management capabilities and discuss what additional features and benefits EazyStock can offer. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Inventory Management Features. Link items to create a bill of materials for production. Manage non-stocked items.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In short I needed to be able to manage: All of the levers that control the rate at which Inventory is brought in to the company. I had to translate this thinking into a manageable set of high impact tasks. This will help to manage the rate at which Inventory comes in to your business. Raw Material Management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 21, 2020

If we don’t have to handle data as much and are focused more on information management then we will have fewer people disrupted from their daily jobs and able to continue to running our Supply Chains uninterrupted. Freight management has further prospects with autonomous vehicles , including tractor trailers, and drones.

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EazyStock

APRIL 20, 2020

Components Forecasting via Bill of Materials (BOM). Bill of Materials, or BOM, is the components required to manufacture or assemble a product. Planned Events for Managing Forward Orders. Here are some recently added features that make us extra proud. What’s new? What’s new?

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