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Supply Chain Game Changer
APRIL 29, 2021
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Intelligent Supply Chain technologies article and permission to publish here provided by Dan Weinberger , UN Supply Chain Expert and CEO of Morpheus Network. Subscribe Here!
Supply Chain Game Changer
JANUARY 19, 2022
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Renaissance Has Begun! Strategies to improve your Supply Chain article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. The supply chain is a significant part of your overall business strategy and inventory management.
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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now
Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains
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. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).
SCMDOJO
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Additionally, when you need to oversee a considerable number of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs), it is like a nightmare without an efficient tool. This article will walk you through the basic understanding of the warehouse management system (WMS), its features, how and where it fits with the supply chain, and different WMS systems.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
In today’s complex global business environment, effective supply chain management (SCM) is crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage. Here’s how companies are using different strategies to address supply chain management and meet their business goals.
Procurement Insights
JANUARY 3, 2025
Impact of Globalization and Supply Chain Complexity : The complexity of global supply chains highlighted procurement’s role in managing risks, ensuring continuity, and driving efficiencies. CFOs began to see procurement as critical to business continuity and organizational agility.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 30, 2023
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) was introduced in the 1960’s to allow businesses to communicate key business transactions such as purchase orders, advanced shipping notices, and invoices electronically instead of via paper providing fewer errors and more efficiencies.
NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)
MAY 8, 2023
Supply chain visibility is essential for successful procurement, as it enables businesses to proactively manage risks and optimize their supply chain. By having a clear view of their entire supply chain, businesses can identify potential issues and take steps to mitigate them.
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. These need to be aligned with the overall business strategy.
The Network Effect
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
The technique later evolved into the Six Sigma business strategy driven through innovations by Motorola and General Electric. Combining Six Sigma and Lean has proven effective, given the fact that Six Sigma improves quality through decreased defects while Lean increases process efficiency, velocity and flexibility. Absolutely.
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.
NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Until you can leverage what it takes to succeed, most businesses today will struggle to maintain fiscal viability and relevance in the Modern Global Market. The root causes of these issues often stem from a clash of the following critical Supply Chain Variables: Poor Toxic Culture. Inability to execute good Business Strategies.
Barkers Procurement
JULY 21, 2024
How to Implement ESG in Your Supply Chain As businesses increasingly recognise the importance of sustainability, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria have become essential elements in defining corporate responsibility. This involves setting clear, achievable objectives aligned with your overall business strategy.
FourKites
DECEMBER 11, 2020
What is a customer-focused supply chain? Having a customer-focused supply chain essentially means meeting the customer on their terms, rather than making them settle for yours. In this article we’ll cover the following areas of customer-driven supply chain strategy: The importance of a customer-driven supply chain.
Supply Chain Game Changer
JULY 14, 2021
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Procurement and Sustainability are your business’ Yin and Yang. Procurement and Sustainability are two disciplines and business functions that exist in a perfectly harmonious contradiction. CPOs “gave supply chain sustainability a ranking of 7.2 Subscribe Here!
HICX
DECEMBER 11, 2023
The effective management of supply chains is critical to business operations and by adopting newer digital solutions, organizations can benefit from improved efficiency, reduced costs and operational improvements across the supply chain as a whole. The result is a more synchronized and agile supply chain.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
But this evolution in the supply chain, and for last mile fulfillment in particular, doesn’t end with retail. From restaurant chains to supermarkets to pharmacies to service providers, the world of logistics is experiencing unprecedented change. Real-time Visibility.
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Empowering CPO
JUNE 30, 2023
Introduction In the dynamic world of business, the ability to effectively manage and optimize supply chains has emerged as a critical success factor. The aim is not only to streamline operations but also to extract maximum value from every link in the supply chain. This is where EmpoweringCPO stands apart.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 29, 2023
Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 4, 2024
Business Process Management (BPM) is a systematic approach to managing and streamlining business processes. BPM is intended to help improve the efficiency of existing processes, with the goal of increasing productivity and overall business performance. BPM is often confused with other seemingly similar initiatives.
World of Procurement blog
APRIL 23, 2024
In today's competitive business environment, procurement isn't just a necessity; it's a strategic function that can significantly influence a company’s bottom line. Technology has transformed procurement operations from a complex, manual process into an automated, streamlined function that enhances decision-making and transparency.
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Planergy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
OCTOBER 23, 2022
Today I’m joined by Shipium , a powerhouse logistics tech company who are on a mission to modernize the ecommerce supply chain, and help you turn logistics into a strategic differentiator for growth. Shipium coordinates previously disconnected supply chain steps to help retailers offer fast, free, and on-time shipping.
Pipefy
JANUARY 30, 2024
Improvements to existing procurement processes, procedures, and operations are as time-sensitive as ever. In the 2024 State of Procurement Data Report by Amazon Business, 95% of decision-makers surveyed acknowledge that there’s room for procurement optimization.
Empowering CPO
JULY 16, 2023
While procurement might seem a straightforward process, it is a multifaceted domain requiring specialized knowledge and strategies to ensure efficiency, quality, cost-effectiveness, and risk mitigation. Managed procurement, on the other hand, adopts a proactive, strategic, and holistic approach to procurement.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 29, 2023
To be successful, businesses need to have clear, real-time visibility into the condition of their assets and a plan to keep them running smoothly and make repairs quickly when things break. This is why asset reliability is such a critical component of business strategy. What is an asset?
Pipefy
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
This guide explores the ability of these solutions to improve business efficiency and reduce operational costs, surveys the many types of tools on the market, their benefits, and essential features. This process grants transparency and visibility into purchase orders and approvals to a sometimes surprising degree.
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Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 11, 2018
You’d be hard pressed to find a major industry today that isn’t talking up blockchain as a cure-all for the ills of global supply chains. The idea of a virtual, distributed ledger that can serve as an indelible system of record for any number of business transactions between supply-chain partners — well, it’s irresistible.
Pipefy
OCTOBER 25, 2023
From reducing waste and containing costs to mitigating risks such as procurement fraud and inflated expenses, procurement’s insights and expertise can help businesses navigate some of their most pressing challenges. As a source of information, companies can quickly and efficiently respond to changes in the supply chain, economy, or demand.
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Supply Chain Action Blog
AUGUST 26, 2018
There is a lot of buzz about the “autonomous” supply chain these days. I’ve heard the driverless vehicle used as an analogy for the autonomous supply chain. The work of managing the value network has always been to make the best plan, monitor issues, and respond effectively and efficiently.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JANUARY 8, 2024
In modern enterprises, where operations leave a massive digital footprint, business events allow companies to become more adaptable and able to recognize and respond to opportunities or threats as they occur. Becoming a real-time enterprise Businesses often go on a journey that traverses several stages of maturity when they establish an EDA.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
APRIL 6, 2023
Coby and John found obvious deficiencies in these same organizations’ supply chain and operational systems, and thus, Enveyo was born. Every day, Coby & John focus their efforts on Enveyo’s core mission – to enable businesses to make business-transforming shipping decisions by leveraging comprehensive data & integrated systems.
Empowering CPO
JULY 16, 2023
While procurement might seem a straightforward process, it is a multifaceted domain requiring specialized knowledge and strategies to ensure efficiency, quality, cost-effectiveness, and risk mitigation. Managed procurement, on the other hand, adopts a proactive, strategic, and holistic approach to procurement.
Pipefy
AUGUST 1, 2023
Any business that wants to excel, or even compete, in the current capricious market must have the ability to make the best, most efficient use of its resources. Today, however, success requires a detailed review and breakdown of each process a business carries out to make and deliver its goods and services (also known as operations).
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Empowering CPO
JUNE 25, 2023
Understanding Procurement and its Business Significance At the heart of every thriving business is an effective and efficient procurement process. Procurement, in its simplest form, is the process by which businesses acquire the goods, services, or works they need from external sources. Introduction A.
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Empowering CPO
JULY 3, 2023
Introduction In the complex and fast-paced business world of today, Managed Procurement Services (MPS) have emerged as a key solution for enterprises seeking to streamline their operations, improve efficiencies, and achieve cost savings. Procurement is no longer just about purchasing goods and services at the lowest cost.
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Pipefy
MAY 9, 2023
They are essential to measure the costs and reliability of a business strategy, as well as the performance and results. Procurement KPIs continually measure the progress of all things related to buying and obtaining goods and services necessary for a business’ operation. After all, your shortages are their problem, as well.
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Arkestro
AUGUST 1, 2022
For the longest time, the procurement scale has tipped in favor of the buyer. However, the post-pandemic era has seen a dramatic shift in the business landscape. Porter’s book Competitive Strategy outlines what became known as Porter’s Five Forces —a framework used to analyze a business’ competitive environment.
Pipefy
MARCH 6, 2023
Following recent events like the pandemic, the shift to non-office work models, and supply chain pressures, the demand for business process transformation has accelerated. Many leaders today realize that a radical change is needed to keep up with changing business environments and requirements.
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Empowering CPO
MAY 4, 2023
Importance of procurement in modern businesses In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, procurement plays a crucial role in driving efficiency, cost savings, and overall success. Some key strategies include: 1. Some of the key benefits include: 1.
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Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. I was in the Supply Chain organization and Sandra was the Executive in charge of one of our largest accounts. Subscribe Here! Email Address. I first met Sandra while at Celestica.
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Empowering CPO
JUNE 14, 2023
Introduction Welcome to the dynamic world of procurement, where businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to manage their supply chains more efficiently and effectively. One strategy that has captured considerable attention is procurement outsourcing.
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TYA Suite
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
This approach involves analyzing the entire supply chain to ensure that products are sourced, produced, and disposed of in ways that are ethical and eco-friendly. By prioritizing energy-efficient products and sustainable materials, organizations can reduce their operational expenses over time.
TYA Suite
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Companies increasingly turn to innovative systems to improve their procurement operations, increase efficiency, and cut expenses. ERP systems are designed to centralize and automate various business processes, providing a unified platform for managing resources, finances, operations, and supply chains.
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