ivalua

DECEMBER 5, 2019

As the pressure to innovate increases, procurement professionals need to be able to quickly identify areas for innovation and effectively engage internal stakeholders and suppliers on new product development. How to provide 360-degree visibility and enable collaboration at scale using a single platform. 17:30 – 18:00.

Collaboration 20

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key Benefits of Strategic Sourcing Building Long-Term Supplier Partnerships Strategic sourcing focuses on identifying and collaborating with suppliers who align with a companys long-term goals. Companies with strategic sourcing strategies in place were able to avoid production stoppages by having alternative suppliers ready.

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Procurement Leaders

MARCH 26, 2024

Part of the explanation was the then famous ‘Toyota Production System’, an approach to organising manufacturing and logistics efficiently and without waste. Moreover, Toyota, in particular, had set up ingenious systems for collaborative product development by delegating tasks to its closely connected suppliers – its supplier keiretsu.

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ivalua

MARCH 24, 2021

Without digitization, many manufacturing organizations see one or more of these areas suffer due to a reliance on manual processes, a lack of collaboration with suppliers, and little to no visibility of risk during the product development process. Digitization Benefit #1: Inter-Enterprise Collaboration .

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain 130

ivalua

MARCH 16, 2020

As an international technology group with about 10,000 employees, Körber offers products, solutions and services that inspire. The close cooperation between supply chain management and internal stakeholders as well as external partners made a major contribution to this.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 49

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Chief Procurement Officer 49

Let's Talk Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

heading 1: Strategic Collaboration with Global Partners to Bolster Resilient Supply Chain ‍Management In response to the new China tariffs, Mattel, the renowned toy manufacturer, has strategically diversified its supply chain to navigate the evolving trade landscape.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

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Jaggaer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

While the prospect of digital transformation in procurement can be daunting, partnering with a world-class provider can guide your organization through a journey of improvement, delivering success across various metrics such as margins, profits, production targets, quality scores, ESG scores, and customer satisfaction.

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Procurement Tactics

JANUARY 2, 2023

However, not many people know how to collaborate with their suppliers. . Therefore, supplier integration is the degree to which firms collaborate with their suppliers. . This collaboration includes idea generation, new product development, product concept development, large-scale production, and market testing. .

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Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility Supply chain 199

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.

Collaboration 66

Collaboration Supply Chain Optimization Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 66

The Good Spending

AUGUST 16, 2022

Why is supply chain collaboration essential? However, some critical differentiators - like collaboration - justify the very existence of our profession! The supply chain is the most collaborative function in the business. Notably, the collaborating firms will achieve benefits they would not obtain working in isolation.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

9 Steps to Improving Supplier Collaboration for Competitive Advantage The strategic value of suppliers has been growing, and so has the need to rely on their performance and partnership. Supplier collaboration serves as the foundation for supply continuity, agility, risk management, and resilience when disruptions occur.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Supply Chain Efficiency Suppliers Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Examples: working collaboratively with product development to reduce time to market and solve production problems. Here the challenge is more closely aligning a “thin front line” of procurement pros with the business stakeholders they support to help them improve their performance.

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ivalua

JANUARY 20, 2016

Analytics needs to serve as your primary compass for product development and how you bring your products to market. You must be able to capture buyer needs more effectively and create products that meet those needs in the shortest amount of time possible. Collaboration skills. Mastery of analytics. Risk management.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 20, 2023

I also think on new product development – for a long time, it would have been marketing and manufacturing, but now you see supply chain up front in development. Let’s do exactly what we know we can do through great partnerships and collaborative working relationships with our critical and strategic suppliers.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Innovation and collaboration with customers were major themes, with future developments like ‘co-pilots’ being explored to enhance compliance, supplier management, data insights and more. He also advocated for keeping customer value central in product development and engineering.

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Procurement Templates

JUNE 18, 2023

Open and transparent communication can help procurement teams collaborate with suppliers to find mutually beneficial solutions during periods of inflation. Value engineering: Engaging suppliers early in the product development phase and involving them in value engineering can lead to cost reduction.

Procurement 130

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Una

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Procurement’s involvement with suppliers also provides an opportunity to improve product quality so the business sells more. Promote cross-functional collaboration In business, teamwork and cross-functional collaboration is crucial to ensure organizations continue to move forward and grow.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This report highlights that 97% of respondents anticipate AI impacting product development and manufacturing. #2 5 Cloud-Based Solutions Around 78% of respondents , companies like yours, are currently evaluating technology solutions to enhance operational efficiency for new product development.

Supply Chain Efficiency 98

Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Optimization 98

Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today Gary Nowacki, Founder and CEO at TraceGains, joins me to chat all about the company: what they do; achieving visibility and productivity through collaboration; overcoming today’s supply chain challenges; and bringing people and ingredient data together in new ways to achieve business agility. .

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Food and Beverage Supply Chain supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Procurement Express

JULY 5, 2024

Budgeting as a Collaborative Conversation Contrary to the common perception of budgeting as a solitary task, the most successful budgeting efforts involve a collaborative conversation among key stakeholders. Budgeting for Product Development One of the trickiest aspects of budgeting is accounting for product development.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Strong supplier relationships lead to new product development and innovation, as well as reduced costs and increased efficiencies. Product quality improves and the supply chain is more likely to keep humming along, despite disruptions caused by global or political events — which seem to be common these days.

Suppliers 130

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 25, 2021

A PLM system allows companies to track the processes and stages of a product’s journey from concept to finished goods. Consumer good companies often leverage PLMs to manage the product development stages of the product lifecycle. What are Supply Chain Management Platforms? The Problems with ERP Systems.

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supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency 81

Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 19, 2015

Rather than developing a prototype in-house and then sharing it with suppliers, with the supplier then responding with some great ideas for modification, why not involve them much earlier than that? Such supplier relationships, however, do not develop by themselves.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2017

For example, a supply chain manger may attend Sales and Operations meeting to resolve demand/supply imbalance, participate in New Product Development meeting or lead the team meetings for various performance improvement initiatives.

Supply chain management 75

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 23, 2020

They diversify supplier bases to reduce risk, provide massive cost savings, allow companies to quickly offer new products, and find sources of innovation through closer supplier collaboration. In today’s environment, Supply Chain is the vanguard of profitability and brand.

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Supply chain Leadership Supply Logistics 104

SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We were honored to host such an incredible roster of speakers for two insightful days of discussion and collaboration. Key Takeaways 1) Pre-competitive collaboration is the best way forward. In today’s day and age, the benefits of collaboration are well understood. This year’s event was all about taking action.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We were honored to host such an incredible roster of speakers for two insightful days of discussion and collaboration. . 1) Pre-competitive collaboration is the best way forward. In today’s day and age, the benefits of collaboration are well understood. This year’s event was all about taking action. Key Takeaways.

supply chain budgeting 52

supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Sustainability Supply chain 52

IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It includes everything from product development and strategic decision-making to information systems and new technologies. Blockchain technologies can increase transparency and traceability in the supply chain, helping to prevent fraud and ensure product authenticity.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As the nation turns its attention to reasons for gratitude this Thanksgiving season, we here at UltraShipTMS, the Supply Chain Collaborator blog and the logistics industry in general have more than the usual reasons to be thankful. Even in the leaner years, we as Americans always have plenty of abundance to reflect upon.

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Logistics Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Optimization Product development 60

Supply Chain Collaborator

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Inspection, Compliance, Response portion mandates greater inspection frequency and considers new ways to inspect including enhanced product tracing. Enhanced partnerships calls for better collaboration between state and local agencies, laboratory networks, easier ability to find and recall information.

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Innovation Product development Logistics Networking 60

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Innovation and Product Development: Reduced lead times can facilitate faster innovation and time-to-market for new products. Businesses can stay ahead of the competition by bringing new and improved products to market more quickly. In simple terms, it makes your supply chain more agile to cope with market changes.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 98

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Real-time Visibility 98

The Good Spending

JUNE 15, 2022

and new forms of collaboration between business partners. These interdependencies challenge traditional ways organizations purchase products, services, and solutions to enhance competitive advantage and customer satisfaction. globalization, disrupting value chains, etc.) Examples: spot buying, e-auctions.

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supply chain budgeting Buyers Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization 52

IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Benefits : Reduced processing times Reduced errors Increased adaptability Improving product development processes BPR plays a crucial role in optimizing product development processes, from ideation to market launch. This can enable significant cost savings and improve profitability.

Supply Chain Efficiency 57

Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization supply chain budgeting supply chain software solutions 57

Supply Chain Collaborator

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The Collaborator recently asked members of the UltraShipTMS product demo delivery team about how they’ve driven successful product demos for their Transportation Management System and related logistics software solutions. Her thoughts on the superior demo include: Learn and match prospective buyers’ terminology.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In Deloitte’s Global CPO Survey 2016 the top 4 priorities for CPO’s were found to be cost reduction, new product development, increasing cash flow and organic expansion. New Product Development. Increasing level of supplier collaboration. Cost Reduction. Increasing cash flow. Organic expansion.

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Procurement Eprocurement Networking Sourcing 50

Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

This section will show you how BMW manages a long term planning, how Ford applies lean concept to the new product development and how Hyundai manages the production planning and control. - Intel ''s new product development is done by the process called Technology Roadmap.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 95

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

For the longer-term decisions on planning and strategy, technology will augment the quality of human-centric decisions and nurture human-machine collaboration. Human input will be required to set goals and policies to help the machine optimize promotions, price settings, and phasing of new-product introduction to reach certain targets.

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