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At which point should end-to-end (S2C) source-customer visibility begin in the manufacturing process?

Procurement Insights

EDITOR’S NOTE: In December 2010, I wrote an article about one of Time Magazine’s picks for the Top Innovations in 2008 – Made-in-Transit Packaging. I obviously think what EiKO is doing regarding process visibility is great – kudos to the company for its progressive customer-centric thinking.

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Supply chain visibility in the energy and utilities industry

IBM Supply Chain Blog

For the energy and utilities industry (E&U), time is not on their side. Equipment-heavy and reliant on an aging infrastructure, E&U clients suffer from costly supply chain disruptions as wear, tear and time take their toll. Visibility. However, maintenance inventory optimization is only part of the solution.

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Inventory Forecasting — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Bonus PDF: 51 ChatGPT Prompts to 10X Your Productivity in Procurement Download 51 Prompts →  Or receive our famous weekly newsletter Inventory Forecasting — Everything You Should Know Inventory forecasting allows you to predict when supply chains and consumer demand are going to change. However, what is it?

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Delivering on promise and purpose in the retail supply chain

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Purpose Savvy sustainable consumers want end-to-end visibility into a product’s origins to ensure that it was sustainably developed and transported every step of the way. So make sure that you have real-time inventory visibility to deliver on your promises (what’s in-stock, when purchased items will ship and arrive).

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The Role of Email Hosting in Modernizing Retail Supply Chain Communication

SCMDOJO

Email hosting has emerged as a pivotal tool in modernizing these communication channels, enabling real-time collaboration and data sharing. Email hosting facilitates this by allowing multiple stakeholders to connect effortlessly, share documents, and update project statuses in real-time.

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A shift in philosophy: basketball and your demand forecast

The Network Effect

UMass, at the time, was almost unbeatable and hadn’t lost a game at The Cage for almost 2 years. The only person who learned the real lessons from that game was a skinny guard on the UMass team named Rick Pitino. You know that the retail supply chain should only have one forecast – consumer demand. Two forecasts?

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2018 Likely to Be Coldest Year on Record for Food Shippers

Supply Chain Collaborator

Projected to grow to $100 by 2024 or 13% of total grocery sales, online grocery is being cemented as a business model thanks to the success of huge companies like Amazon, Walmart and others rushing to meet consumer demand for this type of service. Commercial realtor CB Richard Ellis noted that the US currently has around 3.6