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Mastering Strategic Sourcing: Efficiency and Cost Savings in Procurement

Jaggaer

The process creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. Your focus here is to get security of service at a good price. Draw up a portfolio of suppliers incumbents and alternatives.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

The list is presented in the order the responses were received in: 1) Andreas Wieland , Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School Successful supply chain management means that organizations are well-orchestrated in an end-to-end value network. delivery reliability”), but is that really “supply chain thinking”?

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3 Logistics Trends Point to Cloud TMS Adoption by SMBs in 2016

Supply Chain Collaborator

Thirty-five percent of businesses recently surveyed by Gartner identified the inability to synchronize end-to-end business processes as an issue, which will increase demand for SCM application convergence. Furthermore, for all but the largest, those platforms are overkill.

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The Evolving Role of Strategic Leadership in Procurement – Part 1: Control what you can, monitor what you can’t

Jaggaer

What you can manage or influence, and what you can’t In procurement you can manage your own physical supply chain and logistics operations, plus warehousing and labor. However, there are areas that you can neither manage nor influence, but you certainly must monitor them – and have contingency plans in place.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP requires cross functional alignment to eliminate silos, to achieve accountability for delivering strategic, financial and operational outcomes, and to enable scenario planning that provides forward visibility into the consequences and risks of decisions (Sorensen, 2020). Data granularity decreases the longer the planning horizon.

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The Endless Complexities of the Ocean side of Supply Chains

SCMDOJO

The advent of containerization heralded a revolution in cargo handling techniques, the ramifications of which are still influencing maritime trade all over the world today. An AI optimization model which considers all costs that occur during the container lifecycle is needed.

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What Does Finance Think of Procurement?

Arkestro

Purchase Price Variance: How efficient is the procurement team at negotiating on price? Limited Risk Transparency When it comes to where the majority of direct spending comes from, 70% of CFOs feel they have good visibility into top tier suppliers. Arkestro is a leader in procurement optimization technology.