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Hitting The Brakes On Out Of Control Supplier Master Data W/ Cyrille Naux

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Managing Director, Art of Procurement. Everything procurement delivers – from savings to risk mitigation to value – is predicated on having access to clean, trustworthy data. If this foundation does not exist or if it is shaky, then buyers don’t know how much the company is spending with a given supplier, let alone how they can improve the efficiency or impact of a given spend category.

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The New Lexicon for Digital Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Collaborator

The leaders in supply chain management are all focused with intensity on achieving the promise of Supply Chain Digitization. Understand the terms and ideas being put forward by the early adopters of the amazing new digital supply chain technologies being harnessed by today’s leading practitioners. . There have been unprecedented advancements in technology over the last 20 years, occurring at a dizzying pace.

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What’s the Difference Between a Warehouse and a Distribution Center?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What’s the Difference Between Logistics and Distribution? I began my career with responsibility for, amongst other things, Warehouse space planning. With almost a dozen local and remote buildings used to store raw materials and finished goods I spent more than my share of time walking through Warehouses and up and down aisles of racking and shelving.

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Should Procurement Fear or Welcome AI and Machine Learning Technology?

Supply Chain Brain

Your lengthy career in procurement has consisted largely of being beaten up by top management over the need to constantly cut supplier costs. Along comes digital technology to make your job easier — or take it away.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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Professional Services Manager

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Deploy a Strategic Category Management Solution to Maximize ROI

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Defining Category Management. Category management has a decades-long history that has lead us to our modern understanding of procurement categories. Created in the 1980s, category management was originally the process of grouping products into categories based on how consumers used them. Originally created by marketing teams, category management helped retailers increase sales by minimizing unproductive competition between their own products.

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How Automation Can Help Today's Warehouse Workers

Supply Chain Brain

The technology goes well beyond robots taking over tasks that were once done by humans.

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It’s an Inside Job: The Dirty Little Secret of Sourcing Fraud

Ms. Category Management

Sourcing Fraud. It's the dirty little secret and epidemic sweeping small businesses. So why haven't we heard more about it? Read more to find out.

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Maverick buying moves mainstream

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. thanks to the rise of cloud based marketplaces. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Procurement the barrier to doing business. 3. Poor governance structure. 4. Many organisations are decentralised. 5. Large programs/projects operate separately. 6. No visibility of the impact of Maverick spending. 7. Marketplaces will continue to grow. 8.

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Delivery in the Age of Amazon!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Last Mile Delivery! What is your Strategy? Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Raanan Cohen at bringg.com. Brands don’t have to be Amazon to build stellar last mile delivery and fulfillment operations that win new business and drive customer loyalty.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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Improving Customer Experience: Beyond the Survey Score

Supply Chain Brain

Companies need to look beyond numerically scored surveys, in seeking to optimize the customer experience, both now and in the future.

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Unlocking the Potential of Earned Value Management

Supply Chain Brain

A look at the approaches that organizations can adopt to take full advantage of earned value management, while ensuring that enterprise software is up to standard.

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Payables: The Last Mile in the Healthcare Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

The majority of healthcare payment processes remain paper-intensive, despite electronic payments being the most efficient and cost-effective B2B payment method.

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Seven Common Pick-and-Pack Errors — and How to Fix Them

Supply Chain Brain

A mispick often isn’t discovered until an inventory count is wrong, or the customer sends the order back.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Claritum extends SAP integration to SRM

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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (June 3, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that they have extended their integration with SAP to include additional functionality on the integration of SAP SRM (Supplier Relationship Management). “Claritum is committed to an integration approach.”, said Prof.