SCMDOJO

JUNE 14, 2023

But before we get to that, let’s establish why supply chain visibility matters. Why Supply Chain Visibility Matters In the First Place Supply chain visibility refers to the ability to track and monitor products as they move through the supply chain.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 15, 2025

While some procurement leaders in the manufacturing and industrial sector have found data quality to be a major barrier to AI implementation along with poor integration across applications, they are combating these challenges by prioritizing agile development and tool deployment.

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Skill Dynamics

JANUARY 7, 2025

Bolstering your proactive planning using advanced technologies such as predictive analysis can further strengthen the ability of a supply chain to adapt and react to sudden change, saving companies money and avoiding interruptions. A resilient supply chain delivers on its promise to customers even when dealing with disruptions.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Quality Control – Manufacturers must ensure that every product meets industry and customer standards. ERP systems help standardize quality control measures by tracking production processes, identifying defects, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Innovative Technologies for Strengthening Product Traceability In today’s fast-paced manufacturing landscape, ensuring product traceability is crucial for maintaining quality, compliance, and customer trust. Supply chain visibility: Gain deeper insights into the entire supply chain, ensuring greater transparency and accountability.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Shippers must increase access to quality data, utilize digital technologies, and partner with providers with the right visibility tools and capabilities.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Tier 1 suppliers and their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers—make up an organization’s multi-tier supply chain. Collaboration across Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and beyond requires visibility and communication regarding capacity, cost, risk, order quantities, inventory levels, quality , timelines, logistics, and more.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“The impact of all of that is that organizations are actively creating geographical supplier diversity within their supply chains, to strike a better balance between cost reduction and agility,” he said. For many organizations risk has become not only an executive committee issue, but a board-level discussion,” he said.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 5, 2023

Complexity Global supply chains are complex, involving numerous participants, resulting in increased costs and delays. This intricacy stems from factors such as geographical distance, cultural differences, legal compliance, supply chain visibility challenges, and the impact of political and economic instability.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

According to Accenture, 94% of Fortune 1000 companies saw supply chain disruptions and 75% had negative or strongly negative impacts on their businesses due to the pandemic. As a result of the disruption, cost management and supply chain visibility were suddenly top of mind for executive leadership teams. .

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 17, 2024

From planning a product, design and simulation, to optimizing a specific process across the supply chain, customer expectations for AI integration continue to evolve as new applications for supply chain automation are discovered.

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2022

How can we mitigate technical, logistical, weather-related, and demand-driven supply chain disruptions? Organizations must shift focus toward strengthening their procurement processes and procedures to gain 100% supply chain visibility. Digital Transformation is the Top CPO Priority.

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ivalua

JANUARY 24, 2022

Data is central to successful digital transformation to relay real-time information and greater visibility into operations and resource allocation. We’ve always been focused on ensuring that we have high-quality data that’s accessible and secure. Then look at generating quality data in the source-to-pay process.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Implementing tracking technologies such as barcodes, RFID, and blockchain provides granular data that enhances both forecasting capabilities and overall supply chain visibility. However, sophisticated forecasting must be coupled with flexible planning. Evaluate your transportation strategydiversifying modes (e.g.,

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ivalua

APRIL 6, 2021

Contract management software can help to improve contracting efficiency, enable better supply chain visibility and management of obligations, improve contract compliance and help to reduce exposure to risk. . Why is it Important to Manage Contracts?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Lieferkettengesetz, and others) encouraging large/enterprise businesses to take responsibility for the entirety of their global supplier networks, increase tier-n compliance and combat poor supply chain visibility. Poor Data Quality, Scattered Tech Landscapes, Lacking Leadership Approval/Budgets. Data quality is pivotal.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 14, 2021

As seen below in the graphic taken from the Deloitte 2021 CPO Survey, one can easily determine that there is a large discrepancy in how KPIs central to sustainability & sustainable development (Diversity, risk/compliance, innovation, quality, etc.) Risk and Supplier Quality Reporting (Incidents, NCN, Quality Issues, etc.).

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 14, 2023

Increased scalability: With 3PL integration, businesses can scale their operations quickly without sacrificing quality or customer service. It also helps Nike to improve its supply chain visibility and agility and reduce its environmental impact.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Although other factors – such as supplier selection and management, quality management, and service management – make up a good procurement plan, cost management is still one of the most critical factors. It helps establish a KPI framework on cost, quality, and on-time performance of the suppliers. Real-time data and analytics.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

This section delves into the key data-driven success factors that have propelled Walmart’s supply chain to the forefront of the retail industry. By employing RFID tags on products, Walmart can track the movement of inventory throughout the supply chain in real-time.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Supply Chain Systems article and permission to publish here provided by Dave Joseph at veridian.info. As evidenced by the most recent peak shipping season , the need for effective, high-quality logistics and warehouse management has never been higher. E-commerce will continue to grow significantly through 2020 and beyond.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

In the healthcare supply chain, there are three main challenges pharmacies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and patients are facing: shortages and delays; lack of convenient and cost-effective fulfillment options; and rising counterfeiting and regulatory changes, along with a persistent need for better drug cold chain management.

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Key Areas in Construction Procurement: Materials Procurement: Ensuring quality and timely delivery of construction materials. Quality Control: Sourcing materials and labor that meet quality and safety standards creates an additional layer of due diligence. Cost Management: Budgeting and tracking expenses related to procurement.

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Key Areas in Construction Procurement: Materials Procurement: Ensuring quality and timely delivery of construction materials. Quality Control: Sourcing materials and labor that meet quality and safety standards creates an additional layer of due diligence. Cost Management: Budgeting and tracking expenses related to procurement.

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Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Frank is the Director of Market Strategy at Cleo, where he is focused on helping companies get ahead and stay ahead despite persistent supply chain complexity. Strategic sourcing involves identifying and evaluating potential suppliers based on factors such as cost, quality, and reliability.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Increase supply chain visibility. If working knowledge of your supply chain isn’t thorough and up to date, you may struggle to action quick decisions. After all, one small mistake may have a ripple effect that impacts your entire chain, operations, and cash flow.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 29, 2024

A well-established sourcing strategy helps businesses secure the best quality materials at the most competitive prices. Efficient production processes, quality control measures, and lean manufacturing techniques are crucial for optimizing productivity and minimizing waste.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

I know that few things can make or break the morale of a crew, a fleet or an entire armed service quite like the quality of food coming out of the mess. And when crew favorites are in short supply or delayed because of logistical bottlenecks, commanders are right to worry about combat readiness.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

From the inbound perspective he Supply Chain team typically procures raw materials, expedites their delivery. The Supply Chain arranges for the appropriate logistics, and negotiates terms and conditions with Suppliers, audits Suppliers, and deals with quality strategies and issues. Brand Promotion and Protection.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Ultimately, effective SRM can increase supply chain visibility, improve quality and supply consistency, drive down costs, improve customer service, create a higher mix of strategic versus active suppliers, and make an organization more competitive. What can you do?

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 29, 2013

And when developers incorporate these concept and try to solve the problems using various technologies, supply chain visibility solutions was born, the clear example of "Action Research". Even though the name implies a subject about social science, there are many high quality articles about logistics and supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As something is used more and more, the quality will become less efficient. A big part of your supply chain process is to increase transparency. End-to-end supply chain visibility makes it much simpler to absorb and collect information. It is crucial not to lose focus of that.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 17, 2024

Technology Integration and Automation Increase supply chain visibility and prediction capabilities by implementing blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT Devices Internet of Things (IoT): Devices track and monitor items in real-time across the supply chain.

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FourKites

JANUARY 7, 2021

A few universal characteristics of the agile supply chain model include: Accurate Information: The mantra of agile supply chain management is “You can’t control what you can’t see.” How to Improve Supply Chain Agility. Supply chain agility can be improved with the use of supply chain visibility software.

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EazyStock

JUNE 16, 2022

Having systems and processes in place to reduce the possibility and subsequent impact of supply chain issues is extremely important. Advancing technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, make connectivity and supply chain visibility easier. What is artificial intelligence?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

And problems in harvesting, quality standards, storage, shipping costs, and handling all create food waste. Refer back to the table we showed earlier on “Food Waste by Supply Chain Stage” If you scan down the column entitled “Potential Remedies” you can quickly see where Supply Chain can make an impact.

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FourKites

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s also why a small business that specializes in beautiful handcrafted goods or high-quality, artisanal foods and drinks can drive major business growth through services like Instagram — simply showing off their product and enticing consumers’ interest. Supply Chain Visibility.

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