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Fourth Party Logistics — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

In a 4PL model, the external provider (also known as the lead logistics provider or LLP) manages and coordinates all aspects of the supply chain , including transportation, warehousing, inventory management, and distribution. 4PL providers usually offer more strategic insight and management over the company’s supply chain.

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CPO Crunch: The 1% Club

Procurement Leaders

Just 1% of respondents to a poll Procurement Leaders conducted at the World Procurement Congress said they have “excellent” multi-tier visibility of the supply base. In real terms, this translates to three of those who responded to our poll claiming they had “cracked the code” of supply chain transparency. This is surprising.

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Supply Chain Forecasting — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Although it always relates to demand and sales projections, forecasting can also be used to determine product pricing, lead times, labor needs, and more. The integration of AI into forecasting improves accuracy, saves more money, and helps businesses react to exceptions in real-time.

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Streamlining Public Procurement: 6 Strategies for Efficiency and Compliance

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To avoid this pitfall, it is necessary for public procurement teams to routinely review the entire process and challenge steps to ensure that requirements are necessary to meet rules or requirements and/or deliver real value. . It is vital that public procurement teams develop a data insight strategy to gain visibility into their operations.

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The Future of FP&A: How The Role Is Evolving With The Use Of Real-Time Data

Planergy

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Thanks to AI and other tools, you can now make better decisions with real-time data. Let’s delve into the details.

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4 smart technologies modernizing sourcing strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

This helps reduce errors to improve data quality and response times to questions, which improves customer and supplier satisfaction. The ability to make these sourcing decisions in real-time can help increase profits during peak demand periods and better meet customer expectations.

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Episode 137: Using Visibility to Combat Supply Chain Abstraction with Frank Kenney

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EPISODE 137 Using Visibility to Combat Supply Chain Abstraction with Frank Kenney By Kelly Barner | October 18, 2023 In the race to build global empires of data and digital systems, today’s businesses must not risk forgetting what all of those zeroes and ones mean.