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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Focus on Cost. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months. A Zealous Focus on Cost.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Focus on Cost. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months. A Zealous Focus on Cost.

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Sourcing and Procurement: One but Not the Same

Precoro

This month, we continue our Procurement Basics series and would like to introduce our readers to yet another set of often misused business terminology. As both sourcing and procurement are related to obtaining supplies for the organization, confusing these two terms is easy. Procurement. What Is Procurement Process?

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. Based on reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the company hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company and package it for sale in 2014 with an expected evaluation of 800M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. It is clear.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

The idea of marketing talking cross-functionally to supply chain, quality, and customer service teams to discuss even customer quality feedback weekly is in itself a new concept. ” The social signals for both companies were in the twitter feeds for months before they picked up product quality problems. Absolutely!

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The Batch Food Traceability Survival Guide

RFgen

This guide is intended to help food manufacturers and distributors: Consider the requirements of FDA traceability compliance, Calculate the potential costs of a recall, Review solutions other companies have used successfully to track food, Gain practical advice for how to improve traceability systems and processes, and. Sunland, Inc.

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

Supply Chain Trend

Third wave supply-chain planning software will play the machine role in the human-machine collaboration, enabling the knowledge worker to manage large amounts of data, use advanced analytics, and automate processes and decisions across the enterprise and the wider value chain. The relative benefits of automation versus augmentation.