Claritum

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Project and Category Procurement Differences. Table of the key differences between Project and Category based procurement. Types of activity suitable for Project based procurement. Types of activity suitable for Project based procurement. when should I use it?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. I give you this evidence in this blog.). Mistake #5. Read on to see the facts.).

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a further update on the ongoing production quality, corporate reputation and other challenges that collectively surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing. They are not good for the industry as a whole. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 22, 2023

Automotive manufacturers Toyota and Daimler recently signed a letter of intent to merge their truck divisions. This will deliver procurement savings and enable them to develop electric trucks jointly. In fact, strategic supply chain collaboration can go even further.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My last post on the Supply Chain Shaman blog was forty-five days ago. As the world for non-essential workers moved to on-line meetings, conference calls, and uncertainty, essential workers redefined the workplace to mitigate risk. Figure 1 shows a market-by-market planning model by a sinus drug manufacturer. Recovery Team.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog announces the publishing of our latest recorded podcast episode: What Should Supply Chain Leaders Expect in 2024. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Radu is the co-author of the published book: From Source to Sold, Stories of Leadership in Supply Chain. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares samples of individual prediction snapshots that will be included in our Annual 2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory publishing later this month. This level represents a contraction of $1.5

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ToolsGroup

MAY 30, 2018

At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, analyst Marc Halpern clarified three key concepts about supply chain digital twins in his presentation “Busting the Myth of Digital Twins to Deliver Value.” The experience of our customer SKF, the world’s largest bearings manufacturer , bears this out.

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QAD

MARCH 12, 2019

Industry-wide change is forcing manufacturers to enhance their capabilities, and speed is vital for reducing the uncertainties around responding to change. The theme for this year’s Explore customer conference is “The Speed of Business,” which is to be held May 6-9 in New Orleans. Procure to Pay – A Day in the Life.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

My goal in this blog post is to answer a series of questions I got from the audience when I spoke at a couple of conferences this week. ” A supply chain leader from GE at another conference said, “Yesterday, we called it big data. I write on this blog, on LinkedIn, and on Forbes.). How do we compete?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This blog post formed in my head as I worked with clients this month. Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. ————————-.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. Source: Dictionary.com. This makes me yawn.

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Arena Solutions

JUNE 6, 2023

This year’s forum was all about harnessing the power of digital to help manufacturing companies improve efficiencies and deliver better products and services. We’re excited for the next conference!” -Ann LiveWorx demonstrated PTC’s commitment to delivering leading technology that transforms the development of physical products.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 27, 2023

In addition to academic duties, Professor Sheffi has consulted with many manufacturing, retail and transportation enterprises as well as government agencies. An active entrepreneur and after founding five successful technology focused companies, he remains a highly sought after speaker in conferences, business media and other venues.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Part of what makes my job very exciting is attending conferences. Earlier this week, I attended the LogiPharma conference, a wonderful event for supply chain professionals working in the pharmaceutical industry. And, in a future blog I will share some recommendations in light of these challenges: 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. The conference will be live-streamed as we discuss five themes: Supply Chains to Admire. They lack alignment. Evolution of Horizontal Processes.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

Frequent readers of the Supply Chain Matters blog may recall one metaphor that this Editor has invoked over the past three years – the Eagle ’s tune, In a New York Minute ( Everything Can Change ). © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Additional Thoughts. Bob Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Cycle stock is the management of stock required to cycle through production runs and procurement buys effectively. There are two buffers in the supply chain: inventory and manufacturing capacity. As assets become more and more utilized manufacturing loses the ability to buffer volatility through manufacturing capacity optimization.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides a side panel supplementary update to our prior posted blog highlighting the latest reported September and Q3 global and regional PMI indices that indicate manufacturing contraction has begun. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

Recently I attended a conference for Strategic Sourcing in the medical device manufacturing sector. About 60 Procurement Managers, Directors, and Executives attended from top medical device manufacturing companies. Avoiding change is a common issue across the manufacturing industry in general.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 17, 2022

Newly Released Conference Board CEO Study. A further data point to these notions can be found in a newly released C-Suite Outlook Mid-Year survey report, published by The Conference Board. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Seemingly, most supply chain leaders that are reading the press, or going to industry conferences, would believe that all four statements are true. Over the course of the last decade, I have carefully recorded and reported presentation after presentation from conference after conference and interview after interview with supply chain leaders.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights select June and Q2-2022 global manufacturing and supply chain indices, with the data indicating increased headwinds and challenges in the months to come. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. Global Wide Production Activity. United States.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Just-In-Time inventory management approach revolutionized manufacturing forever. Though this topic has been thoroughly researched, its basics and practical advice on successfully implementing it have often been overlooked in the endless blog posts on Google search results pages. How Does Just-In-Time (JIT) Work?

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Today, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued its latest forecast update on overall global trade, and the narrative is not encouraging or optimistic. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. This level represents a contraction of $1.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The conference is always a lot of fun. At the conference I encouraged the attendees to network with each other, to build a guiding coalition, to redesign supply chain processes for the Supply Chain of 2025. At the conference the remarks of Anthony Volpe from Lenovo struck a chord. We are starting to plan for next year.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2022

These announcements were made in conjunction with the LogicPharma Europe industry conference being held this week. A joint announcement indicates that concurrent supply chain planning provider Kinaxis and TraceLink have formed a partnership directed at enabling more agile collaboration between manufacturers and their suppliers.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

They are tenets which have been incorporated not only in automotive industry but other discrete manufacturing settings. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Some industry experts point to such facilities as “ the hidden factories.” All rights reserved.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Finally, and one of the most enjoyable aspects for me personally, is watching and participating in the various conferences taking place during the event. Maroquinerie Thomas success story conference. appeared first on QAD Dynasys Blog. So it is always judicious to (discreetly) have a look around.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

This was the first time in two years that this conference could be held in person. We interpret that to be the sourcing of products among retailers and manufacturers within countries of lowest cost manufacturing that has occurred in this same period. We will have to show our productivity gains.” All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As we see from Deloitte’s CPO Survey in 2018, AI is only fully deployed in 2% of procurement organizations and is far from making any real impact at scale within the digital ecosystems procurement teams are so eagerly trying to build. For example, robots performing key process steps in manufacturing plants” ( arkieva.com 2017 ).

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ivalua

MARCH 29, 2019

Procurement professionals need to think in more innovative ways about how we can drive competitive advantage and shareholder value for our organisations. While profit is of course important, and the procurement goal of cost reduction plays a key role here, “you cannot cut your way to growth” (or ultimate success), as the saying goes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. In contrast, in the process industries, the supply chain organization reported to manufacturing. She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, at the Supply Chain Shaman blog, and for Forbes.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 8, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Automotive. Financial Services.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2015

It’s also a big reason why SAP and Descartes formally announced their partnership this morning focused on TMS connectivity (attendees of Descartes’ user conference last month were given a sneak peak of this announcement).

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. Canadian Pacific Railway Work Stoppage Eased.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 1, 2021

9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If you are a small or mid-size company in manufacturing, agribusiness, retail or distribution, your transportation spend can be substantial. How much of your spend is committed and under contract, and how much is procured on a spot basis? Final word.

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