Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

” (The use of the term “basics” is usually code for the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.). End-to-End Definition Implementation of enterprise data architectures to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. Background. Investment in control towers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

Recently, I presented at the Informs Analytics Conference in Houston and challenged companies to “ think out of the box” and define outside-in processes in Supply Chain Planning. Tackling Procurement. The processes of indirect procurement have little in common with direct material sourcing.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 11, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group wishes to advise our clients and Supply Chain Matters blog global readership of an upcoming appearance by Bob Ferrari, Founder and Managing Director. The Future Insights Network will be conducting its annual Transform Fest 23 online virtual conference from May 23 through May 24, 2023.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Procurement Operates On An Island. Business process outsourcing and procurement automation evolved to make the procurement organization more efficient and less effective. This is the goal of this blog post. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the supply chain of the future. The reason? Broad Strokes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In a recent blog post, I was challenged by Anna. ” Anna, this blog post is for you. ” Anna, this blog post is for you. I know that your primary focus is procurement. If you are at the North American CSCMP conference, stop by and listen to the story of Nicole Miera from LKQ and Margo Cohen from Nestle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Fatigue during home video conference meeting call. Let me take you back to some research findings that I shared last year for those who might not follow my blog. Today, many of us are on conference call after conference call in an endless loop of meetings with little time to question the effectiveness.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 13, 2023

My first digital supply chain presentation was in Milan at an SAP Insider conference in 2012.) The primary investments are in networks of limited capabilities based on EDI, and indirect procurement spend management. Stay well and thanks for reading my blog. So where will the innovation come from? Relationship Management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

Today, we have an additional factor with inflation to add to the mix of issues, that changes the requirements for the “buy plan in procurement.” I am hoping that this blog helps companies understand that historically, we have been having the wrong discussions. The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030.

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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 View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

Jason Busch from Spend Matters gave another great speech at the Coupa INSPIRE conference in San Francisco which I attended last week. Spend Matters has grown to be a big part of the procurement landscape. Jason made a joke at the conference that everyone found very funny from the outset. Look where it is today!

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Procurement Operates On An Island. Business process outsourcing and procurement automation evolved to make the procurement organization more efficient and less effective. This is the goal of this blog post. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the supply chain of the future. The reason? Broad Strokes.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We introduce the top 20 supply chain specialist you should hire in this blog. Expertise: Strategic sourcing and contract creation, procurement, supply chain management, interim supply chain project management, cost reduction, contract management, and commodity management are areas of expertise. They come from a variety of backgrounds.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

There are different approaches, and the topics might include the following: logistics transportation inventory management procurement sustainability regulations Remember, any content has to be of value to the target audience; therefore, the information it contains must be up to date and have special significance to be informative.

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HICX Solutions

MAY 12, 2023

On September 21 & 22, over 5,000 people from numerous leading global corporations came together for DPW Amsterdam 2022 to share their experiences about a wide range of topics in Procurement and Supply Chain. Automate the simple As Sam explains, “We need to break our procurement teams free from the day-to-day tasks that burden them.”

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The COP28 Agreement Framework One of the more significant developments in this week’s news cycle was the announced agreement from the United Nations COP28 climate conference held in Dubai. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal ( Paid subscription ): “ In the run-up to this year’s conference, the U.S., All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 8, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a ruling by the U.S. The agreement, even at the start of the conference, provided much skepticism that any significant agreement could be reached among multiple nations and stakeholder interests. A coalition of ten mostly Republican leaning U.S. All rights reserved.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Several stories came out this week, related to KraftHeinz’s share price, its procurement department, and the fate of its parent company, 3G Capital. Kraft Heinz also said in a conference call discussing earnings that it cut its quarterly dividend to 40 cents a share from 62.5 The company reported $30.9 The company reported $30.9

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Kinaxis

MARCH 8, 2017

Over the years we have discussed this topic at length on our blog. I used to see plenty of industry news articles, webcasts, conference sessions dedicated to the importance of diversity in supply chain, but today’s hot topics are IoT, machine learning, augmented reality and the like. By Lori Smith. Shellie Molina , First Solar.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights an announcement from the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM ) regarding the launch of its Certified in Transformation for Supply Chain (CTSC) credential. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

I think almost everyone was astounded to see that something as basic as a face mask could not be procured at adequate levels in the US during the initial stages of the pandemic. COVID quickly took away some popular and very effective marketing tactics including conferences, tradeshows and direct mail.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

”[1] Bolstering his argument, he cites a conference presentation given by Francesca Gamboni, a Senior Vice President for supply chain at Groupe PSA. Gamboni told conference participants, “We need new ways to forecast demands.” ” Cognitive technologies and supply chain planning. ” Footnotes. [1]

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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 Movement

JUNE 22, 2023

This will deliver procurement savings and enable them to develop electric trucks jointly. Strategic repositioning The recent supply chain conference held by analyst firm Gartner in Barcelona featured several examples of strategic repositioning.

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Freightos

MARCH 6, 2024

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Name This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) fell 1% to $6,652/FEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog provides an overview of our 2024 annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. percent that occurred in 2022.

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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.” You can think of a digital twin as the ultimate ‘what-if’ scenario planner.

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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. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 7, 2017

Today I attended the SAP Insider Conference. For the last fifteen years, I attended this conference. I yearn for the years when the SAP Insider conference was larger and full of energy. As a conference attendee, the discussions of digital transformation for me stretches over the period of 1988-2017. The answer?

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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. I give you this evidence in this blog.). When companies reward OEE in manufacturing and POV in procurement, companies will systemically make the wrong stuff. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Mistake #5.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Cloud has evolved to provide the ideal infrastructure and platform for hosting multiple supply chain partners to collaboratively offer optimized services including planning, logistics, sourcing, procurement and service parts management. The network we built is ready to fit into the open cloud platform for supply chain set out in this blog. .

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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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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) held in mid-November 2021 in Glasgow once again, for a brief moment, focused world attention on the dangers of climate change and the importance taking long-term actions to mitigate its negative effects. Procurement. The concept of acquiring such materials is often called ‘Green Procurement’.

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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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QAD

MARCH 12, 2019

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. You will not want to miss this year’s Explore conference! The post Key Automotive Attractions and Pit Stops at Explore 2019 appeared first on QAD Blog.

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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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QAD

MAY 31, 2023

Therefore, visibility across various departments, from procurement to logistics breaks down these silos and allows for more efficient and responsive customer service. Thank you to Jens, Elisabeth and all the ICPA team for delivering another great conference. It is certainly great to hear all the compliments from attendees.

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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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