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. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. I write on this blog, on LinkedIn, and on Forbes.).

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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Blog post originally published, and permission to publish here provided by Nikita S, at [link]. Check out What Exactly Is Procurement? And What is Purchasing? How often do you have to internally report your sales numbers? Check out Procurement Experiences, Trends and the Future! Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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HICX Solutions

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meanwhile, according to a recent Deloitte study , 45% of Gen Z consumers stopped purchasing certain brands because of ethical or sustainability concerns. Next, a process was introduced whereby all procurement teams could load their data into the product on a monthly basis and report on their activities.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

That was my opening question to the executives attending last month’s Elemica reveal 2014 Conference in Frankfurt. It’s impossible for me to capture all of the great insights shared by the speakers in a brief blog post, but here are some highlights and key takeaways. Improve process quality for vendors and BASF.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. There is also no Santa Claus.

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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. More and more companies purchasing inventory technologies, but failing to give planners time to plan. She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, for Linkedin , and for Forbes.

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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. reported at the end of March, and a 52.3 down from 53.0

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This is the first of a two-part series where I will curate and cull information from my 4 decades of experience in logistics cost reduction at various positions in the supply chain. In this first part, I will focus on 6 places that you can apply to your organization to reduce costs and increase profit.

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BlueYonder

MAY 10, 2019

Each year in late April or early May, JDA team members, along with 2000 or more customers and partners, get together for our annual customer conference. Sprint was using spreadsheets and databases to forecast and plan its network inventory purchases. That’s why this is my favorite time of year.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a presentation by Kent Sharp at the ISM conference last spring, he said that in 2014, of the about 1,300 who filed a report to the SEC, two thirds did not include even a basic description of the extent to which their products contain 3TG minerals because thousands of products were potentially affected. Trust but verify.”.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Some of the recommendations I made to the group are discussed here in this blog, and published in the latest edition of Industrial Biotechnology journal. Effectively, there is no database that permits reliable reporting on the volume of biobased products sold in the US or exported for global consumers.

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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.

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JDA software

MAY 10, 2019

Each year in late April or early May, JDA team members, along with 2000 or more customers and partners, get together for our annual customer conference. Sprint was using spreadsheets and databases to forecast and plan its network inventory purchases. That’s why this is my favorite time of year.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

When customers have transparency into product availability, delivery timelines, and order status, they are more likely to complete purchases and continue shopping with a business. For instance, a blog might include infographics designed to illustrate the importance of visibility.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This creates a “double whammy” effect, in that digitization is driving up the need for analytics but to truly find collaborative solutions that rely on new technology solutions, companies will need to find ways to partner. Prediction 1 – Supply Chain Analytics Will Become More Predictive (Not Backward Looking).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. Is it coincidence? I don’t think so.

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QAD

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The rider provides planning and direction but can get bogged down in analytics and overthinking. There is a great example in Switch where a finance executive is trying to convince his peers that a new purchasing system/process is needed. The emotional impact made the decision to move to a central purchasing system much easier.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

My imagination goes wild when I see new forms of analytics. 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. Direct material purchasing starts with quality.

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Claritum

MARCH 15, 2017

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. We’ve packed up the exhibition kit (until the next time) and followed up on all the interesting conversations started during eWorld at the QEII Conference Centre in London.

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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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Precoro

AUGUST 31, 2023

Sufficient cost savings are achieved by utilizing a rigorous spending analysis, identifying opportunities for improvement, preparing strategies to reduce expenses, and carefully implementing these strategies. In this blog post, we'll go over everything you can do to reduce company expenses.  Keep

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Other examples: The United States Postal Service (USPS) published a report in May titled Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service , with supply chain management as one of the focus areas; in October, as reported by Reuters, “IBM, U.S. Toyota temporarily shut two factories in the aftermath. What’s next for SCONs?

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