Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I give you this evidence in this blog.). Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. I am shocked to see how the lack of governance–clarity on who and how to make decisions–derails well-intended processes. Without clear governance, customer data never sees the light of day.

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Precoro

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In this blog post, we explore what constitutes the strategic sourcing process, how to design and execute such a process, and how it can help your organization thrive. As part of the larger procurement process, sourcing involves finding and evaluating suppliers for goods or services that need to be purchased.

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QAD

JUNE 8, 2023

When QAD hosted a live webinar earlier this year to explore and analyze the challenges that have procurement leadership buzzing these days, the issue of environmental, social and governance (ESG) was a hot topic. appeared first on QAD Blog. These non-financial factors can, in fact, lead to a bigger bottom line.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 30, 2019

Procurement bridges the gap between product, internal stakeholders and customers. In order to support the weight of internal and external expectations, Procurement teams must be prepared to perform as a key value adder within an organization. Developing KPIs is crucial, and individual, to the infrastructure of your Procurement team.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Local/Global Governance. Clear governance of global planning and local decisions. There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional. Inventory is often focused on as a singular metric, not as part of a complex supply chain system.

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Taulia

AUGUST 29, 2023

This, in turn, can ensure that products received from suppliers are consistently of an appropriately high quality, procured at the right cost, and delivered on time. These metrics can help the company evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of its supply chain processes and identify any shortcomings.

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QAD

AUGUST 12, 2021

If you’re reading this blog in 2021, you know about the increasing importance of sustainability and reduced environmental impact with fires in the western US, excessive flooding in Europe and a recent Canadian heat wave. In other examples, you’ll find ERP provides the necessary insights and metrics, like OEE , to enhance production execution.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 30, 2024

Together these capabilities facilitate better demand forecasting and planning, inventory management, procurement, and logistics, and augments visibility across the supply chain – far better than any technology or human has managed to do till date. The platform primarily helps predict demand and improve customer experience.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 7, 2015

Companies that have cross-functional alignment and clear governance models can make progress faster. The company that plays to win does not strive to have the best manufacturing costs, or the best procurement practices; instead, the team focuses on winning together cross-functionally on a commonly held portfolio of metrics.

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EcoVadis

MAY 19, 2016

Procurement technology should make it easy to source ethically. Supply chain transparency is one of the key challenges facing Procurement and Sourcing in the coming years. Governments, consumers, and corporations are calling for new levels of supply chain transparency – and this is no easy task.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Blog originally published at, and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at, [link]. But, unlocking collaborative supplier innovation requires clearly defined strategies and operations by a sourcing, procurement and/or purchasing team to ensure that suppliers’ competencies are being leveraged to their fullest potential.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This blog post is co-written by my colleague Joseph Yacura, who came up with the brilliant idea when we were chatting yesterday! Data quality and governance has always been “ important ” to the supply chain function but today it is “ critical ”.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 12, 2021

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Emerging procurement theory suggests that creating win-win situations within buyer and supplier agreements are the best ways to create long-lasting, engaging, creative, collaborative, and innovative partnerships. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 29, 2021

The government and the scientific community never actually expect a second wave of this magnitude. Saudi Arabia shipped 80 Metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India and Portugal assured 20,000 litres of oxygen per week to India along with 5503 vials of Remdesvir. We probably took it lightly and got into the celebration mode.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

We talked about many ways to impact your Culture, regardless of what improvements you are trying to accomplish, in our Blog post Inventory Turnover Breakthrough (Part 4) – Creating the Culture to Break Barriers! In the situation I’ve described at the beginning of this Blog post we had a clear and immediate Call to Action.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 28, 2020

” Alex Saric ( @alexsaric ), a procurement expert at Ivalua, told Eason, “There is a huge appetite to develop cognitive supply chains, which is only set to increase as more success stories come to light. ” Sprint Logistics Blog, 27 March 2020. [3] ” Logility Blog, 17 June 2020. [5] ” Start small.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Blog post originally created by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam Jenks at [link] . If we can draw a comparison between Thanksgiving dinners and procurement, they are essentially an every day example of why supplier quality management is important. Compliance and Governance. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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BlueYonder

MAY 22, 2020

To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Even as infection curves flatten and government guidelines continue to relax, it will be necessary to keep many of these protective measures in place.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Bloomberg reported this week ( Paid subscription or metered view ) that social media posting across the country are indicating that deaths within population centers seem higher than official government data would indicate. based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The country’s elderly populations are especially at risk.

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EcoVadis

DECEMBER 29, 2016

With the new modification, French government has taken an important first step toward supply chain emissions reporting. Working with the private sector will be essential for governments to accelerate their sustainability ambitions and fulfill their COP21 commitments. Figure 1: Timeline of French laws on GHG emissions.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 31, 2017

Many procurement teams are finding holistic approach can provide huge advantages. To cover this breadth of industry, country, and regulatory variety also requires monitoring news sources, government sources, NGOs, industry association sources, user groups, third party forums, and so on.

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HICX Solutions

JANUARY 27, 2023

The most important areas of the Supplier Lifecycle Management process are focused on merging two of the key procurement cycles: Procure-to-pay Source-to-contract Those responsible for managing the organization’s Procurement can combine suppliers’ master data and procurement and sourcing cycles to deliver streamlined and enhanced workflows.

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SupplyShift

JULY 6, 2021

Attention on social justice and diversity issues from consumers, employees, governments, and international regulators continues to increase. In this blog, we’ll lay out some of the ways your company can advance its supply chain DEI initiatives. They have proven themselves to be agile in terms of responsiveness.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

When I would ask the facilities for some summary of metrics showing progress the results were very inconsistent. Lack of Metrics and Reporting. If your organization has no standard set of metrics your Lean program has room to improve. Further the reporting of those metrics should be consistent and reviewed on a regular basis.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Blog post and permission to publish provided by Milan Vyas. Sixty-five percent of procurement practitioners say procurement at their company is becoming more collaborative with suppliers, according to The Future of Procurement, Making Collaboration Pay Off, by Oxford Economics. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 13, 2021

Sudden capital & cash shortfalls caused service levels to plummet and procurement and operations to scramble for alternatives. Your Finance department is minding this metric in particular. You should stay informed on how governments are approaching the crisis and how this will affect both demand and the viability of your suppliers.

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SupplyShift

JULY 6, 2021

Attention on social justice and diversity issues from consumers, employees, governments, and international regulators continues to increase. In this blog, we’ll lay out some of the ways your company can advance its supply chain DEI initiatives. They have proven themselves to be agile in terms of responsiveness.”.

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DynaSys

APRIL 14, 2021

Technology, government regulations, geo-political factors and changing consumer preferences are complicating not only the supply chain but the very basic functions of every manufacturing business. Long production runs or cycled campaigns are good for manufacturing efficiency metrics but not so much for inventory metrics. .

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 9, 2023

The challenge is that data is not seen as a key asset that requires quality control and governance. Whether it’s information about suppliers, procurement, inventory management, factory operations, sales or service, an integrated ERP solution has the data necessary to make decisions. Start promoting data as a key asset.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Co-location of supply chains will reduce disruptions, complications with transportations, government regulations, etc. My first Monday in, I asked for a full report of all our supply chain metrics, and my analyst told me he could get it to me by Friday. and will operate more efficiently. I told him I needed it NOW, not in a week.

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TrackVia

AUGUST 22, 2023

In this blog, we take a look and the next 3 key areas of asset management best practices and again provide some ways to streamline each. We hope this blog series will help you in creating your asset management plan and get you thinking on areas you could streamline the work processes involved in a comprehensive asset management plan.

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Taulia

JULY 11, 2023

Blog Expert Advice 8 min read 11 Jul 2023 By Taulia Share: Share via linkedin Share via twitter Share via facebook Share via email Copied Copy page URL to clipboard 5 supply chain initiatives to combat ESG risks Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks are a threat to both the operational health and reputation of diverse companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

Now a ritual, with coffee in one hand and country music blaring, I sit in my faded green chair to write a blog post. This afternoon, I am writing my 334th blog post. From time-to-time, I share the questions and answers in a blog post. Here I want to answer a question that I got this week in this blog post.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

In this blog post, we’ve compiled a list of over 100 supply chain crisis statistics to help you stay informed and build a more agile, resilient supply chain. Since neon gas is used to produce semiconductor chips, both governments and businesses are seeing prices increase. Wall Street Journal ). Harvard Business Review ). Deloitte ).

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Today, a company’s public image can rapidly diminish if they fail to comply with the increasingly prevalent environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards being put into place worldwide. Procurement is emerging as a particularly helpful and strategic function to sustainability efforts and setting supply chain sustainability goals.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Today, a company’s public image can rapidly diminish if they fail to comply with the increasingly prevalent environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards being put into place worldwide. Procurement is emerging as a particularly helpful and strategic function to sustainability efforts and setting supply chain sustainability goals.

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HICX Solutions

AUGUST 31, 2023

Information is centralized Information is centralized Increased productivity & accuracy Assists compliance Improved auditability Enhanced supplier risk management Vendor information governance What are the Key Pillars of Supplier Information Management?

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