ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

is elevating the position to candidates by making them aware of the various aspects of Procurement beyond sourcing and category management. A frequent thought leadership contributor for the Ivalua Blog, Jarrod has worked across multiple industries, including higher education, public sector, retail, manufacturing, and engineered products.

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ivalua

JUNE 14, 2023

Their expertise informs implementation decision-making by ensuring that it is data-driven and reflects spend category-specific needs. Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Get Ready for Success! Implementation Partner: This team should be formed before the implementation kickoff, led and supported by analysts and consultants.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 16, 2023

Understanding Consumers The McKinsey analysts suggest, “Companies should seek to understand the nuanced sentiments and behaviors among different groups of consumers and the categories in which their businesses operate.” ” Consumers are still spending. .”

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

The company assumed that the order was a good proxy for demand despite the investment in the beauty category where demand latency is 5-6X that of laundry products. I thought that the industry averages were fairly constant. My failure was three-fold: In this analysis, I never benchmarked companies to the industry averages. They are not.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The marketing processes are slower and forecasted at a category level (higher than the supply chain forecast of an item by location). Also, the introduction of a new product introduces cannibalization within the category. Sorry, I thought you needed some background.). Let me know your thoughts. Enough of the basics.”

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The first is dedicated to procurement leaders and thought leaders showcasing their successes and vision for the future. and international forces in Afghanistan on leadership and dealing with uncertainty. Each of the two events will be broken into 3 half days. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of U.S. About Ivalua .

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights the transfer of Chief Supply Chain Officer leadership roles at U.S. general merchandise retailer Target Corporation made some significant leadership updates this week, one of which was an announcement of a senior supply chain leadership succession transfer. Additional Thoughts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In addition, product categories are much more segmented and differentiated than they were previously. In this role, he leads his organization to drive thought leadership and go-to-market strategy for supply chain execution and logistics solutions.

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In the last two years, they’ve attracted new buyers to the category by focusing on their product’s taste and nutritional benefits ahead of its allergy-friendliness. But that turned Justin’s leadership position into hours spent poring through pivot tables and spreadsheets from multiple retailer and distributor portals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2022

For the largest enterprise software companies, the ability to effectively leverage partners has been a key factor in achieving market leadership. It has to start from the leadership level. Blue Yonder breaks their SI partnerships into two categories – global SIs and regional SIs. Becoming Partner Centric is Not Easy.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Closing the traditional IBP gaps with AI Traditional IBP as defined by its early thought leaders is sequential as can be seen in below figure. Set strategic & decision policy setting : this is a leadership meeting, where the strategic priorities by function and trade-offs between functions are updated when required.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

On behalf of Kinaxis, I was proud to accept the Technology Innovation award in the category of Operational Leadership. Winning the Operational Leadership award is a respected validation of our product and technology approach.”. The the awards distinguish pioneers that have developed clear visionary and transformative technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This broad category technology is driven by opportunities from autonomous vehicles, to robots, to automated storage systems, to software for optimization and orchestration of work. The quest to deliver faster, better, and cheaper leaves operators turning to technologies like AI to try and crack the code. AI holds the promise for big gains.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We additionally provide the broadest industry specific content and thought leadership as noted in our content categories scroll appearing on the right-hand panel.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

economic leadership that pundits fear, they also worry about U.S. More than half of American startups that became companies valued at $1 billion or more — a category that includes Google, Tesla, Stripe, and Uber — count immigrants among their founders and top executives. ” Concluding thoughts. held the top spot.

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BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2020

Milissa Epps is director of industry solutions at Blue Yonder and has had a remarkable career journey that began with a unique opportunity, as a job relocation led her to a fulfilling career focused on category management. I really thought my career would be to ultimately run a hotel or catering business. Who gave it to you?

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 4, 2019

She’s a huge proponent of leading by example and in her new leadership role at JDA keeps this in mind in everything that she does. Earlier this year, I took on the position of director responsible for solutions advisors for Store Operations as well as Category Management. Career-wise, it has been taking this leadership role.

Examples 62

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 3, 2017

The company was also informed this week of its status as a 2017 American Business Award Winner (the “Stevie Awards”) in the category of “Best User Interface” for the UltraShipTMS platform.

Transportation Management 61

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 4, 2017

The company was also informed this week of its status as a 2017 American Business Award Winner (the “Stevie Awards”) in the category of “Best User Interface” for the UltraShipTMS platform.

Report 60

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. We will feature over the next 7 business days each category’s top 10 most viewed posts over the course of 2014. Read Full Post.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2016

Their classic hit, Last Kiss, the song summed up my thoughts about the 2016 rankings. It started last year when the “Masters” category was created. All data aside, this new category was primarily to remove Apple and P&G, so the words “we have a new #1” could be stated. Oh where, oh where, can my supply chain be?

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 4, 2019

She’s a huge proponent of leading by example and in her new leadership role at JDA keeps this in mind in everything that she does. Earlier this year, I took on the position of director responsible for solutions advisors for Store Operations as well as Category Management. Career-wise, it has been taking this leadership role.

Examples 52

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 10, 2017

May 11, 2017 – Fair Lawn, NJ – UltraShipTMS was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie Award in the “Best User Interface” category in The 15th Annual American Business Awards today. The American Business Awards is the nation’s premier business awards program.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 7, 2021

.” A recent survey conducted by Callan Consulting for AdAdapted found, “93% of CPG marketers are looking for ways to reach consumers in the middle to lower parts of the funnel when they are engaging with a product category and making their decision to purchase the product. This is a key point in the buyer’s journey.”[5]

Procurement Solutions 130

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The thought of Tim working with Lucas scared Tim to death. The impact of historical bad practices takes leadership and many years to unwind. Host open supplier forums by category and brainstorm how to improve data flows directly with suppliers. And, the regional modeler, Tim, had never met Lucas. Data Sharing and Procurement.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 4, 2019

Predictive analytics may just hold the promise of breaking through what once was thought to be the entirely unpredictable nature of logistics. Her experiences leading growth also include multiple leadership roles during a 15-year stint at Cisco. She comes to MercuryGate most recently from spend management solution provider, SciQuest.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 101

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o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

DALLAS – February 22, 2021 – o9 Solutions, the leading AI-powered Integrated Business Planning ( IBP ) platform, boosts the thought leadership within its network with former leaders from JFE Steel and Nestlé. Watanabe Medal” in the category of Technical Achievement Contribution in 2009. Hiroshi Nishikawa.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The thought of Tim working with Lucas scared Tim to death. The impact of historical bad practices takes leadership and many years to unwind. Host open supplier forums by category and brainstorm how to improve data flows directly with suppliers. And, the regional modeler, Tim, had never met Lucas. Data Sharing and Procurement.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 11, 2022

As Supply Chain Matters readers are likely aware, Kinaxis has been a continuous thought leadership sponsor of our blog. In the announcements category, one relates to a reported new breakthrough in advanced supply chain analytics being termed Kinaxis Planning.AI. There are also some significant announcements to highlight. .

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This legislation was designed to reduce dependence on Asian based suppliers for strategic supply of semiconductor device components and to foster a more domestic based capability for deemed essential device categories. Additional Thoughts. based research and development as well as domestic semiconductor chip production capabilities.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Jim Stengel Thought Leadership. Mike Jirout (MBA ’10) thought his brother Jan was on to something when he created an app for their “big, Italian family” to use on their biennial reunion cruise, so they teamed up to launch Ship Mate. “He 2 out of 40,000 total apps in the iTunes “paid” Travel Apps category. Financial Times.

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BlueYonder

JULY 11, 2016

Category Management 1.0 is a 20-year-old process developed to treat each category of products as its own business unit. is category management for the 21st century. JDA, working with and in support of the Category Management Association (CMA), is supporting the launch of CatMan 2.0. However, the customer has changed.

Sourcing Strategies 40

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BlueYonder

JULY 11, 2016

Category Management 1.0 is a 20-year-old process developed to treat each category of products as its own business unit. is category management for the 21st century. JDA, working with and in support of the Category Management Association (CMA), is supporting the launch of CatMan 2.0. However, the customer has changed.

Sourcing Strategies 40

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Fortunately, an emerging approach to AI called automated machine learning (or AutoML) is expanding access to these techniques to whole new categories of people without requiring scarce expertise. Automated Machine Learning Addressing the Gap.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 24, 2015

UPS Takes Leadership Role For Commercial Trucking Safety. Sourcing and Procurement : Assessing current sourcing practices and procurement processes across all categories of indirect spend and then executing work to optimize controlled spend, perform category management and build capabilities for continuous improvement.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 100

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Senior leadership needs to emphasize that diversity is an important objective, and also provide measures that establish how diversity outcomes are tracked over time. It is also important to note that every single sourcing category has some level of diversity spending, and none are exempted.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2018

At that time, there were three primary product categories: Bleach/Home Cleaning Products (think home-cleaning brands like Clorox 2, Soft Scrub and Tilex), Hidden Valley Ranch Salad Dressings and Kingsford Charcoal. Here I share the dialogue: What Was the Role of Leadership in Driving the Segmentation Project? Map of Segmentation.

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