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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. A Decline in Innovation. Less Collaborative.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. A Decline in Innovation. Less Collaborative.

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Digital Path to Purchase: An Outside-in Opportunity

Supply Chain Shaman

At least this is the story for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in North America. Today, 63% of consumer manufacturing organizations have a digital path to purchase initiative. 2) Use New Forms of Analytics to Uncover Unlikely Inferences. Growth has slowed. Complexity has increased. What to do? 3) Test and Learn.

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Sustainable procurement: Everything You Need to Know

Precoro

March 21 was the second annual iteration of World Sustainable Procurement Day , an online event organized by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge team, SPP Chapters, SPP Champions, and partners to raise awareness about the importance of ethical procurement and to share the best sustainability practices with organizations worldwide.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Keeping Up with Consumers

Enterra Insights

. … Most of those trading down [actions] either adjusted the quantity or pack size of their purchases (60 percent), which is the primary method of trading down for necessities, or decided to postpone a purchase (44 percent), typically for nonessential items. ” Consumers are still spending. YoY in January in the U.S.,

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UPS Strike Averted While Workers Gain Heat Protection

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS is the largest parcel delivery company in North America. This claim was made again in UPS’s last annual report. Carol Tome, the chief executive officer at UPS, wrote in a letter to shareholders that UPS is a “customer first, people led, innovation driven” company.