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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

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It involves outsourcing the entire supply chain function to a third-party provider who manages everything from sourcing raw materials to delivering finished products to customers. According to a paper by Len Prokopets and Ramin Tabibzadeh from Archstone Consulting , initial sourcing transactions can yield a 5% savings.

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

By bringing together several technologies that have matured separately over the last decade, it is becoming a system of intelligence, seamlessly integrating the following capabilities: • Integration and harmonization of data from internal and external sources, with transactional data self-cleansed and planning parameters self-maintained.

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Are You Active in the Digital Transformation Drinking Game?

Supply Chain Shaman

Will it be supported through 2025? My struggle is that open source software–Apache Foundation’s work with HADOOP and Spark–is moving quickly. SAP APO became the market share leader for supply chain decision support in 2002. The picture for SAP SCM support of APO is not clear. And, what will this mean?