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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

The details: 2001-Acquired Clairol for 4.9B$ 2002-Divestiture of Jif and Crisco to Smuckers–813M in Stock 2003-Acquisition of Wella for 7B$ 2005-Merger with Gilette for 57B$ 2008-Purchase of Nioxin for 300M$ 2009-Purchased Art of Shaving for 60M$ 2009-purchased ZIRH for 40M. The results are questionable. I built value cases for sales.

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Introductory Guide to Spend Analysis - SupplyChainOpz

Supply Chain Opz

While a big chunk of cost lies within procurement, manufacturing and distribution activities, cost reduction from procurement function seems to deliver substantial savings quicker. In fiscal year 2002, the U.S. Introductory Guide to Spend Analysis. Cost reduction has always been the number one priority for a company. Background.

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The original AMR Research analysis focused on a benchmarking sample of over 70 companies. To gain competitive economies of scale and drive the segmented response, the back office operations–procurement, manufacturing and transportation–are automated and effective. This was the lie spun by Gartner in 2002. The issue?

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. The Ariba infrastructure is so heavily entrenched in indirect procurement processes that it is hard to adapt to the solution to manage direct materials in the supply chain.

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Why Our Goal Should Not Be an Integrated Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2002 I worked for Gartner Group in the business applications practice. The focus is outside-in, from the customer back, and demand-orchestrated across the silos to guide procurement decisions. In my view, the connected supply chain is very, very different from the integrated supply chain. Some History. Horizontal Processes.

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Circular Economy in ICT – Completing the circle of supply

EcoVadis

Besides material and equipment, energy efficiency improvement of internal processes and networks comes on the agenda when realizing that the carbon footprint generated through ICT in 2002 will more than double by 2030, as it was estimated by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSi). percent of global emissions ( Fibre-Systems 2017 ).

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Beroe Founder Vel Dhinagaravel speaks at NC State on Origins of Company

NC State SCRC

Listening to him reminded me of the fun we had starting up the first ever company to produce supply market intelligence focused on the procurement space. Today, Beroe is the most successful procurement intelligence company, and continues to lead the pack in this space. We were astounded to discover that the ratio was 1 to 105.