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5 Spooky Excel Error Tales That Could Become Your Nightmare

Arkieva

A serious Excel error could cost a business thousands or millions of dollars. Here are 5 Spooky Excel Tales that we hope never becomes your nightmare. In June 2003, a simple copy-and-paste error led to the Canadian power generator company, TransAlta buying more US power transmission hedging contracts in May at higher prices than usual.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

” In this blog, I share the insights on the current state of the healthcare value chain and the recommendations of the panelists. (I They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. I think both factors are at play. Healthcare.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

I have come to the conclusion that this needs some further analysis, which I won’t be able to complete in a single blog. They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. However, excellence in corporate planning matters. She states that.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. In 2003, short-term forecasting approach using pattern recognition was invented by Terra Technology to replace rules-based consumption. I was a skeptic.

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The Era of Best of Breed Solutions: Experts Weigh In

HICX Solutions

Sammeli Sammalkorpi was keen to fix procurement analytics problems, which is why he co-founded Sievo in 2003. If you want to really have a real understanding about what is going on in your procurement, in your stock management, in your processes, you need to know exactly what you are buying. Well, no, you don’t.

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Back to Basics: Is It Time to Break Up With Spreadsheets?

Arena Solutions

In fact, it became so popular that people purchased Apple IIs and IMB PCs just to get VisiCalc. The first version of Microsoft Excel became available on Macintosh in 1985 and then on Windows in 1987. A decade later, Excel dominated the market. It’s estimated Excel now has more than 750 million users worldwide. 1] Levy, S.

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21 Experts Reveal Best eCommerce Platforms for Small Businesses

EMERGE App

Ecwid is hands-down my top pick for small businesses who want a full-featured online store combined with a content-rich blog-style website. This combo unleashes all that WordPress can do: blog posts, video, reviews, forums, contributors, and much more; plus sell products in a fully integrated store. Gillian Perkins, Aptus Creative.