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5 Spooky Excel Error Tales That Could Become Your Nightmare

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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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Our Walk In The Fog

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While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. There is no place to put this data in traditional supply chain planning software, and companies are slow to change existing concepts. This reality?

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

This data will be combined with the financial ratio data and published in an Open Content Research report in April on the Supply Chain Insights Community. 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.

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E2open Acquires Steelwedge. Impact on Market?

Supply Chain Shaman

The company was one of a handful of exchanges to survive the market hype of electronic exchanges in the 2000-2003 period. On March 26, 2015, I nsight Venture Partners (“Insight”) purchased E2open for $8.60 Taking the company private, the investment by Insights gives E2open capital to purchase companies.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

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Others will have a purchasing or supplier management board at the senior management level. We are talking about a key business process that impacts multiple functions beyond just organizing purchasing or quality. Team members represent key stakeholders, so they should communicate with those stakeholders to ensure buy-in.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason? Discontinued in 2011.

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Travel to Compliance and Efficiency with Supply Chain Mapping

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For instance, some services provide visual representations of supplier connections that require companies to enter their own data. Meanwhile, other solutions solicit information from tier one suppliers so manufacturing experts don’t have to go digging for the data themselves. Benefits of Effective Supply Chain Mapping.