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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?

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5 Reasons why eAuctions Drive Better Savings

SCMDOJO

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. eAuctions technology can reduce the cost of purchasing products and services by up to 20%. It’s time for the Auctioneer to take the stage!

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Next Level Apparel® Takes its Demand and Inventory Planning to the Next Level with the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform

Logility

Before implementing the Logility platform in January, Next Level Apparel used a mix of Excel spreadsheets and a legacy proprietary ERP system to manage its supply chain. Founded in 2003, Next Level Apparel is a design innovator, industry leader and top supplier of premium blank apparel. About Next Level Apparel.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last decade, neither the pharmaceutical nor medical device manufacturer has been able to drive the revenue/employee productivity gains of their comparative peer groups. They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. Healthcare.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

He discussed the adoption of the steam engine and the electric motor in the manufacturing sector. Today, we take these technologies for granted, but the electric motor was the genesis of the horizontal manufacturing plant. I worked first at Gartner Group and then at AMR Research. I was a skeptic. It was not an ideal design.

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CKS Benelux and Ivalua partner with Punch Powertrain to digitalise strategic sourcing

ivalua

The Strategic Sourcing modules of Ivalua allow Punch Powertrain buyers to define Purchasing needs collaboratively, consolidate the tendering documents and ease costing by suppliers (cost breakdown files, dialogue with the projects on technical feasibility). Learn more at www.ivalua.com. About Punch Powertrain. Media Contact. 0207 436 0420.

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Refresh Your Supply Chain – Have a Coke and a Smile

Supply Chain Network

In 2003, Coca-Cola enterprises began a five year, $200 million IT plan called Project Pinnacle. Though the company had benefited from equity interests in franchised bottling groups, the need to make more from less prompted Coca-Cola to buy out their main North American distribution groups. How do they do it all?