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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. Throughout a genuine and collaborative cooperation with business vendors, they produce innovative approaches to current procurement difficulties.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

Supplier performance management provides detailed information about the risks your suppliers may have, so you can take action to reduce or eliminate risks in your supply chain. The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results.

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Our Walk In The Fog

Supply Chain Shaman

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. New forms of data abound–weather data, consumer insights, rating/review information, sentiment analysis—but they are not used. Black holes abound.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

My enhancements were to add the underlying technology and company information at the bottom which gives some context. . 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. Their words.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector. 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. This is disruptive innovation. I was a skeptic.

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Travel to Compliance and Efficiency with Supply Chain Mapping

RFgen

However, supply chain leaders are often inundated with so much information that it can be difficult to keep track of it all. Having multi-tier suppliers makes this effort challenging, as manufacturing plants may be forced to communicate through tier one suppliers to acquire information from tier two suppliers and so on.

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Travel to Compliance and Efficiency with Supply Chain Mapping

RFgen

However, supply chain leaders are often inundated with so much information that it can be difficult to keep track of it all. Having multi-tier suppliers makes this effort challenging, as manufacturing plants may be forced to communicate through tier one suppliers to acquire information from tier two suppliers and so on.