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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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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. The focus was on automating procurement. On March 26, 2015, I nsight Venture Partners (“Insight”) purchased E2open for $8.60 SAS’s acquisition of MarketMax in 2003 is an exception.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. On the webinar, when the participants were polled on the reason for rising inventories, over 50% of respondents indicated that it was the lack of an executive understanding of supply chain excellence.

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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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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

I had the opportunity to work with several excellent organisations, most notably, nearly 20 years with Ceva (including EGL or Eagle Global Logistcis) and now TVS SCS. We organically manage TVS “Centres of Excellence” where we centralise processes and work that does not need to happen in our branch offices.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

They do not relate to any overall company procurement goals and objectives. Figure 1: SPM Project Stages (Gordon Sherry R, 2008) This organization has created a Procurement Steering Committee with management participation to leverage procurement as a tool to improve business performance.

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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). The Ivalua solution empowers us to deliver value to CPOs throughout Belgium”.