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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

With globalization, the average company had 5 to 7 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions and 3 to 5 Advanced Planning Solutions (APS). The company was one of a handful of exchanges to survive the market hype of electronic exchanges in the 2000-2003 period. SAS’s acquisition of MarketMax in 2003 is an exception.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

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. Human resources No organization is better than the people who have understood it. Three key elements are suggested.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

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. However, in a subsequent article published in 2003 and titled “ Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence ” Erik states that. She states that.

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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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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? Always Adapting.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course. The allocation of the right SKUs and volumes to different fulfillment centers has proven to be an excellent opportunity to apply AI.