Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For readers of this blog that do not know Zyme, the company focuses on the management of channel data in the high-tech industry. The company is a CRM solution. The Zyme solution improves revenue management, warranty and rebate processes. This source of channel data is very industry specific to the high tech market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. I asked him over and over, “Is the market ready for a solution for JUST Sales and Operations Planning?” The supply chain management software market had soured.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Recent releases of Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) refined but did not transform initial software concepts. 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. Is this Industry 4.0?

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

What metrics do others (in my industry) use? 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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ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Solution deployed in 10 days to improve direct material sourcing, increasing profitability. This greatly increases the company’s agility, allowing highly efficient purchasing operations. This on-demand electronic sourcing service offering developed by CKS for over fifteen years is particularly popular within the automotive industry.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

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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KEPLER Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Non-updated product sheets in ERP (purchase price, MOQ, Incoterm,…) resulting in non-compliant supplier orders . This approach impairs flexibility to cope with the hazards of the various downstream systems (production tool, customer demand, etc.). Cumbersome processes with no added value. et Tang C., “The 46,2000, p. Kempainen K.

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