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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

In reporting of the latest investment, The Wall Street Journal observed that the total investment represents Amazon’s largest investment in another company since its founding 30 years ago. Founded in 2003, Utah based Avetta has reportedly deployed by 500 clients located in more than 130 countries.

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E2open Acquires Zyme: A Bridge Too Far?

Supply Chain Shaman

The company was one of a handful of exchanges to survive the market hype 2000-2003 period. The focus was on automating procurement. The historic buyer of the E2open solution is procurement. As shown in Figure 1, approximately 50% of procurement buyers report through supply chain organizations.

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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

Jaggaer

Procurement professionals around the world are sitting up and paying attention, especially in sectors with globally integrated supply chains. Since the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the last major epidemic to hit China, the country has become even more important as a source of key components and materials as well as finished consumer goods.

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Labor Strike Targeting U.S. Automakers- Update Five

Supply Chain Matters

On Wednesday, the labor union surprised Ford Motor with the announcement that 8,700 assembly line workers at Ford ’s largest assembly plant located in Kentucky, and reportedly producer of the automaker’s most profitable vehicles, would not report for the evening work shift.

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SCRC Partner Profile: A Textbook Transformation at Biogen-Idec

Supply Chain View from the Field

In addition, much of the power in decision-making lies in the hands of clinical trials scientists, who often have power over procurement decisions. It was formed from the November 2003 merger of Biogen, Inc. and IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

This data will be combined with the financial ratio data and published in an Open Content Research report in April on the Supply Chain Insights Community. Figure 2 contrasts the state of cash-to-cash cycles between 2000-2003 and 2008-2011. Here is a link to the healthcare research study in the field. Current State: Costs are rising.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

This allows to measure the discrepancies and therefore solve the problems related to these discrepancies within the concerned department and, if necessary, to report them to other decision-making authorities within the organization. . A relevant dashboard and the ABC of a successful Supply Chain management and performance control.