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7 Trending Business Practices Disrupting Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

7 KPIs Your Procurement Team May Be Ignoring! Days and years went by, and eventually, the ’93 Ford Escort was living in the hybrid-dominated world of the year 2004. But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. Responsible Sourcing. Subscribe Here!

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics. In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. As you implement supply chain analytics and use control theory with well-defined reference data with clear bands for control, process improvement ensues.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. Based on reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the company hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company and package it for sale in 2014 with an expected evaluation of 800M$.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The market shift is towards analytics, but this new market is confusing. The first definition of Demand-driven Supply Chains was pushed into the market by AMR Research (now part of the Gartner Group) in 2004. Data model structures are the difference between success and failure.

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Global PMI Levels in July Remain of Concern

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and perspectives on reported July 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. The July reported value of 48.7 The July reported value of 48.7 declined 0.7

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Disruption in China Ripples Across Global Supply Chains in April 2022

Supply Chain Matters

The report authors noted that this index, when calculated without the impact of China would have posted a 53.2 The report specifically indicated: “ Average purchase prices rose to one of the greatest extents during the past 11 years, leading to the joint-steepest increase in output charges since the series began in October 2009.”. .

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Podcast: Marcia Williams on Supply Chain Optimization and Digital Transformation

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Supply chain optimization consultant, author, and podcaster Marcia Williams has been working in supply chain since 2004. Today, as the founder and managing partner of USM Supply Chain Consultants she has put her expertise in supply chain, procurement, finance and project management to work to help her clients achieve greater profitability.