Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I launched my second business, a strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm in 2007. That company grew organically and supported over 100 companies ranging from Fortune 100 companies to fast growing businesses building their first procurement function. The focus for our customers was efficiency, speed and scale.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Data integration & quality As a part of the ERP implementation process, you’ll migrate all of your old data into the new centralised system. For starters, you’ll have to find all of that old data. If your company has thus far been using disparate, ad-hoc systems, it could be in a lot of different places.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 29, 2017

Thus, the object of the real-time supply chain is to achieve velocity in every aspect of how companies run their business. Real-time data is enabled by the emergence of cloud computing and mobile devices, which creates “big data” technology platforms that process higher volumes of internal and external data from multiple sources.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

In this post my goal is to help companies build outside-in processes through a clearer definition. It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. The gaps in supply chain visibility as shown in Figure 1, are problematic for most companies. Reflection.

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Compare logistics infrastructure using Logistics Performance Index World Bank has produced Logistics Performance Index (LPI) report since 2007 to aid policy makers to benchmark logistics infrastructure in their countries. Don't like jobs in big companies? Resource: Commodity Flow Survey 7. Resource: Venture Loop 39.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This is similar to the recent acquisition of Aetna by CVS , which involved a merger between another big pharmacy and a health care insurance payor. What are these companies seeing that everyone else isn’t? As a result, pharmaceutical distribution companies had to adopt a different model, one identifying a Fee For Service model.

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EcoVadis

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Technology will play a key role in scaling up this mission to engage the more than 40 million companies on the planet. Additional data such as sustainability indicators, can be attached at each step in the chain. Continuous improvements : traditional compliance approaches are often based on one-off audits.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

View the full post or view the snippet below: I was talking to a director of demand planning for a big chemical company at a trade show a few months ago. Balancing the supply chain triangle of cash, cost, and service is usually the tipping scale between companies with or without improved supply chain processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Amazingly, as by some fate, the remedy usually matches what the technology or services company is selling. Companies are not good at planning. We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. And, voila! ” The answer?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Amazingly, as by some fate, the remedy usually matches what the technology or services company is selling. Companies are not good at planning. We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. And, voila! ” The answer?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Amazingly, as by some fate, the remedy usually matches what the technology or services company is selling. Companies are not good at planning. We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. And, voila! ” The answer?

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 9, 2017

In a study conducted by Accenture in 2015 of chemical companies, results showed that 94 percent expect to boost their investment in digital capabilities in the next three years to embrace a competitive advantage. The reality is that companies can’t expect all their customers, suppliers and carriers to collectively adopt a single process.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 25, 2012

Cloud & Big Data. Over the past few years, Ive watched Aribas stunning repositioning as a serious on-demand player (yes, cloud hadnt become so fashionanble in 2007-08) with a lot of admiration, though as an SI, this meant a steadily eroding revenue pie. Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service. Human Resources.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 20, 2016

’ The kid’s name was Dan Bricklin and he joined with Bob Frankson to start a company called Visicorp that became Visicalc …and what he had just showed me was the first spreadsheet in the world, which eventually became the foundation for Excel, one of the most applied tools in the world.” In 2007, Apple launched the I-Phone.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The premise of Christensen’s groundbreaking book was that many companies’ hubris causes them to ignore disruptive innovations that can eventually lead to their downfall. Although it may sound like Christensen and his colleagues were skeptical about the value of big data analytics, I don’t believe that’s their message.

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KEPLER Consulting

APRIL 9, 2018

The analysis of Big Data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and cyber-physical systems are considered the main levers of the next digital upgrade. Big Data analysis. Sources : Boud, A. Haniff, D. Baber, C., & Steiner, S. In Information Visualization, 1999.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Knowledge is power in the world of supply chain management, and every company is searching for the next best way to save money and meet consumer demand. Today, he oversees the web and in-print edition of SupplyChainBrain, a go-to resource for companies undergoing digital transformation in the supply chain. . Gene Trousil. Jason Rosing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

When I travel from company to company and discuss the future of business processes, the term “digital” is ubiquitous. Public markets reward growth, and the average growth for companies for the period of 2011-2016 was 1/3 the rate of growth for the period of 1986-2007. Only 14% of companies are early adopters.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mankins and Lori Sherer , who stated, “The best way to understand any company’s operations is to view them as a series of decisions.”[1] Companies that make better decisions, make them faster and execute them more effectively than rivals nearly always turn in better financial performance.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Our goal is to not only talk about how they can make transportation management more effective through our blog articles about technology and best practices but to also inform them about their own industry and how they might use this information to better their companies. 2007: The first iPhone is released By Apple.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2021

According to a 2007 paper by Duncan Watts, ‘large scale changes in public opinion are not driven by highly influential people who influence everyone else, but rather by easily influenced people, influencing other easily influenced people.” The leading category by sheer number of accounts is Media. .”[4] 6] Truncali, op.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. 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.

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