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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

This is despite the purchase of Terra Technology Demand Sensing and Multi-tier Inventory Management (MEIO) in 2014 for 12-14M$ (including implementation). The solution was too black box. Hence the solution couldn’t be much maintained. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007.

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The expanding scope of procurement analytics: Some initial thoughts

NC State SCRC

Procurement analytics, which supports decision making in procurement management, typically handles problems and decisions that are related to cost reduction, supplier management, cost modeling, procurement-led innovation, market strategies, supply chain risk, and stakeholder value improvement (Handfield, Jeong, and Choi 2019).

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Growing Challenges in Supplier CSR Monitoring are Being Met with Powerful Digital Solutions

EcoVadis

Supply chains become ever more complex and global, while at the same time the spotlight on transparency and innovation around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is shifting to the supply chain. Supply bases cover 100’s of purchasing categories, each posing a different mix of CSR risks and issues. Depth of criteria.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

But the COVID-19 crisis, has required rapid operational solutions to unforeseen roadblocks. Quick solutions to employee shortages, remote working, and to ensure health and safety across the company need to be deployed. Data acquisition and filtering and scenario analysis are time consuming practices in supply chain.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Stephany Lapierre, CEO at tealbook!

Supply Chain Game Changer

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. procurement #purchasing #supplychainmanagement.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

When you think about the product lifecycle from cradle-to-cradle through the moments of truth of purchase, usage, and disposal, what are the opportunities to improve corporate social responsibility? For example, in the recession of 2007, DuPont missed the downturn in the market. Bio-engineering? Customization? What are the constraints?

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A Fireside Chat with John Sculley, Apple’s former CEO

NC State SCRC

.’ 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.