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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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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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What € 30M funding really means to us: Accelerating sustainable procurement

EcoVadis

First of all, on behalf of the team here, we can thank our Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Pierre-François Thaler and Frédéric Trinel for their tireless dedication, and who have devoted their intelligence, passion and seemingly endless energy to building EcoVadis since 2007. Bravo, and thank you! The market has spoken. Destination: Growth!

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

EcoVadis

This is creating a ‘triple-whammy’ of imperatives for procurement teams — and their trading partners — to monitor and manage risk, while at the same time exposing new sources of value that will be the key differentiators in the future. Additional data such as sustainability indicators, can be attached at each step in the 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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Supply Chain Operating Networks Create Supply Chain Rockstars

Talking Logistics

Others add traditional licensed software or add-ons to the existing ERP to improve efficiencies, but when these solutions meet the outside world, they stumble for a number of reasons. First, numerous transactions between companies, such as orders, invoices, shipping notices, and status updates remain paper-, fax- and phone-based.

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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.