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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

Net/net, the current architectures are hard-wired into back-office Information Technology deployments with layers of security and integration, and batch processing. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. Let’s look at the past to forecast the future: Phase 1. Lockdowns and Disbelief.

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

At the same time, communities struggle to survive through curfew periods and other restrictions to secure products affordably whilst complying with health and safety conditions. Machine learning and big data analytics augments critical roles in supply chain efficiency, problem solving and cost saving. Surviving and Thriving.

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16 ERP implementation risks that vendors WON’T tell you

Unleashed

Think about the difference between Microsoft Word 2007 and Google Docs. If you own a ‘version’ of an ERP platform, it’s almost a guarantee that someday it will be sunsetted and you’ll cease to gain access to modern features or important security updates. Cyber security exposure ‘Vendor risk’ is a growing problem in cyber security.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

The LogicTools product was purchased for $15 million in 2007 by ILOG. The company is early in building an enterprise-class solution with robust APIs and role-based security. Big data supply chains Demand Market-Driven New technologies HANA llamasoft logictools SAP smartops Terra Technology'

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The expanding scope of procurement analytics: Some initial thoughts

NC State SCRC

This inter-organizational information flow entails new challenges in procurement analytics: organizational boundaries generate information friction and lowers the visibility of information (Barratt and Oke 2007). The advanced scope of procurement analytics will move beyond current events.

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Walgreen’s Acquisition of Amerisource Bergen is based on the need for integration to survive

NC State SCRC

However, in 2005-2007 wholesalers’ position in the channel was challenged due to increasing pressure for pricing controls, lower inflation, ASP regulation, and other external variables. Licensed, environmentally controlled, PDMA compliant [1] , secure facilities. Consolidated accounts receivable management. Returns processing.

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Why Your Approach to MDM Matters: Single Domain MDM Versus Multidomain MDM

HICX Solutions

1] Alex Berson and Larry Dubov, Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration for a Global Enterprise. McGraw Hill, 2007. It should incorporate policies on roles and responsibilities of data owners and establish ownership of data quality, including procedures for hand-off between systems, documentation and data security.