2007 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Procurement 
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 10, 2025
In May 2025, one in seven home-purchase agreements fell through resulting in the cancellation of 56,000 purchase contracts. Ask a procurement or transportation professional if they have a good demand signal and expect a laugh. They have forgotten the lessons of the 2007 recession and the pandemic.
SCMDOJO
MARCH 24, 2025
Introduction Gardner, (1954) and Huntzinger, (2007) define Purchase price variance (PPV) as a metric used to measure the effectiveness of cost-saving efforts by calculating the difference between the planned cost (standard pricing) allocated for purchasing activities and the actual cost incurred.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 26, 2025
The organization failed to anticipate the downturn in the cereal market during the 2007 recession, resulting in a loss of consumer confidence in the organic product segment. ” “Outside-in planning is a business value-driven approach vs a functional excellence approach. The result? Planning should understand and use better.
SCM Research
JANUARY 12, 2015
Like every year ( see my previous post ), Emerald rewards authors of exceptional papers covered in its extensive Emerald Management Reviews database with a Citation of Excellence Award (full list). I went through the latest list of the Citations of Excellence Top 50 papers. Ferrin, D., & Rao, H. 2007.07.001. Lessons from Nike.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 8, 2016
As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The Company has a checkered past. It is a new buyer.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 12, 2024
In parallel, PE/venture capitalists purchased/consolidated network solutions, slashing R&D and delaying investment, reducing industry capabilities. If you, like most, are running your supply chain based on ERP and Excel spreadsheet data, you are not prepared. Procurement was operating in isolation from supply chain.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I I kept pressuring this client to use their channel data locked into the Excel files in their sales account teams. My challenge? Measure it. Mistake #4.
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