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What is Purchase Price Variance (PPV) and How to Calculate it?

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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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It’s Not About Chatbots: Getting Real on AI Usage In Real Life Logistics (AI Popup #5)

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What struck me the most was when an actual AI scientist at the conference told me that, when he looked around, all he saw were hundreds of companies poised to waste a lot of money applying AI solutions to problems they didn’t actually have. It’s already clear that, once the dust settles, many amazing AI solutions will emerge.

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Logility Buys Halo BI

Supply Chain Shaman

On Monday, November 27th, Logility announced the purchase of privately-held Halo Business Intelligence. This announcement continues the trend of supply chain software market consolidation. Logility is a well-established player in the supply chain software market. The company was spun out of the parent company American Software.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the research for my inventory optimization report, the lowest level of satisfaction with multi-tier inventory optimization is with clients of the SAP inventory solution (previously purchased from SmartOps). Selling licenses does not translate into implemented software. ILOG was then purchased by IBM for $340 million in 2008.

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Have You Given Your Planner Love Today?

Supply Chain Shaman

Note that academics and employees of technology software companies have a statistically significant higher level of job satisfaction. It took six months for supply chain executives to sense the market downturn of 2007 and make adjustments to their supply chain. Selection of a Supply Chain Planning Solution. Business cycles.

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Intalere Selects Consus & Ivalua to Drive Source to Contract Best Practices

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Healthcare supply chain GPO, Intalere, deploys an end-to-end Source to Contract solution across its purchasing functions. New York, NY March 30, 2020 – Consus , a leading procurement services provider, today announced that Intalere , a healthcare supply chain GPO based in St. About Consus. About Ivalua.

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Pacific Drilling Selects Consus & Ivalua to Drive Sourcing Best Practices Globally

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Offshore ultra-deep water drilling company to deploy eSourcing globally across its purchasing function. Consus and Ivalua implemented and went live with the solution for Pacific Drilling in just two weeks. Pacific Drilling requires a fast, efficient and automated sourcing process to support the company’s Purchasing processes.