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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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Horsemeat Supply Chains

SCM Research

Food supply chains are affected by supply chain trends such as globalization, consolidation, and commoditization. Unraveling the food supply chain: Strategic insights from China and the 2007 recalls The Journal of Supply Chain Management, 44 (1), 22-39 DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-493X.2008.00043.x. Pullman, M., & Gray, J. 2008.00043.x.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply chain investments of the last decade focused on improving black & white processes–order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. Start with demand processes and map the trends from the customer’s customer to the suppliers’ supplier.

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IBM Beefing Up for Matrix Commerce in 2012

Supply Chain Network

Emptoris solutions bring more intelligence to procurement and supply chain operations with spend, supplier and contract management for Smarter Commerce. Extends Smarter Commerce capabilities to Chief Procurement Officers. Smarter Commerce helps organizations that are struggling to meet the demands of a rapidly changing market.

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

EcoVadis

These trends are exposing even more potential risks to brand reputation, supply disruption and increased costs or volatility. But assessing and monitoring the CSR practices of suppliers worldwide poses tough challenges for procurement teams, across these dimensions: Geographic diversity.

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Twitter Insights from GT Nexus Bridges 2015 Conference

Talking Logistics

Solutions addressing the financial side of the supply chain, including Procure-to-Pay, is another core differentiator for GT Nexus. Transportation Services Procurement: Maximizing Strategic Goals and Business Value (Del Monte, Hewlett-Packard, USSA). Johnsen @GTNexus : Data quality for ocean shipments was 59% in early 2007.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

However, it is essential to react quickly in order to prevent harmful effects due to the overload of the operational system (Véronneau and Cimon, 2007) and also to preserve a certain agility in for the Supply Chain. – 10 key trends to understand Supply Chain Management Garnier A. Cumbersome processes with no added value.