NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2019

He noted that reaching such aspirations isn’t possible without supplier innovation. We need to free up the back office to allow people to focus on the more important stuff, including Innovation around digitalizing our processes and improving products for our customer’s benefit.” You’ve got to work this.

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Xeeva

MAY 3, 2018

Last week a mix of supply chain professionals were brought together in Boston to learn about digital trends affecting manufacturing and gain insights into why development, digitization, and innovation are important. He also discussed what AI is and how it’s impacting manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and other industries.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

Since the inception of this blog in 2008, Supply Chain Matters has provided perspectives and takeaway thoughts from each annual report. GDP level, and a level not seen since 2008. Our perspectives stem from an outside-in end-to-end business process, management and cost adsorption lens vs. that reflected by logistics industry media.

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EcoVadis

APRIL 17, 2015

If you are in procurement, the next question you might ask is: “How do these prices affect a company’s supply chain?” Investing now and over time to understand corporate supply chain emissions can achieve supply chain savings, security, and foster innovation for prepared companies. Authors: Sheng Ou Yong and Mike Schwartz.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The sentence comes as a result of the late 2008-2009 salmonella outbreak linked back to PCA plants in Texas and Georgia. The 2008-2009 outbreak was no minor outbreak (and even if it had been, should that matter?). But could have increased supplier oversight prevented the disastrous 2008-2009 outbreak? Author: Hillary Ohlmann.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. There are pre-packaged software applications which help companies in analyzing their data and give them meaningful insight into their data - examples are customers demand trends, financial analysis, sales optimization etc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Let’s take P&G as an example. The company transitioned from an innovator in the 1990s to a late adopter in the last decade. While the company’s investments in manufacturing scheduling and demand sensing improved outcomes, the organization under-invested indirect procurement and network design. A Case Study.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Gopi Krishnan - As regards operator driven maintenance, I see examples of the self-service concept here. Citysourced, with the CDR innovation, extends the IT enabled EAM to the general public. Procurement Blog.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Research has proved that the use of social media can vastly improve the sales, lower costs of procurement and bring about innovation in the supply chain. Procurement Blog. Business Process Outsourcing.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 3, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. In this blog, with the example of Asset Management for personal health, they emphasize on identifying avenues for adding more Asset definitions to the EAM purview. Procurement Blog. Business Process Outsourcing.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JULY 17, 2015

A new face of procurement is emerging which is recognizing that a new set of value drivers must be developed in the face of massive environmental changes. These topics are emerging in the context of the new view that procurement is about building value for the enterprise.

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Requis

JANUARY 17, 2020

During the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008, we came closer than anyone realizes to a total halt in global trade because banks couldn’t trust each other with credit. There’s a temptation to segment along institutional lines, for example, wholesalers, retailers, etc. The Importance of Supply Chain. But that’s rubbish.

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Requis

JULY 24, 2020

Insiders joke (quite fairly, as it turns out) about billion-dollar procurement-management-disposition cycles that are managed in spreadsheets. He agrees that 10 years ago, it would have been difficult to do things that we see innovators doing now, because technologies weren’t as advanced. “If

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The conference was a great opportunity to interact with logistics and procurement executives in an environment of open dialogue and discussion. All of a sudden, everyone is “knocking on the door” of procurement and logistics, asking for cost improvements. Many executives are simply naive when it comes to this area.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 9, 2021

And because of that, when we- and we do predictions, we’ve done this since our inception in 2008 and we’ve had a traditional format for how we do our predictions. China is the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, especially in regard to technological innovation and component production. Let’s take another example.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

First, the majority of data exists in a database called FPDS, or the Federal Procurement Data System, which was created in 1979. In 2008, the Office of Management and Budgets created the database USAspending.gov. This was a system written in COBOL, and was largely used for transactional purposes.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Few such examples are: Google is inviting its employees in the Santa Monica area to try out its Google Shopping Express service for same day delivery pilots. Procurement Blog. Business Process Outsourcing.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

For example, if risk is believed to be occuring at the factory level, companies need to design systems that ensure monitoring of current workflow systems, as well as real-time systems will be needed to collect machine data and worker feedback, and to do so in a manner that ensures it is closest to the activity taking place.

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Arena Solutions

MAY 5, 2022

Jeff has extensive experience working with innovative companies in personal health and fitness and clean energy to help them deliver their solutions to market. As the founder of the Product Realization Group, Mike helps guide the world’s most innovative companies to accelerate delivery of their products, from concept to full market scale.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

With new supply chain innovations , trends in logistics technology and advancements like automated robots making a big impact on operational efficiency, it seems that supply chain optimization is within reach for more companies than ever before. We needed something innovative, an idea out of the box to pull us out of the storm.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 20, 2019

The earliest mention of Blockchain technology was the Oct 2008 article published by the ever enigmatic, Satoshi Nakamoto which evangelized the use of distributed ledger philosophy to develop the digital current called Bitcoin. Some of the simple applications are: Procure Materials. How did Blockchain technology emerge?

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