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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

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In August 2020 Gartner published this report “4 Tactics Procurement Can Use to Sustain Influence as Economic Conditions Improve” This blog summarizes the key points of the report which you can read in full, here. Procurement Teams Step-up. When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt.

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Welcome 2019

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The teams in these seats did not experience the down market in 2007 or the start of the market run in 2009. The story will continue into 2020 as ERP vendors claw their way to market relevance. Between 2019 and 2020, a trading score will evolve that will rate trading partners on electronic capabilities. The teams are new.

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How the Semiconductor Shortage Could Have Been Averted

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The origin of this most recent semiconductor shortage began in early 2020 as automotive assembly plants and the supply chain shut down due to COVID-19. Very similar to the crisis in 2008-2009 and much to the surprise of industry analysts, automotive demand came back much quicker than expected. In addition to 6.2.1.7,

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Intelligent IBP – a new role for supply chain planners

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Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process. The decision squad needs to keep track of execution status, understand execution impacts and document learnings from the decision-to-execution process.

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Supply Chain Scope: New Study Shows Rise in US Inventories; California Estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030

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Changes have also been made throughout the document to clarify and emphasize the collaboration between the responsible agencies and other regional planning efforts, including funding.”. Targets for 2030 Include: Improve freight system efficiency 25 percent by 2030. Deploy over 100,000 zero-emission vehicles/equipment and maximize near-zero.

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Why Do Businesses Still Have Data Silos?

Enterra Insights

In addition to the familiar relational databases there are analytical, transactional, in-memory, NoSQL, NewSQL, time series, event streaming, graph, distributed, wide-column, key-value and document stores. 3] Gillian Tett, “ The lessons: The dangers of silo thinking ,” Financial Times, 14 December 2009. [4] 4] Keith D.

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What the Heck is an NFT?

Enterra Insights

Provenance is the documentation that authenticates a particular art piece. These documents outline details like the work’s creator, history, and appraisal value.”[5] 6] Adam Schwartz, “ Provenance: The Biggest Art Fraud Of The 20th Century ,” Arts & Culture, 12 August 2009. [7]