2011 Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Procurement 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. In 2011, Yannis Skoufalos became the Global Product Supply Officer at Procter & Gamble. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Discontinued in 2011.
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. The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing. The Company has a checkered past.
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Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 4, 2018
As a B2B company, procurement management is essential. The total cost of ownership analyzes the total costs of the buying decision. The company had to ensure they were balancing everything appropriately, not only considering just purchase price variance or cost down but all the elements of the source-plan-make-deliver cycle. (In
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Over the last two decades Steelwedge raised significant capital in three rounds: 4M$ in 2004, 16M$ in 2011 and 22.5M$ in 2015. In 2011 I had a similar talk with the founder and asked the same questions. The focus was on automating procurement. I was not sure. Investors moaned.
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
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
That is the role of marketing or sales or procurement. Yes, I believe that supply chain overlays on top of the sales and marketing organizations and the procurement function. We have let buy- and sell-side transactional relationships erode value. Data volumes grew 18X in 2011. “ I scratch my head.
Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. On the webinar, when the participants were polled on the reason for rising inventories, over 50% of respondents indicated that it was the lack of an executive understanding of supply chain excellence.
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