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Biggest Challenges Being Faced In Procurement Today

CormSquare

But the question is, what are the other main challenges in procurement being faced today? This survey was done on 324 senior procurement lea ders fr om 33 countries offering a deep insight into current procurement preoccupations. In 2013, only 16% of CPOs were fully involved in risk management. Cost Reduction.

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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

The solution solved a relevant industry issue. In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. Transora had a short history. Clear governance.

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

All companies but two– Apple and L’Oreal– listed in the Gartner Top 25 underperform when compared against their industry peer group for 2013-2022. Today’s risk management solutions focus largely on supply sensing and early alerting. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.)

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Infor–a market consolidator of enterprise software–currently has revenues of $2.8 On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Total cost analysis is more difficult than it sounds and most technology implementations automated functional measurement systems (manufacturing or procurement), but leave the organization blind on the management of total costs.

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3 Core Metrics & 10 Soft Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance

GlobalTranz

Inventory measurement is critical and it is money after all in that it took a capital expense to procure. It is the main measurement benchmark in measuring supply chain performance, isn’t it? As of November 2013, there were 31 GPS satellites in operation. The goal is to keep inventory levels at a minimum to meet customer needs.

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Walmart Looking to Reduce Footprint

Elementum

It's no surprise then that the company became a signatory of t he Chemical Footprint Project (CFP), a project of Clean Production Action, which provides a tool for benchmarking companies as they select safer alternatives and reduce their use of chemicals of high concern.