Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Rojas 2014). In this post, I’d like to suggest a mapping of a digital procurement ecosystem, dive into the necessity for these functionalities, and draw some conclusions as to how these focus areas can drive performance in an overall procurement organization. which always disrupts the initial undertaking.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Hau Lee, October 2014. Cost-to-Serve Analysis. For more on cost-to-serve analysis check out our recent report on supply chain finance. Network Design Analysis. Companies that outsource procurement and focus on transactional supplier management are less agile and struggle to be adaptable. Buffer strategies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Purchases include ICON-SCM in 2013; SERUS Corporation in 2014; Orchestro and Terra Technology in 2016; Steelwedge and Zyme in 2017; Inttra, Cloud Logistics, Entomo and Birch Worldwide in 2018; and Amber Road in 2019. Coupa is well funded and performed well in the indirect procurement software market. Let me explain.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Procurement is always thinking about cost savings, year over year. What if, for example, procurement has a budgeted amount for 4.5 cents, so procurement declares victory and says they saved their organization a lot of money: 3 cents per unit! Vel Dhinagaravel, CEO of Beroe , thinks this is the wrong way to measure procurement.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But the risk of war is already impacting supply chains, and an invasion of Ukraine by Russia would trigger extensive and enduring disruptions which supply chain and procurement managers should assess and prepare for. Russian trade has dropped in recent conflicts, especially Russian aggression in Chechnya and Georgia.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. The supply chain investments of the last decade focused on improving black & white processes–order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2015

The biggest implication of this new imposition on procurement process is that now procurement managers have to deliver suppliers that are cost conscious and timely in their operations but at the same time can adapt to the changing demands of end customers. All of these aspects impact procurement processes. 3) Risk Management.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Conduct an FSN analysis FSN analysis is used to categorise products as fast-moving, slow-moving or non-moving. Finally, ‘non-moving’ items are those that are not used over the analysis timeframe. Learn more: Supplier Relationship Management: What It Is and How to Improve it 3.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 29, 2014

Do you have tactical and strategic experience within one or more of the areas of consultancy, shipping line network design, procurement or supply chain management? Do you find data and analysis crucial to understanding your market and your opportunities and threats? Last application date: 31 August 2014. Interested?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 30, 2022

Fuller is the Founder & CEO of Freightwaves, a media and intelligence platform sharing up-to-the-minute news, commentary, and data analysis on the freight forwarding industry. . Good serves as an advisor, consultant, influencer, and evangelist for all things procurement. economic forecaster of the year in both 2003 and 2014. .

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). It was a strategic/tactical analysis, disconnected from day-to-day operations, and the software tools were difficult to learn and use. For related commentary, see Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014. as of this morning — a lower price than 5 years ago!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have also learned that you need a large data pool to derive the type of analysis that I want to publish. Recently, I spoke to a major European retailer that lost 5% of their grocery revenues to Amazon in the first quarter of 2014. It takes more than one or two respondents from a company. Why It Matters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

However, as will be seen through this analysis, we are propping up the cash conversion cycle by not collaborating with trading partners through transactional financial reengineering versus managing the processes to improve value. . In times of growth, when companies are funding inventory builds, cash is needed.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 30, 2013

This involved application of not only a standard portfolio management appraoch, but surveys of supplier views on how they viewed BP as a customer, as well as a power analysis to identify the relative balance of power in the relationship. Don’t expect a huge amount of growth, until perhaps 2014 when things may improve marginally.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. Most supply chain planning teams do not know their customers.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Editor's Note: As of late you may have noticed we have written a lot about procurement and the future of procurement. A large part of procurement is finalizing the contract and then the follow through of the determined deliverables in that agreement. How do you know you are getting what you paid for?

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 16, 2014

Procurement Transformation Summit. Date: 29 – 31 January, 2014. Business Alignment • Collaborative Sourcing Strategy • Fraud Prevention • Risk Management • Performance Analysis • Technology Enablement • Enhanced Model of Delivery • Spend Analytics. At the the European Procurement Summit 2014 you will: Measure to transform!

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Claritum

JANUARY 8, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Procurement's influence with an orchestrated Marketplace. This article looks at the use of business to business orchestrated Marketplaces and online catalogues to mitigate the people factor of any procurement process. 3 Procurement’s influence with an orchestrated Marketplace.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Procurement costs. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

I’m writing to share an exciting new report released today entitled “ An Economic Impact Analysis of the U.S. In 2014, America’s biobased industry contributed a total of 4.22 According to An Economic Impact Analysis of the U.S. million jobs in 2014, with each job in the industry responsible for generating 1.76

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2021

Vicki Folmar, an expert in business process design, data analysis, and decision support applications involving optimization in the supply chain management and energy industries, explains that sustainability and circularity are different, but complementary. Increase forecasting accuracy to reduce obsolete inventory.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

With multi-industry supply chains working to augment the resiliency and agility of their strategic supply networks, and with new imperatives related to increased supply chain efforts directed at sustainability and ESG needs, the needs for continual analysis and identified opportunities among the extended supply chain are more pronounced.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Here are some details from the press release: With Haven TMS, Haven evolves from a logistics quote marketplace into a full-featured transportation management system (TMS) with collaboration, procurement, and analysis modules. in an email.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Predictive analytics help them do this by automating much of the analysis processes so even people without high-level skills can perform various analyses, according to Gillman. According to the International Federation of Robotics : In 2014, robot sales increased by 29% to 229,261 units, by far the highest level ever recorded for one year.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 15, 2014

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. hmm.gadgets, graphs, analysis etc. Strategy, an engineering framework, failure mode analysis maybe.phew! Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service. Finance & Accounting. Human Resources. Banking Suite.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Here is my analysis. The focus was on automating procurement. The stock hovered near $30 per share for many months in 2014. ” The company’s press release rhetoric is bullish. More positive than most. However, sitting at my desk, I made a careful list of pros and cons based on history. My answer? I am not sure.

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MIT Supply Chain

JULY 24, 2014

Even with this limitation the analysis covers more than 30,000 POs, 40,000 unique SKUs, and 1,000 suppliers. Although the model is geared to the needs of one US retailer, it is of interest to any retail operation that procures product opportunistically. This type of operation usually involves suppliers and stores in multiple countries.

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Claritum

JANUARY 8, 2020

procurement process. procurement process automation. of the organisation’s Procurement team. changes, they do so with the approval of the Procurement team. changes, they do so with the approval of the Procurement team. One of the greatest barriers to effective procurement automation is people. Providing the.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

Using AI driven product nature of being and smart attributes, data can be structured to support the needs of ERP applications as well as strategic sourcing and Value Analysis activities , all from one data set.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 30, 2022

Regarding pandemic impacts from a private industry perspective, today’s more technology laden supply chain network design capabilities help to evaluate interventions such as options for realignment of networks, uncovering vulnerabilities to certain suppliers or conducting stress analysis for C-Suite review and assessment.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

In fact, speakers at the December 2014 BIO conference noted that the level of VC funding was at a 4-year low! One of the big insights from the analysis in our report is that the biobased economy is emerging in states all over the country. What will be required to attract investors to this market?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As a result, companies like AstraZenca, BASF, Colgate, Reckitt Benckiser, Seagate, and Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed their peer group in the period of 2006-2014, but sustained improvement becomes more and more difficult. The concept of text mining or social sentiment analysis is not on the radar for most supply chain professionals.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 18, 2018

These were all items among the wretched flotsam that washed up on Cornish beaches in horrifying quantities when storms devastated the south-west coast in February 2014. The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in California and the University of Georgia have estimated that up to 10m tonnes of plastic enter oceans each year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We would not have succeeded without a team effort across R&D, the business leaders, and SC disciplines of engineering, procurement, and manufacturing. The good news is that the team was aware of the results and feel that they have righted the ship in 2014.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 15, 2016

Jason Busch provided a great view on Block Chains, and their impact on the future of funds in the supply chain, at the Global Procurement Tech Summit in Baltimore. Many will spend 3 weeks gathering data – and 2 days running analysis – just to produce a demand forecast. How do we connect all these systems with trading partners?

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IQMS

MAY 1, 2018

ERP systems based on a single database architecture can scale and provide comparative perfect order performance metrics and analysis by each plant. Perfect order performance is calculated by taking the (% of orders delivered on time) * (% of orders complete) * (% of orders damage free) * (% of orders with accurate documentation) * 100.

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Requis

JULY 8, 2020

There have been several downturns in recent years, particularly in 2016 (which really originated in 2014-2015), 2008, and of course 1998. This analysis from McKinsey agrees that despite the challenges, there are some bright spots, including lowering the break-even point for shale.). Short term outlook.

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