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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.

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What are Block Chains? – Jason Busch on the Future of Money, Trust and Transparency

NC State SCRC

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. Barter system led to commodity currencies. But eventually the gold standard behind paper money wouldn’t scale and so we moved to fiat currency. Who has it?

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Create your own orchestrated Marketplace

Claritum

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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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

Financial ratios allow us to analyze performance across the peer group (large against small companies) and across currencies. In parallel, when supply chain concepts are well-integrated into the design of trading partner relationships by both sales and procurement, there is an acceleration of value. Aligning metrics matters.

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Create your own orchestrated Marketplace

Claritum

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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At the Starting Line: New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain and Logistics Executives

Talking Logistics

From “5 New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain & Logistics Executives” originally published on January 14, 2014: 1. At an MIT conference [in 2013], Tom Linton, Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer at Flextronics, presented his top 10 list of supply chain trends. Ask “What are the risks?”more more often.

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5 Tips in Making the Move to a Global TMS

TMC

The report is based on information gathered from 299 shippers and 145 logistics services providers in December 2014 through January 2015. Review your procurement culture. The challenge is highlighted in a report published by the trade journal American Shipper.[i]. Work from a single global platform. Think global, act local.