Jaggaer

APRIL 22, 2019

Earth Day (April 22nd) is a celebration of commitment to creating a safer, healthier and cleaner world, making it a natural time to reflect on the power and value of sustainable procurement programs. Procurement at the pivot point. Clear steps to sustainable procurement. A quick look at the regulatory landscape.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 29, 2014

Mindmap for medtech supply chains 2014. At the same time, new sales markets are emerging for manufacturers of medical devices, and innovative technologies such as 3D printing are making a breakthrough. Improving hospital logistics processes, outsourcing logistics and improving procurement activities can deliver impressive results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

And progress comes in increments both large and small as we build on the breakthroughs and innovations that have come before. Some examples: Procurement and Co-manufacturing : What is the impact of inbound transportation issues on materials? Why is this shift such a big deal? We don’t have to think back very far.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

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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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This is despite the purchase of Terra Technology Demand Sensing and Multi-tier Inventory Management (MEIO) in 2014 for 12-14M$ (including implementation). The supply chain investments of the last decade focused on improving black & white processes–order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. The solution was too black box.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. If you don’t have a Supplier CoC, I’d strongly suggest looking into developing one with your sourcing and procurement team. Now bear with me here….

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Debt-laden JDA struggled to capitalize on its assets, and while revenue grew through acquisition, innovation stalled. 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.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MARCH 3, 2014

So the Chief Procurement Officer approached Texas Instruments and HP Micro, producers of the best analog chips at the time, and brokered a deal in which TI and HP would collaborate to create a chip set for Nokia. Supply Chain Innovation Supply Chain Management Supply chain Relationships' To see more, see: [link].

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MARCH 22, 2014

Our SCRC team sent out invitations to our next SCRC meeting on April 23 and 24, which will focus on a theme that is often discussed in the press, but which many people have yet to really define effectively: “ Managing Relationships to Drive Supplier-Led Innovation.”. What is the roadmap that leads to this outcome?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Rojas 2014). Technology is applied when needed as a ‘proposition’, typically implemented with an expected result in mind, but often creating an output of impact in an organization- that can too render as disruptive or innovative to the initial digital state of the organization. which always disrupts the initial undertaking.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The focus was on automating procurement. The historic buyer of the E2open solution is procurement. As shown in Figure 1, approximately 50% of procurement buyers report through supply chain organizations. Procurement does not equal supply chain. Procurement and supply chain solutions are quite different.

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CormSquare

JANUARY 24, 2017

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. There is plenty to worry about. Cost Reduction. This level is higher than the previous year, 69%.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Check out Procurement Report Card: Most Executives Think Procurement Isn’t Strategic Enough! Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. Cardwell, 2014). 2014, July 30). Cardwell, D.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. The focus was on automating procurement. The stock hovered near $30 per share for many months in 2014. The question is will E2open be an aggregator of assets or an innovator?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 5, 2017

The near-infinite processing power Cloud computing provides (along with other technological innovations) will cause everyone in the supply chain and logistics field to unlearn the way we’ve always done things, everything from the way we design software applications to how we design and manage supply chain processes.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). For related commentary, see Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014. At an MIT conference last year, Tom Linton, Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer at Flextronics, presented his top 10 list of supply chain trends. Want a Fast-Response Supply Chain?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2015

However, with reduced life cycles, customer-driven innovative products and services have forced supply chains to be flexible and adaptable. At the same time, this data may indicate possible issues in the procurement process, regarding product quality and delivery. All of these aspects impact procurement processes.

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FLEXE

APRIL 12, 2017

Retailers, of every shape and size, are faced with the threat: “Innovate or die.”. To many, Nasty Gal’s demise (it went from generating $85 million in revenue in 2014 to bankrupt in 2016) had everything to do with its distribution strategy and failure to retain customers. The post Innovate or Die: How’s Your eCommerce Strategy?

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 30, 2018

“Procurement departments are poised to benefit from many of the advantages blockchain technology brings, such as cost savings, greater data transparency and shorter lead times. Innovation often involves bundling existing technologies in new ways. ” IBM Internet of Things Blog , 14 December 2014. [4]

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

It is a story of supply chain innovation. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The adoption of Terra’s products were brisk until 2011, but during 2012-2014 sales softened, resulting in employee layoffs and downsizing.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2013

Last week at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference, I led a discussion session titled “At the Intersection of Social and Business Networks” with about fifty senior executives in supply chain and procurement. Ariba plans to expand into supply chain, logistics, and inventory management processes, with the first solutions coming out in 2014.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Kristie Syndikus, VP Procurement at Maple Leaf Foods! Other industries that don’t ship physical goods (for example Financial Services or Insurance) have adopted sophisticated Strategic Sourcing methodology for their Procurement. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 17, 2015

For the past few years I’ve been using that phrase, which you typically find in investment literature, when making the case for innovation in supply chain management. But by 2014, the U.S. “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.”. As the table below shows, back in 2008, the U.S. Business Intelligence and Analytics.

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QAD

APRIL 11, 2023

The company has been a QAD customer since the 1990s and moved its ERP operations from on-premise to the cloud in 2014. Supply chains and processes were relatively consistent and manufacturers had the time and flexibility to shop around for the best procurement agreements without worrying about disruptive events around every corner.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Oil operators and Oil services firms - time to dissolve internal walls | Main | Enabling individual item picking in tomorrows warehouses » Rapid Innovation will Differentiate the Future of Retail Industry.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 20, 2014

The White House defines a biobased economy as follows: “A bioeconomy is one based on the use of research and innovation in the biological sciences to create economic activity and public benefit.”. The Bio-Based Economy is characterized by a new generation of environmentally friendly materials and products and economic opportunities for U.S.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 29, 2015

Can innovative technology, new business models and eCommerce re-boot the business of logistics? Ensure you can provide the finely tuned logistics services and meet the exacting standards that innovative multichannel retailers and demanding consumers now demand? Datum: 14-16 October 2015. Locatie: De Maaspoort Theatre, Venlo (NL).

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

This tech provider was more recently named as the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. Reportedly, capital raised in this latest round to accelerate product innovation, including insights and tracking related to ESG and sustainability risks across a company’s extended supply chain.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 9, 2014

These risks will be explored at MIT CTL’s Crossroads conference , which takes place on March 25, 2014, on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. The criminals are also adept at pulling critical information from routine communications such as procurement negotiations. Register for Crossroads 2014 here.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 10, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. For more insights into the need to innovate supply chain and how goals translate into business and technology needs, read my latest 2-part blog series in Supply Chain Matters. Procurement Blog. January 2014.

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DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Innovation and Partnerships are the cornerstones of our growth. From a S&OP perspective this means to be able to quickly simulate product phase in and phase out, innovation gives us a bit more than 250 New Products per year, and we invest every year more than $200 billion for Research and Innovation. What about Essilor?

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EcoVadis

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Bateman also emphasized the differences between visibility, transparency, and traceability and urged procurement executives to prioritize each concept accordingly. He emphasized the need to strategically align people and resources before initiating a new process or technology.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

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. China has considerably expanded its leading position as the biggest market with a share of 25% of the total supply in 2014.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This approach has been used for many years, and tends to limit the opportunity for innovation, cost savings suggestions, and introduction of new technologies into the process, as noted by Anne Rung in her memo during her time at the Office of Management and Budget. At that point, production and system operations commence (DSMC, 2001).

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Contents Supply Chain Movement 14 – 2014 Q3. Supply chain professionals can learn a lot from Hollywood about outsourcing, sustainability, Big Data, innovation, supply chain strategy and risk management. Most of the data associated with processes such as Order to Cash, Materials to Products and Procure to Pay are in your SAP ERP system.

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QAD

AUGUST 18, 2022

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and their supply, contract packaging and distribution partners are under constant pressure to comply with government requirements while maintaining high standards for patient safety, product quality and innovation. FDA lab tests found at least one version of the drug had no active ingredients.

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