Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

The variety of functions involved – product design, procurement, warehousing, production, transport, distribution, sales, for instance – encourages demand for new employees and multiplies possibilities for moving around inside too. No person is an island. This is especially true when working in supply chain.

Negotiating Skills 40

Negotiating Skills Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Purchasing Skills 40

NC State SCRC

MARCH 22, 2019

Some of the typical complaints I hear from procurement colleagues are the same ones I heard 20 years ago, and it seems as if nothing has changed. “Procurement doesn’t get any respect! I can’t get people in the business to listen to what I want to propose to them, and they don’t show up to my category meetings.”

Procurement Solutions 58

Procurement Solutions Negotiate Pricing Modeling Software Negotiating Skills 58

Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. She commented that the error seemed to be in the way that the software was implemented, and not in the base capability of the software. A methodology to pick the best fit method.

Inventory Reduction 61

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

Direct purchases from producers or manufacturers, instead of buying through wholesalers (if your company is engaged in retail commerce). Supply chain strategy development after all, is not a one-time exercise, and a merger between two companies should certainly be a catalyst to review, revise, and rework functional strategies.

Cost Reduction Strategies 45

Cost Reduction Strategies Price Reduction Inventory Reduction Vendor Strategies 45

Enterra Insights

MAY 29, 2019

Despite its name, RPA involves software “bots” rather than physical robots. Gartner explains, “RPA tools operate by mapping a process in the tool language for the software ‘robot’ to follow. Security and lack of standards are currently the IoT’s greatest challenges. 4] Brown, op.

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

I had just purchased my own VR system and I loved the feeling of being so immersed in VR games. VRChat is a game that rose to popularity with the advent of standard VR hardware in 2017. Mathew Schwartzman works on the CI-Ops team managing Customer Integration Testing and building custom tools for 6 River Systems.

How To 52

How To Just-in-Time Logistics Network Optimization Software Conference 52

Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

At the point when optimisation planning began, sourcing and inbound logistics were managed by teams in various countries, each with different levels of SCM maturity, and using different tools and systems. While inexpensive in itself, the solution cost around six minutes every time an employee had to locate a unit in the yard.

Cost Reduction Strategies 54

Cost Reduction Strategies Inventory Reduction Expense Reduction Price Reduction 54

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 18, 2021

Procurement teams article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks. Procurement is a function that has long been at cross-roads; dare to transform within people, process & technology, or keep doing what has always worked just fine. Procurement practitioners are hard-wired to avoid risk and secure profit/cost gains.

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 61

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Optimal Sourcing Procurement Solutions Procurement 61

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

For this reason, I thought it’d be a fun exercise to put a new name on supply chain transparency, rather than a typical sweeping-generalized definition. New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights published a report in 2017, which displayed just how damaging branded supply chain transparency can be for the business world.

Supply Chain Software 47

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The 2017 Pitney Bowes Global Ecommerce Stud y reveals that retailers still have a long way to go toward meeting consumer expectations, particularly when it comes to the post-purchase experience for online shoppers. In the US alone, this option is exercised by 46% of online shoppers versus 27% in the previous year.

South Korea 54

South Korea Retail Purchasing Skills Procurement Analytics 54

Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 30, 2022

.” A few years ago, journalist Elizabeth Harris reported that an academic paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, entitled “Buying Time Promotes Happiness,” concluded, “Working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase than on a material purchase.”[4]

Material Savings 130

Material Savings Procurement Analytics Denmark Procurement Solutions 130

Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

retailer Walmart and Tsinghua University announced a joint effort to track the movement of food products in China using blockchain technology to improve food safety in the world’s second-largest economy”; and just last month, Mahindra and IBM announced they are developing a blockchain solution for supply chain finance.

Predictive Analytics Software 50

Predictive Analytics Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Logistics Network Optimization Software 50