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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The Rubikloud acquisition was a $60M cash purchase.

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Establishing Procurement as a Competitive Advantage

ivalua

In my previous posts, I looked at how to successfully launch a digital transformation and progress to best-in-class Procurement. Procurement was tasked with supporting a board level initiative to accelerate innovation and increase margins. Alex Saric, CMO, Ivalua. Global automotive component supplier Meritor is a great example.

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

The software planning footprints are reminiscent of the work done in the 1990s when we struggled with insufficient memory using 32-bit hardware. There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. Not much has changed.

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How to Build a Digital Procurement Ecosystem in 8 Minutes!

Supply Chain Game Changer

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. Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2018. The Digital Procurement Ecosystem.

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Dialing Up the Sustainability Win-Win for Business and the Environment

Requis

Paul Hawken’s 1993 book “ The Ecology of Commerce ” has many more examples (mostly from Europe) of companies that use waste products from other industries as cheaper alternatives to raw materials and even energy sourcing. Forbes says that t he Global 2000 owned $189 trillion in assets as of 2018. Request a Demo. That’s 52.5%

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If you can measure it then you can manage it

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. If you can measure it then you can manage it” This statement is so true in the procurement field. Procurement needs to have real time data on the entire supply chain. and the complexity of the information escalates to a level that software tools are essential. Introduction.

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IoT Order Buttons Are Set to Revolutionize Your Supply Chain: Here’s What You Should Know

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Image source: Amazon website. While Gartner predicts that by 2018, retailers engaged IoT partnerships with major manufacturers will gain a significant market share from competitors, it’s still unclear if IoT order buttons will cause a direct increase in demand at the initial stages.

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