Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Procurement professionals have the same question looming over their head on a daily basis: “How do you plan on dealing with digitalization?”. Recently I had the pleasure of attending EBG Network’s 8th Annual Source to Pay Summit, which gathered some of the Nordic’s largest organizations and procurement profiles. around the globe?—?and

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I share insights, based on research, for the supply chain leader. I write for this blog, craft reports from research for our newsletters, create blogs for Linkedin, and build articles for Forbes. The autonomous supply chain is a vision, but it is not today’s reality. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. Background.

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Eyvo

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Many of us think of digital procurement as a way to reduce purchase costs and increase efficiencies. Well, the bigger picture is where the real focus shifts to total cost and value addition. Another aspect of what makes digital procurement stand out is that of mitigating risk and increasing spend visibility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 7 KPIs Your Procurement Team May Be Ignoring! But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. Procurement is a business function that has undergone a lot of change in the last few years. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 30, 2019

Procurement bridges the gap between product, internal stakeholders and customers. In order to support the weight of internal and external expectations, Procurement teams must be prepared to perform as a key value adder within an organization. Developing KPIs is crucial, and individual, to the infrastructure of your Procurement team.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 18, 2019

Discussions about blockchain technology generally fall into one of two categories: cryptocurrency or supply chain. Because the technology remains in its infancy, most discussions about blockchain in the supply chain are filled with hype and hope. One of the first things it looks to disrupt is supply chain management.”[1]

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Eyvo

JANUARY 15, 2019

There is no shortage of predictions from procurement experts and companies. Anyone can purchase products and services so procurement, as a department, has the challenge of showing value in every aspect of their existence. The race for procuring, pun intended, the best talent has been challenging. This is alarming.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 31, 2019

The modern supply chain is mind-boggling. Multinational enterprises deal with a dizzying array of paperwork involving procurement deals, purchase orders, shipping data, etc. ” This begs the question: Is the digital supply chain about digitization or digital transformation? Supply chain digitization.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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EcoVadis

JANUARY 4, 2019

One of the great things about this time of year is to dig into analytics and see what topics were of particular interest over the past year to those who care about transparency in global supply chains. The Environmental Crackdown in China: Supply Chains Impacts Continue.

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Eyvo

JANUARY 15, 2019

There is no shortage of predictions from procurement experts and companies. Anyone can purchase products and services so procurement, as a department, has the challenge of showing value in every aspect of their existence. The race for procuring, pun intended, the best talent has been challenging. This is alarming.

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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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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 30, 2023

From tech giants to manufacturing leaders, the top 10 CEOs in the supply chain industry have blazed a trail of success. The Top 10 CEOs Who Have Worked As Supply Chain Professionals 1. Tim Cook Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, has a background in operations and supply chain management. Don’t forget!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 13, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Parallel Supply Chain … A Twilight Zone Strategy? Death of Global Supply Chains article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Is COVID19 the death of Global Supply Chains? Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Most people never think about supply chain operations. Billal Chouli explains, “A supply chain is a network of suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers, as well as intermediaries including freight companies, warehousing companies, and brokers, who transfer goods, services, money, and information amongst one another.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. In today’s age of great volatility, agility has become the new competitive differentiator.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Okay, turning the corner, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon offers free shipping on all orders for the holidays (CNN). Data Science In Walmart Supply Chain Technology (Medium). Supply Chain Visibility Solved (Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide highlights of two noteworthy supply chain management focused technology development efforts which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 6, 2021

That’s where forecasting and predictive analytics come into play. Predictive analytics involve techniques like data mining and machine learning to predict future trends from past and current data. You might be asking yourself: What is the difference between traditional forecasting and predictive analytics?

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GlobalTranz

MAY 25, 2018

Although not subject to the risk of cybersecurity, the costs of manual processes and systems management can be up to 31-times greater than those of digital systems, reports informIT. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Download white paper.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Machine learning is providing the needed algorithms, applications, and frameworks to bring greater predictive accuracy and value to enterprises’ data sets and contributing to diverse strategies succeeding.”[1] ” Machine learning and the supply chain. ” Machine learning and the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

This week, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) , with sponsors Penske Logistics and consulting firm Kearney , released the 33rd Annual State of Logistics Report to organization members and the industry as a whole. This report provides a snapshot of the U.S. For 2021, U.S. percent to $1.85

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2018

In a prior post on 2018 supply chain predictions, I shared how NC State’s Poole College of Management engages directly with industry through student-led projects. And everyone I know has issues and challenges with their supply chains! MUFG Union Bank Strategic Performance Metrics.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Imagining the Supply Chain of the Future! At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action™” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

We kick off today a month-long focus on trends in the following categories: Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation Management. 2016 Supply Chain Trends: The First 7 of 12. What 2016 Supply Chain Trends to you expect to see?

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Enterra Insights

MAY 3, 2018

Consumers now take the digital path to purchase more often than not; but, they don’t care what retailers call their shopping journey or what strategies companies use to make the shopping journey a seamless one. There are customer-facing cogs, internal supply chain cogs, and supplier-facing cogs. ’ They simply just shop.”[1]

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Blog post originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Argentus a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Check out Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! in the U.S., and expected to reach $24.5B

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Now… Is there something to be learned from this quote in Finding Nemo, that we can apply to procurement and sourcing? SRM and supply chain transparency remains atop the agenda for various organizations, and it’s no wonder! Subscribe Here! Email Address. So here we are.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 10, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Deciding to eat at Luigi’s Italian Market, and negotiating billion-dollar contracts aren’t really in the same league of purchasing decisions. Utilizing improvised solutions is still the norm in many procurement organizations. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Think I’m full of bologna?

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For example, at the NRF’s 2018 Shop.org conference, CVS Pharmacy President Kevin Hourican, told participants, “Retail isn’t dead. shoppers still prefer to make most of their purchases in-store.” For businesses, this means that an efficient supply chain with a well-managed inventory tracking system is essential.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

The supply chain leader is incredibly busy and made even busier by having to navigate systems that don’t work well. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. Make digital supply chain transformation a priority.

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Requis

MARCH 10, 2020

With an uptick in media reports on environmental crises like the Australian bush fires of 2019, there has been a renewed sense of urgency on climate change issues. – UN report: Global Resources Outlook 2019. Forbes says that t he Global 2000 owned $189 trillion in assets as of 2018. That’s 52.5% Digitization is the key.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). About the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 18, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights reports that Rivian Automotive fell short of its 2022 vehicle production goal and that several top executives have departed the company, including the company’s purchasing head. Executive Departures. Previously, the company’s initial Chief Operating Officer departed at the end of 2019.

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Shipchain

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Supply chain visibility is essential to modern success, but according to Supply Chain Dive , as few as 6% of companies have achieved full supply chain visibility. The problems existing within supply chain visibility go back to issues with tracking shipments after shipping to consumers.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2019

While most food and drink stakeholders have concentrated on digitizing their supply chains, increasingly grocers are looking to the consumer side of digitization to grow their business. ”[1] He draws those conclusions from a Packaged Facts research report published last year. Grocery Shopper Trends report.”[3]

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