ivalua

AUGUST 29, 2019

At the same time, two-thirds (66%) of businesses admitted they were still reliant on such processes as part of their Procurement or supplier management function. The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Ivalua, found that 71% of respondents believed the rate of digitisation in Procurement is low.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Procurement experts face transportation costs, customer demands, and high pressure on global container and air freight rates. Container rates in late July 2023 reached $1323 per TEU, significantly surpassing the late-2019 rates of $1236.87 But what does that mean for future strategies in procurement ?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Strangely, in the last decade, while companies had the opportunity to use technology better, supply chain performance declined. Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns. Both companies outperformed their peer groups.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

Brandon Daniels, CEO of Exiger The pandemic got almost every company talking about resilience. And a company called Exiger seemingly came out of nowhere to capitalize on this. Then in 2019, the newly reorganized Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency put special emphasis on protecting critical technology.

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IQMS

AUGUST 9, 2019

By 2023, 30% of manufacturing companies with more than $5B in revenue will have implemented Industry 4.0 Blockchain’s greatest potential to deliver business value is in manufacturing. provide valuable insights into how blockchain can improve supply chains and manufacturing. no opt-in).

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The outsourced R&D, in turn, supported outsourced manufacturing with over 50 key suppliers. In 2018 and 2019 there were two fatal crashes of the 737 Max 8. The company aimed to develop the aircraft quickly and inexpensively to compete with the Airbus A380. “The There have been other incidents.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. As companies wrestle with pandemic results, they must face the reality that a new form of decision support is required to sense market shifts in markets and make decisions at the speed of business. Reflection. The Market Response.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 28, 2019

As we’ve explored in our last two blog posts, economists are predicting a decline in global economic growth due to policy and trade issues both in the United States and the European Union , bringing an increased risk to supply chains and procurement organizations.

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Precoro

MARCH 31, 2023

March 21 was the second annual iteration of World Sustainable Procurement Day , an online event organized by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge team, SPP Chapters, SPP Champions, and partners to raise awareness about the importance of ethical procurement and to share the best sustainability practices with organizations worldwide.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

New survey finds that most companies are still formulating and gaining support for a digital strategy, with fear of change and data challenges as leading roadblocks. . Drivers of supply chain planning digitization vary significantly by company, with 42% identifying increased operational efficiencies (e.g. BOSTON, Mass.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This global, Tier 1 manufacturer is headquartered in Stockholm and had revenues of over $8 billion last year. It supplies airbags, seatbelts, and steering wheels to most of the Automotive OEMs – companies like Renault/Nissan, Volkswagen, etc. in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. This is our “supplier board”.

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EcoVadis

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

We’re still very early into 2019 and all signs point to an interesting year ahead. World powers such as Britain pledged legislation in 2019 to cut plastic pollution, Germany promised to phase out coal by 2038, and Copenhagen has made plans to become the first carbon neutral capital. American brands re-localizing to the U.S.).

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In 2022, I frequently ask companies to draw their river of demand. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. The process designed to help companies manage constraints outside of lead time took on a life of its own.

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Veridian Solutions

MARCH 20, 2019

ProMat 2019 is set to take place April 8-11, 2019 at McCormick Place, Chicago. The four-day conference brings together 950 exhibitors and the thousands of supply chain and manufacturing software vendors. Four Keynote Presentations at ProMat 2019. The first keynote presentation for this year is presented by Karim R.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

To understand the phenomenon , the 2019 GDP was 2.16%. Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. As companies grappled with growing and achieving global scale, the organizations became larger. The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7%

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

Recent trends have also seen many companies switching to plastic pallets due to its effectiveness and longevity in terms of usage. As a matter of fact, the smog generated from refineries to extract polymers from crude oil to manufacture plastic is already posing a major health and environment risk to us!

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While one might argue that the availability of better data and insights can help companies make better decisions, let me share why I struggle with the analogy. The issues of process latency—a company’s ability to align on data to make a decision—are greater with the heightened levels of disruption. See the pattern?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I find in my Supply Chains to Admire research that 96% of companies (when compared to their peer groups) are unable to drive improvement while delivering higher performance year-over-year on a balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Background. They did it. Shifts in Technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

To understand the phenomenon , the 2019 GDP was 2.16%. Companies that viewed the pandemic as another risk management event will struggle the most with Q1 and Q2 earnings reports. As companies grappled with growing and achieving global scale, the organizations became larger. The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7%

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. In each industry sector, companies face unprecedented variability. The shifts in growth from 2019-2021 are dramatic.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights this week’s announcement from athletic footwear designer and manufacturer New Balance of the grand opening of this company’s fifth production facility in North America. In a published Supply Chain Matters at the time , we pointed out that despite knowledge that manufacturing shoes in the U.S.

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Bristlecone

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

AMERICAN CORPORATE APPAREL COMPANY SELECTS BRISTLECONE. It took a mere 18 weeks for Bristlecone to lead a Middle Eastern steel manufacturing client on a transformation journey that took them from manual processes to a powerful new procurement solution. MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR PULSE 2019. Details Coming Soon.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 17, 2018

If you sell a premium product, manufacturing quality issues can kill your image and your bottom line. His company was called in by a producer of high-end beverages. The manufacturer made several attempts to rectify the issues but were unsuccessful. Ultimately, they invited 18 companies to participate in the RFP.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Newer technologies have created entirely new methodologies for improving manufacturing, and the outlook is brighter than ever. So, let’s take a look at how our predictions for the first four manufacturing technology trends (Predictive analytics, 3D Printing, and VR) to watch for in 2016 stacked up. VR tends to replace the entire image.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It was a relatively simple network that started with the food manufacturer sending products to distribution centers, then on to the grocery stores and specialty shops. The evolution of the value chain has been driven by multiple factors; technology, manufacturers and the consumer. That was the value chain.

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Oracle SCM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Starting today, leaders of finance, operations, supply chain, human resources, marketing, and IT from around the globe are coming together at Oracle OpenWorld 2019. Trinamix customers also use Oracle’s IBP solution to monitor execution of their business plans and proactively manage unexpected events to achieve company goals.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

In 2019 Yas Marina Circuit began working with DGrade to find a sustainable solution for plastic water bottles and cups used during the Formula 1 event. After the event DGrade met with the Yas Marina Circuit procurement team to address a sustainable alternative for their staff uniform requirements. DGRADE Clothing.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

First, the sought-after raw materials are procured. The Circular economy is a term used within Business practices that primarily aims to reinforce sustainability within Business elements (Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, 2019). Procurement. The concept of acquiring such materials is often called ‘Green Procurement’.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

The process as is implemented in many companies focuses on balancing demand and supply based on preestablished rules and policies that serve as guardrails for the planning process. Then the process was put to test in recent times, as increasing demand and supply side shocks caught companies flatfooted.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 21, 2023

were able to take the emission numbers from pre-COVID 2019 (over 17.4 For two IT companies in the Warwick study, commuter emissions were actually reduced up to 97% during 2020 when most staff members were forced to work from home. Only early industrialization made set hours for work a standard for efficient manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Mr. Elias and Mr. Stauffer spoke about the digital transformation the company is going through. The company is still somewhere in the “crawl/walk” phase. HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. The company has products produced in both make to order and make to stock processes.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2020

Gartner research shows that companies that continued to increase earnings while others declined in 2009 and 2010 were those that were able to keep their foot on the gas through the downturn because they had planned responses in advance. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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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. Many of those efforts, however, took a backseat during the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

S&OP Effectiveness in 2019 Versus 2016. When I ask executives to draw their supply chains today (an activity that I love to do to understand their mental models), companies will often draw a dead pool around S&OP. One company even used the metaphor of a Ferris Wheel that goes round and round to goes nowhere.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Every day, retailers and manufacturers are challenged to balance ambitious customer service promises with profit margin protection. Today’s expanded transportation, warehousing and labor networks provide companies with many more options, which means greater bargaining power. How great can the impact be? Consider warehousing space.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2019

The geopolitical conflicts to which Resilinc refers include things like trade conflicts and Brexit, which the company asserts pose some of the most potentially costly and disruptive supply chain impacts. Andrew Rudin ( @contrarydomino ), Managing Principal of Contrary Domino, believes global issues will affect both companies and communities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

The methodology did not include a peer group analysis, and I strongly felt that chemical, retail, and telecommunications companies should not be compared in the same analysis. Putting all companies in a spreadsheet and shaking them up made no sense to me. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. The reason?

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