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7 Trending Business Practices Disrupting Procurement!

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! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

At the conference I encouraged the attendees to network with each other, to build a guiding coalition, to redesign supply chain processes for the Supply Chain of 2025. As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. The conference is always a lot of fun. What is a moment of truth?

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Top Trends in Luxury Brands That Will Influence the Future of Your Supply Chain

DynaSys

According to Bain & Company, new consumers and consumption habits are projected to expand this market to € 1260 billion and continue until 2025. Who are these new consumers? For example, European consumers prefer to buy in their region (75%), then abroad (19%) or at the airport (6%). of total worldwide sales.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

I thought back to the evolution of the EPC codes and bar codes in the consumer goods industry two decades ago, and I remember the work of Danny Wegman of Wegman’s Supermarkets, Sandy Douglas of Coca-Cola and Tim Smucker of The J.M There is no focus on payment based on outcomes or purchase at the point of consumption.

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Artificial Intelligence and Omnichannel Operations

Enterra Insights

.”[1] At the same time, writes SAS’ Rodney Weidemann, “The impact of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive computing — the latter underpinned by big data and advanced data analytics — is beginning to be felt.”[2] Path to Purchase. trillion in business in the U.S.

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Circular Supply Chain: the Politics of Pollution

DynaSys

It is debatable how much brand damage such audits wreak; however, no consumer goods manufacturer wants their logo showcased in a viral social media post about an enormous plastic island floating in the Pacific Ocean. Companies can no longer exclude sustainability from their annual reporting. Corporate Responsibility.

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

So the CSR score too is more of a popularity contest than a consistent metric. The slideshow that follows, then, is our coverage of Gartner’s rankings, which includes both comments from Gartner’s analysts as well as our own analysis, based on independent reporting. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings. anonymous user.

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