2030 Company Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Procurement Analytics 
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 9, 2021
Yes, companies held more inventory (measured in days of inventory) in 2019 than at the start of the 2007 recession. Over 85% of companies turned their systems off, turning to spreadsheets and ad hoc manual analysis. The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. Mistake #2.
Synovos
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
The platinum medal puts RS Group in the top 1% of the 100,000-plus rated companies assessed by EcoVadis with each company rated on the material sustainability risks and issues for size, location, and industry. The platinum medal achieved by RS provides stakeholders with confidence in the company’s ESG approach.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 25, 2021
Only four percent of companies outperformed their peer groups. While market potential declined, individual company performance declined faster. I strongly believe that we adopted practices in the last two decades that degraded performance and threw companies out of balance. The Focus Inside-out Supported by Functional Metrics.
Precoro
MARCH 11, 2024
Yet there’s a proactive approach that addresses the high cost of healthcare: value-based purchasing (VBP). VBP also improves patient satisfaction by fostering greater collaboration among healthcare providers and making the patient experience one of the key evaluation metrics for hospitals.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 28, 2021
As an analyst for nearly two decades, I am constantly amazed watching companies throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. What do I mean? There are 192 ways to cut up a cow.)
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 7, 2021
Gartner purchased the firm in 2010.) Driving Improvements in Supply Chain Excellence. He felt strongly that supply chain leaders knew how to drive supply chain excellence and needed a forum– or maybe two or three depending on the business model– to help them network and refine their approaches.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
APRIL 26, 2022
As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index. And companies at every stage of the supply chain have inflated their prices as demand exceeds supply.
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