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Happy Labor Day! Insights on Building Supply Chain Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. While this is the case in 50% of the organizations, there are many organizations with large alignment gaps between finance/operations and procurement/manufacturing. The focus cannot be about only continuous improvement of existing processes.

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Integrated Planning: Is It Rubbish? Be Careful What You Ask For….

Supply Chain Shaman

Few implementations of planning connect to procurement and transportation. To avoid heated political debates, the planning team needs to constantly evaluate the fit of the plan and drive continuous improvement on planning outputs. This requires continue education. Economic Vision of Supply Chain 2030.

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S&OP: Five Steps to Get Started

Supply Chain Shaman

For most companies, greater economy of scale is possible through the global management of procurement and transportation and local management of sales, manufacturing and customer service. This allows you to use the research as a backdrop for a great conversation with others on how to develop and implement customer-centric strategies. (We

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

The SCOR model defines functional improvements, but falls short in defining cross-functional supply chain transformation. The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. Companies struggle how to use market, customer sentiment, and channel data.

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AI in eCommerce: Benefits, Use Cases, and Risks

Unleashed

Goods are being produced, procured, and delivered more efficiently with reduced costs. These new solutions use machine learning algorithms to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and to continuously improve the accuracy of those detections over time. There is also a cost to learning how to use AI tools correctly.

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50 expert tips on logistics planning and strategy

6 River Systems

” — Jonathan Whitaker, How to Create a Supply Chain Center of Excellence that Works , Supply Chain Quarterly; Twitter: @TheQuarterly. Implement supply chain actions, including with internal procurement teams, with suppliers and through broader collaboration, and develop measurable targets for these efforts.