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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Focus on functional metrics without alignment to a balanced scorecard to drive value. Over the last decade, in the building of global supply chains, organizations grew more political with gaming on metrics. Belief in efficient procurement. Investment in indirect procurement hi-jacked investment in building value networks.

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Sustainable procurement: Everything You Need to Know

Precoro

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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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. Analytics Techniques for Supply Chain 2030. I was wrong.

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

” (The use of the term “basics” is usually code for the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.). End-to-End Definition Implementation of enterprise data architectures to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. Background.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

The metrics reward functional thinking. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. Economic Vision of Supply Chain 2030. Join us for a critical view of supply chain 2030 through the insights of leading economists. Supply Chain 2030.

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sust[AI]nability

Enterra Insights

billion over the next five years as part of its long-term goal to cut in half its emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.”[5] This is expected to result in the reduction of over 26 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions — the equivalent of taking five million-plus cars off the road for a full year.

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The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR): What You Need to Know

Resilinc

Several other initiatives have already been released to support the plan, including the European Green Deal , the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 , and the Farm to Fork Strategy. Every year, the EUDR will aim to reduce carbon emissions by at least 32 million metric tons. The EUDR has three major goals.