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Test Your Knowledge of Sales & Operations Execution

Test Your Knowledge of Sales & Operations Execution. Many supply chain professionals have already taken this assessment spanning across multiple industries and 20 countries. The 15-question assessment takes only 5 minutes to complete. Take it now to see how your S&OE process scores and benchmark it against peers. Responses are aggregated and kept anonymous.

Perfect Delivery: The New Rules for Survival, Innovation, and Growth

As supply chain complexity increases, so do challenges to achieving the perfect order. ARC Advisory Group shares: Hurdles faced in achieving the perfect order. Opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. How cloud SCM contributes to operational flexibility.

How Does Your Inventory Optimization Process Compare to Peers?

Are You Betting on the Right Tools to Succeed in 2021? The 15-question assessment takes only 5 minutes to complete. Take it now to see how your inventory optimization process scores and benchmark it against peers. Responses are aggregated and kept anonymous. We hope it serves as a thought-provoking exercise to improve your approach!

Ocean Supply Chain Visibility: Adapting and Thriving in a Rapidly Changing Global Economy

The entire global supply chain was upended by COVID-19. Among its myriad impacts, the pandemic exposed profound vulnerabilities in both the global supply chain structure and the various technologies that underpin it. Download our latest whitepaper, Beyond Survival, to learn about overcoming the likely challenges and opportunities of the new year, including: Navigating turbulent markets and economies in flux.

This Buyer’s Guide Will Help you Choose the Best Graph Database

Selecting a graph database is an important decision that can shape the success of your organization. This guide is intended to assist your buying decision with side-by-side comparisons of graph databases from Amazon, DataStax, Neo4j, and TigerGraph.

GEP Outlook 2021 Report

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It’s 2021, and many enterprises are still reeling from the unprecedented disruption of last year. Get a leg up with the GEP Outlook 2021 Report, featuring eight critical leadership themes that will help you navigate uncertainty and thrive in the new normal.

New Buyer's Guide for Supply Chain Network Design

Many companies are looking to redesign their supply chain network to lower costs, improve service levels and reduce risks in the new year. To do this, teams are finding that they need to perform network assessments more regularly and in-house. Scenario modeling is emerging as a key capability. To help you start 2021 strong, we updated our popular Buyer's Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Software with research insights and learnings.

Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020

Are You Betting on the Right Tools to Succeed in 2021? Get insights in this Gartner report to find out where to invest and what you should adopt as standard business practices. What’s inside? Gartner’s latest recommendations on tried and true capabilities. Find out what's essential to supply chain excellence. Research insights on new technologies. Read the latest insights on AI, IoT, network design, machine learning, prescriptive analytics and other hot technologies.

The Five Worst Practices in Procurement

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The GEP white paper lists 5 common mistakes that impede the success of procurement professionals. Learn from industry veteran Bill Huber about the wrong and right ways to approach a procurement mandate and why just saving money isn’t enough. Download this report now to learn how to avoid the worst procurement practices.

How Georgia-Pacific Turned Their Supply Chain into a Competitive Advantage

Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's leading manufacturers of tissue, pulp and paper and supplier to top brands like Brawny, Angel Soft and DIXIE, trusts ClearMetal for their supply chain requirements. That trust was well-earned: ClearMetal's Continuous Delivery Experience (CDX) platform empowered Georgia-Pacific's supply chain to achieve 50% growth in on-time delivery rates, all while reducing operational costs by 30%.

Are Your Embedded Analytics DevOps-Friendly?

Does your analytics solution work with your current tech stack and DevOps practices? If not, any update to the analytics could increase deployment complexity and become difficult to maintain. Learn the 5 elements of a DevOps-friendly embedded analytics solution.

Walmart 2022 Fiscal Calendar

Get access to the 2021-22 Walmart Fiscal Calendar ?? This calendar is ink-friendly and printable on standard 8.5” x 11” paper. Some key highlights: - OTIF dates - Walmart weeks - U.S. holidays - SQEP phases Start planning your fiscal year, right!

Racing With the Machine: Is your Supply Chain role in peril?

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the next big thing in innovation and digital strategy, so is the robotic takeover we have long feared here already? Join RPA expert, Serene Keng and globally renowned logistics expert, Professor Richard Wilding, OBE who will discuss the recent whitepaper released by Automation Anywhere on Robotic Process Automation and how jobs in the Supply Chain workforce will be affected.

Overcoming the Accuracy vs Agility Trade-Off in Demand Planning & Forecasting

Agility and accuracy don’t necessarily need to be at logger heads. In-fact, anticipatory agility enabled by AI and Machine Learning can move the accuracy frontier forward in terms of validity and consistency driving significant business value.

6 Steps to Improving Your Application’s Analytics Experience

No one designs bad dashboards and reports on purpose. So why do so many applications have terrible analytics experiences? Download this ebook for secrets to creating dashboards and reports your users will love.

4 Approaches to Data Analytics for Your Application

Selecting the right solution for your embedded analytics is crucial to the success of your application. But with so many solutions and vendors, how do you make this critical selection? Learn about the different approaches to analytics and the pros and cons for each.

Complimentary Gartner Report: Improve S&OP Decision Making with Scenario Planning

Traditionally, planning teams have aimed for one number, one plan. But with uncertainty on the rise, they need to build more flexibility into their process to account for changing business conditions. It’s time to shift gears and embrace variability with different scenarios. Download this complimentary report to learn about: Gartner’s research findings on the role of scenario planning in S&OP.

The Best Sales Forecasting Models for Weathering Your Goals

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Every sales forecasting model has a different strength and predictability method. It’s recommended to test out which one is best for your team. This way, you’ll be able to further enhance – and optimize – your newly-developed pipeline. Your future sales forecast? Sunny skies (and success) are just ahead!