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How Sourcing has Reemerged in a Covid-19 World

Jaggaer

For the first three months after Covid-19 hit, virtually every sourcing project , in every sector , was put on hold while companies tried to assess the situation and how best to deal with the epidemic. Get the white paper on Sourcing Strategies: Why One Size Does Not Fit All , written by Michael Lamoureux of Spend Matters.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Focus is on make, source and deliver together. Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Supply Chain Design.

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When Will Blockchain Hype Pay-off in Supply Chain Operations?

Enterra Insights

Blockchain’s Potential. Venkateswarlu Nandimandalam, an Executive Vice President at Terralogic, believes that blockchain’s hype will eventually turn into reality because the complexity of supply chain operations demands a technology like blockchain. 7] Kever, op. 7] Kever, op. 12] Fisher, op.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

And while each market can be unique, we found a few repeating themes in our own experience and from sources including Gartner and our customers Procter and Gamble (P&G) and Cipla Medpro. Read the full Cipla Medpro case study on delivering medicines in Africa. Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different.

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sust[AI]nability

Enterra Insights

The first company, Nestlé, the world’s largest food company and an Enterra Solutions ® client, announced last December it plans to invest $3.6 ”[7] According to Doering, Nestlé and PepsiCo join dairy giant Danone and Diageo, one of the world’s largest producers of spirits and beers, in pursuing major sustainability efforts.

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Bristlecone Flash – May 2020

Bristlecone

SAP ARIBA: Bristlecone Industry-Specific Tactical Sourcing (BITS) – Introduces industry best practices into tactical sourcing, accelerates SAP Ariba Guided Buying deployment and adoption, and enhances user experience. S/4HANA system support for North American electronics company. Middle East and North Africa.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

To learn more about these efforts, we spoke with Wilko Sierksma , HEINEKEN’s manager for Network Design and Global S&OP. . Heineken’s brewery in Zoeterwoude, image credit: Heineken. The other part of my team’s responsibilities is what we call global S&OP. HEINEKEN is a very de-centralized company.

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