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What is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)?

ThroughPut

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a suite of integrated software applications that helps organizations manage and automate their core business processes. An effective ERP manages day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management and compliance, and supply chain operations.

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Changing Mental Models

Supply Chain Shaman

I also had the opportunity to speak at the GHX conference and facilitate a leadership workshop on the required changes for implantable devices. Here are some of the quotes from the workshop I led yesterday that helped me to better understand the industry: “A process born out of chaos is chaos. The mental model is one of supply.

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3 areas of development for Supplier Relationship Management

ivalua

More than one Procurement department has learned this the hard way. Conversely, some Procurement departments have discovered that non-strategic suppliers, or even tier two suppliers, offer them innovative solutions to alleviate the shortage. Nevertheless, an effective Procurement department doesn’t stop there.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

We easily navigate the digital world in our personal lives, but enterprise software is not digital. of revenue on technologies which will quickly become legacy in the race to define digital processes. The concept of text mining or social sentiment analysis is not on the radar for most supply chain professionals. The tension?

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A Year In Events: Looking Back At 2016 (US Edition)

EcoVadis

From California to Connecticut, and Novi to New Orleans, EcoVadis was on the ground contributing to the advancement of sustainable procurement and CSR/sustainability practices in global supply chains during our most active year on record in the US. AIAG Corporate Responsibility Summit (Novi, MI).

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Network Design: the 5 good questions to ask

KEPLER Consulting

The evolution of supply and demand will have to be integrated upstream in the different scenario modeling, implying a reflection in the break. Collaborative workshops allowed us to find out that the current lead time was perfectly acceptable by the contractors. QUESTION #4: what are the different risks associated to my network?

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50 expert tips on logistics planning and strategy

6 River Systems

Another geography may call for another process and a different technology. Our point of view is to ask our clients what it is that you want to buy and we will unify those processes across the geography, those partners and those technologies so that it becomes transparent to the user.” Make room for collaboration.