EC Sourcing Group

JULY 26, 2022

Advanced analytics exceeds standard business intelligence (BI) using state-of-the-art technology and tools to create data asset information and real-time statistics. These diagnostic analyses help businesses predict market trends, optimize global supply chains, to make quicker, strategic decisions to pursue financial opportunities.

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RFgen

MAY 16, 2023

The role of data analytics in optimizing inventory management processes has become increasingly important. Analytics help organizations make smarter decisions, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. But your analytics is only as good as the underlying data. That’s why most inventory handlers leverage data.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 17, 2017

So, let’s take a look at how our predictions for the first four manufacturing technology trends (Predictive analytics, 3D Printing, and VR) to watch for in 2016 stacked up. Predictive Analytics Became Commonplace to Manufacturing.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 6, 2021

The late philosopher Eric Hoffer and the late business guru Peter Drucker shared a common belief about the difficulty of predicting the future. Hoffer wrote, “The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.” Drucker wrote, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 10, 2016

I was recently interviewed by Phillip Ideson of the “Art of Procurement” webcast. I met Phillip at the ISM Global Procurement Tech Summit about a month ago, and he invited me to join the show. What is predictive analytics? The concept of Innovative Data Leveraging.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Predictive analytics is still relatively new in procurement, but it’s increasingly important, particularly in organizations that have already been through the cycle of spend analytics, supplier leveraging, segmentation, and consolidation. Many executives we interviewed in our research responded “yes”. Absolutely.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 28, 2023

She brings almost 20 years of supply chain and benchmarking experience to DAT, where she is focused on providing actionable insights to shippers through DAT’s Benchmark Analytics and Rateview benchmarking tools. At DAT, she has been instrumental in growing the shipper practice. Tusk save Shippers 40% or more on small parcel shipping.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 27, 2021

Many businesses in the transportation and logistics industry use retail supply chain analytics to predict the future. By leveraging historical information and data, experts can predict how to optimize revenue. Using these analytics can be incredibly helpful for even the most inexperienced practitioner.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 27, 2021

Many businesses in the transportation and logistics industry use retail supply chain analytics to predict the future. By leveraging historical information and data, experts can predict how to optimize revenue. Using these analytics can be incredibly helpful for even the most inexperienced practitioner.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

In a previous post , I made a case for how the Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) are smarter together. Accordingly Supply Chain and Procurement will need continuous collaboration. By aligning supply chain and procurement, spend can be considered more holistically.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 5, 2019

Procurement analytics, which supports decision making in procurement management, typically handles problems and decisions that are related to cost reduction, supplier management, cost modeling, procurement-led innovation, market strategies, supply chain risk, and stakeholder value improvement (Handfield, Jeong, and Choi 2019).

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QAD

JUNE 29, 2021

In their list of common nightmare scenarios to try to prepare for, few procurement leaders could have predicted the business disruptions of 2020. QAD Adaptive ERP addresses issues procurement teams face involving supply and sourcing decisions, supplier quality, and the means to improve integrated supplier activities.

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Precoro

AUGUST 14, 2023

More and more companies are acknowledging the importance of centralizing and optimizing their procurement operations. One of the ways to accomplish this is to establish a procurement team to streamline ordering by centralizing purchases and improving supplier relations. What are the duties of a procurement manager?

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Richard is the CEO of LeanDNA , a purpose-built analytics platform for factory inventory optimization. About Richard Lebovitz Richard Lebovitz is the CEO of LeanDNA , a purpose-built analytics platform for factory inventory optimization. Richard Lebovitz and Joe Lynch discuss leading inventory attack teams. The Greenscreens.ai

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Analytics provides visibility into your transportation network and operations. Analytics and market intelligence that enables businesses to make data-driven decisions is especially valuable for an industry marred with the effects of? Harvard Business Review Analytic Services study?report Forecast Demand?with?Analytics.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Procurement experts face transportation costs, customer demands, and high pressure on global container and air freight rates. But what does that mean for future strategies in procurement ? Let’s rethink everything to figure out what it might be for the future of procurement in light of it all.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With rapid fluctuations and uncertainty, predicting customer demand is like shooting in the dark. Leveraging AI for demand forecasting means: You can analyze any amount of historical data and current trends from external sources to predict future demands more accurately. You can identify near-term market shifts with greater precision.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

He is based in Germany, and, as a founding partner of the supply chain practice at McKinsey & Company , consults on a variety of supply chain-related business problems, including S&OP and advanced analytics. Today we would use demand sensing, machine learning (ML), and other tools to predict demand. Yes, that’s fair.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. Using Analytics In the World of Gray.

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Precoro

JANUARY 29, 2024

As the department overseeing an organization's external expenditure, procurement is responsible for softening the impact of inflation. In this article, we will discuss how a robust procurement management plan can help address and mitigate the effects of inflation. Procurement methodology. Objectives and scope.

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QAD

JANUARY 11, 2022

After the last two years, it’s no surprise that some might be hesitant to make predictions about the state of manufacturing, supply chains and digital transformation for the new year. But two of our senior experts wanted to weigh in by sharing their 2022 predictions in VMblog’s 14 th annual predictions series.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Against this backdrop, our 2020 predictions represent insights from across the ToolsGroup community for technology and practices that support greater supply chain resilience. Deriving value from huge volumes of data depends on being able to separate signals (which have predictive value) from ‘noise’. Data analytics will get simpler.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Claritum’s top ten 2021 predictions for Procurement. Medium sized organisations will use procurement automation and buyer portals in the cloud, to address concerns of spend management, remote working and data security. Use of AI Machine Learning, specifically in data analytics, will move mainstream for Procurement.

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Supply Chains Rock

MAY 9, 2012

Analytics Powering the Next Evolution of the Supply Chain. The chart, pasted below, focuses on how IBM is using analytics to not only optimize the supply chain, but to actually predict how issues in the world will impact operations. Analytics has got huge scope to get integrated in supply chain in terms of analysing spend data.

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ivalua

AUGUST 29, 2019

Leading the charge in navigating this constantly shifting trading environment is the Procurement department. Procurement teams are becoming a more intrinsic part of business strategy, able to help organisations manage and predict supply chain risk, unlock innovation, create sustainable cost savings, and help grow revenue.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 21, 2021

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Procurement drowning in data article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Meanwhile, 60% of procurement teams have no tools or rely primarily on improvised systems for Supplier Management. Is Procurement drowning in data? Subscribe Here!

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Descriptive analytics focuses on utilizing historical data to understand events that transpired and what happened within the network over a set period. Predictive analytics makes predictions about future outcomes based on historical data, statistical modeling, and machine learning.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But few people really understand what it is, how it works and more importantly, why it is so important to Procurement. This paper seeks to answer those questions and specifically address its benefits to the Procurement process by addressing the following checklist: Checklist. What is Artificial Intelligence or AI?

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Procurement Academy

AUGUST 17, 2021

For those of us working in the field of supply chain and procurement education, it’s an open secret. But the same is most emphatically not true of supply chain and procurement. Data analytics. Predictive modelling. And by ‘data analytics’, or course, something more advanced than mere spreadsheet skills is usually meant.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 15, 2023

Big Data Analytics and AI are at the forefront of this technological revolution, offering unprecedented opportunities for retailer agencies and agents to optimize their operations and enhance customer experience.”[1] They are: • Driving Innovation with Data Analytics. Improving Customer Experience. .”

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

The IT taxonomy for visibility is supply chain analytics. As you implement supply chain analytics and use control theory with well-defined reference data with clear bands for control, process improvement ensues. The team was seeking analytics to monitor process compliance. Advancement in analytics improves outcomes.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

What Will Impact Procurement Processes in 2021? In a recent webinar hosted by Ivalua , Chris Sawchuck, Principal and Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader from The Hackett Group shared 10 key issues that will have a significant impact on Procurement organizations in 2021.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 27, 2016

I had the opportunity to attend the Procurement Leaders in San Francisco forum two weeks ago, followed by attending the ISM Carolinas-Virginia meeting in Winston Salem last week. Procurement analytics was discussed at length at both sessions. Most are still focused on spend analytics.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I had the opportunity to attend a number of exciting events on procurement analytics in the last month. First, I attended a CAPS Research event in RTP on Procurement Analytics, held right down the road at IBM headquarters. Understanding price predictions can help drive contracting and hedging strategies.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 16, 2016

We met at the United Club in Chicago, as he was on his way back from a visit with Honda, and met to discuss the upcoming study I will be working on with him on procurement analytics for the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies later this summer. They offer opinions and paint the future for us.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I have been interviewing a number of CPO’s on the subject of procurement analytics and predictive analytics. In this discussion, an issue that frequently comes up is the debate over spend analytics and contract management systems. And how important are systems to driving change? .” the answer: both.

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