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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” As a result, companies should buy inventory management technologies based on process requirements, IT standardization and cultural fit. These are my thoughts.

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Was Integrated Planning a Hoax?

Supply Chain Shaman

The implementations were longer, the purchase costs were higher, and the functionality was less robust and lacking flexibility. The predominate ERP SCP solution for the respondent in the survey is SAP APO. If you fill out our survey on integrated planning , we will be glad to share the results with you and your team.

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50 expert tips on logistics planning and strategy

6 River Systems

Create an adaptive unified buying process. “If you look at the typical buying process, it is bifurcated based on geography. If I am going to buy goods from this geography, then I use this process. Logistics personnel and supplier management pointers. Tips for improving customer experience.

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Top Supply Chain Articles of 2015

GlobalTranz

When I was Materials Manager at Maricopa County, Arizona, the second largest county in the country, I introduced Vendor Managed Inventory. No Purchase Orders were used. However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant's supply chain excellence. We only paid for fasteners as we used them.

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Raise a Toast to Digital Business!

Supply Chain Shaman

The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. This includes the automation of the list and driving demand before the store, driving demand in the store, mining the data from checkout and listening to sentiment post purchase. I give them credit.