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Unlocking Success: Why Strategic Sourcing Is Important for Your Company

Precoro

To enhance their competitive edge, companies across industries are adopting a key tactic: strategic sourcing. Strategic sourcing is a holistic approach to supply chain management that includes tactics for optimizing the total cost of ownership, improving supplier relationships, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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Track the Supply Chain Metrics that Really Matter

Precoro

To monitor supply chain performance, stakeholders of successful companies typically define supply chain metrics that are relevant to the given business and track these KPIs regularly. By setting benchmarks for metrics, analysts can recognize unsettling trends and take preventive measures on time.

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3 Core Metrics & 10 Soft Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance

GlobalTranz

3 Key Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction. It is the main measurement benchmark in measuring supply chain performance, isn’t it? 10 Soft Metric Considerations in Measuring Supply Chain Performance. Cost reduction is still very important. We just can’t forget cost reduction. Read more. .

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Supply Chain Department – A Typical Structure

SCMDOJO

Here’s why a structured approach is important: Efficiency A structured department creates a clear division of labor and defines processes for procurement, production, distribution, and returns. This data can be used to identify areas for improvement and make informed decisions about sourcing, production, and distribution.

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Benchmarking Success: Focus on what Matters

Logistics Bureau

He joined Logistics Bureau Group back in 2009 and commenced by running the benchmarking business known as Benchmarking Success. Steven, you were a customer of Benchmarking Success with three different companies, most recently as Supply Chain Director with Ingram Micro, the world’s largest IT distributor.

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Misnomer

Supply Chain Shaman

The team was organized around the functional silos of source, make and deliver. I had managed factories and distribution centers, and strongly believed that the best supply chain results stemmed from strong, well-run functions. When we started benchmarking companies, Deborah and I had a friendly wager. It was not measured.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

You see that as well in the actual distribution centre networks. Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course. With digital twins, we can then feed other data sources through our model and start to predict scenarios like this.