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Supply Chain Analytics: Benefits, Challenges & Architecture

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Importance of Supply Chain Analytics Five Types of Supply Chain Analytics Benefits of Supply Chain Analytics Challenges in Implementing Supply Chain Analytics Supply Chain Analytics System Architecture Role of Big Data What is Supply Chain Analytics? It is an essential element of supply chain management.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. Indirect procurement has little to do with direct material management.

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Achieving the Impossible Dream: Perfect Order Performance

Material Handling & Logistics

Four separate factors contribute to achieving a “perfect order”: the delivery must arrive complete, on-time, undamaged, and with proper documentation. According to APQC Open Standards Benchmarking data, organizations that are median, or midpoint, performers on this measure have a perfect order index of 90. Share data.

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Reverse Supply Chains: Best Practices for Better Asset Recovery

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As most warehouse strategies are formed to combat issues of product shortage or provide important accounting data regarding a product, technology has been created to help reverse supply chains and drive larger recovery by serving the business needs for selling surplus. All of it is created within the technology.

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Trends That Will Revolutionize Logistics in 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

By 2021, as much as 25% of the large global companies will be piloting or using AI and blockchain-based automation in transactional procurement. However, it provides a customized answer to requirements like cost control, warehouse management, geographic restrictions, distribution channels, priority deliveries, and much more.

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Data is the Real Gold At the End of the Rainbow for Contract and Spend Management Systems

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Transactional data must be rolled up to ensure suppliers are providing the requisite price discounts, clauses, rebates and charge backs negotiated in the original contract. Contract analytics can provide a summary view on performance and pricing deviations, risks, statistics (expiry, renewal and pending), procurement and sales metrics.

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Full Truckload Technology: The Various Technology Involved in Full Truckload Freight Shipping Management

GlobalTranz

Depending on the scale of warehouses and use of technology, robotics may be employed to load or unload trucks. Such software is essential for maintaining documentation for customs, including the importer and exporter of record (IOR & EOR), documenting freight spend, and analyzing overall logistics operations.