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Why You Should Conduct Internal Quality Audits

Arena Solutions

If you’re a product developer, manufacturer, or part of an engineering team, you know the excitement, challenge, and profitability that come from transforming an idea into an actual product. Leveraging internal audits to align quality management with key business metrics When asked what are the benefits of conducting an internal audit?

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Off to another exciting year of student-industry engagement at NC State on cutting-edge supply chain projects

NC State SCRC

These projects all invovle cutting edge topics that are often discussed in blogs and websites. Duke Energy Sourcing Automation through AI: Sourcing Optimization through technology and artificial intelligence are becoming more readily available within the Supply Chain industry. MUFG Union Bank Strategic Performance Metrics.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

For most companies, the traditional focus is on the management of order to cash, procure to pay and forecast to deliver processes. In this blog post, I will apply this methodology and discuss the potential redefinition of three digital processes: Digital Manufacturing, Digital Path-to-Purchase, and Digital Agriculture.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. When I do workshops on driving data sharing across the industry, the sales group of the seller of products often calls me aside for a one-on-one talk.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. High-velocity or streaming data requires different architectures built on non-relational, cloud-based architectures using open source tools like Apache Spark. Let’s start by addressing the barriers.

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia. Others argue the demise of global sourcing; might I add caution? Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. My response is “Hogwash.”

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Trying to Throw A Light On Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

The commercial model of the company is to make money through speaking, research studies for others, facilitated workshops, benchmarking, training and events. I need a source of supply chain insights that is current.” She also actively blogs on her Supply Chain Insights website, for Linkedin , and for Forbes.