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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Most budgets are completed in currency at a brand level. The budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. The direct connection between the two processes increases costs and increases error. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Spend Analysis: Best Practices

Precoro

Where should you start when you want to create budgets, cut costs, or forecast future spending? After all, a clear picture of the company's procurement process is necessary to develop a sustainable future strategy and to avoid pitfalls that hold your business back. The answer is simple: spend analysis.

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5 Hot Topics in Home Delivery this Season

Talking Logistics

Visibility also gets worse in the absence of a single transportation platform to manage disparate delivery modes. Blending Traditional + Customer-focused Metrics. Leading retailers are starting to combine traditional delivery metrics (e.g., For a 2 hour time window, the charge was 2X the cost of a 4 hour window (e.g.,

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ERP Advantages and Disadvantages: How To Decide

Precoro

ERP or enterprise resource planning is software companies use to automate core business processes and integrate their functions, such as accounting, project management, procurement, and supply chain operations, into a single system. Improved Collaboration. Regulatory Compliance.

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The Business Case for a Global TMS

3rdwave

Demands on the transportation teams are growing as political posturing ramps up causing rapid disruption to global supply chains. This control is done through Dashboard process management, real-time access to in-line look-ups, and direct access to underlying master data and transportation execution detail. Route Management.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

A report proposing three system solutions that could reshape the industry and set the clean energy technology sector on a path to sustainability. Read the short version of this report on Medium. Chapter 2 of this report outlines some of the barriers observed to play a prohibitive role to transparency for REE mining and processing.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

Other examples: The United States Postal Service (USPS) published a report in May titled Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service , with supply chain management as one of the focus areas; in October, as reported by Reuters, “IBM, U.S. Will he declare China a currency manipulator ?