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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Most budgets are completed in currency at a brand level. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability. Most can only measure functional costs—transportation, manufacturing, and procurement. Time horizon. The supply chain forecast is a rolling forecast.

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Spend Analysis: Best Practices

Precoro

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. Spend analysis involves spend visibility , spending review , and procurement process improvement. The answer is simple: spend analysis.

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ERP Advantages and Disadvantages: How To Decide

Precoro

But is an ERP solution worth the investment for your business ? 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. Cloud-based ERP Software.

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5 Hot Topics in Home Delivery this Season

Talking Logistics

With the seasonal flood of consumer demand about hit the retail industry, advanced home delivery solutions can play an important role in success. Visibility also gets worse in the absence of a single transportation platform to manage disparate delivery modes. Uncovering the Potential of Dynamic Booking.

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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. A global TMS solution provides an automated and systemic way of addressing the challenges that are the reality for most organizations that source globally. Carrier Booking and Confirmation control.

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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. These include, new digital reward and market solutions capable of ensuring security and trust as well as significant infrastructural and operational cost reductions benefits. The result?

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

Talking Logistics

retailer Walmart and Tsinghua University announced a joint effort to track the movement of food products in China using blockchain technology to improve food safety in the world’s second-largest economy”; and just last month, Mahindra and IBM announced they are developing a blockchain solution for supply chain finance.