Precoro

JULY 4, 2025

For example, you might choose one electronics manufacturer to supply all your circuit boards, even if five others could do it too. While both procurement strategies have their uses, don’t spend precious time debating single source vs. sole source. Examples of single-source procurement What is sole sourcing? The reason?

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Precoro

MARCH 27, 2025

According to McKinsey & Company, procurement accounts for 50% to 80% of a company’s cost base. That’s why organizations zero in on strategies to achieve procurement cost reduction.    The key thing to remember is that cost reduction in procurement isn’t just about slashing expenses.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 17, 2025

Consumers have embraced e-commerce for price comparisons, ease of purchase anytime and anywhere, and for those participating in subscription services such as Amazon Prime, free shipping, and other benefits. According to Alibaba's announcement, "This will allow SMEs to directly book transparent, cost-effective shipping with a single click."

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IQMS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the American Revolution, paper was in short supply as the popularity of books and newspapers exploded. Manufacturers have been trying to prevent these experiences since the dawn of products. Manufacturers of all sorts use this software to make their lives and production processes easier. What Does MRP Software Do?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Ive seen KPI “packs” the size of phone books, and even KPI sets circulated as a monthly magazine that no one reads. Of course, its also possible to add further tiers for even more granularity, but again, the more levels you have, the more complex your KPI solution. Remember what the K stands for!

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Precoro

APRIL 14, 2025

Tools and Technologies to Combat Invoice Fraud Frequently Asked Questions About Invoice Fraud What Is Invoice Fraud? Example: A fraudster establishes a fake company called "Prime Office Solutions" and sends a polished invoice to a mid-sized business for 100 laptops, totaling $50,000.

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crisp

MAY 21, 2025

Modern challenges require modern solutions ones that are not only effective today but adaptable for the future. In a Deloitte survey of retail professionals , 60% reported that AI tools improved their ability to forecast demand and manage inventory in 2024.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 9, 2025

The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles. As a result of these efforts, we have multiple tools in place to address any challenges.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Eurasian Rail Freight: Demand for rail freight between Asia and Europe has surged, leading to congestion and longer booking times. lost net about 200,000 manufacturing jobs per year to offshoring. In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 2, 2025

in May, but falling below the key 50 mark that separates US manufacturing expansion from contraction for 30 out of the last 32 months. Another manager in the computers and electrics sector stated that: “Tariffs continue to cause confusion and uncertainty for long-term procurement decisions. A Manufacturing PMI above 42.3,

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 6, 2025

In this blog post, you’ll discover how apps, smart tools, and even artificial intelligence are making personal finance simpler and smarter. These tools are helpful because they show your progress clearly. This means the more you use these tools, the better they get at helping you. Some apps even let you set goals.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 15, 2025

However, before you call a professional, you can do a few things by yourself using common tools. If you have the right tools and some safety tips commonly used for other home repairs, then it might be time. Having the right tools is half the battle won. Using the correct tools makes a difference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Shipping approximately 400 million selling units consisting of 700 million manufactured units per year, Carter’s employs about 4,000 employees at its peak. Price to Tangible Book Value (PTBV). We manufacture 700 million pieces of clothing and service every channel in the U.S. About the Supply Chains to Admire Research.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. Writing a book is a labor of love. It is my second book. To give readers a sneak peek for the book, here I share my interview with Peter. Peter is one of sixty-five companies that I have interviewed for the book. I am behind.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 21, 2014

<In fact, so much so that I wrote a book about it.> Let’s start with these: Demand Sensing: The reduction of time to sense purchase and channel takeaway. Demand Latency: The latency of demand signal due to demand translation of a customer purchase through the supply chain to an order for a trading partner.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. The solution solved a relevant industry issue. In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Also, the solutions lacked flexibility. No company interviewed was able to successfully use their current what-if solutions to model pandemic impacts. Lessons Learned. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In my research, I find that the lack of alignment has a direct impact to value (operating margin and market price to book value). In the supply chain team analysis, note the 21% gap between procurement and manufacturing teams, the 35% gap between sales and operations and the 21% gap between finance and operations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 23, 2014

At that time, manufacturers talked about customer-centric supply chains, but were afraid to aggressively adopt ecommerce strategies. Manufacturers, today, are aggressively pursuing e-commerce strategies. The book is the end of three years of research and nine months of writing. They were afraid of retail retaliation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Here are the three questions that I would like people to ask: Table 1: Comparison of Results for Best of Breed Solution Providers to ERP Expansionists in Supply Chain Planning. The first evolution of technologies were built by best-of-breed solution vendors. This new solution was favored by the Information Technology (IT) organization.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

As with the logistics category where we featured 15 most popular blog posts vs. the 10 we covered in the top manufacturing blog posts and supply chain blog posts , we write so many transportation blog posts in that category, we are going to feature the 16 most viewed transportation blog posts. Read the Full Blog Post. Read the Full Blog Post.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“The idea of the value chain is based on the process view of organizations, the idea of seeing a manufacturing (or service) organisation as a system, made up of subsystems each with inputs, transformation processes and outputs. ” Institute for Manufacturing, 2013. __. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At the time, we were both deployed as consultants for Manugistics to help a manufacturing company to implement end-to-end planning. in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). The groups of supply planning, procurement and logistics operate within silos. Not much has changed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 29, 2013

” Or run the statement by any software provider, and they will share that their solutions delivered these “best practices.” ” When I first started working on the book Bricks Matter , I believed it too. Just ask any consultant and they will quickly tout “best practices.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I find no agency or entity trying to find a holistic solution to global logistics. Prior to 2018, when an ocean carrier booked a shipment they had to provide a chassis. Manufacturers build “control towers” but there no network dial tone between parties to enable prescriptive analytics and alerting.).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index. Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. HOW DID WE GET HERE?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

A digital workforce weaves together disconnected automation tools – Robotic Process Automation (RPA), AI, and machine learning – to think, act and analyse the way a human worker would, and work alongside humans. Procurement. Purchase Order Management. Another area where RPA is coming to the fore is in communication.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Advantages Beyond Shipment Booking and Execution. But the Maersk website, which the company cites as one of the top ten global B2B websites by revenue, likely generates far more in terms of searches, booking, and tracking data. By the end of 2019, 24% of spot shipments were booked using Spot. It’s worked.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. As a result, articles are written proclaiming demand-driven results and then the reader is given a solution that is anything but demand driven. The concepts surrounding demand driven sound right.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Are you looking for logistics management books? In this article, we will show you 5 books that'll help you learn logistics faster than any other logistics book. Logistics Book Ranking Factors To provide the book recommendations, first, we collect the name of the books that appear on Amazon.com.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. This software then calculates the statistically correct, time phased safety stock levels across multiple levels of the supply chain, providing the optimum inventory in the optimum location.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

Here are three reasons why logistics management software like TMS, YMS Freight Audit and others is essential to the survival of business during events like global pandemic. So how does logistics management software prepare shippers to accommodate any business environment – even those that materialize in the wake of unexpected events?

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 15, 2018

We evaluate books related to customer service based on sales rank, reviews/endorsement by leading business leaders and show you the best customer service books. However, books will say that service is actually a lifeline of any business and it usually goes beyond customer satisfaction surveys. One of our readers asked.

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QAD

APRIL 27, 2023

Earlier this year, QAD hosted a live webinar to explore and analyze the trends that are likely to dominate the procurement world over the coming months. It’s no secret that procurement teams have an amplified role within their businesses and that many are left with questions — our goal was to offer answers.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2016

This year looks like it's going to be one of the most innovative years for manufacturing technology. Purchasing and supply executives predict that the global manufacturing industry will continue to expand. and Chinese manufacturers. 4 Technologies Changing Global Manufacturing, As Told in 4 Infographics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I thought I understood all the major supply chain implications of the pandemic until I began reading Yossi Sheffi’s new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy beyond Covid-19. FourKites , a provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions, has a big data set around transportation.

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