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Organizational Alignment: Overlooked, but So Important.

Supply Chain Shaman

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. Functional Metrics.

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Procurement Terminology is a Mess!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Procurement language article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. From one Procurement organization to the next, terminology differs. Procurement is a function, that is undergoing transformation; technologically and ideologically. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Cogniture Procurement Technologies will Change Your World

NC State SCRC

Artificial intelligence is growing rapidly across many organizational applications, and nowhere is this impact greater than in procurement. Given the recent rapid inflationary pressure and the challenges of significant material shortages in 2022, there is growing pressure on procurement to continue to deliver value, as never before.

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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

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. Do You Need a Logistics Book? Difficulty: we try to shy away from the math-heavy books as much as possible. . Best Logistics Books are as below: 1.

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Procurement Bots – Transformer or Destroyer?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Check out What Exactly Is Procurement? And What is Purchasing? The last few years have seen a lot of real (and over) hype associated with the emergence of Software Robots (called Bots/Bot) which are disrupting the legacy procurement processes involving human interface.

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). The software planning footprints are reminiscent of the work done in the 1990s when we struggled with insufficient memory using 32-bit hardware. The groups of supply planning, procurement and logistics operate within silos. History of E2open.

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Procurement Terminology is a Mess!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Hey Procurement! From one Procurement organization to the next, terminology differs. Procurement is a function, that is undergoing transformation; technologically and ideologically. RFPs become RFSs (Requests for Solution), and people speak less about TCO and more about TVO (Total Value of Ownership). Subscribe Here!