ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Below, we list a few high-level actions to get you started: Establish a strategy to generate reliable Scope 3 emission data based on categories and spend. You need emission data that will allow category managers and buyers to report emissions tied to their organization’s purchasing activity at a category or product level.

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ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Below, we list a few high-level actions to get you started: Establish a strategy to generate reliable Scope 3 emission data based on categories and spend. You need emission data that will allow category managers and buyers to report emissions tied to their organization’s purchasing activity at a category or product level.

Procurement Analytics 130

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BlueYonder

MARCH 14, 2017

In the past, assortment decisions were simpler: category managers had fewer product variations to consider (i.e., To make the right strategic and tactical decisions, retailers need to leverage consumer analytics to understand which customers are shopping and how their behaviors are impacting sales in each category.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the report, you will find capabilities across five categories: technologies, competencies, frameworks, operating model strategies, and organizational models. Gartner mentions us as a Sample Vendor in two categories: Network Design and Prescriptive Analytics. What to prioritize. Where does AIMMS fit in the Hype Cycle? Network Design.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Evo acquisition is part of an ongoing strategic plan to ensure that ToolsGroup remains the category leader at delivering strategic solutions and unlocking new value for customers.” Resources Learn more about this exciting partnership HERE.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 15, 2013

Developed by a Harvard Business school academic, Michael Porter, in his seminal book Competitive Strategy , published in 1980, the framework has proven to be one of the most important tools in the category management toolbox. Availability of key technologies or other resources. The five forces are: 1. Industry capacity utilization.

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ivalua

APRIL 13, 2021

Digitize to enable effective collaboration across more suppliers and categories. Efficient communication, the ability to securely share information and project manage efforts are all key to scaling collaboration across more processes, suppliers & categories. Manage categories like a financial portfolio.

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BlueYonder

JULY 2, 2013

To explore these questions, I reviewed a recently published paper by Gordon Wade, Managing Partner and Director of Best Practices for the Category Management Association. The paper, titled, “Category Management Mastery: The Key to Growth!” Four Step Category Management. The digital empowerment of shoppers.

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Logility

MARCH 31, 2023

The key to outsmarting supply chain risks is assessing them within the categories they fit and planning responses with network-wide visibility, information gathering, and predictive and prescriptive analytics. Most supply chains face disruptions and delays unlike anything experienced three months ago – let alone three years ago.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Large swings in supply and demand for different product categories and changes in distribution patterns left logistics managers grappling with the biggest challenge of their careers. Companies are able to allocate resources more efficiently.

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ivalua

JUNE 14, 2023

It is important to support this workstream through a team of key individuals: Sponsor: A high-level executive who champions the procurement application implementation, the sponsor provides critical support, resources, and influence. Download Today!

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 9, 2018

Company resources and internal mentors also have to be present to guide participants, and lastly, value must be drawn not just from the end results, but the competition process itself. The largest social vote was for a project focusing on making healthcare more accessible to all via better resource planning. And the winners are… .

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Unleashed

JANUARY 8, 2024

Procurement management is particularly beneficial to smaller companies that operate with restrictive budgets and limited resources. Their primary goal is to determine the best ways of reducing procurement costs to provide the business with more resources to invest in its growth and resources.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 26, 2023

Category management is a procurement strategy that involves grouping similar products or services together into categories and managing them as a single unit. In this guide, we’ll explore the key principles of category management and how it can benefit your organization. Read More: What Does a Procurement Manager Do?

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ivalua

JUNE 15, 2022

Körber must also develop and implement category strategies at a corporate and local level, with autonomy and flexibility granted to the Strategic Business Units (SBU’s). Reducing resourcing on non-value-added tasks will free time and energy to develop and implement successful supply chain strategies.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

At the end of this blog, we will also be linking a couple resources of reading material to aid your journey of procurement training as well as best practice templates and dashboards to help improve your procurement processes as a working professional in the field. What is the category management in procurement? What is important?

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

[Read More: Top 16 Procurement KPIs – The Ultimate Guide ] Key Takeaways The procurement department is critical to an organization, obtaining quality goods and services at competitive prices while ensuring the organization’s resources are needed to succeed. Developing exit strategies for unsuccessful products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2022

In the process, I expect robotics suppliers to obtain labor resources from adjacent or similar markets to support their growth. I see flexibility as a common thread across the various categories of mobile warehouse robotics. I recently completed ARC Advisory Group’s research on the mobile warehouse robotics market.

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Pivot88

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This includes impacts associated with resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, usage, and end-of-life treatment. The PEF considers a variety of impact categories like climate change, ozone depletion, water depletion, land use, and many others. Each category will assess a specific type of environmental damage.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Packaging by Category Different inventory categories require specific packaging solutions. Adapting to rapidly changing consumer preferences requires constant innovation, which can strain resources across a manufacturer’s ecosystem. The Road Ahead Despite the progress made, challenges persist.

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Logility

AUGUST 4, 2022

Burt Flickinger, managing director for Strategic Resource Group, told CBS News he’d seen the biggest discounts across “consumer electronics, sporting goods, apparel, clothes, and accessories.”. One example: egg prices are up 56% , according to the Department of Agriculture, driven up by drought, a bird flu epidemic and the war in Ukraine.

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Logility

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Governance ensures you have the correct resources and capabilities there when you need them. It coordinates the way financial, material, and human resources are earmarked within the flow and the framework for decision-making. . Mechanisms for governance can include contracts, standards, mechanisms for reporting, and social bonds.

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Logility

JUNE 10, 2020

Maintaining their market advantage came at the cost of great complexity – with more than 80,000 individual items for sale at any one time across nearly 150 retail outlets, monitoring individual performance across categories and regions, tracking trends and preparing clear, useful and timely reports were nearly impossible tasks.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Efficiently and effectively managing your supply chain starts with a good forecast, because you need to know what customers will order so you can ensure you have adequate raw materials, manufacturing capacity, and distribution resources. “We At first, you might think that your forecasting process is equally effective for each category.

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Logility

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Across the fashion industry, brands debate whether it’s best to track the journey of materials across product lines or trace the chain of custody on a specific product category. In the meantime, marketing, merchandising and legal teams are interested in the origin of a product or category.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 20, 2023

Other roles within the procurement department may include procurement specialists, who focus on specific categories of goods or services, and procurement coordinators, who assist with administrative tasks such as processing purchase orders and invoices.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 10, 2023

BGSA is known for its work helping companies achieve outsized returns via targeted acquisitions and premium sales processes, and has worked with category leaders such as UPS, DHL, Agility Logistics, New Breed, NFI, Genco, Nations Express, Raytrans, and others.

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EC Sourcing Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

Besides cost-effectiveness, you want to keep time restrictions, quality, and resources in mind. A cost spend analysis reviews your largest spend categories, and the suppliers within those categories. Use Category Risk Analysis. Another ‘must have’ feature is the ability to run a category risk analysis.

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E2open

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This year, the company augmented GHG calculations for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions with the addition of Scope 3 emission calculations in several categories. Optimization in each of these areas translates to not just cost savings, but also reduced waste, emissions, and conservation of natural resources.

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Exiger Perspectives

APRIL 11, 2023

Our first episode is the comprehensive Introduction to SCRM and covers the following topics: Importance of SCRM Definition and evolution of supply chain and supply chain risk What entities make up a supplier ecosystem Building blocks of a SCRM program Common pitfalls to avoid Different risk categories of an effective and impactful SCRM program Timing (..)

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While these technologies may not be fully embraced by every retailer immediately, there are a few areas that every retailer seems to be actively working on: Category Management, Forecasting & Replenishment, and Workforce Management.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 27, 2024

Savings through Product Mix Optimization A European retail company that has been operational for the last 65 years has operations spread across 100 stores and warehouses with 15000+ products in multiple categories. It would also mean hiring new resources competent in this new-age skill.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 2, 2023

There are two arguments for sharing services: [2] The ‘ less of a common resource’ argument and the ‘ efficiency through industrialization’ argument. The former is ‘obvious’: if you have fewer managers, IT systems, buildings etc; you are using fewer resources, which will reduce costs.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 14, 2020

And like last year, the ratings put forth by the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative remain an instrumental component of the ratings, and are the only two major indicators used in the rankings for assessing the strength and maturity of the company ratings as it relates to its supply chain performance. Microsoft. Alphabet Inc. NXP Semiconductor.

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Elementum

AUGUST 31, 2022

The supply chain management process is comprised of a number of steps, which can usually be organized into five categories: Planning and forecasting Sourcing and procurement Manufacturing Logistics Handling returns As demonstrated by the recent food supply chain issues , a failure in one area can lead to disaster.

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SupplyShift

JANUARY 6, 2023

Circularity means that the resources we use to create products get reused at end of life, so that new products are made with existing materials. Leave waste recovery and product design to other teams, and focus where you can have impact: Establish clear goals on materials for each category.

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