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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. Likewise, data scientists are long on the understanding of software approaches but short on understanding the business. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. They are just too risky. Talent Demand.

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Finished Goods Inventory: Definition & Formula

Unleashed

In accounting, finished goods inventory is the specific number of inventory or manufactured items that you currently have in stock available for customers to purchase. Step 1: Raw materials procurement One of the first activities of a manufacturing business is to obtain the raw materials needed to produce a finished good.

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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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How Bright Peak Therapeutics Built their Procurement Process from the Ground Up

Precoro

Jeremy Beauchamp , operations manager at Bright Peak Therapeutics, has kindly agreed to share his team’s experience setting up a procurement management process from scratch using Precoro. Bright Peak’s Procurement Background. As a new start-up, Bright Peak didn’t have a procurement system in place.

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How to Manage Supply Chain Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Walmart to Tesla to ThroughPut Inc

ThroughPut

Few people would have foreseen the day where software like Microsoft Teams, Azure Cloud, Office365, and others, would ensure business continuity from widespread, secure, remote connectivity once we could no longer be at the frontlines in Milan due to most recent Italian border restrictions. Let’s think about it in terms of statistical norms.

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How to Manage Supply Chain Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic: From WalMart to Tesla to ThroughPut Inc

ThroughPut

Few people would have foreseen the day where software like Microsoft Teams, Azure Cloud, Office365, and others, would ensure business continuity from widespread, secure, remote connectivity once we could no longer be at the frontlines in Milan due to most recent Italian border restrictions. Let’s think about it in terms of statistical norms.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

View the full post or view the snippet below: I was talking to a director of demand planning for a big chemical company at a trade show a few months ago. After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. Read More ».