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Better ESG Performance Will Unlock Fashion’s Supply Chain Resilience in 2022

Logility

Reporting will need to reveal such information as total volume of material produced, carbon emissions, water consumption and pollution, chemical usage, storage, and disposal practices, median wages, and measures for responsible company conduct embedded in policies and management systems. Supplier collaboration.

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Rating Sustainability Performance: An Essential Business Metric

EcoVadis

Read on for more details about EcoVadis ratings in this interview (first published on the ING Wholesale Banking site): Rating Sustainability Performance: An Essential Business Metric. There are no restrictions; just register, answer the online questionnaire and documentation, share results, and improve! What areas does it cover?

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

There are several hold types, but in Oracle the setting ‘Hold all new purchasing documents’ stops the ability to release any new purchase orders to a specific supplier site. We do work in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, Mr. Bureau explained. “If For benchmarking metrics to be valid, they need to be based on a large sample.

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Don’t Perpetuate the Hoax of the Gartner Top 25

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, when the spreadsheet is sorted, a chemical company is stack-ranked against a retail player, and a high-tech company against a food distributor. Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. Leaders need to balance a portfolio of metrics. Why Do I Think This? .

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Control Towers: If Only There Was A Clear Definition

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus is on functional metrics, but are unable to get to overall supply chain metrics. I was luck enough to get to take this class twice, and it was one of the most profound courses that I took in chemical engineering school. Pictures, images, text, email, sentiment, contracts, documents are all areas of opportunity.

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

Herman Woltjes, Shell Chemicals – “Logistics Execution”. Specifically, the company deployed a Vendor Interaction Portal (VIP) powered by Elemica to exchange documents like purchase orders and invoices with suppliers (for direct procurement). Ralf Kahre and Patrick Gött, BASF – “End-to-End Business Process Management”.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?