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RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit

Synovos

RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 8 AUGUST 2023 – Costanza Campi, Senior Vice President of Global Procurement for RS Integrated Supply, has been selected to present at the upcoming World Procurement Excellence Summit in Cologne, Germany.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus is on the platform; in each presentation, the company struggles to answer the question, “What problem do you solve? At the event, presentation after presentation focused on improving engines. Demand latency is the time to translate the purchase in the channel to an order.) And, why should a business leader care?”

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

Allyson Hatfield, demand planner at MARS Petcare presented. In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. Allyson’s presentation was just that.

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. The audience assumes that the presenting company is outperforming. For example, Monster Beverages beats Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Celanese outperforms Dow Chemical.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Or agreement on the definition of supply chain excellence. As a result, functional excellence anchors action. The focus is on digitization—automating today’s processes—versus rethinking process excellence based on the art of the possible. In the chemical industry, the boon was the falling price of oil. The problem?

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Yowza! A Nine-Step Decision Process to Help Guide Supply Chain Planning Selection

Supply Chain Shaman

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

Several customers addressed those questions in excellent case study presentations: Dr. Bernhard Herzog, Oxea GmbH – “Business Impact of a Supply Chain Operating Network”. Herman Woltjes, Shell Chemicals – “Logistics Execution”. Ralf Kahre and Patrick Gött, BASF – “End-to-End Business Process Management”.