OptiProERP

JANUARY 7, 2020

This blog is part of a three-part series on how cloud ERP enables manufacturers to achieve operational excellence. These topics and more are covered in our Achieve Manufacturing Excellence with Cloud ERP: A Practical Guide for Small and Midsize Manufacturers. Manufacturers and distributors live or die by real-time data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error. The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They excel in the four Ps of marketing. In contrast, a market-driven organization connects bidirectionally market-to-market to orchestrate the signals to shape demand and mitigate risk (buy-side to sell-side and back). We have built transactional buying relationships. Charlene wrote the report [link]. Absolutely!

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

On the other hand, if merchants make their money being outstanding at the art of understanding consumer buying behavior, they might actually prefer their “support organizations” to manage the analytics. Further, they often need to know the same information from other sources (merchandising, marketing, etc.)

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

On the other hand, if merchants make their money being outstanding at the art of understanding consumer buying behavior, they might actually prefer their “support organizations” to manage the analytics. Further, they often need to know the same information from other sources (merchandising, marketing, etc.)

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

With millions of people wanting to buy goods from IKEA, it doesn’t take much to understand the amount of energy being used or the amount of natural resources that are having to be pulled from the environment to keep up with demands. Product demand has a lot to do with creating environmental issues in the manufacturing industry.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia. Others argue the demise of global sourcing; might I add caution? My response is “Hogwash.” By definition, this requires a global supply chain. A Need to Rethink Work.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain. In this 2-part Supply chain strategy post , the Managing Director at Solventure – Bram Desmet, discusses the key elements of an excellent supply chain. So, as I sit down to write this blog, I wonder what are some of the things that make supply chains excellent? Please subscribe here.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Spend analysis is a crucial part of the broader business practice of spend management because a clear picture of the company's expenditures is essential for fact-based decisions in strategic sourcing and supplier management. If the answer to any of them points to problems, it might be time to explore other sourcing options.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

After all, actual users are best-positioned to provide an unbiased report on how ERP features can be harnessed for real-world competitive advantages. Running our pricing accurately was a huge problem… it is fairly easy now, and further use of reporting features will help with this. That’s tougher. It is providing many positive results.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 26, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. A growing core of what the Financial Times recently described as " belief system " companies have concurred that sustainability practices add to positive customer buying perceptions as well as bottom-line results.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

A report proposing three system solutions that could reshape the industry and set the clean energy technology sector on a path to sustainability. Read the short version of this report on Medium. Chapter 2 of this report outlines some of the barriers observed to play a prohibitive role to transparency for REE mining and processing.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), reports American warehouses have a disproportionately high accident rate compared to other employment sectors. These injuries were required by law to be reported, but they didn’t result in significant treatment or downtime.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. The slideshow that follows, then, is our coverage of Gartner’s rankings, which includes both comments from Gartner’s analysts as well as our own analysis, based on independent reporting.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 6, 2013

Some, like Disney and Nike, have announced that they simply won’t buy any apparel produced in Bangladesh. Viewed from the stoic perspective of supply chain excellence, the idea of getting orders completed on time in full is of course familiar to all students of the profession. But is that really the right solution?

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), reports American warehouses have a disproportionately high accident rate compared to other employment sectors. These injuries were required by law to be reported, but they didn’t result in significant treatment or downtime.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

“Currently, the biggest challenge for supply chain managers is…” Keeping up with consumers and their buying behaviors. Lu Siqi Lu Siqi is a Supply Chain Manager at SK Chemical in Shanghai. She is now an Editor at Aggregage for the site Supply Chain Brief. Have backups to your backups. New hardware technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

This includes companies like BASF, Clorox, Eastman Chemical, J&J, Kimberly-Clark, Mondelez, Nestle, P&G, and Unilever. Each are good at localized planning within a focused area of demand, supply, network design, transportation planning, material sourcing or finite scheduling. Buying From the Same Vendor Improves Integration.

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