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2023 Ivalua NOW Nashville: Recap + Photos!

ivalua

Guest Keynotes Nadia Malek,CPA , Desjardins delivered an incredible presentation, explaining that as procurement shifts from its cost-driven origins to a more strategic function, timing becomes a crucial factor. “As With its strategic advantage, procurement is poised to be the driving engine in our collective journey towards success!

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Water levels falling in the Rhine, the Loire, and the Colorado River. Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. Definition of groupthink A pattern of thought characterized by self-deception, forced manufacture of consent, and conformity to group values and ethics Wikipedia. My take away?

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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #8: Keeping supply chain information in silos (and preventing your users from making the best decisions)

Kinaxis

Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Some companies prevent access to data to prevent trade secrets (or in the case of US military manufacturers ITAR regulations prevent foreign nationals from accessing manufacturing data).

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Relatively Cautious Global Production and Supply Chain Indices for February 2022

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. The IHS Markit Manufacturing PMI™ reported a value of 57.3

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You Are a “Green” Superhero

Logility

Just to level set, the Brundtland Commission defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” In fact, living in beautiful Colorado I often find myself surrounded by and admiring nature. See the connections?

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Featuring Our Top 16 Human Resources Articles!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Certainly there are those who needed to still work in physical facilities such as manufacturing and warehousing. This has presented new challenges now and in the future and created a fundamental paradigm shift in where and how work will be conducted. I spent time in Colorado and developed a passion for mountain climbing.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Dale Rogers, a business professor at Arizona State, gave a presentation with his son Zachary Rogers, a business professor at Colorado State, during which they said that winter-holiday returns in the United States are now worth more than $300 billion a year. “So Workers sorted units by model and year of manufacture.