NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Once again, the Drucker Institute has put together a list of the “Top 250 Best Managed Companies” , which was highlighted in the Wall Street Journal. For the record, the list of our “Top 10” companies in the supply management innovation category are as follows: 1. Microsoft. Alphabet Inc. Dell Technologies.

North Carolina 40

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

North Carolina State Poole College of Management recently produced this 28 page report entitled “ 2019 Supply Chain Data Quality and Governance Study ”. Because Procurement had started the earliest, they were at the eighth-grade level, while everyone else was at the third-grade level – and the goal was to get everyone to high school!

Data 130

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

By skipping long-term storage, companies can speed distribution by keeping products on the move. Third-party procurement. Your 3PL can procure boxes, nuts, bolts, and other consumable parts and materials, store and manage that inventory, and invoice you only for the parts you need, when you need them.

Warehousing 52

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Kanban Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2020

See, there’s a big difference between handling inbound logistics yourself and outsourcing it to a trusted North Carolina third-party logistics (3PL) provider that knows the manufacturing industry. This includes the procurement and delivery of the parts used to build the finished product. Third-party procurement.

3PL 98

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 12, 2024

based company were to assume direct ownership of Spirit as a means to restore more direct control of internal production processes, it would have to deal with the existing supply agreements that are supporting specific Airbus aircraft production needs.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Additionally, companies deal with ever-increasing compliance burdens, such as the recent Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) in the U.S. To date, Certa has reportedly helped its customers to onboard and monitor millions of companies across 120 countries supporting 41 languages.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In his current role, he is accountable for several strategic functions, including corporate engineering; capital and infrastructure strategy; corporate real estate; risk management; operations research and global procurement. He is a member of the company’s executive ESG committee, as well as a Board member of the Gilead Foundation.

Pharmaceutical 52

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

At the Coupa INSPIRE procurement conference in San Francisco this week, the Chief Procurement Officer of Coca Cola Consolidated, Patrick Hopkins, shared his views on the “4 Truths of Procurement”, and how he has operationalized his views through the deployment of Coupa procure to pay software. Data must be right.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 21, 2022

Individuals and companies suffering losses because of trusts were permitted to sue in federal court for triple damages. [2] In exchange, the company and its executives can receive full immunity from prosecution. The Antitrust Division can also file lawsuits to block anticompetitive mergers under the Clayton Act. No industry is immune.

Pharmaceutical 52

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

When it comes to warehousing, many companies eventually outgrow the “do it yourself” model and choose to hand the reins over to a third-party logistics (3PL) professional. By skipping long-term storage, companies can speed distribution by keeping products on the move. Third-party procurement. Some might surprise you. retailers).

Warehousing 52

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MARCH 3, 2014

So the Chief Procurement Officer approached Texas Instruments and HP Micro, producers of the best analog chips at the time, and brokered a deal in which TI and HP would collaborate to create a chip set for Nokia. In 2003, Nokia was in a lawsuit and could not use Qualcomm chips in their phones. If so, you’re not alone.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 22, 2017

With the sheer volume of data projected to increase tenfold by 2020, the procurement and supply chain function is no exception to challenge of assessing better ways to leverage this dramatic increase in both structured and un-structured data. How should companies get started on a data governance program?

Government 40

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 24, 2015

The challenge involves matching a group of bright, eager, and hungry young MBA and engineering students to a group of projects identified by a group of companies, through the now well-established Supply Chain Resource Cooperative in the Poole College of Management.

Procurement Analytics 60

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 30, 2013

These big companies, including Procter & Gamble, United Parcel Service, FedEx, and North Carolina based Lowes are all recognizing that the cost of natural gas has dropped to record lows, and is likely to stay there for some time to come. The company (owned by none other than T.

Sustainability 60

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This Ferrari Consulting and Research Group advisory brief provides added perspectives on premium personal fitness equipment and services provider Peloton Interactive , the litany of events that have surrounded the company, and some lessons acquired. In late December of 2020, the company announced the acquisition of U.S,

Sourcing Strategies 105

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 8, 2013

It isn’t easy to drive change in biotech companies for a number of reasons. With their external spend increasing so fast, there is great pressure on biotech companies to rethink how their sourcing structures are set up to add most value. Biogen Idec Inc. is showing how this can happen in the biotech sector.

Manufacturing Procurement 68

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. Steamship companies will dedicate vessels that permanently go eastbound and westbound. This is impacting how you think about managing the network, and in procurement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Workers from picking and packing to planning and procurement are in short supply, stimulating interest in increasing productivity of the existing workforce. One trend is AI moving from “artisanal to industrial,” as companies adopt platforms with the capabilities they need already built in.

Supply Chain Planning Software 231

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. This is also another example of how the lines between 3PLs and technology companies continue to blur.

Optimal Sourcing 100

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 17, 2017

companies,” the Wall Street Journal reported. companies,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Read the full report at The Wall Street Journal – [link] Additional links: Methodology for the Management Top 250 Company Rankings ( [link] ) and the Drucker Institute’s website [link].

North Carolina 40

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2018

In the NC State Supply Chain Resource Cooperative , supply chain projects occur at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and are organized around focused deliverables related to our partner company supply chain issues and challenges. And everyone I know has issues and challenges with their supply chains!

Vendor Strategies 40

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Every year about this time, the Wall Street Journal reveals its list of the Management Top 250 firms , which lists America’s Best-Run Companies. The announcement, which appeared in today’s WSJ, identifies some of the top companies, with Amazon ranked at #1, followed by Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, and Cisco.

North Carolina 15

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 9, 2015

Duke Energy’s roots lied in seeking to harness the power of the Catawba River to create a reliable energy system that could be used to support the textile companies. For the average customer in North Carolina, he or she pays about $3 a day for electricity. No energy company is without fault. Second is innovation.

North Carolina 60

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. As Companies Expand Globally, So Will the Level of Operational Complexity.

Predictive Analytics 117

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. For example, there are around 200 startups for procurement analytics.

Data 52

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Kanban Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

To save a good chunk of this time – and money – many manufacturers utilize the custom kitting services of third-party logistics (3PL) companies. For most companies, the answer is simply “too long” (aka “too costly”) and that is not to mention wasted time due to errors, lost or misplaced parts, and/or general disarray due to volume.

3PL 52

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2022

Experts from North Carolina State University and GEP conducted a survey on supply chain, procurement and IT leaders to determine their challenges and priorities, focusing on examining gaps in the supply chain. At GEP, he leads product marketing for the company’s AI-enabled supply chain solutions.

Supply Chain Planning Software 208

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins MBA program in 2006, Joydeep Ganguly has risen through the ranks at Biogen Idec – the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company and the largest biotech employer in North Carolina. We have 7000 employees and are growing into a$10B company. which is a 90 day process.

Supply Chain Design Software 60

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Kanban Logistics

JULY 23, 2020

Walk into the manufacturing sites of many large companies and you’ll observe a finely tuned inbound logistics operation, with parts and raw materials arriving at the factory for that day’s production requirements. Check out this case study on our manufacturing logistics support for an aerospace company.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Yet many of these manufacturers now face a challenge in accessing the clean energy they want and need, due to state policies that limit corporate renewable energy procurement. A new report, “ The Growing Demand for Renewable Energy Among Major U.S. A new report, “ The Growing Demand for Renewable Energy Among Major U.S.

Manufacturing Procurement 81

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 14, 2020

This included the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), the Institute for Supply Management (ISM ), the International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM) , and Supply Chain Canada (SCMA). We believe this to be the largest continuous study on this subject.

Government 10

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia sit squarely in the storm’s path. As shown in Figure 1, most companies know the geographical location for their first tier suppliers, but only 37% know the location of second and third tier providers. Thirty percent of companies have supplier development groups.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We were surprised to find that many states with the highest Location Quotients were not states that are typically associated with the biofuels economy, including Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Maine, and others. So many stories of failure were due to the lack of this experience.

Manufacturing Procurement 60

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

These 36 innovative companies have figured out how to hack their operations, gaining some financial or media recognition for their methods. In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster.

Supply Chain Design Software 45

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2016

Although the research focused on the process industry, the content and recommendations we make apply to companies across all industries that want to make their supply chains more flexible and responsive. When it comes to supply chain management, however, many companies are far from achieving that swing.

Supply Chain Design Software 100

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Kanban Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Aerospace and defense companies must adhere to the most exacting quality standards in order to ensure the safety and performance of their products. When these companies need to turn to a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, it’s imperative that the 3PL is held to similar standards. Parts Procurement.

Aerospace 52

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EC Sourcing Group

APRIL 7, 2020

The current Corona virus pandemic will impact the supply chain of virtually every company. This short list is not in order since the risk will be different for each company regardless of the type of supplier. Companies that have had issues meeting delivery and/or quality requirements . Expect shortages. A high-level roadmap. .

Material Savings 52

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