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Sourcing and Procurement: One but Not the Same

Precoro

This month, we continue our Procurement Basics series and would like to introduce our readers to yet another set of often misused business terminology. As both sourcing and procurement are related to obtaining supplies for the organization, confusing these two terms is easy. Procurement. What Is Procurement Process?

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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

I know that your primary focus is procurement. Is a comparison of COV of channel demand versus orders sufficient? Or a similar comparison of customer orders or planned orders? Or planned orders to purchase orders?) The data encapsulated in Table 1 represents two years of testing with APS providers. I think so.

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

PWC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey reports that 83% of manufacturers say that supply chain technologies have not delivered the expected results. For this blog post, never mind the comparison. When he speaks of the supply chain, he means procurement. Let’s not quibble on the percentages. The trend is clear.

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Outside-in Process Q&A

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, in manufacturing, the shift in focus is away from OEE to focus on first pass yield and schedule adherence.) Most supply chain planning deployments cannot use channel data because the model is a “Ship from model” not a “Ship to engine.” ” In Figure 2, I share the difference: Figure 2.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. On September 30, the big data company Palantir went public in an initial 22B$ market valuation. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud.

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers. The analysis is biased toward large process-based manufacturers in the Gartner network. Is this success? I don’t think so. Learning Stalled.

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August 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices- Declining Momentum Accelerating

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides our commentary and perspectives on published monthly global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. In our summary and perspectives focused on July 2022 reporting , we opined that July data reinforced a trending toward declining global supply chain production momentum. The August 2022 J.P.