Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 14, 2013

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. Metrics comparison of Kellogg Co. One that is going to eat you up! You got it! vs. General Mills, Inc. A Case Study.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

A slight change within a function–in sourcing or manufacturing, or along the chain–can greatly impact the outcomes of cost, customer service, or working capital. Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. Let’s take a closer look at sourcing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For this blog post, never mind the comparison. Buying strategies need to be defined, and the interface needs to be bi-directional. Over the last decade, most of the focus in supply management was on indirect sourcing. This exceeds the 55% previously reported in the Supply Chain Insights surveys. The trend is clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Table 2: Gartner Top 25 Comparison to Peer Group Results As large manufacturers work the conference circuit in the industry to increase brand awareness for their supply chain efforts, they feed the perception that their stories demonstrate supply chain leadership. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.)

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. Whichever reasons fuel the motivations of your target market, here are the top trends shaping how they’ll buy – and how you can stay front of mind and ahead of the competition. Data source: eMarketer. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. I lost track of how many carrots we had and ended up buying more when we really didn’t need any. In a make to stock environment, if I have a 6 month cumulative lead time, my forecast is being used to buy inventory today for something I’m going to sell in 6 months.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. eAuctions technology can reduce the cost of purchasing products and services by up to 20%. eAuctions save money in comparison to a regular BAFO tendering process.

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Jaggaer

MAY 8, 2025

She works with supply chain leaders to take teams to higher levels of excellence and is an influencer with more than 340,000 followers on LinkedIn. How often do your purchase orders change? For example, if your supplier is on wafer-thin margins, it may be bulk purchasing in order to reduce costs, leaving it with excess stock.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. Apparel Performance and Improvement Comparison.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. A simplistic view is that supply chain excellence is the trade-off of cost, inventory and customer service. The River of Demand. #3

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

SCMDOJO Procurement Track The Procurement Track is a comprehensive program that equips individuals with the in-demand skills and expertise to excel in procurement and supply chain management. The content focuses on practical skills development and career advancement across various procurement disciplines.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. It is a comparison of business pain for the past five years and future five years. Buying patterns are changing quickly, and the insights are multi-dimensional.

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Precoro

JUNE 6, 2022

Suppliers can provide raw materials for manufacturing products or act as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the buying company. Acting as the last link selling products or services directly to the end customers – companies or individuals – the vendor receives a fee from the customer for sourcing the product tailored to his needs.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. If so it may be impossible to conduct an apples-to-apples comparison. When analyzing freight spend, the devil is in the details.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

The inherent buying patterns of consumers are also changing. Purchases in the center store of the grocery store are in decline, and apparel tastes are shifting. Too few companies have the discipline to measure Forecast Value Add–comparison to the naive forecast–and drive improvement. Simply put, it is expensive.

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Kinaxis

JULY 19, 2016

They expect to be able to make purchases and receive service in that same lightening quick timeframe. Supply chains are complex, they involve vast amounts of data from different sources, and there are hundreds or more variables involved in every decision. Easy Scenario Comparisons.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When the appropriate tools are in place for managing uncertainty and ensuring accessibility, institutions have excellent chances to continually generate productivity improvements, increase customer satisfaction and improve financial performance. The ideal sourcing location will be a balance in terms of cost, quality and logistics cost.

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Multichannel selling allows customers to shop and purchase through whichever channel they prefer. Each channel offers a separate opportunity to interact with the brand and make purchases. When businesses are looking to buy from other businesses, the B2B model comes into play. What is multichannel selling? What is B2B eCommerce?

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HICX Solutions

MAY 13, 2020

“No one ever got fired for buying IBM,” so the saying goes, meaning it’s generally safer to go with a household name when you’re in the market for new technology. And given the speed of technological development, is buying a procurement suite really the ‘safe’ option today?

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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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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. As was the case last year, the 2012 holiday buying season will be very much about the continued leveraging power of consumers in exercising multi-channel buying preferences and technology-enabled online tools.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. This commentary is an interim follow-up to this authors previous Infosys Limited guest commentary: Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity. Customer Service.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 18, 2019

It covers how Biogen is rethinking how it approaches supplier discovery and how granularly we understand, clean sheet, and cost model the items we’re buying. Imagine if you could include every single supplier possible in the bidding process to get an apples-to-apples comparison on critical criteria. The Power of Big Data Analytics.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

The enablers are physical and digital automation at their DCs as well as Solvoyo’s autonomous decision-making platform that manages their forecasting, inventory management, replenishment, and purchase orders. While we know of many other clients and prospects who are trying to perform what-if simulations using Excel spreadsheets.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

It goes beyond just maximizing the overall supply chain performance in terms of material delivery excellence. Having a single system in place which gives accurate inputs about what’s going where across the entire factory floor, can help manufacturers reduce dependencies on external purchase orders or forecasts to make supply chain decisions.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

The enablers are physical and digital automation at their DCs as well as Solvoyo’s autonomous decision-making platform that manages their forecasting, inventory management, replenishment, and purchase orders. While we know of many other clients and prospects who are trying to perform what-if simulations using Excel spreadsheets.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 2, 2020

It goes beyond just maximizing the overall supply chain performance in terms of material delivery excellence. Having a single system in place which gives accurate inputs about what’s going where across the entire factory floor, can help manufacturers reduce dependencies on external purchase orders or forecasts to make supply chain decisions.

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Claritum

JULY 31, 2018

This could mean that the supplier has been identified by a user and added to the system in anticipation of making a purchase or it could be that the Procurement team has added a supplier target to the list of suppliers. For example is it a one off purchase, is it for items of very low value or is it an ongoing catalog item. Evaluation.

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RELEX Solutions

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Price comparisons are ever easier to make. However, today’s consumers might choose to buy staples from a LAD (dried pasta, tinned tomatoes, bagged salad for instance) and more specialized items (e.g. Keeping products that no-one wants to buy on the shelves just for the sake of availability always pushes up spoilage.

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Proxima

MAY 31, 2019

The value equation is therefore no longer a simple a cost vs. quality comparison but has become increasingly complex as the number of variables multiplies. In this respect, the Government Commercial Function’s role in sharing best practices and building coordinated strategies and approaches offers an excellent foundation for success.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With so many changing variables, excel sheets or human intervention alone can’t gain the level of visibility needed to forecast the future. Leveraging AI for demand forecasting means: You can analyze any amount of historical data and current trends from external sources to predict future demands more accurately. The solution?

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ThroughPut

MAY 16, 2024

Note that supply chain optimization goes beyond just maximizing the overall supply chain performance in terms of material delivery excellence. By sourcing materials from eco-friendly suppliers, companies can further reduce their carbon footprint. What Does Supply Chain Optimization Involve?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Velocity is imperative : Supply chain distances and times have increased a great deal (more in some corners of the world than others), and so have the challenges involved in getting fresh produce from source to destination before spoilage renders it unsalable. Sanitary practices must be maintained from source to shelf.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

This keeps them from creating smooth, synchronized and responsive supply chain plans to achieve the desired operational excellence. – How can an appropriate gap analysis be performed which involves performance reporting, identification, cost + benefit analysis and final comparison? Sales Planning. into the final plan?

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ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

This keeps them from creating smooth, synchronized and responsive supply chain plans to achieve the desired operational excellence. – How can an appropriate gap analysis be performed which involves performance reporting, identification, cost + benefit analysis and final comparison? Sales Planning. into the final plan?

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

From raw materials sourcing to warehouse operations , logistics technology , order fulfillment and beyond, there are dozens of points throughout the supply chain, all of which contribute to overall supply chain efficiency. If you want to optimize your supply chain, the way to do it best isn’t to buy some fancy new machine.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 6, 2014

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Low Entry Cost / Capital Cost Saving With cloud based offerings, companies opt for a pay-per-use model, where they need not buy licenses in bulk, but migrate to a subscription based model. Business Process Outsourcing.

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