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Unlocking Success: Why Strategic Sourcing Is Important for Your Company

Precoro

To enhance their competitive edge, companies across industries are adopting a key tactic: strategic sourcing. Strategic sourcing is a holistic approach to supply chain management that includes tactics for optimizing the total cost of ownership, improving supplier relationships, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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What Does Good Look Like S&OP?

Supply Chain Shaman

Clear operating strategy and definition of supply chain excellence across plan, source, make and deliver. I like the use of growth, margin, inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital, customer service and ESG metrics. Holistic design of the form and function of inventory with a focus on setting inventory targets for each flow.

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Sourcing and Procurement: One but Not the Same

Precoro

As both sourcing and procurement are related to obtaining supplies for the organization, confusing these two terms is easy. Understanding their distinction can help you ensure the coordination between the responsible teams and adopt the right strategies for improving both sourcing and procurement. Procurement. Contains fewer steps.

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The Top Floor to Shop Floor Production Planning Handoff is Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Increasingly it is recognized that the executive planning meetings, that typically take place once a month, should be chaired by a top floor executive – a chief financial officer, chief operations officer, or even chief executive officer. Meanwhile, inventory optimization and production scheduling are more of a black box.

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

ABC Analysis for Inventory Planning : Clustering products that behave similarly highlights issues, challenges, and opportunities for serving customers better. Comparison of these profiles then gives us store clusters with similar demand, and based on these insights, assortment plans can be developed to address the difference.

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S&OP is Helping Food and Beverage Executives Sleep Better at Night

Logility

You can align high-level business planning with detailed product forecasting to boost service levels, shorten cycle times, reduce inventory investment, and minimize obsolescence. By optimizing resources, you can minimize total supply costs while meeting consumer demand requirements. Improved customer satisfaction.

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Retail Returns: The Key to Driving Business Growth

ToolsGroup

Returns come with plenty of challenges around logistics, inventory, and predicting volatile sales trends. Reports indicate that returns are higher when products are sold online, with an average return rate of 30% for ecommerce purchases, in comparison with 10% for brick-and-mortar sales. According to the U.S.

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