Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 10, 2013

Jason Busch from Spend Matters gave another great speech at the Coupa INSPIRE conference in San Francisco which I attended last week. Spend Matters has grown to be a big part of the procurement landscape. Jason made a joke at the conference that everyone found very funny from the outset. Look where it is today!

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ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

Recently I attended a conference for Strategic Sourcing in the medical device manufacturing sector. About 60 Procurement Managers, Directors, and Executives attended from top medical device manufacturing companies. The latter is of particular importance since second sourcing can often be very expensive in this sector.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Brexit is the same as 28 divorces”, explained Gartner analyst Tom Enright in a packed auditorium during a recent conference in London. To illustrate his point, he used the example of a purchaser at an Italian company that mainly sources semi-finished products from France. He predicted that Brexit will spell disaster for supply chains.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.”

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Talking Logistics

JULY 25, 2018

I haven’t attended an industry conference over the past year, or participated in a client meeting, where blockchain — along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — hasn’t been part of the conversation. Source: IBM. Source: IBM).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In supply chain strategy documents, terms like alignment, agility, responsiveness, and flexibility dot the page. In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. How can we move forward if we cannot align? At a principle level, everyone agrees with the concepts. The goal was efficiency.

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Precoro

JANUARY 15, 2024

Every procurement professional faces a time when they have to make a purchase in unfamiliar territory. Alternatively, when an organization embarks on a new project, procurement managers are tasked with finding the ideal supplier that aligns with the project’s requirements. That’s when RFQs and RFPs come into play.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2015

It’s also a big reason why SAP and Descartes formally announced their partnership this morning focused on TMS connectivity (attendees of Descartes’ user conference last month were given a sneak peak of this announcement). Where to Find Supply Chain Innovation (Source: Adelante SCM). Where to Find Supply Chain Innovation.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This can include freight forwarding and documentation management. Compliance and documentation: Ensuring that all legal and regulatory requirements are met. This is particularly crucial in international shipping, where customs documentation and compliance with import and export regulations are essential.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

As an analyst, when technology providers acquire and divest companies, I get invited to pre-announcement conferences. The goal is deeper analytics to sense and respond across make, source and deliver. The traditional EDI approach inserts a day latency to open and read documents. The transaction closes in 45 days.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 9, 2015

Energy requires a constant flow from a source, but there are not yet batteries big enough to store the power from a wind farm – and what happens when the wind stops blowing or the sun stops shining on a cold winter day if that is your source of power? The last point was on Leadership in our environment and in our communities.

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Precoro

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Confer with cross-functional and end users throughout the implementation process to ensure that each department's concerns are addressed early on. Examine source systems for outdated information, redundancies, and inconsistencies, and decide what you want to migrate. Define Key Requirements and KPIs. Testing ERP system functions.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Contract analytics can provide a summary view on performance and pricing deviations, risks, statistics (expiry, renewal and pending), procurement and sales metrics. The tool also helped support a well-documented statement of work, and ensured that the right regulatory requirements and questions were being addressed in the contract.

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Supply Chain Network

MAY 23, 2012

The acquisition will also significantly boost SAP’s cloud applications portfolio with the addition of Ariba’s leading cloud-based procurement solutions. Industry experts estimate the cloud-based enterprise network and procurement segment at a current size of $5 billion in revenue. Financial Analyst and Media Conference Call.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing. The most interesting thing that Blue Yonder is doing from an OMS standpoint is driving promising and pre-sourcing to retailers.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

What can you do when you have a supplier who knowingly ships a contaminated product ( the infamous “Just ship it” email ) and falsifies documents? Now more than ever, suppliers have their own suppliers, and it can be difficult to follow the supply chain back all the way in order to manage, let alone identify, the original source.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

In fact, speakers at the December 2014 BIO conference noted that the level of VC funding was at a 4-year low! Plant construction must be carefully managed to control costs, especially with engineering procurement construction supplier contracts. What will be required to attract investors to this market?

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 26, 2015

The procurement manager provides customer service support to DaVita employees for the purchase of products and services used in dialysis facilities and in business offices. Negotiate and arrange with contracted IT firm & DaVita operation, the internal coding system, stock keeping & dispensing flow mechanisms & documentation.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 8, 2018

The 100 Best Corporate Citizens list documents 260 data points of disclosure and performance measures in seven categories: environment, climate change, employee relations, human rights, governance, finance, and philanthropy & community support. . . Also in 2017, 76% of the company’s 10 priority ingredients were sustainably sourced.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Furthermore, ISZL is a member of the European Sports Conference (ECS) and the Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS), and it encourages its students to explore various sports and arts outside of academics. Consequently, later, they couldn’t check what was ordered due to insufficient documentation.

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Supply Chain Network

APRIL 3, 2012

These losses occur because supply chains have inherently lacked on-demand access to actionable data that enables real-time decision-making about a product’s freshness and quality and documents the freshness and safety of delivered products. All other trademarked names in this document are the properties of their respective owners.

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Precoro

AUGUST 31, 2023

For instance, they can do so by improving operational processes, making cost-efficient decisions on personnel, initiating work environment changes, upgrading technology, sourcing strategically, and so on. Take your time and ask employees if they can come up with the source of spending inefficiencies.

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EcoVadis

DECEMBER 7, 2018

A recent Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) conference in Santa Clara, California, discussed the latest developments in the field as well as possible solutions and international initiatives aimed at minimizing risks associated with using resources extracted in conflict areas. 3TGs: Updates on Gold Sustainable Procurement.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Instead of using Google to search scientific literature, imagine hundreds of women using massive mainframe computers searching for physical documents based on key words submitted by scientists. SCOTT: Obviously tariffs, if implemented for the long-term, will impact global supply chain strategies—sourcing, nearshoring versus offshoring, etc.

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