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Imerys selects Ivalua to improve its supplier management processes and support its global purchasing digital transformation roadmap

ivalua

The global industrial minerals group will deploy Ivalua’s Spend Management platform across five continents to digitize the Source-to-Requisition (S2R) process. Imerys will implement Ivalua’s full source-to-pay suite including all spend analysis. Redwood City, CA, September 7, 2022.

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Speed, Collaboration and Innovation – Key Words for the New Procurement Decade

ivalua

For the vast majority of organisations, suppliers must play their part when it comes to agile business and speed to market. That requires extraordinary work internally and co-ordination with key suppliers. The related objective for that firm is that no less than 70% of those new products should come from supplier-generated ideas. .

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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

Jaggaer

Since the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the last major epidemic to hit China, the country has become even more important as a source of key components and materials as well as finished consumer goods. Flexible and holistic supply management will be key. . Coronavirus could wreck the global auto industry.” .

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Supply Chain Predictions 2020: Uncertainty Demands Resilience

ToolsGroup

They drive benefits such as improved business planning and improved sourcing, procurement and supplier management. However, with blockchain companies can validate the provenance of raw material in the food, medicine or consumer goods supply chain.

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Why Companies Need a Supplier Relationship Management Strategy

GlobalTranz

Supply chain concepts are generally understood in a linear pattern of consecutive planning in the form of plan-source-make-distribute-return/dispose. What happens when a company plans to bring a product to market and outsources all of the steps in between to suppliers that do not communicate? Manage working capital.

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What Should Supply Chain Management Teams Anticipate in 2023 and Beyond- Part One

Supply Chain Matters

By Q4, major European manufacturers were exploring alternative sources to produce energy-intensive products such as chemicals and fertilizers, with the U.S. The consumer goods demand that was experienced in 2021 clearly shifted by the mid-year mark and has presented continuing inventory challenges for retailers and businesses.

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The Digital Supply Chain needs to be a Smart Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

When machine learning is applied to inventory and supply and demand, forecasting becomes more accurate, warehouse management is improved by reducing under and overstocking and supplier management is made easier.”[3]. ”[4] My company, Enterra Solutions®, is heavily involved in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector.