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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Most budgets are completed in currency at a brand level. The budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. The direct connection between the two processes increases costs and increases error. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

Gartner analyst Debashis Tarafdar says that the large size of a country (like India, China or Indonesia) can mean “significant polarization of population between urban and rural with distinctly different buying capabilities and purchasing preferences.

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Spend Analysis: Best Practices

Precoro

Where should you start when you want to create budgets, cut costs, or forecast future spending? After all, a clear picture of the company's procurement process is necessary to develop a sustainable future strategy and to avoid pitfalls that hold your business back. The answer is simple: spend analysis.

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eCommerce Automation: Solutions, Benefits, & Examples

Unleashed

Data insights: eCommerce automation software generates better reports in – less time – when compared with manual processes. Finance Automate payment processing, currency conversion, and tax calculations; connect sales, inventory, and financial systems to ensure accurate data; minimise accounting errors by reducing manual human input.

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17 Wholesale Software Features For SMEs To Look For

Unleashed

We’ve identified 6 important categories that wholesaling features fall under: Inventory management Supply chain Customer orders Warehouse management Data and analytics Key software integrations And within these categories, we give you 17 features to look for – and why they’re important. Inventory management 1.

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5 Hot Topics in Home Delivery this Season

Talking Logistics

Visibility also gets worse in the absence of a single transportation platform to manage disparate delivery modes. Blending Traditional + Customer-focused Metrics. Leading retailers are starting to combine traditional delivery metrics (e.g., For a 2 hour time window, the charge was 2X the cost of a 4 hour window (e.g.,

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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2021

QAD

From integrated multi-currency, multi-GAAP and multi-entity financials to best practice purchasing, from shared services to real-time data and flexible data analytics, Effective Enterprise Management ensures that manufacturers operate from a trusted set of essential enterprise processes that meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs.