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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Training ensued, and the expectation of changing work was shared. If I had a magic wand, I would redesign work to transform the planners to become data orchestrators with supply chain planning becoming self-service by business leaders. The shifts over the last decade are profound: Is the answer a Supply Chain Center of Excellence?

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6 Essential Procurement Training Courses for Professionals: How To Begin and Advance Your Career in Procurement

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Whether you’re an aspiring procurement enthusiast or a seasoned professional aiming to advance your career, investing in procurement training and procurement training courses can be a game-changer. The fantastic employment options that procurement training opens up are among the most convincing arguments for doing so.

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Procurement Analysis: a Game Changer for Purchasing Strategically

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Nowadays, procurement departments not only focus on the day-to-day buying operations but also search for the most efficient ways to go about them. Procurement is broadening to include extensive work with spend data. While strategizing , keeping feet on the ground is important, and that's when data comes in especially handy.

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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

How Do You Define Excellence? In retrospect, I find that technology is an enabler, but only if we are clear on what defines supply chain excellence. Many believe that an ex-supply chain exec knows the definition of supply chain excellence. Supply Chains to Admire Winners 2023 Examine Your Own Paradigm. I admit it.

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Are You Caught in Word Salad Dribble?

Supply Chain Shaman

This is why I host training twice a year to challenge existing technology paradigms. The issue is data synchronization. The more outsourcing and instances, the greater the issue with data synchronization. The company was working on improving real-time ATP without consideration of the data synchronization issues.

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Shouldn’t GenAI Mean New Gen?

Supply Chain Shaman

Graph technology leverages graph structures to represent and store data. Let’s start here: Data Analysis. We are not listening to what data has to tell us. In today’s processes, we move data into jails (relational databases) and then run optimizers. Improve Sensing with Market Data. Test and Learn.

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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) The data encapsulated in Table 1 represents two years of testing with APS providers. The data encapsulated in Table 1 represents two years of testing with APS providers. I don’t know.