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What are Digital Twins and How Can They Drive Warehouse Efficiency?

Logistics Viewpoints

The concept of digital twins has emerged as a powerful foundational tool to drive improvements in warehouse productivity and efficiency. But do you really need to look specifically at digital twin solutions, or might some of these already be available in the automation you already have?

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The solution was too black box.

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2022 Ivalua NOW Paris Recap!

ivalua

NEW Payments Solution. Leader Forrester CLM for Buy-Side Contract Suites, Q4 2021. Ivalua remains the only vendor recognized as a leader in every current Procurement report spanning S2P by Gartner and Forrester. Today, he is focused on finding solutions for renewable energy sources and the promotion of sustainable practices. .

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5 Reasons Why You Need Procurement Planning Software

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Introduction: Procurement Planning for Distribution-Intensive Businesses Procurement planning is not a widely recognized category of supply chain software, but it should be. The resulting plan should maintain adequate safety stock levels for each purchased item while reducing inventory costs.

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Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51 and Market6 Data

Alloy

The purchase of Market6 was an effort by 84.51° to fill this gap, and in some ways it did. Brands can now log into the analytics platforms to access live store and DC-level data that they can use to manually extrapolate insights. You need additional tools to understand which half — in real time.

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How Capital City eliminated duplicate payments with procurement automation

Precoro

With over 1,000 students, the school purchases a lot of supplies for students as well as office supplies for the administration. We had the chance to discuss the school's initial approach to procurement compared to its new, automated process using software with Caroline Hickey, Business Associate at CCPCS.

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How Retailers and CPG companies are benefiting from next-gen Control Tower and S&OE

o9 Solutions

By Vikram Murthi and Dr. Stijn-Pieter van Houten, both Vice President, Industry Strategy, o9 Solutions. and carefully procure and place inventory, they constantly face operational issues during execution. A lot of blood, sweat and Excel is devoted to root cause analysis of operational failures. labor) shortages.