ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

If you’re evaluating procurement technology or exploring ways to drive more value from existing systems, chances are you’re looking beyond tactical fixes – you want a smarter, scalable strategy. Misaligned priorities across finance, legal, and procurement create friction that delays decision-making and reduces impact.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

In May 2025, one in seven home-purchase agreements fell through resulting in the cancellation of 56,000 purchase contracts. Using design theory, the current definitions of planning have regressed despite the advance of promising technologies. A negative FVA increases cost, inventory, and risk.

Supply Chain Planning Software

RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By maximizing space utilization, improving inventory control , and boosting workflow efficiency, you can unlock significant cost savings and elevate your customer service game. Here’s what you can expect: A clear definition of warehouse optimization and its core components.

Optimal Sourcing

Precoro

MAY 13, 2025

  In this guide, we’ll explore what cost efficiency is, examples, and best practices on how cost efficiency can make your company more competitive and profitable in today's fast-paced economy. Keep reading to learn: Cost-efficient vs. cost-effective: What's the difference?

Sourcing Strategies

Silvon Software

APRIL 16, 2025

Inventory is the lifeblood of any manufacturing business. Get it right, and youve got happy customers and streamlined costs. Striking the perfect balance between available stock and cost efficiency is key. Tracking inventory flow and performance across your supply chain is a must. But what exactly should you measure?

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

Last Friday night, Aptean announced a definitive agreement to acquire Logility at $14.30 following the reporting of fourth-quarter results. This is despite the strengths of the recent purchase of Optimity. Founded by Infosys executives, the company blew through a lot of cash with very little market penetration.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2025

This week, the organization reported that net sales decreased 2 percent to $19.5 Unlearning is not about forgetting, but about the ability to choose an alternative mental model or paradigm. “ Definition Cambridge Press I firmly believe that unlearning must precede change management. The result? Operating profit of $3.3

Material Savings

Precoro

JULY 17, 2025

Definition: Procurement automation is the use of digital tools to make routine tasks throughout procurement more efficient. Advanced technologies like AI and cloud-based procurement software helps companies reduce the burden of manual work, lower costs, and gain insight into analytics.

Procurement Solutions

SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Pricing Structure Affordable pricing, with annual access to purchased courses and practical resources through Pro Plan. This learning platform covers every angle of supply chain management, from demand planning and inventory management to supplier relationship management, procurement, and logistics.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Precoro

JUNE 3, 2025

Definition: Category management is a systematic way to organize and supervise groups of products or services within a company. Businesses often use it in retail and purchasing. Category management isn’t just another procurement trend. Category management isn’t just another procurement trend.

Manufacturing Procurement

Silvon Software

MAY 6, 2025

Analytics and business intelligence (BI) are no longer optionaltheyre essential. They integrate, align, and activate data across the business to drive better, faster decisions unlike legacy reporting tools that can’t. Flexible Delivery Options Interactive dashboards, scheduled reports, alerts, mobile access, and more.

Prescriptive Analytics Software

Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Unlike most of the KPIs we recommend, perfect order is a composite of several elementary metrics. Perfect order results can help you assess performance and diagnose issues impacting service, costs, and overall supply chain effectiveness. What about DIFOT?

KPI

Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The definition above is not from any textbook, but is simply one that I’m sure you’ll agree, describes a state of affairs that any corporate leader or business owner would be happy to arrive at. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

Inventory Reduction

Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

As a leading vendor of procurement technology and solutions to manufacturing companies around the world, JAGGAER is witness to these changes as they happen, and even before they happen. Next came AI assistance, whereby AI supported humans with advanced AI applications on top of industrial IoT analytics.

Inventory Reduction

crisp

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Retail data is a necessary foundation for CPG operations and decision-making, providing suppliers with crucial visibility into real-time retail and inventory movements across thousands of touchpoints. However, suppliers need to take data preparedness a step further to leverage AI’s power in retail analytics.

Procurement Analytics

Locus

AUGUST 4, 2025

But while customers expect returns to be a part of their purchase process, the reverse logistics process can be a challenging cost center for retailers, enterprises, and businesses alike. Beyond the Basic Definition You’d think reverse logistics is all about managing returns. Reactive companies process returns to minimize costs.

Reverse Logistics

Precoro

JUNE 2, 2025

Definition: Financial forecasting is a projection of the company's future financial performance based on historical data, market research, and business needs. Financial forecasting has gone from a 'nice-to-have' to a must-have for procurement and financial planning teams. The only difference?

Forecasting

SCMDOJO

JUNE 22, 2025

It directly affects key supply chain performance indicators such as order cycle time, inventory turnover, and fulfillment accuracy. Similarly, layouts that don’t accommodate real-time inventory visibility contribute to stockouts, mispicks, and excess carrying costs. Nonetheless, effective zoning doesn’t stop at function.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

IQMS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

There’s a lot to think about inventory, staffing, equipment, and other overhead costs. The definition of ERP, which stands for enterprise resource planning, is a system that unifies an organization’s departments and processes into a single, centralized body of information. Running a business is no small feat. What Is ERP?

Resource Reduction

Cathy Roberson

MAY 8, 2025

Reported April 22 Our trends in April have held consistent with March, and while market conditions remain soft, we've seen no appreciable downturn over the past two weeks, despite the tariff environment. I think Q2 is pretty dynamic, but I definitely think Q2 will be impacted on direct import. We are speeding that up.

Negotiating Skills

Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We can’t dictate and can’t expect them to have all the same definition of an engineering change process or even what a connection between ERP and PLM or PLM and MES should exactly be for them. It’s in their inventory, but financially, it’s not in their inventory. Todd Fuller I would agree.

Manufacturing Procurement

ShipBob

JULY 14, 2025

Make sure to include details about free shipping thresholds to encourage higher-value purchases. Leverage A/B testing and analytics insights A/B testing various PDP elements will give you the insights you need to improve your conversion. ShipBob’s 2-Day Express ship option definitely helps this.”

Purchasing Skills

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

Commandment 9: Insist on User Friendliness Independent of the effort put forth to design a system, purchase hardware and develop software, the single biggest test of implementation occurs when an operator attempts to scan bar coded media. The system definition must be complete prior to the use of bar code.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 17, 2024

However, global and regional production and purchasing activity as measured by the J.P. Morgan Manufacturing PMI index has included a four month (July through October) long sequential contraction in production levels and reported a neutral 50 mark at the end of November. Global growth is projected to be 3.2 Prior to the U.S.

Predictive Analytics Software

3PL Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Amazon is on the forefront of automation in the warehouse , currently using 45,000 Kiva Robots, after purchasing the company Kiva Systems in 2012 (they’re now renamed “Amazon robots”). The information received can be checked for accuracy with the company’s inventory software. This allows for inventory to be viewed in “real time.”.

Warehousing

Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2024

In follow-up qualitative interviews, one of the largest issues with organizational alignment was metric definition and a clear definition of supply chain excellence. For example, a cost improvement in one function could raise the costs in another. Error is error, but is it the most important metric?

Procurement Analytics

Logility

AUGUST 7, 2017

Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” ” To manage a supply chain containing complex dependencies between teams, departments and partner companies across international boundaries requires a rich set of metrics. Functionally isolated metrics lead to sub-optimized supply chain performance.

Procurement Analytics

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We were discussing the results of the planning benchmarking work that we have just finished, and I was sharing some insights on inventory management when one of the panelists emphatically stated, “Inventory is a waste to manage. We feel so strongly about this that we do not have an inventory planning role.”

Waste Reduction

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The change in front of us will transform the base-level definitions of source, make and deliver. These architectures are evolving and will be deeply rooted in the evolution of prescriptive and cognitive analytics. Charter a team and test and learn to understand the potential for cognitive and prescriptive analytics. Action Item.

Supply Chain Planning Software

GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ). 5 Key Metrics to Use for Scoring Supplier Quality Management (From LNS Research ).

Procurement Analytics

Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

The definition of agility and resilience will continue to evolve. This means supply chain and logistics professionals need to distinguish between more frequently purchased products and the slower-moving products customers are willing to wait for. There are Also Commercial Reasons. The Road to Agility and Resilience. A Positive Example.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

more near-shoring and larger, less frequent shipments to minimize transportation costs). How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory.

Predictive Analytics Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

As an old gal, with over forty-years of supply chain experience, writing this report for ten years taught me many lessons. Many believe that an ex-supply chain exec knows the definition of supply chain excellence. I find in the orbit chart analysis that 45% of companies in the report are unconsciously incompetent. I admit it.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I see a preponderance of reports and white papers that have lots of pages but say little. Optimization engines to improve functional metric performance resulted in an exploding number of planners. Definitions Before we move to the discussion of the actions to take, let’s get clear on some definitions. Back to John.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Alex Zhong, Director Product Marketing at GEP.

Supply Chain Network Software

Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2024

How aligned do you believe your organization is to drive these metrics? P&G did not appreciate the work Gilette accomplished on form and function of inventory and using market signals. As a result, the company’s performance at the intersection of margin and inventory turns was circular for the past decade.

S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We are not clear on definition. So, if you use the Supply Chain Insights definition, you might ask, how are we doing commercially against this goal? I believe that the ASCM definition is too reactive and rooted in the traditional, and outdated concepts on risk management. I am currently doing research on inventory management.

Supply Chain Design Software