Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The origins of the Extended Enterprise went before this period, however, and began with the early work that Steve did while he was a senior purchasing buyer at the Ford Motor Company. (I Steve described his experience this afternoon over pizza and sodas in Detroit. Later I was rehired and brought back into purchasing.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Before, they might say to purchasing, “You guys have done a brilliant job; you’ve reduced your costs by a million dollars because you’re buying everything from India. The biggest savings won’t be from trying to make transportation cheaper at a plant, but looking at why logistics cost are so high for that plant. No, we’re not.

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QAD

JUNE 13, 2023

Benefits such as low-cost labor, raw materials, cheap transportation, favorable regulations and proximity to suppliers were too good to pass up. When people think about supply chain, purchasing is usually the first thing that comes to mind, but all of your enterprise’s operations fall under the same umbrella.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2016

For the last couple of decades transportation management systems (TMS) have revolutionized supply chains, helping companies streamline their logistics processes, achieve greater visibility into their operations and save significant dollars on transportation. Myth #2 – TMS providers don’t offer a truly global solution.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more.”[2] It is principally concerned with the flow of products and information between supply chain partners (i.e., ”[3].

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Blue Yonder , a leading supply chain solutions provider, announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Doddle, a first and last mile technology business. Once completed, the deal will allow Blue Yonder’s suite of supply chain management and commerce offerings to expand with final mile, returns management, and reverse logistics solutions.

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