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Documenting the Response of State Procurement Officers to the COVID Crisis

NC State SCRC

Early in the pandemic, I was asked to join a team of academics to document and understand how state procurement officers were able to mobilize and react to this incredible situation. 1] Simon J.

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National Tractor Trailer School Reddit

Supply Chain Shaman

Our three member staff of peer reviewers for leading journals, senior science editors with 20 years’ experience, and running editors operate with you to assistance your publication goals. authors get posted in leading journals like Elsevier, Wiley and Character, in the past one 12 months. rn Editage aided 50.

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Future of Procurement Study Available

Supply Chain View from the Field

I recently completed a study of 25 CPO’s, each providing their view of what procurement will look like in 2025. You can download the full report at this link. Procurement has a history that is linked in the core concepts of centralization, volume leveraging, and cost reduction.

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Five Foolproof Ways to Shorten the Cash Conversion Cycle

Precoro

The cash conversion cycle (CCC), also called the net operating cycle, is a metric used to measure the efficiency of a company's cash management and liquidity. The cash conversion cycle is a significant financial metric for retailers and manufacturing companies involved in buying and managing inventories and selling them to customers.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. Based on reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the company hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company and package it for sale in 2014 with an expected evaluation of 800M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. I am not surprised.

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5 Ways to Improve Finance Operations for SMBs

Precoro

Management of the company's financial operations requires strong leadership, experience, analytical skills, a deep hands-on understanding of financial principles, and familiarity with the best practices the company has already adopted. After all, purchases are a large part of company finances. This is also known as FP&A.

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Best Practices for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable!

Supply Chain Game Changer

s accounts receivable and accounts payable, which were brought across to Meredith’s books when it purchased Time on January 31, 2018,” reported the Wall Street Journal. Invoices and bills from purchasing goods from vendors go to Accounts Payable (AP). Accounts Payable keeps track of money that goes out of your business.