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Unilever Supply Chain: Lessons Learned on Digital Transformation

RFgen

TL;DR Unilever’s Global Reach : Manages a complex supply chain with over 280 factories, 500 warehouses, and sources from 52,000 suppliers in over 150 countries. Sustainability Initiatives : Commits to reducing environmental impact through sustainable sourcing, packaging, and waste reduction.

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Cloud Procurement: All You Need to Know

Precoro

In short, cloud computing allows accessing different IT resources via the Internet with pay-as-you-use pricing, rather than downloading them to your computer’s hard drive. Procurement software solutions such as Precoro help companies automate the purchasing process, get better insights, and focus on more critical tasks for their business.

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Who is Your Best Supplier?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Listed as a top key finding in a 2020 WBR Insights report it was found that, “The top concern for procurement professionals is making buying decisions without the necessary insight” (WBR Insights 2020). Sure, you can try and shuffle through the rows and columns of your Excel Hell, build custom algorithms, and visualize a bar chart.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. The translation of independent demand into cycle stock reduction in production planning and material buying in demand-driven MRP.

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Sourcing Cost and Time Savings for America’s Brightest Orange

Jaggaer

“We have captured many benefits thanks to the decision we took to extend our JAGGAER implementation to include sourcing. And not least, double-digit cost savings on our electronic sourcing bid events.”. Since then OSU has conducted around 900 sourcing events via JAGGAER. News of the innovative sourcing platform traveled fast.

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How To Start Your Brewery On The Path To Success

Unleashed

Don’t purchase any supply chain solution that is not Cloud or SaaS based. That means you can buy it as a remote online service (SaaS) paying typically by user per month, or buy and install the software on the cloud. Don’t buy any solution from a supplier that has no brewing sector experience. Costed Purchase Orders.

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Retail Logistics: What It Is & How to Improve

ShipBob

Procurement refers to sourcing merchandise on time to meet demand, and it affects the ways your online retail business activities (like sales, inventory management, and distribution) can be performed. . . In 2019, 48% of customers returned products they purchased online, resulting in billions in losses. Procuring inventory.