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Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: This article is from Steve Bettwy , Vice President – Quality and Business Continuity, Operational Excellence, and Continuous Improvement at Direct Supply. DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPER. Two thirds of American households buy from Amazon. I hope we can agree that Amazon will disrupt an industry if it wants to.

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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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Free PO Software vs. Paid Software

Precoro

As a company slowly grows, purchase management becomes more and more complicated. The need to manually create, store, manage, and analyze the ever-growing purchase orders and all associated documents can be pretty cumbersome. Plus, find a comparison table of some free purchase order software and paid programs.

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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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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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Household Products Industry Stuck in Neutral and Going Backwards

Supply Chain Shaman

19 average) and 3 times better ROIC for the period (33% versus P&G’s 11%), note that none of these three household products companies made progress on supply chain excellence in the period of 2013-2015. Supplier relationships in household products are more buy/sell. While Colgate posted better margin (.21

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The State of Digital Freight: The 4×4 Blueprint for Freight 2020

Freightos

Download Now. There are so many other standards, JPEG, MP3, the cellular standards and Wi-Fi, any one of them is an open standard that can be found and downloaded from the web, ready for implementation. Today, you buy a seat on a plane and the seat is there waiting for you. You never tell your customer what your buy rate is.

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