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Driving Supply Chain Analytics User Adoption with Cross-Departmental Metrics

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User adoption is a challenge that often arises during the rollout of supply chain analytics solutions. Users are accustomed to building everything in Excel and manipulating the data as needed for their own particular use, typically using static reports or spreadsheets that are siloed in specific departmental needs.

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Yowza! A Nine-Step Decision Process to Help Guide Supply Chain Planning Selection

Supply Chain Shaman

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supply chain planning market is a mess. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Five Predictions (About Prediction) that Every Procurement Professional Should Consider

Supply Chain View from the Field

These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on. For example, do we have the information on when we are buying energy – during peak hours or not?

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Rising Interest Rates: Maybe It’s Time to Bring Back the Forgotten Art of Price Analysis

NC State SCRC

Price analysis is a subject that is often overlooked in supply chain education, (although it is certainly a big part of our chapter on Strategic Cost Management in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management ). Whatever you want to call it, Price Analysis is an activity that is well worth conducting.

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Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

SCMDOJO

Expertise: Agile Project Management, Lean Implementation in Warehouse, Supply Chain Simulation & Modelling, Warehouse Management Systems, Inventory Management, Business Intelligence (Power BI, Tableau, Google Data Studio), Advanced Excel Skills, warehouse management. Start a chat with the expert here! Connect with him now!

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Suuchi Ramesh on Supply Chain Platforms

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Software engineer and supply chain analytics expert Suuchi Ramesh is the founder and CEO of Suuchi Inc. , an end-to-end B2B supply chain platform. The Suuchi GRID supplier network has seen wide adoption in several industries, notably fashion and medical supplies and PPE. The digital landscape is broken.

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Day 3: Lenovo Goes About Creating the End to End Transparent Supply Chain

NC State SCRC

So procurement will buy ahead, and work with suppliers to understand the situation in the market, and that may drive up inventory in one sector. The big priority is on “protecting supply”. I may be carrying inventory for supply I wouldn’t normally take, but we have to buy ahead to avoid cost increases.