Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

The sad fact is that most planners spend six to seven hours a day in meetings and struggle to get timely information. As companies struggled to respond to increasing business complexity—a growing number of products, channels, and markets with regional preferences—few software applications were equal to managing channel complexity.

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Logility

APRIL 7, 2020

In the midst of the seeming chaos many brilliant minds have been working in overdrive to develop innovative solutions to many of obstacles that lie in our way. The Coca-Cola Company and Georgia Institute of Technology are working together to turn plastic sheeting into more than 50,000 plastic surgical shields. That requires focus.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Introduction: Procurement Planning for Distribution-Intensive Businesses Procurement planning is not a widely recognized category of supply chain software, but it should be. The resulting plan should maintain adequate safety stock levels for each purchased item while reducing inventory costs.

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Procurement Solutions Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Manufacturing Procurement 52

OptiProERP

JANUARY 8, 2020

With cloud ERP you have easy access to the exact information you need to give an accurate and rapid reply, knowing the material you have on hand, machine availability, impact on downstream scheduling, and so on. Shop floor execution solutions built into end-to-end manufacturing cloud ERP connect production operations with business processes.

Manufacturing Procurement 101

Manufacturing Procurement Real-time Visibility Optimal Sourcing Material Savings 101

6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. “In our company what has worked best is what we call, the magic formula, the software + method…” . Choose software that facilitates the valuation and control of permanent inventories based on inputs or outputs, with automated stock alerts, that is versatile and independent of the type of business.

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Cost Reduction Strategies Inventory Reduction Material Savings Warehousing 56

Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

I am speaking at the Zycus Horizons conference this week, being held at the Reynolds Plantation in Georgia. As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. As we’ve noted in prior posts, talent is the key to procurement organizations.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 2, 2020

As an experienced business professional, he has served in diverse roles ranging from Marketing and Strategy, to Procurement and Supply Chain. Several articles and reference books have highlighted Joe’s procurement transformation accomplishments at Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks, and in the area of Supply Chain Risk Management.

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