Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

My observation is that over the last two decades and the myriad of mergers and acquisitions and the building of global supply chains, five things happened which makes it harder for organizations to make good decisions at the pace of business: Alignment. The gaps between commercial and operational teams grew. Focus on Cost. Focus on Cost.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 9, 2019

Procurement, or Purchasing, is an area of Supply Chain that involves and requires very specific skills and expertise. Regardless of your position or situation it is highly valuable to understand the type of interview questions, and answers, appropriate for Procurement and Purchasing professionals. It can appear useless.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

My observation is that over the last two decades and the myriad of mergers and acquisitions and the building of global supply chains, five things happened which makes it harder for organizations to make good decisions at the pace of business: Alignment. The gaps between commercial and operational teams grew. Focus on Cost. Focus on Cost.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. Every time I published a report, he would call me and express his concern that I did not fully understand the issues of the global supply chain organization.

S&OP 195

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

While Its primary purpose is to manage the entire process, from procurement to delivery, efficiently and cost-effectively, it also coordinates with production to automate processes and planning, etc. Watch What is Marketing Procurement? Analyze performance metrics and implement improvements to enhance efficiency.

Optimal Sourcing 74

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Synovos

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Improve Operational Efficiency and Eliminate Internal Complexity Through Digital Procurement From better spend visibility to reduced order times and more, can your organization afford to miss out on the benefits of digital procurement? “Any good procurement team needs access to reliable data.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

Interview for Metrics That Matter. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. As background, Peter Gibbons is the Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain for Mattel, Inc. I recently interviewed him for my upcoming book, Metrics that Matter, that publishes in August 2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. The Terra Technology investment is one of what we believe will be a series of purchases to build inter-enterprise cloud-based software platforms to redefine supply chain planning.

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Precoro

MARCH 11, 2024

Yet there’s a proactive approach that addresses the high cost of healthcare: value-based purchasing (VBP). VBP also improves patient satisfaction by fostering greater collaboration among healthcare providers and making the patient experience one of the key evaluation metrics for hospitals.

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Precoro

MARCH 30, 2022

Strategic Procurement Helps a Business Unleash its Potential. As The Hackett Group discovered, approaching procurement strategically with specific business goals in mind helps achieve a significantly higher ROI. Operational efficiency and cost reduction are among the top procurement priorities for CPOs, according to Deloitte.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Total cost analysis is more difficult than it sounds and most technology implementations automated functional measurement systems (manufacturing or procurement), but leave the organization blind on the management of total costs.

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SupplyPike

MAY 14, 2020

The importance of supply chain management What to watch while consumers are panic buying How to implement supply chain management Supply chain management and Walmart. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a systematic and controlled procurement operation. Five Key Metrics for Monitoring the Impact of Panic Buying on your Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. (The The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. Models Matter. Misunderstandings.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Current State of Supplier Performance Management Nowadays, the interest in improving supplier performance management methods has increased due to the increase in global sourcing and that of the global economy in particular (Gordon Sherry R, 2008). The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use?

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

When customers have transparency into product availability, delivery timelines, and order status, they are more likely to complete purchases and continue shopping with a business. At the same time, it makes excellent sense to have a good SEO software solution to keep track of how your marketing strategies perform.

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. The Future of IBP is Now. If so, then pronouncements from the War Room will be ‘virtually vetted,’ and not the result of panic or guesswork.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

The evolving pandemic, growing geopolitical tensions, nervous financial markets and increasing economic uncertainty means supply, both globally and locally, is at the very least, uncertain. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic. GLOBAL CRISES DRIVE PRICES SKY-HIGH.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. Background. The River of Demand.

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HICX Solutions

AUGUST 11, 2021

SXM Webinar Series with Art of Procurement. In the first of a three-part Art of Procurement Live Webinar Series ‘Putting the Supplier Experience at the Forefront of Strategic Procurement’ in partnership with HICX, we focus on how to make the business case for Supplier Experience Management (SXM). .

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

In the last five years, while the physician is still important, the buying decisions transitioned from the supplier to the care provider. They are primarily focused on cost management on new purchase decisions. In contrast, suppliers are large and global players. Generalize procurement of materials.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. The rebirth of marketplace offerings is not on the back of e-procurement or ERP. The debates were heated.

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Precoro

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2020, the global Supply Chain Management market was valued at $15.85 Suppliers can provide raw materials for manufacturing products or act as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the buying company. Retail shops are vendors for each individual customer buying sneakers. And is expected to double by 2026. Blurred lines.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. Why does it matter to you?

Inventory Reduction 150

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Precoro

MAY 27, 2021

For anyone responsible for procurement in an organisation, supplier management is an inevitable area of responsibility. By building an excellent Supplier Management Process, a successful company can mitigate those risks and ensure that their supply chain is undisrupted and meets the KPI's. Raise Team expertise.

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HICX Solutions

JANUARY 27, 2022

Supplier Relationship Management is the relationship that develops between a buyer and supplier, which is subject to the exigency of the goods or services purchased and supplied to an organization and dictates the nature of the working relationship that the buyer should look to nurture with their suppliers.

Supply Chain Design Software 98

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BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2021

During Blue Yonder ICON 2021, I had the pleasure to speak with Johnny Ivanyi , the Global Head of Distribution Excellence of Bayer Crop Science, and Kishore Yarlagadda , Global Distribution Deployment Lead of Bayer Crop Science, for the session “Next Wave of Logistics and Distribution Transformation.” Past and Future Results.

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ThroughPut

JANUARY 21, 2024

Data sets can be procured not just across departments but also across different geographies. Optimizing Inventory in Diverse Geographies Since different geographies differ in their consumer metrics, it is imperative to optimize inventory using effective demand sensing. Multiple data sets enable unified demand sensing in supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. On the webinar, when the participants were polled on the reason for rising inventories, over 50% of respondents indicated that it was the lack of an executive understanding of supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For the past five years, the team at Supply Chain Insights identified Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners by analyzing performance by peer group on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). He is currently the vice president of global supply chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 2, 2020

Here is our interview with a true Global Industry leader, Joe Carson: Tell our readers a little about your background and experience? As an experienced business professional, he has served in diverse roles ranging from Marketing and Strategy, to Procurement and Supply Chain. The details and magic of Excel analyses.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 17, 2021

This helped the company focus its sustainability strategies on key international ESG issues, as well as to target metrics that investors and consumers now track. For companies struggling to prioritize or identify their overarching goals, SASB’s materiality matrix is another excellent starting place.

Material Savings 52

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SupplyShift

JUNE 17, 2021

This helped the company focus its sustainability strategies on key international ESG issues, as well as to target metrics that investors and consumers now track. For companies struggling to prioritize or identify their overarching goals, SASB’s materiality matrix is another excellent starting place. Secure Buy-In.

Material Savings 52

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Let me give you an example: Last week, I gave a presentation at a global supply chain team meeting of 175 professionals. They had seen my videos on the website and needed a speaker for their global kick-off meeting. This team is not buying the message. It was a large multinational company. “I study supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2015

At the 2013 Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Rick Sather , now VP of Supply Chain for Jack-O-links stated that “there should be an app for that.” Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. Lora thinks that we are never too old to learn or to push for excellence. The gaps are large.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Next week is the annual Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , and summit preparation is on my agenda for the weekend. Cycle stock is the management of stock required to cycle through production runs and procurement buys effectively. Buying the technology and not having clear processes and accountability does not help.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Manufacturers who excel at orchestrating analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), quality management and real-time monitoring to improve manufacturing strategies are growing 10% faster than their peers. With the advanced analytics spending predicted to grow from $136B in 2016 to $232B in 2021 , attaining an 11.3%

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