Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement became an island–isolated from the demand signal except for MRP. This was a gift from a member of a group that I am facilitating.) Procurement: Purchase price variance and procurement cost.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Buying supply chain planning software is hard. How are people buying software? Here I share how to challenge the status quo.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

It is one of the reasons that I went from working at AMR Research to being a partner at the Altimeter Group. I had to learn a new language, a new set of vendors and connect with a new group of users. They excel in the four Ps of marketing. The digital marketing group is often siloed. I see the value. Absolutely!

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Synovos

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The platinum medal puts RS Group in the top 1% of the 100,000-plus rated companies assessed by EcoVadis with each company rated on the material sustainability risks and issues for size, location, and industry. ESG Report: FY24 www.rsgroup.com/media/bsocsl4m/rs-group-esg-h1-highlights-pack_-november-23.pdf

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

In May 2025, one in seven home-purchase agreements fell through resulting in the cancellation of 56,000 purchase contracts. Instead, the alignment between operations and commercial groups grew three-fold. Ask a procurement or transportation professional if they have a good demand signal and expect a laugh.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

My thought was to combine my experience working on visibility solutions with Descartes Systems Group and Manugistics with recent research data. The problem with supplier visibility is bookended into procurement processes that have gone back, not forward over the last decade. I volunteered to write a report on supply visibility.

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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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QAD

APRIL 7, 2022

Procurement, also sometimes known as purchasing, is the group responsible for acquiring components, services, and other materials to manufacture a company’s products and to keep the operation running. But corporate procurement isn’t quite as simple as placing an order on Amazon or another web marketplace.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I know that your primary focus is procurement. The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) ” Anna, this blog post is for you. Over the last two years, I actively engaged technologists and business leaders to redefine demand planning.

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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). To decide winners, we analyze post-recession period performance of 2010-2018 by peer group.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 15, 2020

Digital Procurement article, and permission to publish here, provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Navigating the complexity of the global supply chain as a procurement professional can sometimes feel like taking a walk through the Amazon without a compass, or entering into outer space without an oxygen tank. Don’t Panic!

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 18, 2022

At the end of a long day of a strategy session on supply chain excellence with a client, I needed to fill up some time in an agenda. They had never been in the same room to discuss demand holistically from sales teams to procurement. The strategy day owner was a global process center of excellence leader. The result? Background.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

That is the role of marketing or sales or procurement. Yes, I believe that supply chain overlays on top of the sales and marketing organizations and the procurement function. We have let buy- and sell-side transactional relationships erode value. And, these are the best of their peer group.) “ I scratch my head.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 25, 2024

My definition of a network is the bi-directional information exchange of manufacturing, procurement, quality, and transportation signals across multiple tiers of trading partners in a many-to-many trading partner information exchange with minimal latency. Less than 1% of companies in this value chain outperform their peer group.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Within this setup, an ERP procurement module helps companies make purchases and manage suppliers. Numbers speak louder: According to Procurement Tactics’ top procurement trends in 2025 , 83% of CPOs prioritize digitization.   Keep reading to learn: What Is ERP in Procurement?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Based on the Supply Chains to Admire analysis, the first question is: Why do the cost reduction strategies not translate into operating margin improvement against peer groups? When he speaks of the supply chain, he means procurement. Buying strategies need to be defined, and the interface needs to be bi-directional.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. PFEP optimizes the policies that define how to procure each part. PFEP enables supply chain leaders to glean a 360-degree view of their inventory and procurement policies to maximize the value of each inventory dollar.

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AFFLINK

AUGUST 30, 2016

Historically, group purchasing organizations (GPOs) have been primarily utilized within the healthcare industry. A GPO is a group of businesses or organizations that come together to use their collective purchasing power to receive discounts from vendors. belong to at least one GPO. What Exactly is a GPO?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Over the last decade, neither the pharmaceutical nor medical device manufacturer has been able to drive the revenue/employee productivity gains of their comparative peer groups. They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. Healthcare.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. Throughout a genuine and collaborative cooperation with business vendors, they produce innovative approaches to current procurement difficulties.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

Buying supplies, equipment, low preference items and the latest innovations to support high-value care delivery is expensive and while it’s not an area where you want to skimp, there are certainly ways to reduce these expenses without impacting quality of care. The Path to Supply Chain Excellence.

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ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

It’s a question that you can answer for yourself at Ivalua Now – The Art of Procurement , being held, appropriately enough, at The Louvre, Paris 10 th – 12 th April. In the process, these advances are enabling procurement leaders to look beyond their traditional remit. Blog first published by our friends at Purchase to Pay Network.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, organizations across industries are realizing the immense value of effective procurement practices. Procurement professionals play a vital role in driving operational efficiency, cost savings, and strategic decision-making. But how do you get started? Do not worry!

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

It was my first time working with this group. This team is not buying the message. The group laughed. So much so, that three years ago, I founded a research company to focus on understanding supply chain excellence. It was a large multinational company. They really did not know me, and I did not know them.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In parallel, PE/venture capitalists purchased/consolidated network solutions, slashing R&D and delaying investment, reducing industry capabilities. If you, like most, are running your supply chain based on ERP and Excel spreadsheet data, you are not prepared. Procurement was operating in isolation from supply chain.

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

As a Procurement Leader, carbon neutrality by 2050 should be a central focus and Dr. Natacha Tréhan’s comprehensive research offers practical tips to get you on track. First, let’s start with procurement and how it plays a significant role in reducing the carbon footprint with 3 key areas of impact: – Actions with suppliers.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

He is very passionate about developments in the Supply Chain arena and is always seeking excellence in his drive for efficiency & innovation in Supply Chain operations” – a quality that is very relevant to face up to the many Supply Chain challenges in our path! The silo mentality of traditional organizations must be broken.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 27, 2017

In groups of 5, each team member is given a different role: Finance, Sales, Marketing, Production, and Procurement. The beer game requires purchasing, manufacturing, and distribution quantities to be set with no communication amongst the people assigned to the functions, aside from an order quantity. Screenshot of SCI IMPACT!

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Precoro

APRIL 6, 2022

If you're reading this now, then you’ve probably noticed how outdated traditional procurement systems recede into the past and are replaced by new modern solutions. What is Cloud Procurement? All this functionality helps save costs, choose the best vendors, ensure compliance, appraise supplier risk, and streamline procure-to-pay cycle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

This team was working on quality improvements and found that the flows crossed 117 disconnected documents in access, excel, and google analytics. Most deployments focus on functional excellence–manufacturing, transportation, customer service or procurement. Traditionally, deployments focused on indirect procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Nine times out of ten, the finance group is portrayed as a dam, a barrier or a ferris wheel in the drawings. Companies tightly coupling the budget to S&OP have significantly higher inventories and lower growth than their peer group. Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order.

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ivalua

JULY 13, 2022

Procurement Leaders Webinar. Speakers: Arnaud Malardé, Ivalua | Hélène Vermont, Michelin Group. With mounting pressure for organizations to make tangible contributions to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives, the procurement function must strategize to implement and report their collective efforts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Bundled offers (if you buy X, Y, and Z from me, I can offer a 10% discount or in case of transportation, grouping of backhaul lanes at a discount along with inbound lanes). Trying to evaluate bids with such complexity is well beyond the realm of manual methods and Excel spreadsheets. These criteria become constraints on the bid.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The focus was on automating procurement. On March 26, 2015, I nsight Venture Partners (“Insight”) purchased E2open for $8.60 Taking the company private, the investment by Insights gives E2open capital to purchase companies. Investors moaned. Next-Generation Supply Chain Training.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 14, 2013

In this first of a series of blogs, I will be exploring many of the key themes that emerged in the recent Future of Procurement study I co-authored with KPMG’s Procurement Advisory Council. The first of the themes we will explore is the procurement manager’s role as a support to the Chief Financial Officer.

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 10, 2014

If you’re a Procurement professional, what was your spend? 2) Rodney Apple from SCM Talent Group Developing a comprehensive job search action plan is the most actionable tip for landing dream supply chain job. It is the quickest and simplest way to help an employer buy into you and answer the common interview question ‘so….

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

That should be sobering news for any business not yet focused on supply chain excellence as a lever for business success. The same applies to certain products in your range, some of which will inevitably incur more costs than others in the process of manufacturing or buying, storage, and delivery to customers.

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