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Realizing the Value of Supply Chain Optimization for Tire Manufacturing

DELMIA Quintiq

From raw material procurement to final product sales, these supply chains’ ability to minimize inventory through product life cycle controls and facilitate prompt product supply is every bit as important as product differentiation strategies. The establishment of efficient global supply chains has become critical to competitiveness.

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Essential Supply Chain KPIs to Track for Enhanced Decision Making

SCMDOJO

Is inventory bloating your costs? A scorecard acts as your dashboard, providing crucial visibility that helps you: Make Data-Driven Decisions: Replace guesswork with facts when evaluating suppliers, processes, and inventory levels. Improve Efficiency: Understand process timelines and inventory holding to streamline operations.

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Procurement & Supply Chain Management: Aligning for Operational Excellence

Procurement Academy

This blog explores procurement vs supply chain strategy and looks at how aligning the two leads to operational excellence. Procurement professionals focus on sourcing goods and services, negotiating with suppliers, and managing contracts. A poorly negotiated contract can lead to delayed deliveries.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. The impact varies by supply chain sector and value chain. What to do? Prepare for a slog.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

To coordinate, contracts can be made with direct links in the supply chain, but how can organizations coordinate with the supplierssuppliers or the customers’ customers? Requiring suppliers to contract only sub-suppliers who follow certain standards could be a good start.

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Yes, I am a Zealot. I Still Believe. Do You?

Supply Chain Shaman

Or contracts and negotiations. In my mind, it is the end-t0-end process: from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier. We have let buy- and sell-side transactional relationships erode value. Hospitals have reduced cash-to-cash cycles by improving accounts payable and squeezing suppliers.

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People in Manufacturing: Procurement

QAD

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. That may still sound simple, but corporate purchasing, regardless of the commodities the buyer is responsible for, is anything but simple.