Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Optimal Sourcing Procurement 
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 7, 2025
Instead, I would like to see us redefine work to improve decisions for the global multi-national. Here I define value as improving market capitalization/employee for a public company. ” Traditional planning models optimize functional processes to improve cost and customer service. You are right. The reason?
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 6, 2025
Molexs story is interesting because they excelled at overcoming these cultural issues. The most common form of trading partner collaboration is purchase order collaboration. With PO collaboration, buyers send digital purchase orders over the network to suppliers or other trading partners. The buyers dont report to Mr. Gainsford.
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SCMDOJO
JANUARY 9, 2025
Strategic sourcing and innovative solutions are often viewed as two distinct procurement tools, but they should not be seen in isolation. Think of them as apples and gearseach essential and effective on its own, yet when combined; they create a formidable mechanism for achieving procurement excellence.
DELMIA Quintiq
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
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.
ToolsGroup
MARCH 31, 2025
Probabilistic forecasting is revolutionizing demand forecasting, supply planning, and inventory optimization by significantly improving forecast accuracy and decision-making across distribution networks. However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
” As I dipped my spoon into some scrumptious chestnut soup at a great restaurant, my companion asked, “With the advancements in optimization and self-learning, aren’t we close to having self-driving supply chains?” However, the prior beliefs of functional efficiency delivering supply chain excellence linger.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 10, 2025
Technology can change or even improve work. In May 2025, one in seven home-purchase agreements fell through resulting in the cancellation of 56,000 purchase contracts. Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver. What’s missing? The ripple effects are pervasive.
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