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Procurement Analysis: a Game Changer for Purchasing Strategically

Precoro

Nowadays, procurement departments not only focus on the day-to-day buying operations but also search for the most efficient ways to go about them. Thorough analysis allows procurement professionals to surface, visualize, and present purchasing patterns, which are then evaluated by the stakeholders. From whom are we buying?

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Empowering Adaptive Enterprises at Lumenia ERP HeadtoHead

QAD

In the dynamic world of manufacturing, the quest for operational excellence is unending. This platform is a testament to QAD’s commitment to operational excellence, offering a holistic approach that focuses on optimizing people, processes and systems. Join Us at the Lumenia ERP Head-to-Head Event!

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

Allyson Hatfield, demand planner at MARS Petcare presented. In our research, we find that 72% of planners primarily depend on Excel and desktop analysis despite the rollout of advanced platforms for planning in 92% of manufacturers with greater than 5B$ in revenue. Allyson’s presentation was just that.

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Citations of Excellence Awards 2014

SCM Research

Like every year ( see my previous post ), Emerald rewards authors of exceptional papers covered in its extensive Emerald Management Reviews database with a Citation of Excellence Award (full list). I went through the latest list of the Citations of Excellence Top 50 papers. Decision Support Systems, 44 (2), 544-564 DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2007.07.001.

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Getting Away from Excel Spreadsheets: A Project Logistics Case Study

Talking Logistics

Hennecke oversees from a logistics perspective are mostly engineered-to-order systems, with suppliers and end-customers around the world. The process generally involves placing a purchase order with a supplier that says ‘Please deliver to us a cooling system to the attached specification’,” explained Ms.

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Shouldn’t GenAI Mean New Gen?

Supply Chain Shaman

General AI is a self-learning form of artificial intelligence based on language processing to learn across systems. Additionally, the tight integration of ERP to APS (Advanced Planning) makes the system nervous and throws supply chain results out of balance, increasing the bullwhip impact. Not a good thing.) Batch interfaces are slow.

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Courage to Paint Outside the Lines

Supply Chain Shaman

Recently, I presented at the Informs Analytics Conference in Houston and challenged companies to “ think out of the box” and define outside-in processes in Supply Chain Planning. He worked for the North American manufacturing team and struggled with the imposed standards by the centralized center of excellence.