Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Procurement Research 
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 7, 2025
For example, if I improve the cost structure in transportation, procurement, manufacturing and sales independently, what decision support framework decides the right trade-offs? I observe that organizations are unclear on outcomes and the definition of supply chain excellence. Supply chain excellence should be about driving value.
ToolsGroup
MARCH 31, 2025
However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires. Probabilistic demand forecasting, in contrast, provides a full probability distribution, revealing actual purchasing patterns and enabling inventory planners to align stock levels with demand realities.
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Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 15, 2022
” Followed by “How are you organized, and what defines functional excellence? And, how do you tie functional excellence to corporate value?” Companies became less clear on the definition of supply chain excellence and how to implement decision support technologies. This gap grew over the last decade.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 19, 2024
In this research, 81% of brand owners and contract manufacturers primarily depend on communication through email and spreadsheets. In addition, a purchase order changes three-to-four times and there is a black hole (data is caught between email systems of trading partners for one-to-two days). PE Firm Buy-out and Consolidation.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. In this area of research, I find that companies are like dogs chasing cars. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. The reason? Discontinued in 2011.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 21, 2024
The class discovers the current blackholes of the supply chain (direct procurement and contract manufacturing. In the research, we find that deploying an outside-in model always beats an inside-out model, reducing process and data latency while improving the organization’s ability to make decisions at the speed of business.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. We remain committed to open content research and firmly believe that content should never be behind a paywall.
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