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What is Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Suppliers provide components for products you manufacture and sell. My father reinforced this with me by his example. He spent his entire career in Purchasing and Procurement. At one point I was put in charge of a global manufacturing operations team. Suppliers move your goods from one point to another.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. Let’s take an example. In the evolution of today’s analytics most companies are evaluating concurrent optimization of transactional data. As shown in Figure 3, the period of 2015-2020 will be about analytics.

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. There are many examples in the market. The SAP acquisition of Ariba slowed innovation and the purchase, and then the failed promise of investment in Crossgate was disappointing to SAP supply chain business users.

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Analytics is key.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. When I do workshops on driving data sharing across the industry, the sales group of the seller of products often calls me aside for a one-on-one talk.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

Effectively, there is no database that permits reliable reporting on the volume of biobased products sold in the US or exported for global consumers. As an example, Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325) encompasses a variety of chemical manufacturing codes including petrochemicals (3251), but none for biobased chemicals.

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Inventory Management Techniques That You Need to Know About

EMERGE App

Your business needs cash to pay your salary, your employee’s salaries, rent, supplier invoices and all the running costs of running a business. And purchasing inventory means that you’re tying up a valuable and finite resource — working capital — in your stock. How about an example?