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Procurement vs. Supply Chain Management: Differences, Challenges & Solutions

ivalua

Procurement and supply chain management are often used interchangeably—but in practice, the lines between them can blur in ways that create real friction. Misaligned priorities, siloed systems, and unclear ownership can directly impact key performance indicators like cost savings percentage and procurement cycle time.

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Supply Chain IT Systems Explained

Logistics Bureau

If you were tasked with procuring the best supply chain IT system, what would you look for? ERP, APS, SCM Systems Explained Organisations often use these systems together because each serves a distinct but complementary purpose. SCM then takes these plans and helps execute them across your entire supply chain network.

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AI This. If Only.

Supply Chain Shaman

After a dramatic drop at the beginning of the pandemic, Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software public valuations are near twice the ten-year average. Procurement Operates On An Island. A consolidation wave continued with 299 Mergers and Acquisitions in 2020. The reason? Broad Strokes.

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7 Rules of Fashion Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Opz

Fashion SCM 1.0 Fashion SCM 2.0 We''ve identified 7 rules that we can learn from them as below, 7 Rules of Fashion SCM 1) Produce in small lot : small lot is the unique characteristics of lean manufacturing which is not the case here. In 1984, US Apparel Industry created the task force called " Crafted With Pride in the U.S.A.

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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. The rebirth of marketplace offerings is not on the back of e-procurement or ERP. The debates were heated.

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Using Procurement Analytics to Simplify Your Supplier Reconciliation

Logility

However, with a simple software-based supplier reconciliation process using procurement analytics in place, an organization can automate this cumbersome process to save hundreds to thousands of man hours every year. For example, our client focused on critical preferred supplier relationships with high volume to start.

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Building the Business Case for Supply Chain Risk Management

GlobalTranz

To know the most difficult challenges as perceived by supply chain professionals, we turn to the SCM World’s 2017 Future of Supply Chain survey. No surprise that SCM World named these problems “new worries” because they’re very different from those faced by companies a decade ago. GET YOUR COPY HERE. Download White Paper.