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6 Essential Procurement Training Courses for Professionals: How To Begin and Advance Your Career in Procurement

SCMDOJO

Whether you’re an aspiring procurement enthusiast or a seasoned professional aiming to advance your career, investing in procurement training and procurement training courses can be a game-changer. The fantastic employment options that procurement training opens up are among the most convincing arguments for doing so.

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Blog Series: The Ultimate Guide to Supply Chain Resiliency, Part 4 – Institutionalize

Resilinc

Alternatively, you may be in the early stages of seeking buy-in for an SCRM initiative from division leads and C-level executives. Institutionalizing is when the support of your stakeholders and C-level leaders deepens because they see the SCRM program is achieving its metrics. INSTITUTIONALIZE TO ENSURE LONGEVITY AND VALUE.

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Change management and 3D printing adoption

DiManEx

Instead of purchasing an entirely new unit because they fail to obtain a component for repairs, they choose to produce a spare part when it’s needed. Instead it’s “how can new manufacturing technologies help us solve an existing problem?” The people involved (usually engineers, quality control and purchasing) have different interests.

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What I Have Learned Teaching Courses on Market-Driven Value Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

It senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time latency to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing functions. When this happens, there is greater balance between metric trade-offs and resiliency in year-over-year improvements in corporate performance.

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Guest Blog Part 2: Start Your eKanban Implementation with Value-stream Mapping and Engaging Your Suppliers

synchrono

Through this guest blog series, my intent is to share some of my experiences implementing supplier quality and Lean manufacturing initiatives by focusing on eKanban systems. My first post offered advice for planning an eKanban rollout (advice that could be applied across any Lean manufacturing project).

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Reverse Logistics: Who Does it Well?

Logistics Bureau

Manufacturers may recall stock because of flaws or to replace older products with newer ones. In a manufacturing plant, reverse logistics performance is tied to the money or materials that can be recovered cost-effectively from the returned product. Note that this may require extra training for people who will do the sorting.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

While this task will draw heavily on the demand plan, the Supply Chain Head will also need to canvas input from the company’s finance, logistics, operations, and manufacturing functions. Typical mistakes made by even the best in S&OP leadership include: Ignoring the need to cross-train and focus on developing emotional aptitude.