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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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Ultimate guide to warehouse logistics: Enhance organization, movement, and management

6 River Systems

Warehouse logistics is the heart of any supply chain operation, assimilating and dispatching goods to ensure availability and timely delivery. According to research conducted by BigCommerce , the top three factors that influence consumers’ online purchasing decisions are convenience, cost and free shipping. What is warehouse logistics?

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Putting the Supplier Experience at the Forefront of Strategic Procurement

HICX Solutions

As Ramit describes, “Procurement teams really went out aggressively looking for more available suppliers,” adding, “Another example would be in the warehouse network,” with ramifications of materials being shipped to potentially closed locations needing to be dealt with. Other areas now in the spotlight include resilience and logistics.

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Is Your Company on top of its Inventory Planning Game?

Logistics Bureau

These responsibilities extend across functions and when properly exercised, comprise supply, demand, distribution, production, purchasing and capacity planning. Inventory planning metrics and KPIs: You should be able to quantify the performance of systems, processes, and people involved in inventory planning.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

The need for any S&OP process to have an executive sponsor who actively participates in the process, albeit only by exercising final approval over plans and, of course, making any decisions that call for executive authority, cannot be overstated. Warehouse capacity utilisation. The Executive Sponsor. Supply chain cycle times.

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Practical ways to measure productivity – and improve it

Unleashed

In this article we’ll first look at practical ways to measure productivity in the workplace, and then at some of the practical metrics and KPIs that help business owners and managers lift productivity. Our toy makers now have a valuable metric for understanding productivity in their factory. Deciding on an output.

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How to implement a supply chain management system

Unleashed

It’s a combination that provides real-time inventory tracking, from purchase to warehousing through to the sale and delivery of products. Purchasing and supplier management, International Commerce Codes functionality, and advanced shipping. Features include: A B2B eCommerce store, with guest payments. A mobile sales app.