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Procurement culture: challenging the old, developing the new

Synovos

Procurement culture: challenging the old, developing the new One of the biggest challenges facing the indirect procurement industry today is digitalization. Will procurement roles continue to exist? The big question is whether procurement roles like mine will still be around in years to come. Often it is not.

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How Modern Software Empowers Procurement with Agility and Resilience in Times of Crisis

ivalua

In a recent webinar, “ How to Leverage S2P Platforms to Enable Supply Chain Resilience ,” procurement experts from Forrester, Ivalua and Procurement Leaders discussed how digital transformation and the technologies that enable it can help companies mitigate risk and be more agile and resilient.

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Using data and AI to improve manufacturing

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Key enablers of AI that are now economically viable to use are: smart sensors; the Internet of Things which can manage a large amount of data from all aspects of production; cloud computing which enables internet connections to store, access, and process data. This also improves asset reliability and lifetime.

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Supply Chain and the Internet of Things – Towards New Paradigms

Logistics Bureau

Machinery, vehicles, mechanical devices, actuators, gauges, sensors, and other things are non-digital. They cannot connect directly to the all-digital Internet. That’s where the Internet of Things or IoT comes in. Demand and sales forecasts can be refined. How Do You Connect Things to the Internet of Things?

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10 Must-Read Supply Chain Analytics Books for 2023

SCMDOJO

3) Data Science for Supply Chain Forecasting (2nd Edition) “Data Science for Supply Chain Forecasting, Second Edition” is a comprehensive guidebook that covers different types of supply chain analytics. It covers a variety of topics including supply chain planning, optimization, demand forecasting, and product allocation.

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A guide to digital supply chain management

Taulia

Digital supplier management solutions can also include digitalized procurement, whereby purchases are tracked from a central purchasing dashboard and measured against a variety of procurement KPIs. In other cases, long lead times can make it difficult to estimate future inventory levels against forecasted demand.

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How AI is transforming manufacturing Part 2: Inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Inventory control can benefit from Artificial Intelligence (AI) because AI provides powerful insights for companies, highlighting interesting trends from large volumes of data that help procurement and warehouse teams to better manage the daily tasks of inventory management. Inventory management in the supply chain. Order fulfillment.