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A New Kind of Supply Chain Managed Services

Logistics Viewpoints

For managed transportation services, a best of breed transportation management system is at the heart of the service. This is much less common than contract logistics or even managed transportation. This model comes from a partnership between GEP and Eliant Inventory Solutions.

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A Radical New Way to Think About Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

It is these changing constraints, transportation capacity, and bottlenecks across an entire ecosystem that matters. They have a complex network of suppliers, internal assets, and transportation and manufacturing partners, many of whom are changing on an ongoing basis. The lack of predictability leads to higher costs and worse service.

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5 Reasons why eAuctions Drive Better Savings

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Procurement specialists can use eAuctions to engage and negotiate with more vendors utilizing an organized approach which thus eliminates any need for cumbersome one-on-one meetings. Throughout a genuine and collaborative cooperation with business vendors, they produce innovative approaches to current procurement difficulties.

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Procurement and supply chain executives are struggling in the current environment of high inflation and missed deliveries.

NC State SCRC

A new study that the SCRC published with GEP examines the increasing pressure that supply chain executives are getting when it comes to responding to supply chain disruptions. The report was published in the last month, and reflects some of the increasing challenges and disparities that exist between procurement and supply chain executives.

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The Role of Centers of Excellence in Supply Chain Transformation

NC State SCRC

The procure to pay focus may continue, but other types of COE activities are layered on top, building on progressively more sophisticated activities such as KPI development, category intelligence support, risk management, contract management, and predictive analytics.

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What areas of SCM are best suited for the application of AI?

NC State SCRC

has the potential to align ERP systems, demand forecasting systems, procure to pay (P2P) systems, transportation management systems (TMS) and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). But can we also overuse the technology, and risk the possibility of ruining our brand if we use it for something we shouldnt.

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Here’s Why Supply Chain Convergence is the Future of Ecommerce

ShipBob

The need for more SKUs increases complexities in sourcing, procurement, inventory management, package tracking — the list goes on. From warehousing and transportation management to order fulfillment and inventory management, 3PLs have revolutionized how companies approach their logistics needs.