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Supplier Relationship Management: Driving Success in Modern Supply Chains

QAD

Corporate purchasing leaders must not only manage transactional data effectively but also use this data from stakeholders across the organization to create a more collaborative environment that creates trust and benefits to both customers and suppliers. What is the solution? Start with the basics.

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How Do IT Supply Chain Attacks Actually Happen?

IT Supply Chain

That means vendors, software providers, cloud platforms, even IT contractors. One example came from a small software company that provided IT tools to hospitals. Every hospital that downloaded the next software update also got infected. They went through the software vendor. But breaking into one of their vendors?

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As The Wind Blows: Improving Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

The industry is awash with technologists and consultants focused on selling solutions. As companies consider purchasing new solutions based on better planning engines—machine learning, rules-based ontological frameworks, narrow AI, pattern recognition, large language models, and sentiment analysis— I ask for the use of caution.

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Organizational Alignment: Overlooked, but So Important.

Supply Chain Shaman

To entice you to participate let’s look at the data more closely. In the supply chain team analysis, note the 21% gap between procurement and manufacturing teams, the 35% gap between sales and operations and the 21% gap between finance and operations. To respond, follow this link. Organizational Alignment. Functional Metrics.

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Navigating The Snails Trail: Moving to Outside-in Planning Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2012, I published an article on Sales and Operations Technology (S&OP) Maturity. (I At the time, one of the people (let’s call him Noel) that I great respect for in the industry called me to say, “Lora, I don’t get it. Let’s start with a definition of concurrency.

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How has Integrated Business Planning Proven Itself to be a Powerful Planning Process?

Logility

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. What is needed is a single, integrated planning solution that unites short-, medium-, and long-term planning under one system.

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Logility Powers Sustainability-Minded Brands with Advanced Supply Chain Technology and Resources

Logility

ATLANTA – January 25, 2022 – According to PWC’s December 2021 Global Consumer Insights Pulse Survey , about half of respondents consciously consider factors related to sustainability when making purchasing decisions. Logility is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software, Inc. Logility, Inc., Logility, Inc., NASDAQ: AMSWA).