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Purchase Order Management: a Key to Efficient Business

Precoro

Efficient purchase order management helps to have essential business needs covered while engaging as few resources as possible. Once a supplier approves the purchase order, it becomes a legally binding document. Purchase order process is an integral part of a procurement cycle as a whole. Let’s dive deeper.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs. They are more likely to shop for discounts and sales and may delay purchases of some items.

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

While we might go and get the best of the solutions out there to meet today’s challenges and leverage today’s technology, that’s not going to come with a lifetime guarantee that it will meet all our needs in the years ahead. So what to do? Composability is the answer to that challenge. What is Composability? and Europe.

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

ABC analysis creates product segments by grouping products with similar sales volume or purchase frequency to enable category managers to focus on what matters most. The medium-term solution might be to enhance the assortment with alternatives. Traditionally, this has been done by ranking the products based on sales performance.

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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022

ToolsGroup

Love it or hate it, daily necessities need to be purchased. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Shoppers are also less likely to have the hassle of returns, thanks to the ability to see, test, and try-on products before purchasing them. Data source: eMarketer. What exactly are people shopping for online?

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Three Critical Supply Chain Capabilities for Private Label Industry Success

Logility

However, on a recent trip to a mega grocery store I started meandering up and down aisles looking at the variety of both national and store brand products available for purchase. Aggressive make-to-stock manufacturing, needed to meet private label product demands, requires an agile response to changing market needs.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.