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Why You Should Conduct Internal Quality Audits

Arena Solutions

If you’re a product developer, manufacturer, or part of an engineering team, you know the excitement, challenge, and profitability that come from transforming an idea into an actual product. Leveraging internal audits to align quality management with key business metrics When asked what are the benefits of conducting an internal audit?

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What is Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Suppliers provide components for products you manufacture and sell. He spent his entire career in Purchasing and Procurement. At one point I was put in charge of a global manufacturing operations team. Despite some internal pushback about exposing suppliers to too much internal information I moved forward anyways.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. He reflected on his emotions when his CEO threw down a Harvard Business Review article on Big Data and customer-centric sentiment/social information and asked Anthony how he was going to do it. I feel strongly that it needs to happen.

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. The SAP acquisition of Ariba slowed innovation and the purchase, and then the failed promise of investment in Crossgate was disappointing to SAP supply chain business users. Future of Analytics in the Building of Supply Chain 2030.

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. The information went beyond the executives— their entire team could see it all on their mobile phones. Analytics is key.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. We need to build a network of networks with interoperability of quality and lot code information to track and trace the unit of one. It was not adequate.

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How to Create an Effective Marketing Plan for the Food & Beverage Industry

Unleashed

Stakeholder relationships The food and beverage industry also relies on relationships across its stakeholder group – from producers and manufacturers to distributors and customers. Your marketing plan, which will likely draw on such a workshop, should then structure a strategy to take advantage of those opportunities.