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Why You Should Conduct Internal Quality Audits

Arena Solutions

A QMS typically aligns with your product lifecycle management (PLM) solution and your product innovation goals. External audits can be nerve-wracking with key personnel and teams running from pillar to post searching for records or documents, especially if you don’t have a quality management system (QMS) software solution in place.

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What is Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)?

Supply Chain Game Changer

And suppliers provide the goods, supplies, software and other items required by every function in your company to conduct day to day business. He spent his entire career in Purchasing and Procurement. Despite some internal pushback about exposing suppliers to too much internal information I moved forward anyways.

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7 Ways to Create a Great Customer Experience!

Supply Chain Game Changer

To start, ensure you ask yourself the below questions: What gaps exist in the current customer experience strategy What are my customers’ expectations, and how do I fit that into the CX program in place How are my business processes positioned to consider CX Do I have the right tools to improve CX initiatives? Carry Out Competitor Analysis.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

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. We easily navigate the digital world in our personal lives, but enterprise software is not digital. Executives believe it should be easy.

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Procurement Leadership Program can help individuals market the real value of procurement to the enterprise

NC State SCRC

Gene Richter is widely known as one of the world’s true procurement gurus, and I was privileged to have known him when he came to speak several times at Michigan State during the 1992-1999 period when I was there. And when I say value, I mean more than just cost savings, or the infamous “purchase price avoidance” metric.

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

Unleashed

Marketing plans are an important tool for any business. Focus on opportunities The development of your marketing plan should start with a workshop of key executives considering what the business’s goals are, along with its Unique Selling Proposition, key messages, stakeholders (including consumers) and how to engage with and influence them.

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What is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)?

ThroughPut

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a suite of integrated software applications that helps organizations manage and automate their core business processes. An effective ERP manages day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management and compliance, and supply chain operations.