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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

It was a sultry day in Philadelphia. Design of cash-to-cash cycles strategically through complexity analysis, sales and procurement policies. The most mature clients are moving to digital manufacturing based on the Internet of Things (i.e. Procurement. Procurement programs are implemented as standalone processes.

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Driving Organizational Alignment

Supply Chain Shaman

In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. for the public training in Philadelphia i n August and the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September. In the beginning, the emerging supply chain concepts focused on functional excellence. The goal was efficiency.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. On October 15th, I will be speaking on the Qunitiq World Tour in Philadelphia. These technologies are applicable to solve many problems. As always, when you give to us, we give to you.

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Open Letter to the Chief Financial Officer

Supply Chain Shaman

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) evolved to improve the speed of Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes. Breakthrough innovation will happen through the use of a variety of data sources–examples include sensors, streaming data, Internet of Things (IOT), pictures, weather data, geolocation data/maps, telematics, sentiment data.

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High-Tech Nation: How Technological Innovation Shapes America’s 435 Congressional Districts

GlobalTranz

This has always been too myopic a view of how technological innovation is distributed across the country, because of many other metropolitan areas and regions—from Phoenix to Salt Lake City to Philadelphia—are innovative hot spots, too, and many more areas are developing tech capabilities. Internet of Things, smart cities, etc.);

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Integrated Planning: Is It Rubbish? Be Careful What You Ask For….

Supply Chain Shaman

The combination of weather and the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia delayed all my flights for at least two hours on multiple days. Few implementations of planning connect to procurement and transportation. As a result, for three consecutive nights, I crawled into bed at 2:30 AM. Process Integration Across Functions.