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What is Supply Chain Management? A Guide to Success

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Planning ensures that resources are allocated effectively and that production and distribution meet customer demand. Sourcing: Sourcing is all about finding reliable suppliers, negotiating contracts, and managing relationships. It encompasses activities such as procurement, supplier selection, and evaluation.

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DIFOT: A Metric of Supplier Performance

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Delivery In Full On Time, or DIFOT, is a metric used to analyse how accurate and efficient your supply chain is. Without it functioning correctly, your supplies may not arrive in the correct amount or the correct timeframe, severely compromising your ability to meet your customers’ needs.

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Boosting Efficiency: Top 5 Inventory Optimization Strategies

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Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI): VMI is a collaborative approach where suppliers manage inventory levels for their customers. Suppliers monitor stock levels and replenish inventory automatically, based on agreed-upon criteria such as sales data or predefined inventory levels.

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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

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Organizations will need to consider and invest in customer experience metrics and data analytics to understand better what their customers want and enhance the supply chain’s ability to understand this. From cloud-based platforms to advanced supplier data analytics , digital solutions are addressing the challenges of supply chain management.

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Improving supply chain efficiency

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As such, an efficient supply chain is one in which orders are fulfilled by suppliers on time, while minimizing operational costs. While every company will have different priorities, a number of metrics can be used to measure supply chain efficiency. Build better supplier relationships.

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From Predictions to Operations: Compelling Supply Chain AI Use Cases

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In short, AI for demand forecasting facilitates the creation of an agile ecosystem where companies can predict demand in real-time and can quickly adapt to meet the changing demands of their customers. AI for supplier relationship assessment. You can comprehend market dynamics and shifting customer preferences in real-time.

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Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Explained

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As buyers source components from several suppliers, they often implement a VMI program at a third-party warehouse near the production or assembly location. Suppliers are then required to hold approved goods until the buyer requests delivery. Suppliers also have their own balance sheet metrics to worry about.