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Supply Chain Planning Software Vendor Selection: What they Won’t Tell You

Logility

Apart from the supply chain, operations, procurement and IT teams, also consider sales operations, finance and more. Don’t be surprised if your whiteboarding session concludes with a hundred or more metrics and KPIs. Be sure to include people with perspective and a point of view to help you whittle down the priorities and themes.

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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

OI has been more focused on transactional efficiency, procurement and IT standardization. As I write my new book, Metrics That Matter, I am studying the patterns of corporate performance based on choices in supply chain program execution. It cannot be about singular metrics. Owens Illinois (OI), a $6.3 S&OP Matters.

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What is Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)?

Supply Chain Game Changer

He spent his entire career in Purchasing and Procurement. I discussed our situation with him and he suggested to me that I needed a workshop with all of our suppliers together, even if they were competitors. Within a few weeks of the workshop ideas and plans started coming in from suppliers. Looking Down on Suppliers.

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Changing Mental Models

Supply Chain Shaman

I also had the opportunity to speak at the GHX conference and facilitate a leadership workshop on the required changes for implantable devices. Here are some of the quotes from the workshop I led yesterday that helped me to better understand the industry: “A process born out of chaos is chaos. Generalize procurement of materials.

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CSR Leaders Work With UNGC To Drive Corporate Attention On Supply Chain Sustainability

EcoVadis

This workshop brought together Global Compact LEAD companies and other members convened to define and bring urgency to sustainable procurement, and to discuss how they can motivate and mobilize their companies to address this next frontier in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) progress.

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Off to another exciting year of student-industry engagement at NC State on cutting-edge supply chain projects

NC State SCRC

This project is the e xtension of an executive workshop we ran last fall. MUFG Union Bank Strategic Performance Metrics. The Strategic Metrics should serve the needs of a Chief Procurement Officer that operates as a critical part of the enterprise, encompassing all material program elements. Premier Category Calendar.

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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.