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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

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GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Alex Zhong, Director Product Marketing at GEP.

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5 Supply Chain Collaboration Essentials to Mitigate Disruptions

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Experts from North Carolina State University and GEP conducted a survey on supply chain, procurement and IT leaders to determine their challenges and priorities, focusing on examining gaps in the supply chain. Organizations need to consider several factors for collaboration to be effective.

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

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Even worse, I work for a company who makes solutions to help companies solve these kinds of problems, which I listen, speak and write about for a living! Supply chain leaders from planning to procurement to logistics face labor shortages and cost concerns, so they want to reduce workforce time spent on manual activities.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

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Because switching from JIT to JIC is at best only a tool to address short-term problems and risk. JIT isn’t the main problem, and JIC isn’t a solution. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Concurrent planning provides robust information and resilience. A change to one link (e.g.

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Why e Procurement Systems are the Secret Weapon for Public Sector

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Step 1: Use e Procurement Systems as a Potential Source of Revenue. Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. However, a smaller subset of these states have looked at e Procurement as a potential source of revenue.

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Uncovering New Sources of Revenue in the Public Sector

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Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. Early pioneers of this approach include the states of Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia. Step 3: Drive Value with State Procurement Agreements.

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Supply Chain Matters Last Week in Supply Chain Tech March 27 2023

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Raleigh, North Carolina based First Citizens , is ranked as the 30 th largest U.S. The bank will reportedly purchase $119 billion in deposits and upwards of $72 billion in existing SVB loans. Landry was also President of Barkawi Management Consultants’ North America practice. bank and considered as one of the U.S.’s