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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was tired of waiting. Work planners previously did manually can be calculated by software. But advances in this area have two limitations – the software itself and our ever-changing world. The myth of the “perfect plan”.

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

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. When investing in a modern supply chain software solution, remember that you work in supply chain. Will this environment attract the next generation of talent?

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 10 2023

Supply Chain Matters

is being established cooperatively by OCEMA , Georgia Ports Authority, Jacksonville Port Authority, North Carolina State Ports Authority, SACP, and CCM. with more than 75 locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina , and South Carolina. No financial details were disclosed regarding this acquisition.

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Patrick Hopkins at Coupa: Coca Cola’s four truths of procurement to pay in action

Supply Chain View from the Field

At the Coupa INSPIRE procurement conference in San Francisco this week, the Chief Procurement Officer of Coca Cola Consolidated, Patrick Hopkins, shared his views on the “4 Truths of Procurement”, and how he has operationalized his views through the deployment of Coupa procure to pay software. Data must be right.

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Apply Yourself to Everything You Do

BlueYonder

DW: I have been with JDA Software for five and a half years, and I am an enterprise solution architect. DW: We did the procurement for the supplies that we sold on the ship, and we took on supplies for other ships that were in deployment. I am from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. SCN: Tell me a little about yourself.

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Apply Yourself to Everything You Do

BlueYonder

DW: I have been with JDA Software for five and a half years, and I am an enterprise solution architect. DW: We did the procurement for the supplies that we sold on the ship, and we took on supplies for other ships that were in deployment. I am from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. SCN: Tell me a little about yourself.