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Why Supply Chain Convergence is Critical to Greater Agility and Resilience

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The pandemic has exposed flaws in business practices across industries, which have been acutely felt in their supply chain and procurement operations. The survey’s results suggest a series of misalignments where gaps in process, technology and information flow can be a drag on productivity and optimization.

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

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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. Second lesson: automation needs to keep a human in the loop The second lesson is that automation should augment humans, not replace them. And employees to run them.

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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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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

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In MIT’s State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2021 , 80% of executives surveyed said the pandemic either had no impact on their commitment or increased it. Supply chain sustainability is a higher priority than ever. PwC reports that almost half of assets under management are held by investment firms committed to decarbonization.

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2020 The Year To Address The Elephant in Every Room – Data

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North Carolina State Poole College of Management recently produced this 28 page report entitled “ 2019 Supply Chain Data Quality and Governance Study ”. The report contains some great illustrations of the current state of Data governance across the organizations that were surveyed, with a specific focus on the supply chain.

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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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The SCRC’s Contribution to the WSJ’s Best Managed Companies

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Both of these assessments are described in the ratings description , as follows: “Through a process developed by North Carolina State University professor Robert Handfield, a review is conducted of publicly available information, as well as interviews and surveys of corporate procurement specialists.”