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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

ivalua

How Inflation Impacts Procurement Inflation affects a number of aspects of a business, including its ability to compete in the market, financial performance, and overall strategy. This could include negotiating more favorable terms with suppliers or renegotiating existing contracts to ensure that prices remain competitive.

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Transportation Strategies for Continued Success

Logistics Viewpoints

A TMS offers optimization capabilities across multiple modes to improve service levels and reduce freight spend. Below are some transportation strategies for success for suppliers of TMS, TES, and MTS. Coronavirus has changed the outlook for direct-to-consumer commerce, and a TMS is now a critical component of this strategy.

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Inventory Strategies: Evaluating Constant Disruptions

Logility

Inventory strategies begin with an efficient network design to effectively balance your ability to accurately predict customer demand and work with suppliers to adjust orders in real time. Routine firefighting of inventory issues is a symptom of inventory strategies treated as a once-a-year exercise.

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Can Your Current Manufacturing Strategies Ensure Future-Proof Operations?

DELMIA Quintiq

The way forward implies resiliency in all aspects of the business, and for manufacturing in particular, this means implementing the right strategies as stepping stones to build and drive strategic flexibility. The answer lies in a digital transformation strategy that delivers optimal ways of working. How can this be achieved?

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Next-Gen AI-Based Demand Planning: Turn Your Insights Into Accuracy in 1 Day

Artificial intelligence designed for demand planning brings the following benefits: Immediate forecast error reduction of 15-40%: this drives optimal service & stock levels. The planner gets insight into the drivers of demand: what is the impact of seasonality, price changes, or promotions?

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The Onshoring, Reshoring, and Nearshoring Strategies Calm Supply Chain Chaos

Logility

The urgent need for supply chain resiliency is increasing interest in onshoring, reshoring, and nearshoring strategies. Furthermore, every choice can improve earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) and reduce risks in future shipments for each vendor.

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Success Strategies for Demand Forecasting in Supply Chain

ToolsGroup

Demand forecasting in supply chain management is the process of predicting demand, supply, and pricing for products. Download our ebook: Demand Forecast Is Why You Need to Adopt a Service-Driven Supply Chain Strategy. Download our free guide: 5 Critical Demand Forecasting Strategies You Can’t Afford to Ignore.

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The B2B Sales Leader's Guide for Any Economic Environment

Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course.

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What Resilience Means in 2021

Speaker: Scott Wooley, President of Thermal Packing Solutions at Atlantic Tape and Packaging

In this webinar, we will cover the following topics: Champion/Challenger strategy. Blended Supplier Pricing Model. Join Scott Wooley, President of Thermal Solutions at Atlantic Tape and Packaging, and redefine what a resilient supply chain is. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Save your seat now! This is a session you won't want to miss!

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Will Greater Data Granularity Lead to Better, Faster Decisions?

Speaker: Dave Food, Strategy Director at Prophetic Technology

According to Professor Martin Christopher, “Today, companies do not compete on Products and Prices, but on Supply Chains and Services.” Join Dave Food, Strategy Director of Prophetic Technology, on December 11th and learn how data is changing your supply chain, and keys skills to combat this, such as: Modelling for Risk.