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The Role of Centers of Excellence in Supply Chain Transformation

NC State SCRC

The procure to pay focus may continue, but other types of COE activities are layered on top, building on progressively more sophisticated activities such as KPI development, category intelligence support, risk management, contract management, and predictive analytics.

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Legacy Sourcing and Planning Solutions Struggle with Supply Chain Challenges- Summary Posting

Supply Chain Matters

Below are the individual web links and prime takeaway messages from each of our prior postings: Part One : Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in legacy software design.

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Do You Know How Much Your Company is Spending? A Spend Analytics Checklist

Supply Chain View from the Field

The leading IT magazine, CIO Review, today published a special issue on supply chain transformation, and included an article I wrote on spend management as a core capability. This value is an important component in calculating the cost of goods sold in the financial statement.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

The percentage of purchases made and fulfilled through digital commerce has exploded in the past two years, advancing a pre-pandemic trend by as much as 10 years according to some industry watchers. The accelerated shift of buying behavior in both B2C and B2B markets also is playing a huge role in redefining our landscape.

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Get the Procurement Analytics Advantage with SAP S/4HANA

Bristlecone

Did you know that advanced analytics, when used in lieu of traditional statistical models, can help procurement departments increase cost efficiency by 3-8%? [1]. The procurement department of any business generates more data than is humanly possible to compute and comprehend through traditional means. Integration.

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Transforming Supply Chain Planning: Embrace the Shift

Bristlecone

Cognitive Automation for Digital Transformation: Digital transformation initiatives center on cognitive automation and no-touch process execution to clearly articulate and deliver value. Global CPG manufacturer identified 35%45% of its product portfolio for no-touch demand planning using machine learning (ML) forecasting.

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Strategy for Supply Chain Transformation in the Age of Scarcity

QAD

Cause of Supply Chain Scarcity and How It’s Impacting Auto. Amazon, a B2C powerhouse, has been at the head of this growing trend, making it easier and easier for consumers to purchase and receive daily items right from their home. Supply Chain Cleansing .