Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. Shell’s current shift to the global supply chain is impacting North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Russia, and China. He needed to find new solutions. Incrementalism Is Not Enough. A Brief History of IT Investments.

Demand Planning Software

QAD

APRIL 27, 2023

Earlier this year, QAD hosted a live webinar to explore and analyze the trends that are likely to dominate the procurement world over the coming months. It’s no secret that procurement teams have an amplified role within their businesses and that many are left with questions — our goal was to offer answers.

Manufacturing Procurement

Unleashed

DECEMBER 15, 2019

It’s easy to oversimplify the differences between sourcing for parts locally or internationally. When considering where to purchase from, the prevailing idea seems to be that domestic sourcing allows for better control and shorter lead time, but international sourcing is more cost-effective. International Sourcing.

Manufacturing Procurement

QAD

AUGUST 16, 2022

Continued fallout, including transport congestion, limited air freight and rail freight transportation in the Asia-Europe lanes, because of the Russia/Ukraine conflict. All these posts point to the need for visibility and solutions that foster collaboration in the supplier ecosystem. Potential U.S.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Customers increasingly want customized solutions, and require specific logistics delivery requirements.

Predictive Analytics

Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Partly thanks to emerging economies such as Russia, Brazil and South Africa, companies will increasingly be trading with partners outside of the European Union, which means that local customs and tax legislation and regulations will have an ever greater influence on business operations. 39 | Tools & Technology.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In order for logistics, procurement and distribution to align with the general advancements of the industry itself, these critical areas must give in to a more comprehensive transformation. There is not yet a strong enough synchronization between planning and execution, with dedicated digital solutions as the middle filter connecting the two.

Automotive

SCMDOJO

JUNE 28, 2024

Gender diversity in supply chain teams fosters collaboration, enhances decision-making processes, and leads to more effective solutions that resonate with diverse stakeholders. Creativity and Innovation: Supply chain management involves finding creative solutions to complex challenges. She holds a degree of MBA and MCIPS.

Negotiating Skills

Enterra Insights

MARCH 24, 2022

“If you’re looking for a sudden return to a normal, pre-pandemic operating environment,” writes Matt Gunn ( @mattgunn ), Vice President for solutions marketing at Slync.io, “keep waiting.”[4]. One consumer trend that won’t change is the increased use of the digital path to purchase. ”[4].

Supply Chain Planning Software

NC State SCRC

JANUARY 27, 2018

But emerging technology is now beginning to create new ways to think about sourcing risk, which in the past has been a very manual, encumbered process. This has caused banks to look at the flow of activities in the “source chain”, which refers to the way that third parties use bank data for different opreations.

Purchasing Skills

Precoro

APRIL 24, 2023

Establishing resilient supply chains is one of the top priorities for modern businesses, particularly when operating amid geopolitical volatility like the post-Covid aftermath, global repercussions of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, or extreme weather events.

Supply Chain Design Software

Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods by giving customers more visibility and greater confidence to accurately predict delivery times. ” Providing solutions in the context of this reality is critical, and together Spire and Gravity Supply Chain Solutions are working to restore the global supply chain.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2023

Resilinc’s customers use the service to plan purchasing strategies, identify cost arbitrage opportunities, leverage pricing negotiations, and gain competitive advantages. But the AI-powered tool empowers supply chain and sourcing teams to monitor and forecast supply and pricing trends and use that intelligence for strategic advantages.

Negotiating Skills

Resilinc

JUNE 21, 2022

Where new copper sources will come from is an issue of major concern geopolitically. Of the three largest new mines cited by Goldman Sach’s Snowdon, one is in Russia. dependent on foreign sources. dependent on foreign sources. But given its location in the east, it’s expected to mostly serve China and India.

Purchasing Skills

Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

Brazil had an election that proved to be radically unpopular with the global business community, Russia has alienated itself and is hurting due to the rapid drop in the price of oil, while India and China are in a holding pattern, with tepid growth. The solution? More of the same.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

This circumstance can benefit from oil and gas solutions. These services range widely and include finding energy sources, managing energy data, evaluating drilling and formations, and geological sciences. In other words, E&P firms can only keep or increase revenue by purchasing or discovering new reserves.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Intelligent Audit

MAY 31, 2022

While the sources of rising fuel costs are complex and interconnected, a few primary reasons rise to the top. As the demand rapidly rose at the beginning of 2022, the Russia-Ukraine war stripped the global market of available crude oil sources. What’s Keeping Fuel Higher? of total sales at an estimated $1,747.3 billion total.

Purchasing Skills

Exiger Perspectives

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Without executive support, the SCRM program is likely to be under-resourced in terms of the appropriate skilled SCRM personnel and the appropriate SCRM technology and data to drive a holistic solution. Stone , Vice President of Supply Chain Risk Management at Exiger Government Solutions.

Supply Chain Risk Management

NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Lessons Learned from a Career in Procurement As part of our weekly Supply Chain Leadership, I interviewed Howard Richman, who I am co-authoring a new book with (“Procurement Confidential”). At Mars, procurement (commercial as it was called) was one of the most highly regarded of the professions.

Procurement Analytics

Exiger Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Uncovering Risks Tied to Ethylene Oxide (EtO) Sterilization in Healthcare September 27, 2024 Case Study Table of Contents Executive Summary Through its purchase of a supply chain risk management illumination, a U.S. Exiger investigated and risk-assessed 726 companies with its proprietary, risk-based due diligence software DDIQ.

Resource Reduction

Resilinc

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2022, the US CHIPS and Science Act boosted domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductor chips which led to fewer purchases of semiconductors from China. In 2010, China restricted exports of rare earth elements to Japan following a territorial dispute, sending prices soaring and Japan scrambling to find alternative sources.

Manufacturing Procurement

Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2022

The direct impact of this phenomenon is weakened purchasing power of other currencies relative to the Dollar. However, outside the emergence of a newly discovered technology or energy source, an economic boom seems unlikely at this time. Picking productivity increased 140-170% for warehouses where the solution was implemented.

Sri Lanka

USC Consulting Group

MARCH 27, 2023

According to a new survey by Coupa Software , 82% of supply chain leaders report bracing for continued supply chain issues in the next year. The industry is looking for ways to take the risk out of its supply chain, namely by reshoring or nearshoring supply to offset the worry about once-reliable sources. Economic pressures.

Consumer Goods

Repl Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

The nature of blockchain is such that it naturally records every event leading up to the purchase of an item. This is particularly valuable for retailers and consumers who want to ensure that products have been stored at a consistent temperature, sourced in a particular way, for example from fair trad e or organic providers.

Retail

Murano Corporation

JANUARY 19, 2016

In addition, related knowledge-worker industries such as software development, architecture, and network engineering are also seeing growth. Legacy ERP software is old technology, slow to implement and adopt and adapt, time and resource consuming, inflexible, and distracting from the core missions of these organizations.

Supply Chain Planning Software

RELEX Solutions

MAY 5, 2017

M.Video is the largest Russian consumer electronics retail chain by revenue, providing a successful service to more than 379 stores, operating in 161 cities in Russia. Locations across 161 cities in Russia. With product delivery sourced from the most local store, to better balance assortment and inventory in line with demand.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2022

Signet expects to hold the line on diamond prices despite Russia war. The reality, at least from a US farming perspective, is that the country imports little from Ukraine and Russia. And while the price he is paid for his grain will rise, too, “prices will reach a point where no one can afford to purchase them.”.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Unleashed

APRIL 18, 2022

An example of supply chain resilience A basic example of supply chain resilience is building in redundancy through dual sourcing: having an alternative supplier for important parts or ingredients. Their Head of Supply Chain, Daniel Bull-Clearie, initially sourced their raw product entirely from their own coastal farm.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

Software is Eating Supply Chains. According to venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, “software is eating the world” and therefore eating supply chains with it. Business around the planet is increasingly dependent on IT and software applications. Software has eaten the world and supply chains with it. State of Play in 2018.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Peter Guinto capped his 12-year Air Force career in procurement by serving on the federal COVID supply chain task force and becoming head of contracting for the Medium-altitude UAS Division—the unit responsible for keeping the United States’ edge in warfighting drones. In just two or three years—at the end of the George W.

Government

Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

retailer Walmart and Tsinghua University announced a joint effort to track the movement of food products in China using blockchain technology to improve food safety in the world’s second-largest economy”; and just last month, Mahindra and IBM announced they are developing a blockchain solution for supply chain finance.

Predictive Analytics Software

Freightera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is changing fast with the rapid rise of economic power by China, India, Brazil, Russia, the MENA region, and now Africa. Sources and References [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Eric Beckwitt is CEO of Freightera.

Sustainability

Enterra Insights

MAY 24, 2022

’ But since Vladimir Putin launched his latest invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, the Latin form has proliferated inside Russia. … The Z’s adoption several days into the operation suggests the planning for Russia’s information war may have been just as haphazard as the shooting war plans appear to have been. ”[1].

Russia