NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Communication is Essential for Supply Chain Leaders I had the pleasure of speaking with Jodie Clarke, Vice President of Procurement at Altria Client Services thisweek. She then moved into the other areas of procurement, eventually got the opportunity to assume the role of Vice President with Altria.

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LevaData

APRIL 26, 2022

It's difficult to source and buy direct materials at scale. Due to resource constraints, procurement organizations are forced to concentrate on a few main categories: items that are either incredibly risk-prone or of significant strategic importance. The post The Role of Data in Sourcing Success appeared first on LevaData.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. Available at [link]. [2]

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Kodiak Hub

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Sourcing, Procurement, and Supply Chain Executives are quickly becoming the most powerful executives in the world. As businesses face new challenges, these executives are increasingly being turned to as the only heroes who can save the day.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 23, 2015

The Procurement Summit. The Procurement Summit provides senior purchasing, sourcing and supply chain executives across the North of England with an unmissable opportunity to keep up-to-date with the latest industry innovations, best practice and new technology solutions. Date: 17 November 2015.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 31, 2016

The procurement Summit 2016. Building on the huge success of eWorld Procurement & Supply – which has been running bi-annually in London since 2001 – the new Procurement Summit will bring together 150 purchasing and finance professionals from across the commercial, public and third sectors. Procurement Automation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Ever since COVID hit, supply chain executives have embraced supply chain risk management. Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. Supply Chain Chaos is the New Norm. Do I need more inventory?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

There is a multibillion-dollar supply chain software market that grew at double digit rates during the pandemic, and will continue to grow fast, that very few supply chain executives have heard of. The solution is called a supply chain collaboration network (SCCN). SCCN is a Network Solution.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

During that time, she worked in a number of different areas including direct procurement, indirect procurement, operations, supply chain, packaging, and operations support including: HR, finance, IT and facilities management. Now, Pam is helping lead a digital procurement transformation for Caterpillar Inc.

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LevaData

MAY 16, 2022

If so, which negotiation strategies—or alternative sourcing decisions—might reduce the gap? For procurement organizations, such questions are both troubling and difficult to answer. For procurement organizations, such questions are both troubling and difficult to answer. Take, for example, pricing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. The Supply Chain Executives were not interested in the project, and as a result, did not see the value.” ” Her answer was telling. Hence the solution couldn’t be much maintained. ” My take? Massive Disruption.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2022

The Bloomberg report notes that many existing senior manufacturing engineering and supply chain management executives will report to Klein when he takes charge this week. Stellantis Senior Procurement Leadership Change. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 28, 2019

As we’ve explored in our last two blog posts, economists are predicting a decline in global economic growth due to policy and trade issues both in the United States and the European Union , bringing an increased risk to supply chains and procurement organizations.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 3, 2024

In this special Supply Chain Matters supply network risk advisory, we highlight the initial implications of today’s major earthquake that has impacted the island of Taiwan. They can be events that are geopolitical, industry or natural disaster in scope.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

As the world is in year two of the Covid pandemic, and the supply chain landscape has changed, it is time to revisit Amazon’s supply chain and see how it has changed and how prepared it is for the future. Procurement and Supply Chain are Smarter Together – Practical Use Cases ; Dr. Madhav Durbha ( Coupa ).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

SCCN suppliers like Emerge, GEP, and Coupa provide good network visibility to procurement; solutions from FourKites and project44 provide visibility to shipments; and solutions from Interos or Eversteam Analytics provide visibility to new risks in almost real time. Clearly, a new approach is needed.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Concerning the horizon of next year, what remains on the minds of broader supply chain management teams are addressing and anticipating a host of added unknowns and what is likely to be another very challenging upcoming year. Implications of Covid Lockdown Challenges Across China.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. The groups of supply planning, procurement and logistics operate within silos. In Supply Chain Operating Networks, process canonicals define these multi-tier flows.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 30, 2018

It allows you to accurately test the resilience of a complex, multi-echelon, global supply chain. At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, analyst Marc Halpern clarified three key concepts about supply chain digital twins in his presentation “Busting the Myth of Digital Twins to Deliver Value.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

My last post on the Supply Chain Shaman blog was forty-five days ago. My first focus was on China sourcing. Then it was the redefinition of the supply chain for the global shutdowns Sick with the virus; I spent my energies writing and moderating podcasts. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.)

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 1, 2018

Delivering Customer Value through Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Many people don't know that procurement is a part of integrated logistics. In logistics management literature, procurement is also called "Inbound Logistics" or management of incoming materials. Are there any other logistics books you love and why?

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

This comprehensive 38-page report includes the full listing of predictions along with a lot of information, perspectives and added insights.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It was all about companies trying to go into countries that had low-cost sourcing capabilities, as well as to capture new market. And when you look at the end-to-end supply chain, from all the suppliers to all the manufacturing facilities around the world, the complexity has grown by several orders of magnitude. Sunil: Exactly.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 6, 2015

The Global Procurement & Supply Chain Conference is a 2 days event being curated by the industry’s leading procurement & supply chain executives and features high-level discussion on your most pressing challenges including: Achieving excellence in internal collaboration and integration.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Overview In short, B2B Supply Chain Business Networks are Cloud based platforms designed to achieve end-to-end supply chain data visibility and business process decision-making synchronization. The B2B Supply Chain Network is also the manifestation of integrated as well as contextualized digital and physical data flows.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 11, 2021

Supply chain breaches pose a substantial danger to businesses, potentially interrupting operations and harming their reputations. Cyber security in the supply chain cannot be considered an IT issue alone. Open-source software may provide a security risk, and sufficient monitoring for these configurations is critical.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Some of the core capabilities and skill sets that Spinnaker brings include supply chain management and process improvement, supply chain design and analytics, supply chain planning, omni-channel order management and supply chain execution. All rights reserved.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But the risk of war is already impacting supply chains, and an invasion of Ukraine by Russia would trigger extensive and enduring disruptions which supply chain and procurement managers should assess and prepare for. and European firms have tier 1, 2 or 3 suppliers in Russia or the Ukraine.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Check out What is Virtual Procurement and Why Should You Care? At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. Procurement is an integral part of any company in any industry. Jill is a true, seasoned leader and expert in Procurement.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 20, 2022

As developments regarding industry supply chain disruptions continue unabated, businesses now increasingly face the sting of higher supply chain and transportation driven costs impacting the bottom line. The exploding costs of diesel and gasoline fuel now have a direct impact to business profitability.

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Supply Chain Opz

APRIL 1, 2018

The Supply Chain Revolution: Innovative Sourcing and Logistics for a Fiercely Competitive World Pros: This book will show you how to plan and execute procurement and sourcing strategy like the world's leading companies. Career patterns of supply chain executives: an optimal matching analysis.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 6, 2022

Source: JP Morgan and S&P Global, March 2022. Supply Chain Matters Insights and Perspectives of the March and Q1 2022 Data. There is also a developing understanding on what impacts there will be regarding supplies of key commodities that were sourced in both Russia and Ukraine. Global Wide Production Activity.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

The reality is that supply chain management is not just about managing orders and transportation and inventory — it’s about doing all those things while also navigating through the many risks that could disrupt your supply chain or bring it to a halt. Do we have the right Service Level Agreement metrics in place?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

It combines decisions across sell, deliver, make and source processes to drive value based outcomes. They also are clear that the supply chain is defined outside-in based on the channel requirements and the underlying rhythms and cycles of fulfillment, manufacturing and procurement. Hoping to see you there!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As we see from Deloitte’s CPO Survey in 2018, AI is only fully deployed in 2% of procurement organizations and is far from making any real impact at scale within the digital ecosystems procurement teams are so eagerly trying to build. AI + Data = Supply Chain Risk Management.

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DynaSys

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Are you interested in Advanced Analytics for your Supply Chain? Manage costs, improve profit: these are the top priorities for supply chain executives today (cf. PwC Global Supply Chain Survey). Sourcing and supplier performance.

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Oracle SCM

AUGUST 1, 2018

One of the Supply Chain Management trends apparent at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May was highlighted by several vendor/customer presentations focused on the value of Collaboration and Visibility projects. Tom McDonough , Sr. Director Product Marketing.

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