ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

This guide breaks down the key procurement technologies in use today and the trends reshaping the future, such as AI-driven sourcing, predictive risk management, and deeper integration across the supply chain. What Is Procurement Technology? Here are some of the most important tools teams are already using.

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Procurement Solutions Sourcing Strategies Optimal Sourcing Analytics Software 130

Kinaxis

AUGUST 5, 2014

This key supplier had been identified and sure enough, you have a second source primed and ready to go. We have a problem.” The alternate source uses the same supplier in Taiwan. Adding to this challenge is the reluctance of suppliers to share their sources with their customers for competitive reasons.

Supply Chain Planning Software 267

Supply Chain Planning Software Inventory Reduction Sourcing Strategies Agile and Lean Supply Chain 267

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 23, 2024

Collaborative discussions can help identify relevant data sources and metrics that capture the end-to-end supply chain process and align with overall business goals. Data inventory and assessment: Conduct a comprehensive inventory of available data sources within the organization, including internal systems (e.g., sensors, RFID tags).

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Optimal Sourcing Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Software Modeling 307

SCM Research

AUGUST 5, 2021

Grounded in a review of empirical studies of opportunism, the authors “provide suggestions about research designs and data sources that support an agenda that steers research to refine and develop the theory about opportunism”. Second, the Journal of Operations Management ’s Jack Meredith Best Paper Award goes to Jillian A.

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SCM Journal Supply Chain Design Cost Reduction Strategies 28

ToolsGroup

MAY 16, 2023

This AI-driven forecasting method incorporates data from a broader range of sources to generate a range of probable forecast outcomes and calculate the likelihood of each. ToolsGroup SCM “Spin the Wheel!” The ToolsGroup SCM wheel launched many great discussions around which KPIs attendees were most focused on to improve in 2023.

Gartner 283

Gartner Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Inventory Reduction 283

ToolsGroup

JUNE 15, 2023

With the number, frequency and severity of disruptions that can impact supply chain operations growing, now is the time to closely review SCM resilience and business continuity plans. ToolsGroup SCM “Spin the Wheel!” That certainly beat our Gartner US SCM wheel spins by over 25%, even with 85% more attendees in the US.

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Gartner Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software Supply Chain Design Software 293

GlobalTranz

MAY 4, 2015

The 3 Big Supply Chain Management Trends Surely to Change SCM as we know it Forever. At Cerasis, we have recently wrote a lot of material related to these three core trends and here is a brief highlight from some of the posts we’ve written about these trends: SCM Core Trend #1: Supply Chain Visibility.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 14, 2023

What is a supply chain management system (SCM)? When talking about SCM, we can elaborate it as integrating all dependent business activities, including resources and actors, to smoothen the workflow. It has made visible changes in the SCM systems. For strict security purposes, authorized blockchains are preferred in SCM systems.

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ivalua

MAY 31, 2022

A company’s supply chain is a key source of competitive advantage and Supply Chain Management (SCM) is designed to allow a company to monitor its suppliers and utilize the available resources to improve performance. But most sourcing and procurement teams need to pivot and modify the way they handle SCM decisions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 25, 2021

SCM software article and permission to publish here provided by Irina Kapetanakis. Often offered as a product suite, SCM software platforms offer configurable functionality to address users’ needs. SCM software also allows businesses to scale their supply chain operations while reducing costs and improving speed to market.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Software SCM Supply Chain Software 102

Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Fashion SCM 1.0 Fashion SCM 2.0 We''ve identified 7 rules that we can learn from them as below, 7 Rules of Fashion SCM 1) Produce in small lot : small lot is the unique characteristics of lean manufacturing which is not the case here. In 1984, US Apparel Industry created the task force called " Crafted With Pride in the U.S.A.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 30, 2025

Ethical and Societal Considerations is this the right approach, especially considering that technologies like Generative AI are inherently biased, as the source materials are often not documented. Another risk is the source of the data. This is an assessment of whether our organization has the capabilities to adopt AI. Should We ?

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SCM Research

MARCH 1, 2023

The first is called Global Sourcing at Nike and takes the perspective of Amanda Tucker, Vice President of Sourcing at Nike (authors: Michael W. It is always exciting to discover new teaching cases, especially when they are of very high quality. Two cases have just won awards in the 2023 Case Center Awards and Competitions.

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Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Sourcing Global 143

SCMDOJO

JUNE 11, 2025

Ensure safety and productivity In today’s supply chain management (SCM) environment, data security is as critical as analytics or logistics. In the context of SCM strategies, delivery time, responsibility for stages, and control over deviations are critical. Regular meetings. Time Machine provides automatic data snapshots.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Note: The following is an excerpt from “ Omni-Channel Logistics Leaders: Top 5 Inventory Insights ,” based on research conducted by Adelante SCM and LEGACY Supply Chain Services with input from nearly 100 supply chain professionals from retail, manufacturing, and logistics service providers companies in the United States and Canada.

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Real-time Visibility Optimal Sourcing Inventory Logistics Network Optimization Software 173

SCM Research

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Once again this year, an SCM-related teaching case received an award at the Case Center Awards and Competitions : It is entitled Apple Inc: Global Supply Chain Management and written by P. This case nicely complements the 2020 award winner Apple and Conflict Materials: Ethical Sourcing for Sustainability. Fraser Johnson.

Supply Chain Software 143

Supply Chain Software Supply Chain Strategy Global Sourcing Strategies 143

ToolsGroup

JUNE 6, 2017

Source: 2017 Gartner Supply Chain Technology User Wants and Needs Study, Dwight Klappich. For lower maturity companies, Gartner found that most often they consist of a fragmented portfolio of independent SCM IT assets managed vertically by functional silo. Build a collaborative, high functioning SCM/IT organization.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 6, 2021

The basics of supply chain management (SCM). ”[2] The staff at Advanced Transportation Systems (ATS) adds, “Supply chain management deals with the procedures encompassing sourcing components a company requires to develop its products or service to deliver the end product to customers.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Then, we use " Buzzsumo " as an alternative data source and data collection is performed as below, 1) We search twitter profile based on broad keyword search. Data Collection As you may notice, "retweet" is the key metric for influence measurement and each database adds its own secret ingredients. 4) Irrelevant users are removed.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

You can be proactive and use c ausal f orecasting to leverage data you already own, model additional data sources that could help explain demand variability… or do nothing. . Phone * Company * Job Title * Zip Code * Source Asset Source Download ID. What Exactly Is Causal Forecasting? . First Name * Last Name * Email *.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 23, 2013

Only 9 of out 20 articles cite Porter as the source of the concept (only 3 of them explain the concept appropriately, the rest of them do value system analysis using unknown methodology). Then, Original Porters Competitive Advantage is use as source. SCM-Operations is now SupplyChainOpz. and Korzeniewicz, G.

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Supply Chain Opz

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Background Blogging has become a heart of the successful business because it can help to solve customer problems, develop thought leadership and create trust within logistics/scm communities. Data Collection There are 3 major sources of infographics related to logistics and supply chain management, namely, Pinterest, Visual.ly

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

To know the most difficult challenges as perceived by supply chain professionals, we turn to the SCM World’s 2017 Future of Supply Chain survey. No surprise that SCM World named these problems “new worries” because they’re very different from those faced by companies a decade ago. GET YOUR COPY HERE. Download White Paper.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Source: UPS. Source: UPS. Where to Find Supply Chain Innovation (Source: Adelante SCM). The network effect for UPS is centered primarily on its physical networks, but a similar network effect exists on the digital side of the supply chain, as demonstrated by the rise of Supply Chain Operating Networks (SCONs).

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Blockchain Allows Brand Owners and Retailers to Trace Source Materials Ahead of Pending U.S. In addition, we see broad applicability across many industries as consumers demand greater visibility and understanding of where products are sourced and manufactured.”. ATLANTA/MIAMI — December 3, 2020 — Logility, Inc.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Jeff began by discussing how Covid-19 has amplified issues that have existed in supply chain management (SCM) for some time and accelerated change across SCM. Product engineering and development cannot work independently of downstream functions of planning, sourcing, making and delivering products.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 3, 2018

Before we get into blockchain’s potential entry points into the supply chain ecosystem, let’s take a look at the two current trends in SCM *(Supply Chain Management): Dynamism SCM has evolved to become a huge, global ecosystem. Source ] Blockchain can help mitigate these losses and their associated disputes.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

These include alternative sourcing strategies, backup transportation routes, and emergency inventory reserves. Businesses that depend on a single supplier or a limited number of vendors are at higher risk if production delays, raw material shortages, or geopolitical issues impact their primary source.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software Modeling Inventory Reduction 91

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Source: Supply Chain Insights ASCM defines resilience in the SCM Supply Chain Dictionary as the ability of a supply chain to anticipate, create plans to avoid or mitigate, and to recover from disruptions to supply chain functionality.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 10, 2021

Global Supply Chain & Sourcing Director for ECCO Global Shoe Production & Sourcing. Integration of system, digitisation of the S&OP process and broader sourcing strategies were paramount to success of this role. Consolidating the global sourcing activities is an ongoing challenge and reward.

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Sourcing Strategies Manufacturing Procurement Negotiating Skills Material Savings 162

The Network Effect

AUGUST 1, 2014

Key elements that must be brought together as part of this holistic approach are overall network assets, demand and supply information, market demographics, financial data, trading contracts, material sourcing, commodity pricing, and any relevant standards bodies, statutory, or regulatory requirements.

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SCM Research

AUGUST 26, 2021

Over time, the demands on survey research in SCM have increased – for good reasons. not just one company] constructs, which are addressed by appropriate respondents from different sources.” Anyone who designs a survey in SCM should therefore read this editorial carefully and strictly adhere to the recommendation to use a Type 4 design.

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Supply Chain Design Survey Research Supply Chain 28

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the global world of businesses, companies often seek help from sourcing agencies to figure out how to get the things they need. But what’s a sourcing agency or sourcing agent and how does it make buying things easier? Let’s explore this world of sourcing agencies and understand what they do.

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Purchasing Skills Optimal Sourcing Negotiating Skills Sourcing Strategies 104

Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

My advice to SCM professionals is to take interest in educating themselves in what the technology can offer and if you can afford, experiment in some small scale projects with your supply chain partners, as opposed to contemplating on big bang initiatives around block chain for the timebeing. Sourcing leader becomes Innovation coordinator.

Gartner 118

Gartner Pharmaceutical Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Execution 118

Kinaxis

AUGUST 25, 2017

Just recently, I was talking to a youngster studying industrial engineering with specialization in SCM. Faced with the changes happening in the field of SCM in light of these technologies, what would you like to be? SCM World ’s blogs and newsletters: Subscribe to Kevin O’Marah’s weekly newsletter as well.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 15, 2021

Source: IDC 2021—Digital Analysis: Manufacturing. Source: IDC Manufacturing Iansights APeJ Industry 4-0 Survey. From a technology perspective the biggest challenge that industrial organisations have, is integrating operational data sources. Driving for Digitalisation. of industrial organisations in our 2020 industry 4.0

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