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Selecting the right service provider partner for each one of the three steps or stages of procurement digital transformation success

Procurement Insights

They say that, like truth, good ideas stand the test of time. Considered to be a breakthrough assessment of the purchasing industry at the time, I felt that there were several gaps in the study. The right technology will enable enterprise-wide supply management, external supply chain visibility, and internal and external collaboration.

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Workflow Efficiency: Definition and How to Improve It (With Examples)

Pipefy

No matter how much they differ, efficient and friction-free workflows typically share the following traits: they provide visibility, employees are aligned on changes and requirements, fosters accountability, and creates a positive business impact. Visibility Each step in a workflow should be visible.

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How to Become an Agile Organization Through Digital Transformation?

Solvoyo

Until recently, Agile, started by Agile Manifesto drafted by a group of technologists back in 2001 was a methodology used in software development. Executives are relying more and more on learnings from real-time analytics and investing funds into building a data-driven culture, smart decision making and decision automation.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP requires cross functional alignment to eliminate silos, to achieve accountability for delivering strategic, financial and operational outcomes, and to enable scenario planning that provides forward visibility into the consequences and risks of decisions (Sorensen, 2020). Automation versus Augmentation.

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How will the War for Talent Affect Procurement?

Procurement Software

This was subsequently popularised in the 2001 book of the same name. Remote work Younger people especially want more location and time freedom. However, most roles, at least anecdotally from the job boards I occasionally look at, are at best hybrid or at worst full-time office based. Hankin titled “The War for Talent”.

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What is Big Data?

Supply Chain Game Changer

At that time that was a lot of memory. ” In 2001 Doug Laney articulated the concepts of volume, velocity and variety in describing Big Data. And real time tracking means data is constantly being streamed between devices and computers. The crunching sound they made was unforgettable. The Challenges of Big Data.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

After my time at TNT, I was driving for more than a decade the international expansion of French La Poste. At that time, I familiarized myself with programming which enabled me to write codes to digitize documents in order to eliminate paper in the office and reduce archiving space. Adoption of visibility solutions is increasing.