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What can the great North American blackout of 2003 teach us about supply chain complexity, vulnerability, and resiliency

Procurement Insights

Besides drawing parallels between Power Grids and Supply Chains, the post also provides the perfect and practical everyday-life understanding of the difference between agent-based and equation-based approaches to solving complex challenges.

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Intelligent IBP – a new role for supply chain planners

Supply Chain Trend

In this blog : a new role for supply chain planners. Similar to the continuous automation of physical assets in the supply chain over the last 100 years, we’ve now reached the era where the knowledge worker will be augmented or automated by a machine. Supply chain planners and IBP teams will not escape this evolution.

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Category Management In Purchasing: Award Winning Author Releases 5th Edition of Essential Core Business Text

Positive Purchasing

James Meads, Founder, ProcurementSoftware.site and Host of The Procurement Software Podcast “Category management will continue to be relevant to procurement organisations, but it’s changing fast. Truth is: “Long Live” Category Management. By reading this up-to-date masterpiece, you will understand why.”

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When It Comes To AI in 2023, We’re Going To Party Like It’s 1998

Procurement Insights

As an introduction or lead-in to that old post, I want to share the following excerpt from an article written in June 2023 responding to the question – What is AI in supply chain in 2023? Also, AI can locate potential risks in the supply chain, such as disruptions due to weather events or geopolitical factors.”

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Here, you can read the Rise of Autonomous , Unshackle the planners , Closing the Decisions Gaps and a new role for supply chain planners. Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Here, you can read the Rise of Autonomous , Unshackle the planners , Closing the Decisions Gaps and a new role for supply chain planners. Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

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In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).