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Let's Talk Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
As the specter of new tariffs on Chinese imports loom large, the toy giant’s strategic use of a diversified supply chain comes to the forefront, showcasing resilience and adaptability in the face of uncertainty.
ivalua
MARCH 16, 2020
As an international technology group with about 10,000 employees, Körber offers products, solutions and services that inspire. The close cooperation between supply chain management and internal stakeholders as well as external partners made a major contribution to this.
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SCMDOJO
JANUARY 9, 2025
By fostering these relationships, businesses can ensure stable supply chains, consistent quality, and even access to supplier innovations. According to a McKinsey report, firms that develop strong supplier partnerships are 35% less likely to experience significant supply disruptions. Click here!
Jaggaer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Strong supplier partnerships drive new product development, unlock cost efficiencies, and ensure supply chains are adaptable to changing market conditions. These partnerships are also key to responding swiftly to disruptions, whether due to supply chain constraints or shifting consumer demands.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
APRIL 28, 2025
Leading the Charge in Healthcare Infrastructure Investment Thermo Fisher’s commitment to bolstering the US healthcare supply chain is a significant step towards enhancing the resilience and efficiency of the nation’s medical infrastructure.
Jaggaer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
By selecting and developing the right suppliers and establishing streamlined, transparent communication with them, manufacturers gain the agility and resilience to respond to customer demands, rise to the top, and navigate disruptions more easily. That makes agility a foundational part of your manufacturing strategy.
Supply Chain Opz
JUNE 1, 2014
Professionals in supply chain management use various methods to identify best practices to improve the operations. In order to accelerate the learning, this article has gathered 20+ most sought-after supply chain case studies, analyzed/categorized them by industry and the findings are presented.
SCMDOJO
DECEMBER 28, 2023
In the era of the Digital Retail Revolution, adaptive supply chain management is imperative amid the surge in online retail and the social commerce boom. In addition to the ever-changing marketing landscape, the supply chain often fails. You need to integrate your supply chain management systems to meet this demand.
The Good Spending
AUGUST 16, 2022
Why is supply chain collaboration essential? Once, I was asked what makes the supply chain important to a company. Shadow procurement, supply chain, and logistics have become standard for many companies. The supply chain is the most collaborative function in the business.
Procurement Leaders
JUNE 13, 2022
With the company rapidly becoming a leader in smoke-free products, including heated tobacco devices and e-cigarettes, it successfully built a supply base in the highly competitive electronic devices market. The EPDC has been growing at a rapid rate as has the importance of the smoke-free market it serves.
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SCMDOJO
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Time is really important in business. In supply chain management, total lead time is a crucial metric encompassing the period from customer order to delivery, be it in B2B or B2C scenarios. Production Lead Time: Encompassing manufacturing, quality control, assembly, and related processes.
Supply Chain Game Changer
JUNE 7, 2021
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Minimum Viable Product article and permission to publish here provided by Julia Beyers. The more important question is why some of them actually succeed. Define Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Goals.
TYA Suite
MAY 13, 2025
But what exactly does procurement operations mean, and why is it so important? This step often begins with employees or departments noticing a shortfall, whether its raw materials for production, office supplies, or maintenance equipment. The need is recognized and communicated to the procurement team to start the process.
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Supply Chain Game Changer
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Product (or Master) Data Management? The following Product Information Management (PIM) article was written by guest author Alex Borzo, a content contributor at Amber Engine , a software company passionate about eCommerce. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Get Our EBOOK HERE.
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Supply Chain Opz
MAY 28, 2013
Supply Chain Maturity Model for Capability Assessment. The concept of maturity model was firstly introduced by Watts Humphrey of Carnegie Mellon University in 1987 with the goal to improve the performance of software development process. Supply Chain Maturity Model. 4) Lean Maturity Model. Case Studies.
Una
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Stakeholder education is also important to help people understand why they should comply. Implementing a Just-in-Time supply chain keeps your warehousing lean and at just the right level to meet demand. Create an approved purchasing system or require all purchases be made from a catalog to curb rogue spending.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 10, 2018
Supply chain collaboration is a hot topic today and no wonder: companies that collaborate effectively across the supply chain have enjoyed dramatic reductions in inventories and costs, together with improvements in speed, service levels, and customer satisfaction. Supplier chain collaboration itself isn’t new.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
JANUARY 9, 2023
As a global technology company, they provide networked innovation, quality, and compliance solutions to consumer brands that want to reduce supply chain risk, innovate faster, speed up business processes, and take control of data. IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS: [06.31] Gary’s background and how, and why, it led him to founding TraceGains.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Check out The Digital Supply Chain (SC 4.0) And all of these technologies have applicability for the Supply Chain in every business and in every industry around the world. The Digital Supply Chain vision is within our line of sight. No Supply Chain Strategy. Subscribe Here! Email Address.
Finale Inventory
JULY 15, 2024
In the fast-paced ecommerce environment, efficient inventory management plays an important role in ensuring smooth operations and customer satisfaction. These include: Tight Supply Chain Integration: Close collaboration and communication between suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers are essential for successful JIT inventory implementation.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Code generation : Software developers and programmers use generative AI to write code. Experienced developers are leaning on generative AI to advance complex coding tasks more efficiently. This includes technical documentation, user manuals and other relevant materials that accompany software development.
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Finale Inventory
JULY 24, 2024
Understanding Inventory Management in Ecommerce Before examining the techniques, it’s important to grasp the significance of effective inventory management in ecommerce. Good inventory management ensures that products are available to meet customer demand while keeping excess stock and storage costs to a minimum.
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Finale Inventory
JULY 15, 2024
The Importance of Inventory Turnover Ratio in Ecommerce The inventory turnover ratio holds significant importance for ecommerce businesses due to the unique challenges of online retail. This is particularly important in the fast-paced ecommerce environment, where trends can change overnight.
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Solvoyo
JULY 9, 2020
Solvoyo’s Development & DevOps teams were able to switch to remote working in a matter of hours while ensuring critical systems and projects kept running. Thanks to putting agile and resilient plans in place well ahead of the crisis, we were ready pretty quickly. Solvoyo has built strong DevOps since its foundation.
Jaggaer
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Next, supplier benchmarking is a really important lever: our customers see significant savings if they continuously review pricing. Ensure supply continuity This was number 1 on the 2023 list of priorities. First, organizations need to get full supply chain visibility. environment) Improve procurement agility (i.e.,
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Supplier relationship management is a process for developing and managing collaborative relationships with suppliers at all levels to achieve the required business objectives and overall supply chain strategy. The more strategic the supplier is, the more important it is for executive management to participate.
Supply Chain Opz
JANUARY 1, 2017
Is Operations Management Important? With the help of operations management textbook, we can learn how the products and services are designed, produced and delivered to customers in systematic manner. We were able to slash new product development timing by 3 weeks by spending just 3 hours to learn more about project management concept.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2023
But Howard Schultz, the company’s founder, believed there was an opportunity to import Italian coffee culture and differentiate his business from competitors like Dunkin Donuts. To gain a competitive advantage over stores offering cheap coffee in fast food-type settings, Schultz opened a series of cozy cafes that encouraged long visits.
Supply Chain Opz
APRIL 1, 2015
Is time management important to your business and your life? For example, poor time management in product development process will cost you millions of dollars for product launch delay. This article will show you 10 best time management books that get the attentions of leading CEOs. What is time management exactly?
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
JANUARY 9, 2024
A revolution across revenue operations, customer engagement, employee satisfaction and the seamless flow of product development and delivery. This approach optimizes infrastructure for specific workloads, introduces new technologies seamlessly and ensures agility and scalability. The result?
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 29, 2023
To maintain their competitiveness and overcome today’s challenges, manufacturers have had to make agility and adaptability top priorities. Furthermore, AI can help manufacturers implement predictive maintenance systems and processes, streamline supply chain management, and identify and address workplace safety hazards proactively.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
MAY 6, 2024
Like the transition to hybrid cloud, agile software development, or zero trust, generative AI security can be an afterthought. The conversation must go beyond IS and IT stakeholders to strategy, product development, risk, supply chain, and customer engagement.
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Supply Chain Trend
OCTOBER 29, 2021
If we look back over the history of supply-chain planning, we can properly say we are in the third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software (Van Hove, 2019). To become autonomous, supply chains require the new technology of Wave 3 planning systems, which we think of as systems of intelligence.
Procurement Software
JUNE 25, 2024
Aim for partnerships that offer mutual benefits, such as shared growth opportunities or innovation in product development. Showcasing procurement’s role in avoiding potential cost increases is important to explain the wider business value we deliver. A keen focus on operational efficiencies leads to realized cost savings.
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Una
JANUARY 8, 2024
Boosting Business Growth With the Help of a Group Purchasing Organization A playbook for boosting business growth, moving beyond the outdated perceptions of procurement, and turning it into one of your organization’s most important sources of value. DOWNLOAD PLAYBOOK Table of Contents Introduction What Exactly *Is* Value Creation?
Zycus Cognitive Procurement
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Organizations are looking to CPOs to take on broader and deeper strategic initiatives to create a future proof supply chain. In spite of the challenges that lay in the path of this metamorphosis, it is of utmost importance that an organization devise ways to overcome them. What Covid-19 did to firms globally is no secret.
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Barkers Procurement
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
The right digital procurement technology can centralise spend data, identify trends and compliance to metrics, pinpoint opportunities, and simplify supply chain decisions as a result. A business built on adding value to imports, for instance, will fear the reported risk of delay at seaports.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
This approach frees up development resources from repetitive and mundane tasks to focus more of novel solutions, provides more data insight that will open new design opportunities and improves the collaboration within and between teams to explore alternative approaches.
Pipefy
MARCH 6, 2023
Following recent events like the pandemic, the shift to non-office work models, and supply chain pressures, the demand for business process transformation has accelerated. This includes initiatives aimed at improving product development, customer experiences, and operational efficiency.
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Empowering CPO
JUNE 14, 2023
Importance of Innovative Procurement Models In the era where change is the only constant, innovation has become a necessity rather than a luxury. In the modern business world, where these factors are increasingly important, sticking to traditional models can limit a company’s competitiveness and growth potential.
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World of Procurement blog
MAY 23, 2024
To mitigate supply chain risks and improve business continuity by reducing dependence on many small suppliers. Working closely with fewer suppliers also enhances supply chain transparency and resilience. Having capacity contingencies is ideal to mitigate supply chain risks.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Identifying best practices and benefits In the realm of OLAP, AI’s role is increasingly important. Designed for cloud-native environments, they promise more efficient and data-driven decision-making for businesses, ushering in a new era of agility and insight.
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Empowering CPO
MAY 4, 2023
Importance of procurement in modern businesses In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, procurement plays a crucial role in driving efficiency, cost savings, and overall success. Introduction A. Some of the key benefits include: 1. Focus on Supplier Relationship Management A. Implement Centralized Procurement A.
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Procurement Software
MAY 23, 2023
Very few CEOs come from Procurement or Supply Chain. In a world of hyper connectivity created by rampant globalisation, Apple had shown itself to be a master of procurement, working with suppliers around the world to create the highest quality and most innovative products, all for the best price.
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