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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Management Product development 
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
Redwood City/Warsaw/ Hamburg – March 17th, 2020 | Ivalua, a leading global provider of procurement management solutions, and OptiBuy, Ivalua’s long-standing implementation partner, announced their selection by Körber to enable a digital procurement transformation.
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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!
SCMDOJO
JANUARY 30, 2023
From tech giants to manufacturing leaders, the top 10 CEOs in the supply chain industry have blazed a trail of success. The Top 10 CEOs Who Have Worked As Supply Chain Professionals 1. Tim Cook Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, has a background in operations and supply chain management. Don’t forget!
ivalua
MARCH 24, 2021
Without digitization, many manufacturing organizations see one or more of these areas suffer due to a reliance on manual processes, a lack of collaboration with suppliers, and little to no visibility of risk during the product development process. Digitization Benefit #3: Total Spend Management.
Spend Matters
JUNE 3, 2025
The US administrations announcement of reciprocal tariffs in early April sent a jolt through global supply chains. Production relocation or re-routing through trade-compliant intermediaries. Remaining agile by embedding reassessment mechanisms. Tactics may defer impact, but they rarely provide stability.
Supply Chain Opz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2013
Fashion industry is one of the most primitive form of supply chain management and its practices have been extended, adopted and become the best practices that we use today. This article will show you the development of fashion industry and how one company manages to bring the operations into the next level.
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.
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 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.
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Supply Chain Opz
JUNE 1, 2014
Professionals in supply chain management use various methods to identify best practices to improve the operations. Analysis of case study is certainly one of the most popular methods for people from business management background. Supply Chain of fashion industry involves a time based competition.
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. The complexity of the e-commerce landscape is compounded by the presence of multiple sales channels, posing challenges to efficient management.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 4, 2024
At the same time, HPC is used to help businesses bring new products to market. It is also used to better manage risks and more, which is why an increasing number of enterprises are adopting it. For example, IBM Cloud® HPC can help organizations flexibly manage compute-intensive workloads on-premises.
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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. This at times made it difficult to deliver the speed, agility and efficiency expected by the wider organisation.
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SCMDOJO
DECEMBER 14, 2023
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.
Future Purchasing
JANUARY 11, 2022
2021 saw a massive amount of challenge for procurement teams; supply chain management challenges, political changes, trade barriers, COVID related staff shortages in all areas, blocked ports and working from home have thrown it all up into the air. At its heart lie a few easy to apply concepts.
TYA Suite
MAY 13, 2025
Typically, a manager or procurement officer will examine the request to ensure it fits within the budget and complies with company policies. Enhanced supplier collaboration through data-driven decisions With the rise of digital tools and analytics, operational procurement management is increasingly data-driven.
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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.
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. Things like alignment between your product and the rest of your Startup vision are very important and not to be taken easily.
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. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Making The Right Choices.
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.
EazyStock
APRIL 28, 2022
What does supply chain optimization mean? Put simply, supply chain optimization means using technology to get inventory to the right place at the right time – at the lowest cost and highest profit for your business. Supply chain optimization best practice. Build buffers into the supply chain.
EazyStock
APRIL 28, 2022
What does supply chain optimization mean? Put simply, supply chain optimization means using technology to get inventory to the right place at the right time – at the lowest cost and highest profit for your business. Supply chain optimization best practice. Build buffers into the supply chain.
Una
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Traditional means of creating value include things like managing contracts with preferred suppliers , controlling maverick spend, and minimizing warehouse costs. Focusing on sustainability and partnering with a GPO can lead to greater cost reduction and better spend management, as well.
Solvoyo
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Organizational Agility along with Digital Transformation, Machine Learning, Big Data and Blockchain technologies was one of main trending topics for 2018 and will continue to be in the hit list for 2019 as well. Let’s start with Organizational Agility and the role of Digital Transformation in making this happen.
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. One inventory management strategy that has gained significant popularity is Just in Time (JIT) inventory. Quality Control: JIT inventory places a strong emphasis on zero defects.
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Finale Inventory
JULY 24, 2024
In the fast-paced realm of ecommerce, efficient inventory management is vital for running a successful online business. This article outlines top inventory management techniques that ecommerce businesses can use to enhance efficiency and organization. Inventory management is fundamental to any thriving ecommerce operation.
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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.
Supply Chain Opz
JANUARY 1, 2017
Operations management by Heizer vs Stevenson vs Krajewski, which one is the best? Is Operations Management Important? From where we stand, operations management is the most practical subject you should study. Moreover, many operations management tools are quite easy to use.
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Supply Chain Opz
APRIL 1, 2015
Is time management important to your business and your life? This article will show you 10 best time management books that get the attentions of leading CEOs. What is time management exactly? Time management is a broad concept that encompass various planning and control of activities. So, we identify 4 data sources.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2018
This is clearly not the case in the world of supplier management. All suppliers are not created equally and they should all be managed with this distinction in mind. This article will look at a model for stratifying and segmenting your supply base within the confines of a structured and formal supplier relationship program (SRP).
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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Jaggaer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Supplier collaboration serves as the foundation for supply continuity, agility, risk management, and resilience when disruptions occur. 2: Invest in Relationship Management Supplier relationship management (SRM) can foster a culture of transparency between businesses and their suppliers.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 25, 2024
It should not be confused with business process management (BPM) , a more incremental approach to optimizing processes, or business process improvement (BPI), a broader term that encompasses any systematic effort to improve current processes. BPR involves business process redesign that challenges norms and methods within an organization.
Finale Inventory
JULY 15, 2024
The inventory turnover ratio is a key metric that measures the efficiency of a company’s inventory management. This ratio indicates the speed at which inventory is sold and replenished, providing insights into the efficiency and effectiveness of inventory management.
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Jaggaer
OCTOBER 3, 2024
However, it’s fair to say that procurement is really in the pressure cooker right now, with all kinds of new and conflicting demands such as ESG, diversity, compliance and risk management. Ensure supply continuity This was number 1 on the 2023 list of priorities. First, organizations need to get full supply chain visibility.
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.
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. with an asset lifecycle management cloud 2. Here, we’ll discuss the major manufacturing trends that will change the industry in the coming year. Digitalization and Industry 4.0
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). New Product Review, a Demand Review, a Supply Review, and a Management Business Review. TRADITIONAL IBP AND PLANNING TECHNOLOGY.
The Good Spending
JUNE 15, 2022
T hese routine activities leverage integrated automated systems, enabling supply chain visibility. Examples: framework agreements, Vendor-Managed Inventories. Examples: "as-a-service" offering, collaborative product development, CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment.)
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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IBM Supply Chain Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Starbucks also paid careful attention to its supply chain, ensuring is products were ethically sourced and offering specialty drinks that in some geographic locations could be difficult to find. The company’s early focus on talent management for service employees was a major differentiator, as well.
Procurement Software
MARCH 5, 2024
Raindrop Raindrop is one of a number of US procurement startups offering enterprise-level spend management platforms. Raindrop has also been recognised as a cloud-enabled procurement focused Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) application. FRDM FRDM is a software company specialising in supply chain risk management.
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. Managing Risk Senior business managers and Procurement leads must both know their risks, and how they are protected against them.
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