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Supply Chain Forecasting — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Supply chain forecasting refers to the process of predicting demand by looking at past and present information to help businesses make decisions about their plan, budget, and stock inventory. The integration of AI into forecasting improves accuracy, saves more money, and helps businesses react to exceptions in real-time.

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6 Critical Supply Chain KPIs!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In supply chain, simply observing your entire supply chain in action to assess it is not possible, but with data and a reliable performance management system like The Owl, you can at-least have a real-time view of your supply chain performance through KPIs and metrics. Customer Lead Time (Service). Inventory Turnover (Cash).

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What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity.

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The Future of Spend Analysis: Trends to Watch Out For

Empowering CPO

From data-driven decision making to real-time spend visibility, predictive analytics, supplier collaboration, intelligent automation, and data security, we will explore each trend in depth, shedding light on their significance and potential impact on businesses.

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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

The procurement team manages the order, monitors quality, ensures on-time delivery, processes invoices, and handles any issues that arise during fulfillment. Common procurement metrics include spend under management, savings targets, supplier lead time reduction, procurement process efficiency gains, sustainability metrics and more.

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

Supply Chain Trend

Strategic planning–often for 3-5 years out–creates the initiatives to realize the vision (the What) as well as to promote the values and behaviors to display (the How). The budget, or annual operating plan, is normally the first year of the strategy. Doing so frees up time for executives to focus on the bigger picture. .

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Democratising Supply Chain Training – Dr. Muddassir Ahmed from SCM Dojo

The Procuretech Podcast

FinTech content at the time was a lot more attractive: Punchy articles, simple “How To.” This takes consultation and a lot of time. Which, of course, not everyone has the budget for. And that's just too long, we need to get that time down – possibly on the software development side of things. guides, easy to read lists.