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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? What are the pros and cons, and what supply chain strategy will pave the way to higher margins, improved supply chain risk management in healthcare and improved patient care?

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The Beautiful Complexity of Procurement Planning

The Good Spending

Where's the procurement planning when you need one? Once, we wrote about demand management in this blog. It's a good enough topic, which misses one crucial element - demand management mastery comes after sophisticated planning. The lion's share of procurement value could be created in the planning stage.

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Cross Purposes: Does demand planning belong with merchandising or supply chain?

The Network Effect

Who does the Demand Planning group report to?”. The goal of the demand planning process is to create a sales forecast that is as accurate and unbiased as possible. In retail, the process of coming up with a forecast is typically a “joint effort” between the Category Manager and the Supply Chain Planner.

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Critical differences between IT procurement and legacy sourcing

The Good Spending

High complexity of demand management As we know, the procurement process starts with demand planning and analysis. In the IT department itself, such planning is challenging. Another pillar of IT procurement should be digital asset management ( ITAM - IT Asset Management.)

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Hepsiburada – E-Commerce Retailer

Solvoyo

Demand Planning and Pricing Solutions for Category Management Hepsiburada achieved automated forecasting and inventory optimization, supplementing historical sales data with web searches, click rates and conversion. The post Hepsiburada – E-Commerce Retailer appeared first on Solvoyo.

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4 Predictions on Procurement’s Top Trends in 2023

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Procurement has had massive challenges and targets over the past year: Managing inflation. Companies Will Scale Their Procurement Knowledge Base and Enablement Programs To Attract and Retain A New Profile of Category Management Talent. scenario-driven demand plans. Reducing supplier risk. Reducing spend.

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The Big Interview with Lorna Baker

Procurement Heads

We’re a centralised indirects procurement team with category management being introduced where it can in order to support the parts of the business where we need subject specialism. We’re responsible for the supplier management and then supporting the business in contract management as well.