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The Importance of Supply Chain Collaboration

The Good Spending

Why is supply chain collaboration essential? Other peers around the company overlap with us in their functions - Technology tends to manage suppliers , Finance owns the demand planning and budgeting, and Sales and Marketing monopolize the end-customer value chain. Perhaps, our profession is no rocket science.

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Supply Chain Collaboration – The New Way to Drive Value!

Supply Chain Game Changer

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.

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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Supply Chain Blog

It includes everything from product development and strategic decision-making to information systems and new technologies. Blockchain technologies can increase transparency and traceability in the supply chain, helping to prevent fraud and ensure product authenticity.

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What Exactly Is Supply Chain Management? 10 Different Definitions!

Supply Chain Game Changer

CSCMP’s definition is: Supply chain management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities. In essence, supply chain management integrates supply and demand management within and across companies. Source: [link] ).

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #6

Supply Chain Trend

People who have their own agendas, interests and ways of working; people from different functional and country cultures; people with different levels of experience; people with different attitudes to working collaboratively. Only then work back into the supporting steps e.g. supply planning, demand planning and product and portfolio planning.

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

For the execution and operational decisions, modern planning technology can largely automate processes and decisions. For the longer-term decisions on planning and strategy, technology will augment the quality of human-centric decisions and nurture human-machine collaboration. Periodic planning cycles.