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Supply Chain Automation: Optimizing Cashflow in the Age of Uncertainty

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Supply Chain Automation: Optimizing Cashflow in the Age of Uncertainty It is said that in times of crisis, cash is king. Within order management, for example, incorrect or incomplete orders slow down order entry cycle time and on-time deliveries which, in turn, impacts cash collection and cashflow.

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

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But to more deeply understand how it can support business planning, we should differentiate the need for process and decision automation on one hand from the planning knowledge augmentation. ln this article I use several drivers to distinguish the desirability of automation from that of human decision augmentation.

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Breaking the.XLSX Chains: Corporate Venture Supply Chain Software as the Potential Game-Changer

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For around the 30th consecutive year, Excel reigns as the most-used Supply Chain Management tool. Multinational Corporations (MNCs) continue to rely on hefty.xlsx files to operate substantial segments of their supply chains. So, what became of this enormous capital injection? So, where do we go from here?