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Inventory Management — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Inventory management is a way for companies to figure out what and how much they should order, and when to do it. It keeps track of inventory from the time it is purchased until it is sold to customers. This helps companies ensure they always have enough stock to meet customer demands and warns them if they are running low.

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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

It involves identifying needs, sourcing potential vendors, obtaining quotes and proposals, negotiating contracts, selecting suppliers, managing relationships, and meeting obligations. Purchasing is more transactional and tactical. Purchasing focuses specifically on the buying transaction. Purchasing's value-add is more limited.

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The Supply Chain Workload Iceberg!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Customer Order Commitment. Warehouse Order Fulfillment. When customer or channel orders are received and delivery dates committed it is often incumbent on the Warehouse, Distribution Centre, or perhaps another channel, to fulfill those orders.

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Walmart Supply Chain: Building a Successful Integrated Supply Chain for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SCMDOJO

These automated facilities not only optimize the handling and movement of goods but also enable faster order fulfillment and replenishment. By sharing real-time sales data and demand information, CPFR enables accurate forecasting and demand planning, minimizing information distortion, and promoting synchronized inventory replenishment.

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Platform or a Collection of Tools: Which One Do You Prefer for your Digital Transformation Efforts?

Solvoyo

Imagine the ability to drill down and have an AI-based engine digging into your historical transactions on the platform and pointing to a specific reason among many: materials arriving late, manufacturing not following this week’s plan, purchase orders placed late, another priority order got your allocation, etc.