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Leveraging Lean Procurement

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Utilizing a GPO as an extension of your procurement team can help streamline the purchasing process, save costs, and save time by eliminating indirect spend contract negotiations. What about lean supply chain management? Do you have questions about group purchasing? Partnering with Procurement to Make Good Things Happen.

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Business Success with Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

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By aligning procurement plans with the overall S&OP process, organizations can ensure that they have the right materials available to meet customer demand, while minimizing inventory carrying costs and reducing the risk of stockouts. Supply Risk Checklist Vendor Risk Management Your Business Strategy Is Foolproof, Right?

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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

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Components of SCaaS For efficient management, all the crucial nodes of the supply chain network are outsourced, constituting the essential components of SCaaS. SCaaS: Supplier Relationship Management SCaaS – Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) empowers professionals to efficiently manage company suppliers.

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The Supply Chain Workload Iceberg!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Customer Order Commitment. When a customer places an order it is necessary to make a commitment as to when that order will be fulfilled and delivered. Warehouse Order Fulfillment.

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How Supply Chain Can Make or Break a High Growth Company!

Supply Chain Game Changer

A while ago, we blogged about how more Startups are looking to Supply Chain Management to boost their productivity as they scale. Today’s top Supply Chain Management professionals can bring all these considerations to bear. Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam White at argentus.com.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

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4) Andrea Stroud , Research Program Manager at APQC Successful organizations implement formal supplier relationship management (SRM) programs to improve operational efficiency in their global supply chains. Once this happens, then you’re ready to start tackling processes and technologies.

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

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According to the panelists, there are some key features and functionality that make best-in-class supply chain solutions a better choice for healthcare organizations: Guided procure-to-pay compliance: The concept of compliant purchasing in healthcare encompases the front-end user experience. Demand planning capabilities.