Procurement Tactics

JUNE 6, 2023

Thus, you will be able to predict your supply chain which will help you meet your customers’ demands. What is Inventory Forecasting? Inventory forecasting, also known as demand planning or demand forecasting, is a market research technique that accurately predicts future inventory needs.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity.

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Una

AUGUST 2, 2022

Fully-automated spend categorization will boost visibility, free up time, supercharge advanced analytics, and improve decision-making. Self-service for everyday, tactical purchasing removes the manual burden involved in carrying out stakeholder tasks and creates more time for strategic work. Contract monitoring. Self-service.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 30, 2023

The Challenges with EDI One of the main challenges that every company faces with EDI is the time and resources it takes to onboard new trading partners. The average time to onboard and go live with a new partner is about 12 weeks and typically involves IT specialists, software developers, and EDI experts.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 31, 2022

Finally, there must be an improvement in the supply-demand planning in this industry, with more real time visibility to demand patterns and more real time reactivity to market dynamics. They must have the capability to ramp up, or ramp down, production on short notice.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 21, 2021

In supply chain, simply observing your entire supply chain in action to assess it is not possible, but with data and a reliable performance management system like The Owl, you can at-least have a real-time view of your supply chain performance through KPIs and metrics. OTIF (Service).

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Inventory allocation has never been easy, but a less clear picture of demand makes forecasting, planning and allocation increasingly complicated. What is demand planning?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Purchase orders would be written out by hand and mailed or faxed to suppliers with buyers calling suppliers on the phone to tell them about their needs as well as the inevitable changes in demand. Visibility to where goods were was largely limited to updates that came over the phone. Conclusion. And there is nothing wrong with that.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 23, 2021

But too often the expected deliverables from Supply Chain professionals are established without a real understanding of the totality and breadth of actual tasks that must be performed underneath those high level expectations. With an iceberg it is said that only 10% of it is visible as the rest is under the water.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

APRIL 13, 2023

Sourcing global talent Provides established processes for staff augmentation Visibility, KPIs, training, clear expectations When do customers approach Lean Solutions Group? Onboarding process 4 – 6 weeks onboarding time. Using partners like Symtrain and Textlocate Want to see how staff augmentation works with a real success case?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 26, 2021

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 6, 2020

The mass adoption of digital emerging technologies influences the operations of companies’ logistics and supply chain management. E.g., the same data may be inserted multiple time or timestamp of the data does not match with the fulfilment. Data Processing. The collected data may be duplicate or with errors.

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The Procuretech Podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2022

So he's hardcore supply chain guy, through and through. When he finished his PhD in 2015, he realised that most content in the supply chain space was pretty archaic in nature. FinTech content at the time was a lot more attractive: Punchy articles, simple “How To.” This takes consultation and a lot of time.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Supplier collaboration has always been a function of maintaining a delicate balance between demand and supply. For the most part, the primary focus of the supplier relationship is ensuring the right materials are available at the right time and location. Some collaborations promise equal benefits for both parties.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Renaissance Has Begun! I recently saw the headline for an article which said that Supply Chains are NOT broken, but rather it is just a demand planning issue. Once admired just-in-time systems have faltered badly.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

ERP vs. Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? Demand planning capabilities. They both do the same thing, or do they? Point-of-use data capture.

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The Network Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Unfortunately the CPFR design is a limited architecture and basically constitutes a push or ERP batch oriented type environment , where an attempt is made to collect and react to exceptions, but this architecture just isn’t designed to resolve these issues in a timely fashion (e.g. Pull, and the new cloud-based supply chains.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

APRIL 6, 2023

Reduced shipping spend – Supply chain analytics dramatically decreases your shipping spend and increases efficiency with detailed, easy-to-use, custom reporting. That way, you know exactly what’s going on within your shipping program at any point in time.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 30, 2020

As I mentioned in my prior blogs, Inventory Turnover Breakthrough , we needed to take a holistic approach and we needed to tackle the high level levers that influence inventory levels. . Supply/Demand Planning. As it turns out there was previously no Supply/Demand Planning process in the company.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Refer back to the table we showed earlier on “Food Waste by Supply Chain Stage” If you scan down the column entitled “Potential Remedies” you can quickly see where Supply Chain can make an impact. Everyone in Supply Chain has experienced being asked to improve some metric by 25% or more.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As I mentioned in my prior blogs, Inventory Turnover Breakthrough (Parts 1 and 2) , we needed to take a holistic approach and we needed to tackle the high level levers that influence inventory levels. Supply/Demand Planning. As it turns out there was previously no Supply/Demand Planning process in the company.

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