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Hitting The Brakes On Out Of Control Supplier Master Data W/ Cyrille Naux

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Managing Director, Art of Procurement. Everything procurement delivers – from savings to risk mitigation to value – is predicated on having access to clean, trustworthy data. If this foundation does not exist or if it is shaky, then buyers don’t know how much the company is spending with a given supplier, let alone how they can improve the efficiency or impact of a given spend category.

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Should Procurement Fear or Welcome AI and Machine Learning Technology?

Supply Chain Brain

Your lengthy career in procurement has consisted largely of being beaten up by top management over the need to constantly cut supplier costs. Along comes digital technology to make your job easier — or take it away.

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The New Lexicon for Digital Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Collaborator

The leaders in supply chain management are all focused with intensity on achieving the promise of Supply Chain Digitization. Understand the terms and ideas being put forward by the early adopters of the amazing new digital supply chain technologies being harnessed by today’s leading practitioners. . There have been unprecedented advancements in technology over the last 20 years, occurring at a dizzying pace.

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What’s the Difference Between a Warehouse and a Distribution Center?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What’s the Difference Between Logistics and Distribution? I began my career with responsibility for, amongst other things, Warehouse space planning. With almost a dozen local and remote buildings used to store raw materials and finished goods I spent more than my share of time walking through Warehouses and up and down aisles of racking and shelving.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Professional Services Manager

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How Automation Can Help Today's Warehouse Workers

Supply Chain Brain

The technology goes well beyond robots taking over tasks that were once done by humans.

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Supply Chain is Tackling Food Waste Like Never Before!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! (Videos). Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam White at Argentus.com. Consumers are demanding more from the companies they buy from, and Supply Chain Management is at the forefront of delivering that increased responsibility.

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Maverick buying moves mainstream

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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. thanks to the rise of cloud based marketplaces. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Procurement the barrier to doing business. 3. Poor governance structure. 4. Many organisations are decentralised. 5. Large programs/projects operate separately. 6. No visibility of the impact of Maverick spending. 7. Marketplaces will continue to grow. 8.

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Improving Customer Experience: Beyond the Survey Score

Supply Chain Brain

Companies need to look beyond numerically scored surveys, in seeking to optimize the customer experience, both now and in the future.

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Deploy a Strategic Category Management Solution to Maximize ROI

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Defining Category Management. Category management has a decades-long history that has lead us to our modern understanding of procurement categories. Created in the 1980s, category management was originally the process of grouping products into categories based on how consumers used them. Originally created by marketing teams, category management helped retailers increase sales by minimizing unproductive competition between their own products.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Delivery in the Age of Amazon!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Last Mile Delivery! What is your Strategy? Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Raanan Cohen at bringg.com. Brands don’t have to be Amazon to build stellar last mile delivery and fulfillment operations that win new business and drive customer loyalty.

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Claritum extends SAP integration to SRM

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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (June 3, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that they have extended their integration with SAP to include additional functionality on the integration of SAP SRM (Supplier Relationship Management). “Claritum is committed to an integration approach.”, said Prof.

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Unlocking the Potential of Earned Value Management

Supply Chain Brain

A look at the approaches that organizations can adopt to take full advantage of earned value management, while ensuring that enterprise software is up to standard.

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Payables: The Last Mile in the Healthcare Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

The majority of healthcare payment processes remain paper-intensive, despite electronic payments being the most efficient and cost-effective B2B payment method.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Seven Common Pick-and-Pack Errors — and How to Fix Them

Supply Chain Brain

A mispick often isn’t discovered until an inventory count is wrong, or the customer sends the order back.