The Thomas Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

By continuously testing and optimizing campaign elements such as subject lines, email design, send times, and CTAs, you’ll improve performance and effectiveness. Sales Webinars and Demos Sales webinars and product/service demonstrations are interactive platforms. Use this as a feedback signal to refine your approach over time.

Strategy 52

Strategy Real-time Visibility Networking Buyers 52

Planergy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Budgeting is a critical financial planning and management aspect for individuals, businesses, and organizations.

Budget 52

Budget Real-time Visibility Innovation Data 52

Pipefy

MARCH 6, 2023

This radical shift begins with reassessing existing business process management practices, strategies, and technologies. Business process transformation and business process management: What’s the connection? This includes initiatives aimed at improving product development, customer experiences, and operational efficiency.

e2e 52

e2e Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility Change management 52

IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Business Process Management (BPM) is a systematic approach to managing and streamlining business processes. BPM is intended to help improve the efficiency of existing processes, with the goal of increasing productivity and overall business performance. BPM is often confused with other seemingly similar initiatives.

Real-time Visibility 60

Real-time Visibility Management e2e Supply Chain Efficiency 60

Solvoyo

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Rigby, Jeff Sutherland and Hirotaka Takeuchi (2), Agile emerged as a management mindset concerning the business as a whole. Executives are relying more and more on learnings from real-time analytics and investing funds into building a data-driven culture, smart decision making and decision automation.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 40

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Real-time Visibility Data supply chain software solutions 40

Empowering CPO

JUNE 14, 2023

It’s a key function within any business, big or small, affecting every aspect of operations, from production, to delivery, to customer satisfaction. It’s a strategic function that involves understanding market trends, analyzing suppliers, negotiating contracts, and managing relationships, among other tasks.

Innovation 52

Innovation Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Sustainability 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 26, 2020

Thank you Derek for your friendship, your support of Supply Chain Game Changer, and taking the time to share your experiences and expertise with us. I didn’t know it at the time but spending that time with planners and buyers around the world was my first foray into supply chain. When we had issues (and we had some big ones!)

Leadership 52

Leadership supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization supply chain software solutions 52

Planergy

OCTOBER 4, 2022

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. But how can businesses effectively manage this data? This software can partition the data into manageable chunks, which makes it easier to analyze.

Data 52

Data Import supply chain software solutions Quality 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

For the most part, the primary focus of the supplier relationship is ensuring the right materials are available at the right time and location. As a sourcing manager, you may need to go outside your comfort zone to think about new, innovative ways to collaborate for achieving sustainability because Collaboration comes in more than one flavor!

Collaboration 66

Collaboration Supply Chain Optimization Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 66

IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Whatever the case, large organizations can benefit from enterprise asset management (EAM) software to manage all the physical stuff the company owns. While there are a lot of EAM products on the market, this article will help you ask the right questions to find the right fit for your organization.

supply chain software solutions 54

supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Management Supply Chain Optimization 54

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Thank you Derek for your friendship, your support of Supply Chain Game Changer, and taking the time to share your experiences and expertise with us. I didn’t know it at the time but spending that time with planners and buyers around the world was my first foray into supply chain. When we had issues (and we had some big ones!)

Leadership 40

Leadership Networking supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization 40

Empowering CPO

JUNE 27, 2023

This transformative practice enables organizations to delve deep into their purchasing data, gaining invaluable insights that can revolutionize their supplier relationship management (SRM) strategies. It involves collecting, categorizing, and analyzing procurement data from various sources such as purchase orders, invoices, and contracts.

Supplier relationship management 52

Supplier relationship management Suppliers Management Negotiation 52

Pipefy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As a direct result, intelligent business process management (iBPM) has emerged as the next frontier of business process management (BPM). This reduces user training time and IT workloads. IDP is the next step toward the total elimination of manual data entry, providing massive time and cost savings.

Management 52

Management Real-time Visibility Data Collaboration 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

Multi-functional technology enables you to train anywhere at any time, while ever-learning programming allows you to experiment and practice to achieve different outcomes. LavenirAI allows you to train anywhere, any time, so you can stay at the top of your game. It promises to assist with improving buyer and supplier collaboration.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility supply chain software solutions Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 25, 2021

For decades, forward-thinking supply chains were defined by how robust their investments into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) was. In the early days of supply chain digitization , these systems provided increased visibility and data pools to improve supply chain operations.

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Procurement Templates

JUNE 18, 2023

ChatGPT Inflation refers to the general increase in prices of goods and services in an economy over time, resulting in a decrease in the purchasing power of money. These indices track the average price changes of a basket of goods and services over time. Money buys less than before How should procurement manage inflation?

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Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting Raw materials 130

Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Founded in 2016, the company is led by two experienced procurement and management experts. It serves Fortune 500 companies, and in 2020 the platform managed more than $150M of spend. It also has an analytics system claiming to focus on risk management rather than retrospective troubleshooting. Key Data: Founder / CEO: Gregory N.

Supply Chain Efficiency 59

Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Procurement Real-time Visibility 59

Empowering CPO

MAY 4, 2023

By effectively managing the purchasing process, companies can better control their expenditures and optimize their supply chain, ensuring the availability of the right products and services at the right time. Supplier management systems: Tools that help track, evaluate, and manage supplier relationships and performance.

Procurement 52

Procurement Procurement strategies Cost of ownership Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Registration and warranty management. The base requirement for managing smart devices is registration of that device and identification of it as a valid and unique item. Historically in the consumer space, that was a process tied to warranty management. Proactive service.

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