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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

ivalua

Understanding how inflation impacts procurement and then taking action to mitigate its effects is essential for any business looking to stay ahead of the game. How Inflation Impacts Procurement Inflation affects a number of aspects of a business, including its ability to compete in the market, financial performance, and overall strategy.

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Resilience by Design: The Power of Simulation in Supply Chain Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

Optimization and simulation are the two main branches of SCND. Optimization accounts for over 90% of all work that is being done by SCND teams. This article describes how to incorporate simulation techniques into optimization, build a stochastic optimization model, and end up with a more resilient supply chain model.

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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used).

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Elevating Procurement Excellence: Key Strategies to Optimize Procurement Processes

Procurement Academy

As a result, training on how to navigate these complexities is a must. The Essentials of Procurement Optimization Taken at its most basic level, procurement optimization is simply the strategic process of improving every aspect of procurement operations. The disadvantage of this sourcing strategy is risk concentration.

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Supply Chain Network Design: The Ultimate Use Cases eBook

Explore the most common use cases for network design and optimization software. Scenario analysis and optimization defined. Optimizing your supply chain based on costs and service levels. Optimizing your supply chain based on costs and service levels. Diversifying sourcing and manufacturing. What's inside?

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The Onshoring, Reshoring, and Nearshoring Strategies Calm Supply Chain Chaos

Logility

The urgent need for supply chain resiliency is increasing interest in onshoring, reshoring, and nearshoring strategies. By leveraging a comprehensive platform companies can review scenarios through the lens of advanced demand, inventory and manufacturing planning optimization capabilities,” Henriott said.

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Can Your Current Manufacturing Strategies Ensure Future-Proof Operations?

DELMIA Quintiq

The way forward implies resiliency in all aspects of the business, and for manufacturing in particular, this means implementing the right strategies as stepping stones to build and drive strategic flexibility. The answer lies in a digital transformation strategy that delivers optimal ways of working. How can this be achieved?

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A Supply Chain Leader’s Guide to Managing Disruption With Modern Analytics

But, as leaders know, adapting to change is rarely a simple task and requires a fresh look at existing processes in planning and sourcing, inventory management, warehousing & distribution, and more. Key topics covered: Eliminating friction points and coping with the continual disruptions through a modern data strategy approach.

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The Digital Logistics Provider: Delivering a New Level of Service in the Age of IoT

A digital supply chain enables today’s LSPs to stay ahead of the game, informing their customers as soon as problems occur and leveraging data-driven insights to optimize from end to end. How are new data sources and IoT tools enabling new levels of visibility into the global supply chain?

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.