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Potential Efficiency Improvements: Vehicle Efficiency in Businesses

SCMDOJO

This blog post explores various strategies that can significantly improve vehicle efficiency in truck operations. CNG burns cleaner than diesel, reducing emissions and greenhouse gas output (Lowe, 2007). This can significantly reduce fuel consumption by eliminating bad habits that can negate other efficiency measures.

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Sourcing and Procurement: One but Not the Same

Precoro

As both sourcing and procurement are related to obtaining supplies for the organization, confusing these two terms is easy. Understanding their distinction can help you ensure the coordination between the responsible teams and adopt the right strategies for improving both sourcing and procurement. Procurement.

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The use of machine learning to generate quick savings and gain in price consistency

KEPLER Consulting

The purpose of this article is to share our experience in the use of machine learning to generate quick saving opportunities and homogenize purchased pricing across business units / regions in large groups. Or a certain price for a red product and double for its blue version? History of pricing is rarely reviewed. Why pay $5.6

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. Examples include alternate sourcing, bill of material changes or alternate modes/routing between the planning, procurement and transportation.) I celebrated a supply chain IPO.

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Boeing 737 MAX Door Plug Incident- Expanding Implications

Supply Chain Matters

The Journal report makes reference to a white paper published in 2001 penned by a then Boeing aerospace engineer. Boeing’s demands for lower prices left Spirit strapped for cash as managers panicked over meeting increasingly demanding deadlines.” Spirit and Boeing battled over costs, quality and the pace of production.

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The End of a Fairy Tale. Part 2.

Supply Chain Shaman

Year after year, well intentioned people toiled against improving metrics that reduced, not improved, the effectiveness of the supply chain. The example that I give in the first post is the focus of manufacturing strategies to drive strong results to improve Return on Assets (ROA) that have actually caused a deterioration in operating margin.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

This can only be achieved by addressing the elimination of the worst practices in the organization, processes, and digital resources of the company. Non-updated product sheets in ERP (purchase price, MOQ, Incoterm,…) resulting in non-compliant supplier orders . The importance of a robust supply chain. 3/ Workflow Management.