Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

When companies implement enterprise software solutions, they often label that implementation as being part of their company’s digital transformation. But implementing new software does not digitally transform anything if the people that are supposed to use that software cannot do so effectively.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In my previous posts, I looked at how to successfully launch a digital transformation and progress to best-in-class Procurement. Procurement was tasked with supporting a board level initiative to accelerate innovation and increase margins. Alex Saric, CMO, Ivalua. Global automotive component supplier Meritor is a great example.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 30, 2019

The impact of e-commerce and the consumer digital path to purchase has been significant. ”[1] Empty malls and struggling brick-and-mortar retailers also bear stark witness to the impact of the digital path to purchase. … Shoppers now purchase more online, making fewer trips to stores and seeing fewer in-store promotions.”[2].

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Procurement professionals have the same question looming over their head on a daily basis: “How do you plan on dealing with digitalization?”. Recently I had the pleasure of attending EBG Network’s 8th Annual Source to Pay Summit, which gathered some of the Nordic’s largest organizations and procurement profiles.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

” Or, “If you need an answer, implement my solution.” Let’s celebrate that over the last two years, there were four significant acquisitions by traditional supply chain planning providers to deepen analytics capabilities: 07/2018 JDA purchases Blue Yonder (Purchase price confidential.).

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2018

A look at the supply chain trends and technology that will come into play in 2018. These concerns will extend into 2018, as companies work on a regulatory standard – though nothing has emerged yet. 2018 will see a focus on taking innovation beyond a buzzword and into implementable solutions that deliver executable results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The software planning footprints are reminiscent of the work done in the 1990s when we struggled with insufficient memory using 32-bit hardware. There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. Not much has changed.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

Sustainability is created at the source of our products, services, and consumption. Sustainability is created from Responsible Sourcing. How can you make Responsible Sourcing a Reality? If you can excite the people around you about sourcing responsibly, chances are you’ll be able to formulate a network of internal champions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In this post, I’d like to suggest a mapping of a digital procurement ecosystem, dive into the necessity for these functionalities, and draw some conclusions as to how these focus areas can drive performance in an overall procurement organization. Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2018. The Digital Procurement Ecosystem.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 10, 2017

From artificial intelligence to refocusing on procurement, the state of supply chain continued to explode throughout 2016, and you need to understand why. The move to agile supply chain management inherently required more data sources than traditional supply chains, reports GT Nexus. Procurement’s Role Did Become More Important.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Retailers have always been curious about the paths consumers take when they decide something needs to be purchased. When the Internet and World Wide Web introduced consumers to online shopping (aka e-commerce), the path to purchase became much more complex. Today the digital path to purchase is growing in importance.

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ivalua

MARCH 5, 2023

March 6, 2023 | | Ivalua NOW by Eloise Barnum 5 Reasons to Attend 2023 Ivalua NOW Paris – Breaking New Ground We are thrilled to invite procurement leaders, innovators, customers, and colleagues to Ivalua NOW Paris. Join us as we celebrate organizations that achieved extraordinary results by taking sourcing to new levels.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 18, 2020

His insights are numerous, and can all be heard in his full podcast episode, but among them is his main focus in 2020, the opportunity presented by agile procurement. Bartolini’s view of modern procurement is one of an industry at a crossroads. However, he finds hope in how procurement has adjusted in the recent past.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Thomson Reuters purchased the global trade compliance vendor Integration Point in 2018. They offer a solution for corporate tax departments called ONESOURCE. The Integration Point solution was rebranded to be one of the modules in the ONESOURCE suite. Oracle’s solution combines TMS and GTC seamlessly.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

7 KPIs Your Procurement Team May Be Ignoring! But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. Procurement is a business function that has undergone a lot of change in the last few years. Responsible Sourcing. Responsible Sourcing.

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HICX Solutions

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) , held between 31st October and 12th November, we welcomed Charlotte de Brabandt and Max Kent to the Supplier Experience Live podcast, to discuss how sustainable procurement programs foster a greener future. From CSR to ESG, to sustainable procurement goals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

The introduction of smoke-free products made the use of spreadsheet tools far less efficient in the capacity and sourcing planning as the new product categories had rapid growth. “We We needed to simulate multiple scenarios of significantly increased capacity and sourcing complexity, at speed and over a long planning horizon.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 25, 2024

This data ranges from your interests and purchases to your online behaviors, and it is collected by websites, apps, devices, services, and companies all around the globe. Privacy tools that allow people to change their cookie preferences and unsubscribe from email marketing can help keep customers in control of their data. Manageable.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

She explained that she owned a Warehouse Management System, purchased a Proof of Delivery Software as a Service, implemented a licensed-to-use Accounting & Distribution System, deployed a customised online Order Management System and that she is struggling with fragmented data and documents across these systems.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The days of managing channels on an individual basis are over, and consumers are using multiple devices and e-commerce platforms for nearly all purchases. individuals over the age of 15 at some point use e-commerce platforms to make purchases, asserts Business Insider. In fact, 78% of U.S. GET YOUR COPY HERE. GET YOUR COPY HERE.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 6, 2022

Even in a fast-paced industry like retail, there are more proof-of-concepts than end-to-end business solutions offering cognitive capabilities.” ” Thanks to physical store lockdowns during the pandemic, implementing omnichannel strategies and cognitive technology solutions became imperatives. and Wayfair Inc.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 2, 2024

The checkout kiosks bleat and flash when you fail to set a purchase down in the right spot. This trend has represented significant financial loss for retailers, with average annual loss from this source alone exceeding $102,000 for a typical grocery store with 12 self-checkout lanes.”[3]

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The right technology solutions allow supply chain operations to make data-driven decisions and provide a competitive advantage, particularly if an organization’s competitors are slow to adopt the latest technology advancements. Still, there are several technologies that are transforming supply chains for the organizations that adopt them.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Innovating to Uncover New Sources of Revenue in the Public Sector. Step 1: Use eProcurement Systems as a Potential Source of Revenue. Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. Step 3: Drive Value with State Procurement Agreements.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

This means supply chain and logistics professionals need to distinguish between more frequently purchased products and the slower-moving products customers are willing to wait for. Too often, organizations invested in solutions that offer little more than knee-jerk reactions, resulting in net losses. The Road to Agility and Resilience.

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Claritum

AUGUST 15, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. The benefits of purchasing promotional products. Problems with current sourcing methodologies. Sourcing the right way for Promotional goods and services. Promotional merchandise is a valuable marketing tool that can help to establish brand awareness of a company among consumers.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Source: Bloomberg.com. Moreover, the new policy of purchasing online and picking up in-store adds to the already high-stress environment for in-store employees. When customers arrive curbside to collect their purchase, they have no intention of waiting. The Importance of Finding Frontline Retail Staff for Peak Holiday Season.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Innovating to Uncover New Sources of Revenue in the Public Sector. Step 1: Use e Procurement Systems as a Potential Source of Revenue. Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. The Public Sector is no exception.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I find no agency or entity trying to find a holistic solution to global logistics. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Prior to 2018, when an ocean carrier booked a shipment they had to provide a chassis.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 16, 2020

Business management tools like spreadsheet software and invoice-creation tools saved significant amounts of time and aided recordkeeping. Companies got a taste of the now-booming software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry starting in 1999. People were introduced to the concept of big data in 2005.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. So in 2018, McDonald’s joins Apple, Procter & Gamble and Amazon on a separate “Masters” list, as one of the “best-of-the-best.”. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings. anonymous user.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Outlined below are common fulfillment obstacles faced by online businesses and their solutions. The perfect solution to this problem is working with fulfillment providers with multiple warehouses. Using a Complicated Fulfillment Software. Select a software that is easy to use, integrate, and meets your business needs.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 19, 2018

Some of the best moments from this year’s NRF Expo highlighted the opportunities retailers have to grow and reinvent the industry in 2018. And up to 75 percent of transactions with retailers will take place without human contact, as new technologies open up new, and formerly undreamed-of, avenues for shopping and purchasing.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2021

Bits and bytes are pouring in from sources ranging from satellites and MRI scans to massive computer simulations and seismic-sensor networks, from security cameras to smartphones, from genome sequencing of SARS-Cov-2 to COVID-19 test results, from social networks to texts zipping from phone to phone.”[1] Diagnostic analytics.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 11, 2021

This journey from the field to the fridge includes sourcing essential raw materials such as malt, hops, and yeast, along with the people, production activities, information, and resources involved in getting a beer into the hands of your customers. Production. Suppliers are competing on price, capacity, volume, and quality.

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