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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. One master of freight procurement is Kyle Masters. Procurement ran a request for proposal event.

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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

As an old gal, with over forty-years of supply chain experience, writing this report for ten years taught me many lessons. The industry is awash with ex-execs advising companies, speaking at events, and consulting. I find in the orbit chart analysis that 45% of companies in the report are unconsciously incompetent. I admit it.

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The Top CPO Metrics Used to Measure Inflation, Risk, and Uncertainty

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In recent years, the overall state of Procurement has been bolstered by increased proficiency, expanding engagement, and a growing direct impact on operations. And they’re not the only ones—other department heads are also increasingly budget-conscious, creating a new opportunity to partner with procurement for better budget management.

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The Supply Chain Transparency Challenge: Report Highlights Gap between Procurement Organisations’ Transparency Ambitions and their Capabilities

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Redwood City, CA, 13 October, 2022. A new report, “Data-Enabled Supply Chain Transparency” has revealed that 77% of respondents indicated their organization considers supply chain transparency to be critically or highly important.

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2022 Ivalua NOW Paris Recap!

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This year, we centered our event around the theme “Stronger Together” to celebrate the collective challenges we have overcome and how we can move forward with renewed priorities. We are stronger, more united, and more determined to lead and innovate together! Leader Forrester Supplier Value Management Platforms, Q1 2022.

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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

I know that your primary focus is procurement. As a result, after four years of the initial go-live, the team blindly used planning models, distorting the plan. Bullwhip Effect at LKQ Europe Summer 2022 Testing So, why do we not measure it? Or planned orders to purchase orders?) ” Anna, this blog post is for you.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

Change can creep imperceptibly, so sometimes it takes a major event to wake us up. Concurrent means to “happen at the same time,” so applying this principle to the supply chain, any change, to any input across the supply chain can be considered and evaluated by demand, supply, distribution, capacity, and purchasing; in real-time.