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Supplier Onboarding is Core to a Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

When you talk to companies that have implemented enterprise or supply chain applications, executives will usually admit that they have under-invested in training and preparing users to use the new technology. With PO collaboration, buyers send digital purchase orders over the network to suppliers or other trading partners.

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Global Study Reveals 52% of Vital Digital Supply Chain Transformation Efforts Hamstrung by Skills and Labor Crunch

ToolsGroup

With respondents’ top growth investment for 2022 being “increasing recruitment and training efforts”, this year’s study reveals the profound effect that current labor shortages are having on digital supply chain transformation. “As About ToolsGroup. That’s why global leaders like Absolut, BP and Harley-Davidson rely on us year after year.

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10 Commandments of Inventory Management

Supply Chain Opz

Inventory management is one of the most important tasks for supply chain management professionals. However, most inventory control theories are too complicated or too difficult to apply to real world situations. The reason is that most people now realize the value of planning practice like Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

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Key Takeaways from SAP Spend Connect Live

Logistics Viewpoints

When a procurement contract is negotiated, the buyer has planned to achieve a certain level of savings. For example, a buyer might say, “You only shipped me 800 of the 1000 products I ordered.” They also cover supplier managed inventory, quality collaboration, manufacturing line collaboration, and asset collaboration.

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer. The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team.

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Supply Chain Talent Matters More than Ever

Logistics Viewpoints

AGCO is an agricultural equipment manufacturer. When a supply chain disruption occurs, it is not uncommon for complex equipment and automotive manufacturers to have different plants in their company fight each other for the same components. Based on the findings, a skills enhancement program was created.

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SAP Goes All-In on Artificial Intelligence

Logistics Viewpoints

Most of the new in-context GenAI solutions have been pre-trained on 200,000 pages of SAP’s training and technical documents. Further, when users do not follow the recommendations or note that the answer provided is not accurate, their feedback can lead to further training for the AI model.

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