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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Buying supply chain planning software is hard. How are people buying software? Here I share how to challenge the status quo.

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The Science and the Art of Procurement

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As we move towards a new decade is the emphasis in the procurement world changing – are we going to see a new age, where the Art of Procurement comes to the fore? Technology has radically changed procurement activities and procurement roles across virtually all our spheres of activity.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the course of the five months, we iterated on the model over seven sessions. The problem with supplier visibility is bookended into procurement processes that have gone back, not forward over the last decade. I asked Greg Aimi, currently at Gartner to help. We ordered pizza and started working on a visibility maturity model.

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Changing Mental Models

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the course of the last week, I have been working on healthcare research. In the last five years, while the physician is still important, the buying decisions transitioned from the supplier to the care provider. They are primarily focused on cost management on new purchase decisions. Generalize procurement of materials.

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Are You Caught in Word Salad Dribble?

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the course of the last decade, his story is the same. days to receive a purchase order confirmation. The average purchased order changes 3.5 As shown in FIgure 1, the fourth node is the COV of materials in planned orders/COV of purchase orders. Back to John. His comments are typically a word salad rant.

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Achieving Healthcare Transformation, Powered by Supply Chain

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Now, of course the systems of healthcare differ but overall the level and growth is certainly a concern. As is, the healthcare supply chain is complex with multiple players involved such as manufacturers, distributors and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) supporting and interacting with multiple departments and care delivery points.

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Procurement Analysis: a Game Changer for Purchasing Strategically

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With the global market expansion and deepening supply chain complexity, the roles of procurement leaders have evolved from tactical to strategic. Nowadays, procurement departments not only focus on the day-to-day buying operations but also search for the most efficient ways to go about them. From whom are we buying?