Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason? Discontinued in 2011.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 29, 2024

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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Synovos

AUGUST 21, 2023

RS Integrated Supply is committed to making safety the number one priority in everything we do,” said Brandon Coombs, Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence. RS Integrated Supply was introduced by RS Group in 2022 after combining Synovos and IESA, two procurement and supply chain management companies.

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AFFLINK

AUGUST 30, 2016

Historically, group purchasing organizations (GPOs) have been primarily utilized within the healthcare industry. A GPO is a group of businesses or organizations that come together to use their collective purchasing power to receive discounts from vendors. belong to at least one GPO. What Exactly is a GPO?

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

As a Procurement Leader, carbon neutrality by 2050 should be a central focus and Dr. Natacha Tréhan’s comprehensive research offers practical tips to get you on track. First, let’s start with procurement and how it plays a significant role in reducing the carbon footprint with 3 key areas of impact: – Actions with suppliers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 15, 2020

Digital Procurement article, and permission to publish here, provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Navigating the complexity of the global supply chain as a procurement professional can sometimes feel like taking a walk through the Amazon without a compass, or entering into outer space without an oxygen tank. Don’t Panic!

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Precoro

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The procurement landscape is ever changing, and recently, in contrast to the traditional procure-to-pay platforms, we have seen the emergence of a new type of software solution, intake-to-pay, which is marketed as a more comprehensive solution. But hold on: are we sure that wasn't all possible with procure-to-pay, anyway?

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ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

It’s a question that you can answer for yourself at Ivalua Now – The Art of Procurement , being held, appropriately enough, at The Louvre, Paris 10 th – 12 th April. In the process, these advances are enabling procurement leaders to look beyond their traditional remit. Blog first published by our friends at Purchase to Pay Network.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Until there are clear answers, business leaders should avoid buying software from companies with deep investments by venture capitalists. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud. The purchase of Rubikloud by Kinaxis shows just how little the Kinaxis team knows about demand management.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. Throughout a genuine and collaborative cooperation with business vendors, they produce innovative approaches to current procurement difficulties.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 18, 2022

At the end of a long day of a strategy session on supply chain excellence with a client, I needed to fill up some time in an agenda. They had never been in the same room to discuss demand holistically from sales teams to procurement. The strategy day owner was a global process center of excellence leader. The result? Background.

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ivalua

JULY 13, 2022

Procurement Leaders Webinar. Speakers: Arnaud Malardé, Ivalua | Hélène Vermont, Michelin Group. With mounting pressure for organizations to make tangible contributions to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives, the procurement function must strategize to implement and report their collective efforts.

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Precoro

APRIL 6, 2022

If you're reading this now, then you’ve probably noticed how outdated traditional procurement systems recede into the past and are replaced by new modern solutions. What is Cloud Procurement? All this functionality helps save costs, choose the best vendors, ensure compliance, appraise supplier risk, and streamline procure-to-pay cycle.

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EC Sourcing Group

JULY 28, 2020

Objectives of Procurement Management. The objectives of procurement management can range from the most general, such as “buying goods and services,” to the more complex, such as “supporting organizational goals within the team.” What Is Procurement Management? Objectives of Procurement Management: Managing Contracts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement became an island–isolated from the demand signal except for MRP. This was a gift from a member of a group that I am facilitating.) Procurement: Purchase price variance and procurement cost.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I know that your primary focus is procurement. The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) ” Anna, this blog post is for you. Over the last two years, I actively engaged technologists and business leaders to redefine demand planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

My thought was to combine my experience working on visibility solutions with Descartes Systems Group and Manugistics with recent research data. The problem with supplier visibility is bookended into procurement processes that have gone back, not forward over the last decade. I volunteered to write a report on supply visibility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Center of Excellence at the company wanted to improve base-level capabilities but struggled to move forward due to the traditional views of the planning team, which they felt were self-serving. (The The team was not calibrated on the role of forecasting and the basics around process excellence. Models Matter. The reason?

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Precoro

MARCH 30, 2022

Strategic Procurement Helps a Business Unleash its Potential. As The Hackett Group discovered, approaching procurement strategically with specific business goals in mind helps achieve a significantly higher ROI. Operational efficiency and cost reduction are among the top procurement priorities for CPOs, according to Deloitte.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 25, 2024

My definition of a network is the bi-directional information exchange of manufacturing, procurement, quality, and transportation signals across multiple tiers of trading partners in a many-to-many trading partner information exchange with minimal latency. Less than 1% of companies in this value chain outperform their peer group.

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EC Sourcing Group

OCTOBER 5, 2021

How to Streamline Your Procurement Process from Weeks to Hours. When contract management and procurement software first arrived on the scene, overnight it became an easy way to streamline the procurement process. Businesses didn’t have to rely on excel, emails, conversations, and word documents as much as they did in the past.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

I struggled to manage myself as I settled in elbow-to-elbow with the group to listen to the presentation. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Orbit Chart of Lenovo Performance Against Peer Group. Mondelez Performance Against the Food Group for 2010-2019.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Nine times out of ten, the finance group is portrayed as a dam, a barrier or a ferris wheel in the drawings. Companies tightly coupling the budget to S&OP have significantly higher inventories and lower growth than their peer group. Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order.

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ivalua

APRIL 7, 2022

Leader Forrester CLM for Buy-Side Contract Suites, Q4 2021. Ivalua remains the only vendor recognized as a leader in every current Procurement report spanning S2P by Gartner and Forrester. The group covered localizing suppliers, right shoring, ESG, and managing risk. Procurement Community Team Spirit: Best Advocate.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I find in my Supply Chains to Admire research that 96% of companies (when compared to their peer groups) are unable to drive improvement while delivering higher performance year-over-year on a balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Ecolab, L’Oreal, and TJX are exceptions.

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EC Sourcing Group

MAY 28, 2020

What Are the Goals of Procurement Management? The goals of procurement management are generally to acquire goods and services with the highest quality at the lowest cost to create an end product. For instance, every purchasing department wants to lower costs and be more productive, so these are concrete goals. . Minimize risk.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Address Procurement Strategy. Focus Procurement on supplier optimisation. Don’t lose Procurement’s focus on costs. Keep Procurement up to date. Procurement is a complex multidisciplinary team activity that crosses all areas of the business. Introduction. Remove the noise.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 28, 2024

The supply chain field offers a wealth of opportunities for women, making it an excellent career choice for many reasons: 1. The demand for strategic thinking and problem-solving skills creates a path for women to excel. Maryna has: 5 years of experience in procurement training and consulting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2018

Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. PFEP optimizes the policies that define how to procure each part. PFEP enables supply chain leaders to glean a 360-degree view of their inventory and procurement policies to maximize the value of each inventory dollar.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

Buying supplies, equipment, low preference items and the latest innovations to support high-value care delivery is expensive and while it’s not an area where you want to skimp, there are certainly ways to reduce these expenses without impacting quality of care. The Path to Supply Chain Excellence.

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Claritum

JUNE 13, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. I took on the challenge of writing a condensed version of all the current Procurement challenges. I rapidly came to the conclusion that these articles were excellent at the helicopter view of the challenges, however seemed unable to apply categorisation to the challenges. Introduction.

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Claritum

AUGUST 4, 2020

Introduction Procurement is a complex. The variables and complexities of purchasing products and services, from basic supplies through to strategic purchases, make Procurement a key. the procurement function. the procurement function. The procurement environment is dynamic and constantly changing with.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 4, 2022

Price analysis is a subject that is often overlooked in supply chain education, (although it is certainly a big part of our chapter on Strategic Cost Management in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management ). Suppliers are often able to raise prices, and do so without warning, particularly in this environment.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Check out What is Virtual Procurement and Why Should You Care? Where is procurement, outsourcing, sourcing, supply chain, and purchasing going? Secondarily, we will include information from other procurement professionals and procurement firms about their experiences, what they forecast, and what they are seeing.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 14, 2013

In this first of a series of blogs, I will be exploring many of the key themes that emerged in the recent Future of Procurement study I co-authored with KPMG’s Procurement Advisory Council. The first of the themes we will explore is the procurement manager’s role as a support to the Chief Financial Officer.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

He is very passionate about developments in the Supply Chain arena and is always seeking excellence in his drive for efficiency & innovation in Supply Chain operations” – a quality that is very relevant to face up to the many Supply Chain challenges in our path! The silo mentality of traditional organizations must be broken.

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EcoVadis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The global chemical company will leverage the EcoVadis platform to reduce risk, encourage innovation and drive sustainable procurement performance across its supply base. To learn more about how EcoVadis supports companies along their sustainable procurement journeys, visit [link]. About Scott Bader.

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