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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

I believe that the ASCM definition is too reactive and rooted in the traditional, and outdated concepts on risk management. I am currently doing research on inventory management. In the research, I ask inventory planners to define resilience. Is this a risk to resilience? Today, this is not the case.

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Elevating Procurement Excellence: Key Strategies to Optimize Procurement Processes

Procurement Academy

Your business needs a broader vision to address sustainability, deliver on risk management and resilience challenges, nurture buyer and supplier relationships, as well as meet procurement excellence. Distributive negotiations come into play with price negotiations of a one-time purchase, such as a single shipment of goods.

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Procurement Analysis: a Game Changer for Purchasing Strategically

Precoro

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. Thorough analysis allows procurement professionals to surface, visualize, and present purchasing patterns, which are then evaluated by the stakeholders. From whom are we buying?

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Supply Chain Executives are building “Centers of Excellence” – because they support business strategies!

NC State SCRC

The term “COE” is often a commonly heard term in supply managers’ vernacular, but it’s interesting to note that Centers of Excellence as an organizational entity have been around for more than fifty years – and evolved first in the form of what was called “shared services”. Thesystemsthinkingreview.co.uk.

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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory.

Kinaxis

Reason #4 Making key decisions by modelling the supply chain in Excel. Reason #5 Not having a supply chain risk management process. Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. I lost track of how many carrots we had and ended up buying more when we really didn’t need any. and it didn’t leak.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. I find three: organizational design, executive understanding of supply chain, and the lack of a clear definition of an optimization function for supply chain excellence. It’s ironic, isn’t it? The reason?

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Three Supply Chain Risk Management Lessons You Can Learn from the Suez Canal Block

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Now that we can view the incident in hindsight, I wanted to share three risk management lessons you can take away from this to create a healthier supply chain. . Perishables are on tight delivery schedules that ensure the product arrives at its destination fresh and ready for purchase.