Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Procurement System 
ToolsGroup
MARCH 31, 2025
The Science of Demand Planning: Improving Forecast Accuracy Consider this example: A traditional forecasting system analyzing tire sales might observe 12 units sold annually and determine an average monthly demand of one tire. However, this approach ignores real purchasing behavior, such as customers buying complete sets of four tires.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 15, 2022
” Followed by “How are you organized, and what defines functional excellence? And, how do you tie functional excellence to corporate value?” Companies became less clear on the definition of supply chain excellence and how to implement decision support technologies. This gap grew over the last decade.
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RFgen
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Think of it as the central nervous system of your operation, connecting everything from production planning and inventory control to supply chain management and financial reporting. No more disconnected systems or manual data entry a modern manufacturing ERP system puts you in control. Let’s get started.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 27, 2022
Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. 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. Business leaders are action-oriented and competitive. The reason?
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 19, 2024
These flows are one-to-one– focused on sharing a singular flow of information– lacking a system of record. In addition, a purchase order changes three-to-four times and there is a black hole (data is caught between email systems of trading partners for one-to-two days). Many systems without interoperability.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 21, 2024
As the only woman on the team, I always laughed that I had no place to put it, but I did not buck the system. Engineers could sign up for hour-long blocks to use the new systems. The class discovers the current blackholes of the supply chain (direct procurement and contract manufacturing. Lack of executive buy-in.
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. The method is not systemic and the data scientists lack an understanding of supply chain management. Kinaxis Purchase of Rubikloud.
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