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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

While there is work within SAP to rethink SNC and use the assets purchased with Ariba to build multi-tier capabilities, the progress is not encouraging. the company is owned today by 20 organizations representing manufacturers, distributors, hospitals and group purchasing organizations (GPOs). Marketplace Rebirth. Let me know.

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What Does it Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur? The Incredible Journey of a Last Mile Pioneer

Logistics Viewpoints

Wumdrop is a successful last mile logistics company in South Africa. And they said, ‘Excellent very glad to do it. So, we buy diapers from them, we have them delivered to us, we rebrand them, and because of the cadence we adjusted our business model to be a subscription-based diaper ordering business. Absolutely not!

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. How easy is it to buy from your company? This work is important to me. Bio-engineering? Customization?

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Embracing the Digital Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

I will be speaking and working with clients in wonderful locations in Brussels, China, Germany, London, Mexico, Peru, and South Africa. Digital path to purchase? The automation of the moments of truth in the buying cycle to decrease demand latency and better sense shopper and consumer demand in real-time.)

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Marion Kohlmeier: ‘Expansion in our global footprint has been a big step’

Supply Chain Movement

In this edition: Marion Kohlmeier, Head of supply chain planning and project purchasing at Weidmann Plastics Technology. Weidmann Plastics Technology is part of the Techniplas Group and I am responsible for three teams: Logistics planning; pre-series scheduling; and project purchasing. The third team is project purchasing.

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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Providing data-informed, personalized recommendations at the moment of purchase to end users increases average revenue per user and provides a more attractive offering to customers. With a key focus on emerging markets around the world, SDS process over US$14B worth of transactions annually.

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Beyond The Data with William Sandoval

The Logistics of Logistics

I got to be able to run my operations, even the way I buy products and things of that nature. New Jersey is where our corporate headquarters is based but we have offices in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and South Africa. Our center of excellence is in Israel. We are a global company. We have offices everywhere in the world.