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Procurement Analysis: a Game Changer for Purchasing Strategically

Precoro

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. How often do purchases happen?

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Time for a Supply Chain Metrics Cleaning

Logility

Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” ” To manage a supply chain containing complex dependencies between teams, departments and partner companies across international boundaries requires a rich set of metrics. Functionally isolated metrics lead to sub-optimized supply chain performance.

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Time to Look into the Future of Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Check out What Exactly Is Procurement? And What is Purchasing? There has been transformation in the Procurement function over the past decade. From the starting point of the traditional buy-sell, transaction-based purchasing, the practice has moved through stages of change that redefines most aspect of the business.

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Industry 4.0 Success Depends on Cognitive Technologies

Enterra Insights

Like other economic sectors affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the manufacturing sector has had to reevaluate past business strategies to ensure they remain on track to survive and thrive in the post-pandemic environment. “Talk of Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing,” he writes, “has been around for years.

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9 Critical ERP Features for Discrete Manufacturers

OptiProERP

Manufacturers need specific functionality to run their businesses effectively. Let’s examine what ERP functionality is critical for discrete manufacturers. Manufacturers rely on their inventory to build their products, so they need to have the correct amounts on hand at all times. Inventory Management. Supply Chain Management.

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Imagining the Supply Chain of the Future!

Supply Chain Game Changer

But is that enough of a far-reaching vision to offer much more than an incremental view of what we see today based on existing technology? Any view of the near future is more likely to describe incremental changes and incremental advancements based on the current knowledge base. Enabling Technologies.

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Exiger Acquires Widely Adopted Proprietary Parts Intelligence Company XSB

Exiger Perspectives

The acquisition combines the most comprehensive proprietary purchasing, design and sustainment intelligence and engineering analytics platform with Exiger’s own proprietary data and AI, creating an end-to-end solution for the logistics, PEO and acquisition communities.