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The Power of Purchase Order Collaboration: A Game-Changer in Managing Direct Spend

Logistics Viewpoints

It is crucial for organizations to understand the importance of Purchase Order collaboration to effectively manage their direct spend, optimize operations, and mitigate risks. Make to Order: Here, products are manufactured based on specific customer orders.

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The One Key Shift in Your Supply Chain and Procurement Strategies that can Drive Better Business Continuity and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Procurement and Supply Chain Management are essential functions that can help companies navigate these challenges, but they are often siloed and operate in separate departments. Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services.

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Nine Key Steps to Enabling Resilient Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

And even before they begin, they must realize these problems are too big for any single team—supply chain must connect with finance and procurement to treat the n-tier suppliers as an extended part of their network and become their preferred customer. By identifying these gaps, you can create sourcing events to close them.

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Active Supply Chain Design: A Key Imperative for De Risking Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Management practices such as lean manufacturing and just-in-time inventory management, along with globalization, have made tremendous impact on cost and service, but have accentuated risk. Lean manufacturing also focused on managing these operational risks, especially within the four walls of the enterprise. are most exposed to risk?

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Outage Raises Potential Medical Isotope Shortage

Exiger Perspectives

based TC-99m generator manufacturers and their known customers. based TC-99m generator manufacturers and their known TC-99m customers over the last five years, via DDIQ Analytics. and Belgium-based National Institute for Radioelements — source Mo-99 from the HFR Reactor. Wisconsin-based SHINE Technologies Inc.

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Chuck Intrieri Executive Profile

The Logistics of Logistics

Chuck Intrieri is a: Certified Value Engineer (VE), Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM), Certified Production and Inventory Control Manager (CPIM), and is Lean Certified all of which attests to his deep understanding of operations and logistics beyond the confines of the purchasing function. Chuck Intrieri Linkedin profile.

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Rockwell Automation: Supply Chains to Admire Winner

Supply Chain Shaman

At Rockwell this includes all processes end-to-end except for manufacturing. In his role, Ernest owns strategic sourcing, materials planning, customer care, and logistics operations globally. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 23,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.