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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

While consultants wave their hands and tout new approaches, the most important step that a business leader can take today to improve future performance is the development of a shared vision for the organization on supply chain excellence. Over the past three years, supply chain cycles shifted. Shift in cycles. The reason?

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What does it take to build a best-in-class supply chain?

Kinaxis

“In the beginning, it was tough,” admits Benji Green, Avaya’s Senior Director, Integrated Supply Chain Planning & Operations, in a recent article published by Supply Chain Digital. “12-hour Tracking success: Metrics matter. Now Avaya is leading the way, exceeding industry benchmarks in 11 key metrics.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

Hosting this webinar series is one of the favorite parts of my job as the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. All segments of the healthcare value chain lag in their understanding of supply chain leadership. In the past three decades of supply chain transformation, the greatest shifts happened through leaders.

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Two Measures: Stock Buybacks and Supply Chain Transformation- Are They Related?

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary this Editor dwells on data relative to U.S. corporations having actually accelerated stock buyback efforts contrasted to ongoing investment needs for supply chain transformation focused on added agility, more improved resilience and augmented technology support.

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Supply Chains Need to Transform: Into What?

Enterra Insights

I read a lot of articles about the need for supply chain transformation. Dan Gilmore, editor-in-chief of Supply Chain Digest , asserts supply chain transformation is only beginning to catch the attention of many CEOs. Supply chain processes driven by real-time consumer demand, not forecasts.

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Get the Procurement Analytics Advantage with SAP S/4HANA

Bristlecone

Did you know that advanced analytics, when used in lieu of traditional statistical models, can help procurement departments increase cost efficiency by 3-8%? [1]. The procurement department of any business generates more data than is humanly possible to compute and comprehend through traditional means. Operational Procurement.

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Open Letter to the Chief Financial Officer

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain capabilities disappoint. In our research for the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter , we find that this is the case for 90% of companies. Over the last decade the average company has dramatically improved employee productivity, and driven reductions in cash-to-cash metrics. You are not alone.