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E2open Acquires icon-scm: Five Reasons Why You Should Care

Supply Chain Shaman

She cannot count the number of SCM software acquisition announcements that promised 1+1=10. icon-scm was founded in 1992. The company partnered with SAP to launch a product offering, SAP Supply Chain Response by icon-scm, in 2010. In 2012, icon-scm had revenues of approximately $10 million. The Shaman is a curmudgeon.

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Friends not Foes, Supplier Relationships Made to Last

ivalua

A company’s supply chain is a key source of competitive advantage and Supply Chain Management (SCM) is designed to allow a company to monitor its suppliers and utilize the available resources to improve performance. But most sourcing and procurement teams need to pivot and modify the way they handle SCM decisions.

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Trends & Strategies in Logistics and SCM

Supply Chain Movement

Proactive strategies should include research and development, procurement, production and sales. Solutions focused on improving transparency of tier two suppliers, inventory and demand impede mitigation and force companies into reactive strategies.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] 3 Core Supply Chain Management Trends Gearing Up to Change SCM Forever

GlobalTranz

The 3 Big Supply Chain Management Trends Surely to Change SCM as we know it Forever. At Cerasis, we have recently wrote a lot of material related to these three core trends and here is a brief highlight from some of the posts we’ve written about these trends: SCM Core Trend #1: Supply Chain Visibility.

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7 Rules of Fashion Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Opz

Fashion SCM 1.0 Fashion SCM 2.0 We''ve identified 7 rules that we can learn from them as below, 7 Rules of Fashion SCM 1) Produce in small lot : small lot is the unique characteristics of lean manufacturing which is not the case here. In 1984, US Apparel Industry created the task force called " Crafted With Pride in the U.S.A.

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Using Procurement Analytics to Simplify Your Supplier Reconciliation

Logility

However, with a simple software-based supplier reconciliation process using procurement analytics in place, an organization can automate this cumbersome process to save hundreds to thousands of man hours every year. Tracking results in the system to improve overall supplier processes.

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Innovative Approaches to Supply Chain Risk

Kinaxis

A few hours later, your procurement head walks in the office. “We ‘SCM World, Innovative Approaches to Supply Chain Risk, Geraint John, July 2014′ For me, the key takeaways from this report are that effective supply chain risk management needs to be all inclusive – it must include layers beyond just your suppliers.