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Today’s complex business environment requires that your customers have complete visibility across their customers, suppliers and inventory to retain competitive advantage. In order to gain competitive advantage the alternative is to use information, monitor metrics and... |
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Direct procurement activities can represent a huge portion of costs for product manufacturers. They also represent an opportunity for new efficiencies and savings.
Yet many organizations continue to rely on traditional, manually intensive means for... |
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The 2017 Top Ten Trends for Modern Demand-Driven Manufacturing is based on interactions with hundreds of manufacturers and industry experts – addressing challenges, supporting innovation and introducing technologies. The constant, key themes that rise to the top are digitization,... |
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The Best Practices survey was carried out online in September 2015, with a self-administered questionnaire filled out by companies which have migrated an EDI platform to SaaS. 72 large industrial and service companies responded, including Aldes, Auchan, Bonduelle, Caisse des... |
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Not only have China, Russia and the Middle East been the focuses for investment and low cost countries sourcing, their own investment successes have had a terrific impact on increasing their “sovereign wealth funds”. Recently, it has been reported in the press that... |
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What is Purchasing and Supply Management?I could find you a definition from a dictionary, a text book or a theorist, or I could describe what good purchasing and supply management practitioners really do. Procurement practitioners shape the profession through their skills,... |
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Where does your AP organization fall on the continuum between manual and automated processing? Between drowning in paper and performing as an effective, strategic, and digital partner in your company?Among your peers in AP leadership, the question in 2014 is not if... |
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This article provides insight for manufacturers currently using a manual Kanban process (physical cards) or homegrown Kanban software for replenishment that they have outgrown. This paper will answer:
When is the right time to move to an automated eKanban software... |
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Wholesalers are more than intermediaries in the relationship between manufacturers and their customers. They are value chain partners. To remain competitive in today’s changing landscape, more wholesalers are deploying retail strategies--strengthening their price negotiation... |
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All organizations have internal and external supply chains that deliver goods or services to customers, and regardless of the type of company, these supply chains all face the risk of a supply interruption, impacting both the organization’s and the customers’... |
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