- 1. Keep an Eye on Blockchain
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- Blockchain is a technology to keep an eye on, according to Hailey Lynne McKeffrey on the EBN site. She writes that Blockchain has some potential in the supply chain because it could support new processes.It's ...
- 2. Catalogs in the eCommerce Age
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- Those of us who have dealt with supplier catalogs in the age of ecommerce probably have an immediate answer to Jason Busch's question about whether to kill them completely.However, they have their place ...
- 3. Applying Lean to MRO
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- MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) purchasing is one area of procurement that consistently flies under the radar. Might it be a good target for process improvement and cost reduction?Kevin Tacek ...
- 4. The Importance of Future State in VSM
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- Value stream mapping is a critical tool for process improvement. However, many leave out an important component: future state.On the Supply Chain Digest site, Drew Locher explains why this gap is crucial. ...
- 5. Unobtrusive Supply Chain Design
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- In the most recent entry in his series on supply chain design, Jonathan Lofton discusses the principle of 'being unobtrusive'. Supply chains must be designed to allow for creativity and self-expression.In ...
- 6. Improving Strategic Sourcing
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- Strategic sourcing is a key process in the supply chain, particularly in the areas of logistics and transportation. Improvement each and every time the sourcing process occurs is a must.On the Logistics ...
- 7. What's Better for Performance: Lean or Tech
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- What's the better approach to improving supply chain performance: process improvements via Lean, or technology implementations? It's an interesting question whose answer might depend on which part of the ...
- 8. Logistics and the IoT
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- ... savings and process improvements in transportation and related functions.In an article on the EPS site, Barbara Jorgensen explains the economics involved and what she sees happening. Read her thoughts ...
- 9. Drive Quality With Value Stream Mapping
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- A backbone of Lean process improvement is Value Stream Mapping (VSM). There are right ways and wrong ways to approach process mapping, and documenting the current state is a step that will put you on the ...
- 10. Supply Chain Change Management
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- Transforming your supply chain in response to the many changes in the business landscape isn't an option, it's a necessity. And it's not a minor task at all.In a Supply and Demand Chain Executive article, ...
- 11. Find Out How/If Your Supply Chain is Improving
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- The relationship between a company's financial performance and its supply chain metrics are far from simple. Loraine Lawson offers her take on the best tools and processes to better your supply chain performance. ...
- 12. EDI Integration Benefits
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- Although nobody talks much about EDI any more, it's still the backbone of many a business process. Its benefits when fully automated are well publicized and it has enabled a wide range of process improvements. ...
- 13. Benefits or Nuisance: Vendor Compliance
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- ... that processes are followed and that Retailers really don't want the financial reimbursement but want process improvements, that is not always the case. Many actually budget for Compliance Fees, thus have ...
- 14. Lock it Up
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- How can you do something innovative with a delivery destination? Braden Kelley on his blogsite thinks Amazon has discovered something new. Delivery lockers have been tried before, but it looks like ...
- 15. Can You Use Anecdotal Information?
- (Management)
- ... Making sure complaints make it to management level is a special challenge, though. For negative information, employees need to know that you won’t overreact and that your interest is in process improvement ...
- 16. Be a Champion!
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- If you're not continuously improving, you're standing still and will soon be passed by your competition. MyPuchasingCenter.com has published a nice article on the subject. Read here about how to get ...
- 17. Buying MRO?
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- MRO (maintenance, repair, and operational) purchasing is a different animal. See how progressive companies go about taming it. Read the MyPurchasingCenter.com article here!
- 18. Done with 2011 - Ready for 2012
- (Management)
- ... support to position themselves to greater process improvements. For the new year - 2012 So what does 2012 look like? I see continued general evolution of EDI and fulfillment processes. I see - Continued ...
- 19. EDI ROI Confusion
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- ... now putting those on hold, I’ll again remind you that regardless of conditions of the Economy, everyone should always be looking at process improvements. And with that you should be considering starting ...
- 20. Preparing for your new EDI Implementation
- (EDI)
- ... success has been achieved. Determine the expected ROI by transaction/process improvement as a starting point for measurement o Make sure that you're implementing the appropriate EDI transactions for ...
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