- 1. Gartner Offers Resources to Help Make Smarter, Faster Decisions
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- ... Hype Cycle, Product Decisions, and Benchmarking Diagnostics to help businesses make the most informed decisions. Gartner also provides expert guidance and templates and frameworks to help businesses with ...
- 2. Logistics Can Be Tackled
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- ... at what others are doing. Looking beyond your company provides you with the inspiration you need to make a positive change. Identify the trends that are helpful by benchmarking, following industry trends, ...
- 3. Best-of-Breed vs ERP Series
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- Spend Matters has put together a great series on the ERP vs. Best-of-Breed topic. We posted the first installment but the subsequent ones by Pierre Mitchell were just as helpful. Links to the first ...
- 4. Getting Started With S&OP
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- Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is an undeniably important part of supply chain management. Lora Cecere has studied the process and provides suggestions on how to get started in a new post on the ...
- 5. A Critique of the Gartner Top 25
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- Everyone in the supply chain world anxiously awaits the announcement of Gartner's yearly Top 25 Supply Chains, yet not everyone agrees with their selection methodology.When you're an ex-Gartner analyst ...
- 6. Design Needs for Procurement
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- Pierre Mitchell from the Spend Matters team recently attended technology provider Coupa's conference and came away with some great observations. He advocates turning procurement's function from 'gate keeper' ...
- 7. Building a Network of Networks
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- The Supply Chain Shaman addresses the concept of a 'network of networks' for the supply chain in a recent article on her site. Lora Cecere goes into some research and proposes a set of building blocks ...
- 8. Challenges for the CPG Supply Chain
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- It's no longer just about scale for the retail supply chain, according to BCG's Peter Dawe, Alicia Pittman, and Elfrun von Koeller. Big Changes in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) arena are challenging ...
- 9. Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking
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- Benchmarking is old hat in many areas of the supply chain. But planning is a different animal, since the self-reporting that typically drives benchmarks isn't usually available.The Supply Chain Shaman, ...
- 10. The Importance of Benchmarking
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- Recent research has proven that benchmarking is crucial as the role of procurement becomes more important to the organization. In a recent article on the My Purchasing Center site, Susan Avery discusses ...
- 11. When Suppliers Merge
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- Supplier A is one of your stars, but you deal with Supplier B only when you have to do so. What happens when they merge?Bolaji Ojo on the EPS page has looked at this not unheard of phenomenon and talks ...
- 12. The Long Tail and Demand
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- Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, recently discussed a demand planning benchmarking study with its author, Robert Byrne. They reviewed what's happening in the consumer product industry and identified ...
- 13. Supply Chain Sustainability in 2015
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- Supply chain sustainability is one area we've not addressed with 2015 predictions. Let's put an end to that! On the Triple Pundit site, Elizabeth Comere takes a look at the trends she sees for supply chains ...
- 14. Looking For a Hot Job?
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- You probably won't see jobs in procurement or the supply chain on any of the 'hot jobs' lists that are produced throughout the year. Those in the real business world, though, realize that these areas are ...
- 15. Do Best Practices Matter?
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- Almost everyone can recall being lectured about 'best practices' at one time or another. Sometimes it made sense, others not so much.In a Spend Matters blog, Pierre Mitchell discusses procurement best ...
- 16. Funding IT Purchases
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- Everyone's interested in saving money, especially when you're buying technology. There are many ways to overspend, but if you keep some simple guidelines in mind you may be able to keep spending under ...
- 17. Make Your Data Actionable
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- Ray Major, on the Smart Data Collective site, is looking at ways to leverage supply chain data to benefit the organization. If you're implementing a business intelligence platform, he wants to make sure ...
- 18. Visibility Impact of Real-Time Data Sharing
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- Companies that share real-time demand and inventory information have to be ahead of the game, right? Not necessarily, according to APQC's benchmarking.Solid processes must be in place for this data to have ...
- 19. Visibility and Performance in an Omnichannel World
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- Michael Allen, in a post on the Retail Gazette site, takes a look at recent data from the Retail Systems Research group about omnichannel retail. Forrester has also contributed some analysis he reviews ...
- 20. Are You a Best-in Class Supply Chain?
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- Everyone anxiously awaits the annual Gartner list of top supply chains. But do you understand what goes into their analysis? And why is it important, anyway?According to Tom Woodham on the Supply Management ...
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