- 1. Unlock the Secrets of the Supply Chains of the Future!
- (News)
- ... rely on spreadsheets and more than half use SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO), a popular but antiquated supply-chain-planning application. However, with the right technology, supply chains can ...
- 2. Supply Chain Strategies to End the Year
- (Supply)
- ... historical data and trends and seeking advice from consultants. Invest in technology A serious organization should never use spreadsheets or other manual methods to manage its procurement. These ...
- 3. The Just-In-Case Revolution
- (Supply)
- ... and cost as probabilistic measures. This more accurate picture of reality will lead to better supply and asset utilization. Scale up scenario analysis – Spreadsheets no longer cut it. Stop spending days ...
- 4. These Supply Chain Concepts Are the New Definitions to Live By
- (Logistics)
- ... from spreadsheets to elaborate transport management systems (TMS) used by large companies like Walmart, which controls a huge supply chain. Walmart has a mechanism for managing supply chains in-house, ...
- 5. Digitize Your Supply Chain for Better Efficiency
- (Technology)
- ... still relies on spreadsheets and email threads to inform decisions, you have been left behind. Using those semi-manual systems slows down processes, hurts efficiency and leaves room for human error. Supply ...
- 6. Spreadsheets are Tracking Tool
- (News)
- According to Supply Chain Dive, companies still use Excel spreadsheets as part of the their supply chain management tool. A survey by Adelante finds that 68 percent of companies still use Excel for supply ...
- 7. History of Procurement Software
- (News)
- Jason Busch takes an ambitious shot at tracing the history of procurement technology in a recent piece on the Spend Matters site. It's a great start at identifying how procurement has grown up along with ...
- 8. Have You Connected the Dots Yet?
- (Management)
- ... systems has been handled by batch processes, spreadsheets, and even manual data entry. But as customer orders become increasingly demanding those delays are costing more. They cost more in terms of canceled ...
- 9. Don’t Drive Without a Dashboard
- (Supply)
- ... through your systems, is it even possible to separate the standard data from the trouble signals? Old school tools like spreadsheets and even database reports can be harnessed to consolidate data and ...
- 10. Integration is Still an Issue
- (Integration)
- There was a time when companies moved data between applications by using text files, spreadsheets, or (really?) manual input. Those days still exist for companies only processing a few orders every month. ...
- 11. Everything Is In the Cloud - Except for B2B transactions
- (Technology)
- ... variety of document types that can’t easily be unified. They include written documents for product ideas, spreadsheets for costing, emails with vendors, faxes, and eventually purchase orders for parts ...
- 12. Integration in the B2B World
- (Integration)
- ... and all the things that go toward making your products available to your customers. Traditionally the link between your internal systems has been handled by batch processes, spreadsheets, and even manual ...
- 13. Spreadsheets Don't Make the Cu
- (News)
- When you can't scale supply to meet demand, is it a failure of your planning process, or something deeper? It could be the timeliness of your information that's at fault, according to Gary Meyers on the ...
- 14. The Value Add Makes the VAN
- (EDI)
- ... core features – their portfolios of services include the ability to support hosted document exchanges of EDI, XML, flat files, spreadsheets and other types of data. But they’ve layered on top of those ...
- 15. Still Using Spreadsheets?
- (News)
- This probably isn't all that surprising to most, but a recent survey shows that many manufacturers still use manual processes, like spreadsheets, to monitor KPIs. Although technology is available to automate ...
- 16. Outsourcing Compliance Optimization
- (Management)
- ... delivery status, and shipments are just the tip of an info iceberg that simply overwhelms the efforts of mere mortals to review (much less fix) using traditional tools like spreadsheets. Multifarious issues ...
- 17. Product Safety in Your Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... to unite the various product safety tracking systems. Plenty of information is in spreadsheets, retained by the manufacturer, and in siloed REP and PLM systems. Matt Smith, cheif strategy officer at icix ...
- 18. Where Will the Supply Chain Jobs Be?
- (Blogs)
- ... Those who pick orders in the warehouse, fax POs to suppliers, and develop forecasts on spreadsheets, not so much. So, my point is to encourage you to think about change and how you may not necessarily ...
- 19. Supply Chain Software Innovation Needed
- (News)
- Lack of successful innovation to support supply chain needs at big ERP vendors SAP and JDA is bugging Lora Cecere. The opportunities are out there to develop something useful, while companies continue ...
- 20. Establishing Visibility - The Long View
- (Supply)
- ... have started down the path toward data normalization quickly found that they had multiple version of what they thought was the same data spread across multiple systems ranging from spreadsheets to inventory ...
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