- 21. 4 Easy Replenishment Ideas that Adapt to the Digital Age
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- Data Profits, a mid-tier retail and wholesale demand forecasting and replenishment SaaS system, releases a new video: "P's of Retail". This video highlights four ideas that need focus in replenishment software ...
- 22. Blockchain and the Supply Chain
- (News)
- The hot technology topic of the year is blockchain. It's a bit complicated to explain, but Taras Berezowsky on the Spend Matters site not only provides a handy primer on the subject but also gives us a ...
- 23. Another Big Logistics Move by Amazon
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- As we've witnessed Amazon's various moves through the last year, the one sure bet we thought we could make was that they'd be moving heavily into logistics.Well, we would've won that one as they've begun ...
- 24. Need to Trim Supply Chain Costs?
- (News)
- Simple is good, especially when we're looking for ideas on cuttiing supply chain costs, right? In an article on the Business 2 Community site, Christopher Moore gives us a headstart with a few ideas on ...
- 25. Retail Flexibility For the Holidays
- (News)
- It's a Christmas wish and a little late, but Bill DuBois is hoping Santa brings a flexible supply chain in the future. For the retailer, the holidays are an inventory forecasting challenge.In his article ...
- 26. Dial Up Your Team's Engagemen
- (News)
- It's great to have engaged employees, but hellish when you don't. Not only are your dis-engaged people a drag on your best workers, but they also harm quality and productivity.Hailey Lynee McKeefry has ...
- 27. Best Practices to Support Speedy Delivery
- (News)
- There is no 'silver bullet' in meeting the speedy delivery expectations of ecommerce customers. There are, though, several best practices you can adopt to improve your chances.On the Supply Chain 247 site, ...
- 28. Common Supply Chain Planning Mistakes
- (News)
- Supply chain planning is a tough nut to crack on the technology side. Lora Cecere has been examining the mistakes companies make in selecting their approaches and has some ideas on improvements.Her article ...
- 29. Use Your Suppliers to Innovate
- (News)
- Today's new acronym: SEI, or supplier-enabled innovation. It makes sense to involve your supply chain partners in developing ideas to improve processes and profitability, does it not?The staff at Supply ...
- 30. Judging Global Supply Chains
- (News)
- There are recognized leaders in the global supply chain, but are they really leading? And how do you judge that, anyway?In a relatively lengthy article on the topic, Lora Cecere examines a number of performance ...
- 31. Succeeding at the Last-Mile Challenge
- (News)
- The race is on to solve the 'last-mile' dilemma, according to Bridget McCrea on the Supply Chain 24/7 site. Getting products purchased on-line from the DC into the customers' hands can make or break a ...
- 32. The Magic Formula for Supply Chain Success
- (News)
- Is cost-reduction the basis for supply chain success? Jeff Berman recently solicited thoughts from his readers on the subject and received a lot of ideas, mostly focused around replacing 'cost savings' ...
- 33. Becoming a Data-Driven Supply Chain
- (News)
- If there's a 'hottest of the hot' topics right now, supply chain analytics may be it. Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, sat down with a few supply chain executives recently to see where they're at ...
- 34. 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 ...
- 35. Building a Buying Engine
- (News)
- How do you start to build your own guided buying engine? Well, Pierre Mitchell from the Spend Matters group has some good ideas.He provides the basics in a recent article on their site, and the benefits ...
- 36. Using Behavior to Your Advantage
- (Management)
- ... and this year I added a new goal to the list. I will walk 1,000 miles in 2011. Instead of approaching this goal rationally, like I’m prone to do for any project, I wanted to apply the ideas in the book ...
- 37. Addressing eProcurement Challenges
- (News)
- eProcurement vendors have made a lot of promises to supply chains, but are they delivering? Well, there are indeed many challenges, not the least of which is selecting a provider.On the My Purchasing ...
- 38. Ideas for Procurement's Futur
- (News)
- Accenture has a vision for the future of procurement, and it's driven some thinking on the part of Jason Busch of Spend Matters. He's developed a list of a few things he feels will develop in the procurement ...
- 39. Supply Chain Finance Movement
- (News)
- Supply chain finance is an ofter overlooked area in the P2P automation arena. Jason Busch has some ideas on where some of the major players could be headed.His article on the Spend Matters site speculates ...
- 40. Approaches to the Last Mile Challenge
- (News)
- The omnichannel 'revolution' has driven changes thoughout the supply chain. The 'last mile' to the consumer continues to be a huge impediment to optimizing the experience.On the Logistics Viewpoints site, ...
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