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WalMart Continues to Lead
WalMart has its problems and its many detractors, but it tends to be a leader in most supply chain activities. Gartner has recognized WalMart's efforts by naming it to the Top 25 supply chain list.
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Beware the Frankencloud
As Chloe Green asks on the Information Age site, is your cloud strategy, or lack of one, creating a 'Frankencloud'? It takes a cohesive strategy and planning to ensure that applications supported by cloud technology are working together.
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How Do You View Inventory?
How you view inventory has a big impact on how well it performs for you. Is it a cost? Insurance against spotty demand information? Or a strategic capability?
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Considerations for Effective Change
Almost everyone in the business world recognizes that change is tough. Whether it's a new ERP, supply chain software, processes, organization, or all of the above, changes have to be rolled out properly to be effective.
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E-Invoicing Insights
The folks at Spend Matters have a good grasp of both the processes and technologies involved in procurement. Jason Busch recently interviewed a few e-invoicing partners and came away with several key observations.
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Business Networks and SAP
Big companies make big bets on the direction of technology. A leader in the ERP space, SAP, believes strongly in business networks as a wave of the future, based on recent acquisitions it's made.
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SIR > SIM
In a battle of acronyms, the folks on the Sourcing Innovation site believe that SIR beats SIM. That's 'Supplier Information Repository' and 'Supplier Information Management' to the acronym-challenged.
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Attracting Millennials to the Supply Chain
Supply chains everywhere are trying to fill their leadership pipelines. However, they must get past the 'awareness' barrier when trying to attract millennials.
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To Cloud, or Not....
Should cloud-based computing be the standard in organizations of all sizes? According to Charlie Bess on the Enterprise Irregulars site, cloud should be used by everyone, but not exclusively.
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IoT and Big Data
Two massive technology and business trends, Big Data and IoT, are perfectly positioned to score big advances together over the coming years. Although they're both still years away from fully realizing their potential, we've seen enough to know that the time to get involved is now.
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