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Understanding Different Strategies
The Supply Chain Shaman tackles a tough question in a recent blog: are customer-centric, demand-driven, and outside-in supply chains the same? I didn't expect the answer to be a clear 'yes', yet the differences she notes are interesting abd the overlap is clear.
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Arguing About Catalogs in Procurement
I posted the link to an article earlier in the week about catalog use in the procurement process. Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell at Spend Matters have followed up with a series of pro's and con's on the subject.
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What's Happening in 3PL World?
It's always good to hear an industry expert's thoughts on a topic that's important to us. What's going on in the 3PL world was the basis for an interview of John Langley from Penn State by Patrick Brunson of the Supply Chain Management Review.
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Catalogs in the eCommerce Age
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.
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Combating the Slow Pay Tactic
As a supplier, it's tough enough to meet customer expectations and contract conditions in the best of times. When customers begin to stretch out payments as a cash flow improvement tactic that is now in vogue, it's even more difficult.
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Key Technologies for Same Day Shipping
The race continues to crack the code on same day shipping and delivery. The cornerstone technologies to make that happen are pretty basic, according to Larry Lewis on the EBN site.
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SMBs Combine People and Tech to Win
Most topics we discuss are quite relevant to larger supply chains, but small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) need help as well. Techology can be an answer to SMB challenges, but having the right people doing the right things is equally important.
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Big Data Concerns for Global Supply Chains
You implement a 'big data solution' in your supply chain, and immediately you're golden and begin reaping the benefits, right? That's not only almost always wrong, it can be a profoundly bad assumption if your supply chain is global.
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IoT Usage Increases for Supply Chains
It should come as no surprise that supply chains are getting heavily into IoT. Research cited by Kaitlyn McAvoy on the Spend Matters site shows that the majority already have IoT strategies in place.
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eCommerce is Driving the Bus
We've read about the shortage of supply chain talent, but do we know what's driving the demand side of the equation?
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