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It's All About Costs
No matter what you need to do with your supply chain to respond to the demands of the omnichannel consumer, one thing is certain: you must keep costs under control.
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Results of Recent Gartner Supply Chain Study
The results of this year's Gartner & The Supply Chain Digest study are in, and as usual they're a fascinating read. Not only is the methodology interesting to see, the results in some categories, in particular the Obstacles to Achieving SCM Goals, are striking.
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Applying Lean to MRO
MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) purchasing is one area of procurement that consistently flies under the radar. Might it be a good target for process improvement and cost reduction?
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The Supply Chain is a Great Place to Be
It's a great time to be working in the supply chain, according to Dr. Madhav Durbha. Technology improvements, disruptive opportunities, and innovations in processes and network design have all made the supply chain world much more interesting.
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Changing to Meet Your Customers' Expectations
Like it or not, your customers are driving the bus and you need to either meet expectations or suffer the consequences. The pushing of the envelope by Amazon is certainly a key ingredient.
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What's Being Automated in Supply Chains
Supply Chains are embracing automation, yet some processes are in focus more than others. Kaitlyn McAvoy reviews the data from a recent study and finds that automation of P2P processes was very popular.
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Planning for Today's Supply Chains
Supply chains are becoming more and more complex, yet the tools being used for planning are usually pretty dated. It's time to start looking at new ways of doing things, according to John Westervald on the 21st Century Supply Chain site.
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Use Your Suppliers to Innovate
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?
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Are You Ready for RPA?
"Yes, we definitely need another acronym", said no one ever. The folks at Spend Matters come through for us, though, in a recent article discussing RPA (robotic process automation) on the site.
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2016 First Half Results
First-half economic numbers are in for 2016, and while the US is still not going gangbusters, we're still keeping our head above water and are ahead of most of the rest of the world.
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