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Mainstream Supply Chain Sustainability Practices
Maximizing profit and helping society and the environment seem to be goals that often are not aligned. It doesn't have to be that way, according to Jennifer Baljko in an article on the EBN site.
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Is Best-of-Breed Best?
Best-of-breed seems to be the way to go for supply chain software. Why, then, do so many companies succumb to the advances of the large ERP providers?
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The Strategy of Spend
Is there a magic algorithm to decide from which suppliers to source specific products and categories? Not according to Rick Long, in a guest blog on the Spend Matters site.
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Top Supply Chain Innovations of All Time
You can always count on Dan Gilmore of the Supply Chain Digest for provocative topics. In a current article, he's throwing out a list of the top supply chain innovations of all-time.
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SAP's ERP Leadership
On the Huffington Post site, Lee Traupel describes why he feels SAP continues to dominate the ERP market. CRM and cloud seem to be two of the driving forces, and SAP has upped its game to address them.
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B2B eCommerce Erupts
We've all wtinessed, and experienced, the tremendous growth in consumer ecommerce. You know what's even bigger, though? Business to busines (B2B) ecommerce, and it's growing by leaps and bounds as well.
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Ariba Changes Direction?
One of the earliest providers of eprocurement software, Ariba, seems to be changing its direction a bit. It wasn't that long ago that Ariba became part of SAP, but cloud technology and other advancements are causing it to rethink its approach.
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Logistics and the IoT
If you're trying to determine aspects of the supply chain that may be affected by IoT in the future, look no farther than logistics. During the next decade, sensor-based technology will drive huge operational savings and process improvements in transportation and related functions.
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Learning SRM From Luxury Brands
There's a lot to learn from how luxury brand organizations interact with their supply chains. According to a recent study, they're often 'customers of choice' for their suppliers.
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Omnichannel Procurement
In a gues blog on the Procurement Leaders site, Doede van Haperen has an interesting view of how procurement and technology are becoming intertwined. It looks like the omnichannel phenomenon is having yet another effect.
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