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No PO, No Pay Challenges
Electronic invoicing is a great concept, but like every type of business transaction between 2 parties, collaboration is required to make it work. A 'No PO, No Pay' policy sounds easy to implement, but in practice there are challenges.
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What's a Store?
Remember the days when a store was a store? That was before omnichannel customers, that's for sure. Now a store is a channel, a showroom, a pop-up location.... a number of different types of operations.
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Quality in Sourcing and Procurement
Six Sigma is often considered 'a manufacturing thing'. However, it's also useful in many other situations, one of which is sourcing and procurement.
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Improve Your Forecasting
How's your forecasting keeping up with all of the changes in your supply chain being driven by ecommerce and omnichannel buyers? It may be in need of tuning, which is perfectly understandable. New technologies and approaches may be available to help.
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Mobile Technology Use Case
Often, new technology seems like buzzwords or hot air without actual real-life examples of use. Mobile technology has been around for quite awhile, yet many people can't really conceive how it can be utilized in a business scenario. The folks at Spend Matters would like to help, and they've identified a number of 'use cases' for different technologies.
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Challenges for Same-Day Delivery
Same-day delivery continues to be a topic of much interest in the ecommerce and logistics worlds. Whoever cracks the code may end up as a big winner, but there's a lot to do before anyone's at that point.
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The Importance of Vendor Relationships
Dawn Gluskin, on the Electronics Purchasing Strategies site, gives us a 'back to basics' lesson on what's really important in the supply chain. In this technology-driven environment, it's easy to forget that communication and collaboration with partners is critical.
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Next Generation Talent for Supply Chains
Hiring the right people is always a tough task. For the supply chain, it's doubly difficult due to the nature of the roles. How can the next generation of supply chain leaders be educated and identified?
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Sourcing and Procurement Customers
Sourcing and procurement are at the 'tip of the spear' of the supply chain. They have many customers that need to be satisfied, both internally and externally. How will they achieve happiness?
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Sustainability and Branding
Supply chain sustainability has been largely under the radar but is gaining more visibility as companies realize its power. Big brands are pushing sustainability and are making it part of their marketing strategy.
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