- 1. Gartner Offers Resources to Help Make Smarter, Faster Decisions
- (News)
- ... Hype Cycle, Product Decisions, and Benchmarking Diagnostics to help businesses make the most informed decisions. Gartner also provides expert guidance and templates and frameworks to help businesses with ...
- 2. These Are the 7 Best Ways to Fix Your Supply Chain Problems
- (Supply)
- ... goals and objectives as well as the industry you operate in. By doing this you can ensure that you are always evaluating your performance against a static benchmark for maximum efficiency in your operations. ...
- 3. Logistics Can Be Tackled
- (Logistics)
- ... at what others are doing. Looking beyond your company provides you with the inspiration you need to make a positive change. Identify the trends that are helpful by benchmarking, following industry trends, ...
- 4. New GS1 US Research Reveals 59% of High-Growth Small Businesses See Direct Correlation Between Sales Growth and Complete Product Information
- (News)
- ... understanding of product information and its impact on their business. “The study provides an opportunity for small businesses to benchmark themselves and learn from similar companies that are succeeding. ...
- 5. Best-of-Breed vs ERP Series
- (News)
- Spend Matters has put together a great series on the ERP vs. Best-of-Breed topic. We posted the first installment but the subsequent ones by Pierre Mitchell were just as helpful. Links to the first ...
- 6. Research Summary on Procurement Organizations
- (News)
- A recent study by A.T. Kearney indicates the majority of procurement organizations just aren't cutting it when it comes to delivering value.Their guidelines for high performing teams are well-defined, ...
- 7. Getting Started With S&OP
- (News)
- Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is an undeniably important part of supply chain management. Lora Cecere has studied the process and provides suggestions on how to get started in a new post on the ...
- 8. A Critique of the Gartner Top 25
- (News)
- Everyone in the supply chain world anxiously awaits the announcement of Gartner's yearly Top 25 Supply Chains, yet not everyone agrees with their selection methodology.When you're an ex-Gartner analyst ...
- 9. Design Needs for Procurement
- (News)
- Pierre Mitchell from the Spend Matters team recently attended technology provider Coupa's conference and came away with some great observations. He advocates turning procurement's function from 'gate keeper' ...
- 10. Building a Network of Networks
- (News)
- The Supply Chain Shaman addresses the concept of a 'network of networks' for the supply chain in a recent article on her site. Lora Cecere goes into some research and proposes a set of building blocks ...
- 11. Is SaaS Based EDI a Cloud Service?
- (Technology)
- ... economies or common benchmark metrics of a SaaS model," he explains. Newest to the scene are hybrid models which couple the advantages of both. Generally speaking, the hybrid models are popular in companies ...
- 12. Challenges for the CPG Supply Chain
- (News)
- It's no longer just about scale for the retail supply chain, according to BCG's Peter Dawe, Alicia Pittman, and Elfrun von Koeller. Big Changes in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) arena are challenging ...
- 13. The Benefits of Effective S&OP
- (News)
- Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, takes a look at why companies that do well in their Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process are so successful.Although there's little consistency in how the process ...
- 14. Inventory's Function in the Supply Chai
- (News)
- It's an interesting question: is inventory an asset, or waste? Lora Cecere has looked long and hard at the role of inventory in supply chain strategy and has come to several important conclusions.In her ...
- 15. Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking
- (News)
- Benchmarking is old hat in many areas of the supply chain. But planning is a different animal, since the self-reporting that typically drives benchmarks isn't usually available.The Supply Chain Shaman, ...
- 16. The Importance of Benchmarking
- (News)
- Recent research has proven that benchmarking is crucial as the role of procurement becomes more important to the organization. In a recent article on the My Purchasing Center site, Susan Avery discusses ...
- 17. Issues with the Gartner Top 25
- (News)
- I wouldn't say she's ready to go to war over it, but the Supply Chain Shaman is more than a little peeved that supply chain people are giving the Gartner Top 25 too much credibility. She questions a number ...
- 18. When Suppliers Merge
- (News)
- Supplier A is one of your stars, but you deal with Supplier B only when you have to do so. What happens when they merge?Bolaji Ojo on the EPS page has looked at this not unheard of phenomenon and talks ...
- 19. Omnichannel Fulfillment Options
- (News)
- Omnichannel continues to be on most supply chain managers' radar. There's still no consensus, though, on how to best handle processes like fulfillment.In an article on the Logistics Viewpoints site, Clint ...
- 20. Exploring 'No PO, No Pay
- (News)
- Pierre Mitchell, on the new Chief Procurement Officer site, challenges the procurement myth of 'no PO, no pay' in a recent article on the site. Although the rule is needed in most situations, many others ...
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