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Know Your Supply Chain KPIs – Procurement

Logistics Bureau

On this blog and the one published by our sister company Logistics Bureau, we often receive questions relating to metrics suitable for monitoring procurement performance. To answer some of those inquiries, we decided to release the following brief overview of what we believe to be the most helpful procurement KPIs.

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Buy vs. Build: Should You Purchase Software or Create Your Own?

Parade

It’s a question as old as software itself. Here, we explore the top five reasons why you should consider a third-party software provider instead of building your own. With software, that overrun can be costly, , according to McKinsey. In-house builds have no such luxury.

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Customer Relationship Management for Ecommerce Brands

Ship Monk

Legacy Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software systems, such as Salesforce, were originally developed to help sales teams funnel and track potential customers through long sales pipelines, from generating leads to closing the sale, then supporting and maintaining the customer relationship. What is CRM Software?

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Top 3 reasons to upgrade to the latest release of your ERP software

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

A modern ERP software platform provides this foundation, serving as a central source of truth for financials, operations, and the supply chain — essentially every aspect of a manufacturing or distribution business. Here’s why it’s critical to upgrade your ERP software: Operations. But not just any ERP platform will do.

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Assemble-to-Order manufacturing Part 2: ERP solutions to improve operations

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

This should also integrate with inventory management and procurement so that goods are ordered in time and there is visibility over stock items. By using business analytics tools in the forecasting process, the quality of forecasts can be assessed and trends analyzed.

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Is it time to say goodbye to RFIs?

AIMMS

Supply chain software is changing. So should the purchasing process. . RFIs tend to work well for certain industries (like government) or for purchasing equipment and industrial assets, bu t t hey often fall short in helping supply chain teams select a new software vendor. Let’s take some examples. .

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Coronavirus Series – Inventory Management Challenges & Solutions

EazyStock

Inventory optimization software is an important piece of the puzzle. In this four part blog series we discuss how inventory management teams can use inventory optimization to help deal with the impact of the Coronavirus in the medium and long term, focusing on demand forecasting, supplier management and inventory planning.