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

Parade

That’s not to say that it doesn’t take time to get to the point where you can use a purchased software in operations; it takes time to implement, integrate, test, and train staff to work with new programs. With software, that overrun can be costly, , according to McKinsey. In-house builds have no such luxury.

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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. Emergency Purchase Rate. Emergency purchases are bad news for your business costs, continuity, and planning, and they also increase supply chain risk.

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Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off

GlobalTranz

We conclude our series on supplier quality management (SQM) today with a look at some case studies and examples of benefits derived from the application of a supplier quality management system. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System.

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AI-Powered Inventory Planning for Better Sleep

Logistics Viewpoints

However, the juice for my newfound nightly routine soon became difficult to find, perpetually out of stock each time I tried to purchase it at the grocery store. It serves as a compelling example of how retailers must reassess their inventory strategies to adapt to rapidly shifting market demands driven by trends.

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From AOL To Online Freight Rates – Blog

Freightos

Same goes for books, groceries, taxis, banking, canoe and even B2B purchases. Courier and parcel shipping are a great example of a predecessor for online automation. Alibaba, for example, connects foreign manufacturers with importers, helping to forge new relationships, rather than replacing them with only digital transactions.

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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

In this blog, I’ll try to shed more light on it with examples from our work with our customers. Think of the Lego as the ultimate example of a composable toy. Examples of Composability in Supply Chain Planning Platforms. In this blog, I’ll focus on the Q-commerce case. So what to do? What is Composability?

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Customer Relationship Management for Ecommerce Brands

Ship Monk

Customers are mostly anonymous, and purchases are made or abandoned, seemingly on a whim. This data usually includes the customer’s contact information, address, purchase history, social media engagement, email click-throughs, and dozens of other data points as they become available.