Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 6, 2023
Procurement and Supply Chain Management are essential functions that can help companies navigate these challenges, but they are often siloed and operate in separate departments. Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services.
Material Handling and Logistics
OCTOBER 30, 2018
With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. However, it is fundamental to empowering procurement success in the modern age.
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Blue Grace Logistics
JULY 27, 2021
We explore how predictive analytics and big data with human sentiments can add value and amplify their supply chain strategies. What this blog is about: Leveraging predictive analytics for forecasting and visibility. It is certainly harder to run an enterprise without forecasts or with incorrect future predictions.
Ship Monk
APRIL 5, 2024
The fact is, most business owners think of procurement as nothing more than a transactional relationship. Of course, it wouldn’t be a business strategy if there weren’t a couple more acronyms to learn. End relationships with uncooperative vendors whose goods can easily be purchased elsewhere. Regular meetings or reports?
Logistics Bureau
APRIL 4, 2022
The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. Alternatively, you can procure access to a digital freight benchmarking platform. The range of such tools is growing along with demand, so you should be able to find one that matches your budgetary and capability requirements. The Pros and Cons of Procuring a Benchmarking Tool.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 19, 2022
Analytical techniques like linear programming can create the mathematically “optimal” plan, but these methods must be implemented well to avoid creating other challenges. And if the tools don’t allow flexibility for the planner using them, the resulting rigidity can limit their utility and planners resort to manual estimates.
Logistics Business Magazine
MARCH 17, 2022
In this piece, supply chain expert Laurent Colombant, Continuous Monitoring Solution Lead EMEA, at SAS , outlines how supply chain analytics will drive transformation as organisations strike the balance between continuity and survival on one hand, and risk management and fighting fraud on the other. Manual detection is futile.
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