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Increasing amounts of data are being produced by small businesses but are not used to its full potential. For example data like sales transactions, customer information,…
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Data has always played a key role in Supply Chain Management. Order forms, supplier data, stock movements, production schedules, shipment information and warehouse movements are all…
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Today’s Supply Chain is a data-intensive operation. All aspects of the Supply Chain function leave behind a digital footprint in the form of orders, movements, inventory…
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Running an automotive supply chain on instinct stopped working a long time ago. One vehicle program can pull thousands of part numbers from hundreds of suppliers…
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Supply chain teams rarely fail at analytics because they lack tools. They fail because the people who understand the supply chain do not have time to…
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The Synergy Number Nobody ChecksEvery acquisition model in industrials carries a purchasing synergy line. In a buy-and-build platform it is often the single largest contributor to…
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Most logistics teams are not short of data. Shipment records, carrier invoices, WMS transactions, order files, EDI status messages. It piles up fast. What these teams…
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Most hospitals are not short of reports. There is a purchase order report, an inventory report, a spend-by-category pack that lands in the monthly operations meeting…
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In the automotive industry, numerous data sources are generated during the various processes performed by manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers. The relevant data can be stored…
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A manufacturing plant generates more data in a day than most teams look at in a month. Machines log cycle time, downtime and speed. MES and…
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Having a lot of data is not the same as having useful information. Sales, finance, supply chain, service and production each run their own systems and…
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Most procurement departments do not have a savings problem. They have a data problem that looks like a savings problem.A CPO recently asked how much his…
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