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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. One master of freight procurement is Kyle Masters. Procurement ran a request for proposal event.

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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. Supplier Lead Time.

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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Kevin Nelson, a chief procurement officer and senior vice president at BD, agreed to be interviewed on this topic. The company had access to huge amounts of trade data, for example. But the further up the supply chain BD went, the less incentive suppliers had to participate in these exercises. Supply Chain Chaos is the New Norm.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Logistics Viewpoints

American Supply Chain Resilience Act and the German Supply Chain Act are just two examples of this. Carrying out such design exercises on a frequent basis allows for organizations to pivot quickly to either tackle disruptions or to take advantage of opportunities.

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The Counter to Constant Supply Chain Volatility Is Pervasive Visibility and Industry Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility. Real-time visibility into “static goods” — wherever they may be — is the foundation for managing through volatility. The ROI will only multiply with visibility into supplies and goods from end to end.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, forecasts are generated using the past three years of history, implicitly assuming history repeats. A close alignment between Procurement and Supply Chain can also yield several very interesting use cases that will help turbocharge your business. One off recommendations are made about facility locations (i.e.,

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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

The techniques require different degrees of sophistication, but even the relatively simple exercise of putting data from different sources in the same space and producing a visual representation can suggest strategies for transformation. to anticipate conditions that signal an emerging demand spike.