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Schneider Electric’s Supply Chain Design Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

By 2014, the company had purchased the Coupa solution, developed an internal modeling team, and created data extraction and cleansing routines. For the first few years, the company created regional models to determine how to maintain or improve customer service levels at lower cost. This is when the firm hired Mr. Botham.

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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

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Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application.

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Lessons from “The Goal” for Optimizing Warehouse Operations

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Through the story of a plant manager, it offers insights on how to improve efficiency, which also includes optimizing the production process as a whole, instead of focusing on individual parts. In the book, more machines were purchased and employees hired or trained to use them at the machining station.

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Prove ROI and Make the Business Case for Industrial Content Marketing

Speaker: Achinta Mitra, Founder and President, Tiecas Inc.

It's the plight of an industrial marketer: over the course of a 12-18 month long buying cycle, you make contact with a whole host of influencers who read your content.who may or may not actually work in purchasing. Meanwhile, the purchase somehow takes place, and Sales claims all the glory. and win (or keep!)

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.