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Diverse Backgrounds Help Build Supply Chains Stronger

May 3, 2022

Four of this year’s Pros to Know winners from SAP sat down to talk all things supply chain, how the pandemic has affected the way companies do business, what advice they would give their younger selves and more.

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L.I.N.K. | Fleets Need Intelligent Route Optimization to Keep Up

As demand continues to increase in the logistics sector, while a labor shortage and other major supply chain disruptions occur, fleets turn to intelligent ways to optimization their route planning.

Harvard Business Review: The evolution of rebate management

Harvard Business Review: The evolution of rebate management

How rebates and B2B deals have shifted from a manual mundane task to a cloud-based business strategy to add more to your bottom line.

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Revenue Management Remains Business Critical

“Top impacts” on revenue management include supply chain disruptions (44%) and artificial intelligence (40%), and 98% of executives say they face staffing issues in their revenue management program.

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Nominations Close April 10 for Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2022 Top Supply Chain Projects Award

This award spotlights successful and innovative transformation projects that deliver bottom-line value to enterprises across a range of supply chain functions.

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Why the Future of E-Commerce Lies in Forecasting

Accurate forecasting leads to accurate fulfillment operations to support sales growth. Here's why.

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How AP Automation Helps Healthcare Organizations Get Ahead

Automated purchasing and payment solutions, known as e-invoicing and e-payables, can help healthcare organizations convert their paper-based systems into a digital format.

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How Robotic Process Automation Helps CPG Industry Unclog the Supply Chain

RPA isn’t just for crises management; putting intelligent systems in place now will reap benefits and a more predictable supply chain in the future, even after the pandemic is over.

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Why Top-Down Embracement and Commitment to Industry 4.0 is Necessary

Manufacturers have become technology companies first. The dependency on automation, robotic processes and AI has emerged as the price of entry for the next manufacturer.

Harvard Business Review: The evolution of rebate management

Harvard Business Review: The evolution of rebate management

How rebates and B2B deals have shifted from a manual mundane task to a cloud-based business strategy to add more to your bottom line.

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Smart-Match Recommendations Align Buyer Needs with Supplier Capabilities

JAGGAER provides enterprise buyers access to myriad sources of supply that are tightly aligned with their specific needs.

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CFOs Instrumental in Building Factory of the Future

40% of CFOs highlighted the management of rising inventory costs as a major supply chain risk; 36% were concerned about managing cash flow; and 35% pointed to the management of local and global supply chains.

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Illuminating Supply Chain Obstacles to Increase Organizational Resilience

With a unique knowledge of the organization, processes and management priorities, business continuity management professionals are well suited to aid supply chain leaders in developing context for these issues, including identifying high-level priorities.

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Order Management: The Often-Overlooked Piece of the CX Puzzle

To win their loyalty and additional revenue, brands and retailers must integrate their order management data with the rest of their systems and ensure that customer-facing employees have easy access to that data when they need it.

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The Keys to a Resilient Supply Chain

It’s never too late to make the necessary investments in people, process, technology and information to enhance supply chain visibility and resilience.

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4 Ways to Forge Healthcare’s Digital Transformation in 2022

The pandemic demonstrated that healthcare can be flexible, collaborative and innovative in real-time without sacrificing the quality of care.

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5 Way to Re-Imagine and Re-Engineer the Supply Chain

The current stop/start cycle of COVID-19 is going to last far longer than most want to admit. Plan on this being the catalyst to drive a complete reengineering of your supply chain.

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Demand Management Acquisition Optimizes End-to-End Planning

This acquisition helps manufacturing, distribution and retail customers to now plan from raw materials all the way to finished goods/point of purchase.

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Supply Chain Industry Experts Discuss Future of Supply Chains

SCN Summit: State of the Supply Chain Week kicks off Dec. 6 with a discussion on warehouse automation and e-commerce fulfillment, followed by Industry Outlooks, procurement, transportation, procurement, risk management and smart manufacturing.

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Supplier Management Needs More Time and Attention

In the face of disruption—whether from a global pandemic, raw materials shortages, congested ports or something else—your supplier’s success or failure can determine your own.

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Register Today for SCN Summit: Future of Supply Chains

Supply chain industry experts from Blue Yonder, Thomson Reuters, Softeon, Enable, Crisp, Coupa, Armada and more detail what the future of supply chain looks like in a world laden with shortages, backlogs and supply chain disruptions.

Harvard Business Review: The evolution of rebate management

Harvard Business Review: The evolution of rebate management

How rebates and B2B deals have shifted from a manual mundane task to a cloud-based business strategy to add more to your bottom line.

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Women in Supply Chain: Women Outnumber Men for Both 2- and 4-Year Degrees in Supply Chain

Christine Barnhart, senior director, product and industry market strategy for Infor, is seeing a greater interest in supply chain roles from young females.

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Automating Procure-to-Pay Processes

Automating procure-to-pay processes is essential to regaining control and optimizing the process.

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FinTech for the Future

The popularity of FinTech isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. An ERP-integrated solution helps businesses simplify and reduce the cost of data interchange by using as few moving parts as possible.

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Embracing RPA: The Benefits and Steps for Success

Investing in RPA now is imperative for enabling the procurement function to take advantage of other advanced technologies and intelligence.

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Leveraging the Pandemic to Strategically Adopt ERP Automation

Even in the face of an economic downturn, there is a prime opportunity for organizations dependent on ERP systems to consider the power of intelligent automation.

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Accelerator Ecosystem Speeds Up Time-to-Revenue for E-Commerce Firms

Each Accelerator comes with prebuilt end-to-end business process logic for deploying common API and EDI-based supply chain integrations.

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Operating at Scale is Critical Amid Emerging Chemical Manufacturing Trends

Here's why a powerful, industry-specific ERP makes it possible to keep up with evolving regulations.

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SCN Summit | Data Collection: How to Read It and How to Act on It

December 7, 2021

Industry experts provide a rundown of the different solutions available and why ERP, track-and-trace and other supply chain management software is crucial to the success of your business.

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Leveraging New Sales Channel with EDI Integration

Franco Manufacturing transitioned from a legacy ERP environment to a custom EDI integration from TrueCommerce.

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Organizations with Mature Data Practices Innovate Twice as Fast

Investing a mature data approach increased employee productivity by 16% in the past year, nearly double the increase of beginner-level innovators (9%).

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Visibility and No-Code Automation: The Formula for an Always-Ready Supply Chain

This supply chain overhaul builds resilience into the entire process, and it comes at the intersection of visibility, no-code, automation and digital agility.