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Latest Supply Chain Consortium Updates
Press Release: March 1 Webinar explores strategies and tools to gain a competitive edge. Click here to read more.
Blog Post: Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) is a relatively new term. It was created to help people like me understand the relationship between the three B's: Business Intelligence (BI), Business Analytics (BA) and Benchmarking.
It is portrayed as the addition of external performance metrics to a BI/BA framework. But if you are like me, this is only marginally helpful in understanding how these components come together to strengthen a supply chain. So, let's break this down a bit and take it a piece at a time... Click here to read more.
The simple definition of "procure" that everyone knows is "to obtain, buy or acquire." A more complicated definition would be something such as "obtaining goods and services from requisition to receipt and approval of invoice payment."
Today, procurement (as "BUY") plays a crucial role in all aspects of the supply chain mega processes of PLAN - BUY - MAKE - MOVE - STORE - SELL/DELIVER. Click here to continue reading.
Report: How can you combine business analytics with benchmarks to drive supply chain performance? Using supply chain intelligence. Download the report here.
Podcast: Jim Tompkins and Steven Crandall had way too much to say in the last episode to fit into a single podcast, so in this episode the two return to continue their conversation of China's Business Evolution. Listen in here.
Executive Briefing: Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium's Domestic Transportation Report reveals industry insights into volume, capacity and pricing. You can read more here.
