Topic: Supply Chain Management
Benefits of Business Process Management
Business process management helps organizations define and improve efficiency and increases agility in business decision-making.
Guest Post: The Right Way to Build an Agile, Adaptable and Resilient Supply Chain?
It's common to believe that implementing a new solution will fix supply chain issues. But new software alone isn't the answer – especially now. While few businesses came through the pandemic unscathed, some fared better. We can learn from their success and use that knowledge to create supply chains that stand up to the harshest economic conditions.
How to Prepare for Procure-to-Pay Implementation Success
The procure-to-pay (P2P) process offers exceptional opportunities for optimization and integration. Many forward-looking organizations are eager to achieve new efficiencies, and are looking closely at P2P software solutions to centralize and automate the purchasing and inventory processes. But success requires some up-front work. Is your organization ready?
Expert Advice: Three Key Organizing Principles for a Resilient Supply Chain
For manufacturers, the COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented supply and demand chain upheaval. How successful were “textbook” best practices in mitigating and managing the new normal? Did they provide the required resilience? And now, with the worst of the pandemic behind us, what practices should be put in place to provide the flexibility needed to accommodate shifting manufacturing strategies?
Robust Warehouse Management Capabilities Required for New Inventory Challenges (Video)
With the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past, distributors still are challenged like never before: Supply chain networks remain exceptionally complex, customer demands continue to escalate and disruptions are near-constant. What can forward-thinking distributors do to optimize operations today and enable success tomorrow?
Solutions to Post-COVID Distributor Success Lie in People, Processes and Technologies (Video)
The COVID pandemic and the post-COVID business environment are challenging distributors in ways they’ve never experienced. And a number of problems – the disruption of supply chains, forecasting difficulty and the pressing need to change the interface and interaction with customers – are forcing significant changes. What are the positive actions to take?
Whether your existing ERP system is at the end of its lifespan, your vendor is sunsetting support for your current version, or you feel you’re not getting enough value from it, moving to a new ERP system is a big undertaking.
For businesses that want to build resilient supply chains that can withstand disruptions, it’s imperative to focus on specific tasks and bring the supply chain to a maturity level that will allow the organization to recover quickly.
