How to Overcome Supply Chain Disruptions With Real-time Data Transparency
The global nature of business, geopolitical upheaval, impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic, increasing extreme weather events, and more factors are placing ever-greater strains on complex and interdependent supply chains....
How to Leverage Source to Pay Solutions in Your MRO Strategy
Few activities bear as heavily on a manufacturing or retail business’s success as the procurement and payment function. Source-to-pay (S2P) solutions dictate the price and terms of raw materials, the...
How to Incorporate AI in Supply Chain to Drive Business Forward
With margin-constrained organizations turning to maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supply chains as sources of cost savings and competitive advantages, the intent to connect the supply network to all aspects...
5 Sectors That Will Benefit the Most From Mobile Procurement
Given the robust technology and intuitive user interfaces available, nearly every industry or business vertical can benefit from implementing mobile procurement tools. With the interconnected, global nature of supply chains,...
Why Organizations are implementing Purpose-driven Digital Supply Chain Solutions to Future-proof
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the world’s lack of readiness to manage through a global supply chain crisis and the need for digital supply chain solutions and management strategies that reduce...
Manufacturing firms that invest in robust mobile procurement technology gain the potential to streamline their entire maintenance, repair, and operations source-to-pay (S2P) process, putting supply initiation and management in the...
Sourcing Efficiency Is Key to MRO Supply Chain Strategy
The maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) function within manufacturing facilities has always focused on efficiency. The theory was that MRO is a cost of doing business, a necessary expense that...
A Fireside Chat with Qlik and ISM about Digital Supply Chain Management Strategy
Posted by John Delligatti on Tue, 11/24/2020 Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Institute for Supply Management and Qlik Chief Data Officer, Joe DosSantos...
The Inventory Management System’s Role in Supply Chain Integration Strategy
With manufacturers working on thinner and thinner margins, maintenance, repair, and operations materials managers find themselves under greater scrutiny. Under pressure to keep inventory costs to a minimum while...
