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Firms Lose $30bn Yearly by Failing to Share Supplier Information, Research Says

Global companies are wasting more than $30bn (£20bn) a year because they do not share information about suppliers, according to business information provider Achilles.

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CFOs Should Be as Concerned with Supply Chain Resilience as They Are About the Markets

Chief financial officer wear a lot of hats. They oversee the treasury, monitor our markets and position our companies for the future. Here's another hat they should be wearing: that of the champion of supply chain resilience.

Demand Planning at Coca-Cola: What's the Secret Formula?

The sign in the elevator banks at Coca-Cola Refreshments reads: "There is a person at the end of our supply chain." Well, that's a start.

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A Glimpse at the Factory of the Future

What will the typical factory look like five years from now?

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Procurement Leaders Should Let Up on Cost Reduction Already

For most business leaders, it's difficult to make any decision without letting bottom line bias come into play. Globalization, in addition to evolving social, economic and regulatory trends, has elevated corporate competition to a new playing field altogether. For procurement departments in particular, cutting costs, doing more with less, and running agile operations are the new standards for success.

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SupplierPay and the Next Stage of Supply Chain Finance

Analyst Insight: Automation and efficiency in corporate accounts payable is opening up new opportunities that simply are not possible in a paper-based environment. Chief among these is the opportunity to design payment programs that accelerate funds to suppliers – and provide significant working capital benefits to buyers as well. – Scott Pezza, Principal Analyst at Blue Hill Research

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PrimeRevenue Issues New Version of Accounts Receivable App

PrimeRevenue Inc. has released version 2.0 of SCiCustomer, the vendor's software for managing receivables.

Maturity Coming to the Procure-to-Pay Cloud

Analyst Insight: The market's understanding of cloud solutions is maturing. We are steadily - and correctly - moving away from what the cloud is to focus on what it can mean for our businesses. For many, what it means now is an opportunity to reduce capital expenditures and free up IT resources. This will change as we look less at whether cloud solutions can do the same things as on-premises and focus on what they can do differently. - Scott Pezza, Principal Analyst at Blue Hill Research

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In Retail Demand Planning, The Numbers Can Lie

Retail demand planning is, to a great extent, a game of numbers. But the store that relies entirely on hard statistics is likely to be in for an unpleasant surprise.

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High-Tech Leader De-Risks Revenue and TTM Goals with Resilinc SCRM

Challenge: A $15B networking equipment provider lacked visibility to their multi-tier supply chain, could not easily identify and assess risks such as supplier "hot spots" and single points of failure, and was unable to assess risks by part, commodity, category, BUs, location, revenue impact and TTR. Finally, their process for proactive risk mitigation and re-active automated response was inadequate.

Food Supply Chains in 2015: A Banquet of Risk

The food industry has a lot on its plate these days.

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Bankruptcy Looms as Bulk Carriers' Earnings Take Hit

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, slid to an all-time low on Monday as sluggish cargo demand - especially from China - battered sentiment.

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