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Direct Materials P2P — Part Three: Receiving, Invoicing, Payment
( This article is an updated excerpt from the report: “Spotlight on Direct Materials Procure-to-Pay” available for download here. ) Direct Materials P2P — Article Series Introduction/P2P Stages Relationship-Intensity Receiving, Invoicing, Payment (this article) Survey Findings Solutions Landscape…
Supply Chain Networks Revealed — Part 2C: Autonomous Supply Chain Networks
In Part 2B, we looked at integration, how the networks can be extended, and a comparison of enterprise applications vs. integrator networks vs. Real-time SVoT networks. Here in the final installment of this series, we explore…
Freshness Wars — Part Three: Leveraging the Cloud to Improve Freshness
In Part Two of this series, we examined why maintaining freshness of produce and other fresh foods throughout the supply chain is so challenging and how some of these challenges can be solved using RFID…
Direct Materials P2P — Part Two: Relationship-Intensity
( This article is an updated excerpt from the report: “Spotlight on Direct Materials Procure-to-Pay” available for download here. ) Direct Materials P2P — Article Series Introduction/P2P Stages Relationship-Intensity (this article) Receiving, Invoicing, Payment Survey…
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