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Understand the Value You Offer to Your Customer

Holden Advisors

Let’s say you offer expedited delivery from raw materials to your manufacturing customers. That means quantifying the incremental profit dollars that drop to your customer’s bottom line because they’ve chosen your product over the alternative's. Let’s say procurement says, “to win this deal, you need to give me a 20% discount."

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The Kraljic Matrix

Flevy

The procurement function in most organizations deserves more attention than it gets. Most executives associated with procurement lack the competencies and perspectives required to identify gaps and effectively manage the function. Collaborate with suppliers, or rivals, to manufacture critical components cost-effectively.

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What is a Kanban Board and How Does it Improve Quality?

Kainexus

In the post-WW II era, Toyota realized that they could improve profitability and product quality by matching parts inventory with real-time demand to create a “just-in-time” production and provisioning process.

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How Construction, IT and Manufacturing Industries Can Capitalize on CRM

SuperOffice

But for businesses in construction, IT and manufacturing, there are additional aspects of CRM that can make daily tasks simple. CRM for Manufacturing. In fact, 90% of leading marketers agree that personalization contributes to business profitability significantly. CRM for Manufacturing. CRM for Construction. CRM for IT.

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The ultimate guide to manufacturing CRMs

PandaDoc

As a manufacturer facing a hyper-competitive market and the ever-changing demands of your customer base, we’re certain you don’t want to wait for prospects or established customers to tell you directly what they want and need. For manufacturing companies, this data centralization enables the following: 1. You can’t afford to!

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What is the value chain? Value chain definition, model, and examples

Zendesk

Every executive in the world spends part of their day wondering how to make their products and services stand out while still turning a profit. Ideally, companies can use the value chain model to create a competitive advantage by widening their profit margin—more efficiency, fewer costs. In this piece, we cover: Value chain definition.

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Value Chain – What is it?

Arpedio

It includes activities such as procurement, transportation, and inventory management. This may involve manufacturing, assembly, processing, or other production activities. These may include functions such as human resources management, technology development, procurement, and infrastructure.