All Things Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Tomorrow marks the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a pivotal event with significant implications for supply chains.

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Procurement Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Last week, Procurement Leaders released the CPO Compass 2025 – a unique piece of thought leadership that aims to challenge the assumptions that underpin leaders’ long-term planning. It’s a chance to step back and reflect; to look at the world differently. This year we’ve explored three key topics that CPOs will have to navigate over the coming years: navigating the world’s accelerating “geoeconomic fragmentation” as trading blocs become increasingly common; understanding the balance and interp

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All Things Supply Chain

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Last year, Halloween brought neighborhoods to life with lookalikes of Barbie, Spider-Man, and Indiana Jones lookalikes, all inspired by the year’s top trends.

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Whenever I find out that a company – or a person – decided to do something new in 2020 or. The post Creating a B2C to B to C Improvement Cycle at Walmart Business appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

John Gardner owns a small business that sells to the U.S. military. He’s also a vocal proponent of reinvigorating America's entire domestic manufacturing base.

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Supply Chain Dive

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The agency’s principles for responsible AI use in the workplace focus heavily on employee rights and how the technology should improve working conditions.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ongoing training is important for procurement teams to keep up with the constantly evolving and advancing procurement tech and services landscape, specifically in niche areas such as category management, supplier management, negotiation and strategic sourcing and in the broader areas of change management and leadership. Even experienced procurement professionals must remain aware of ongoing advancements to streamline procurement processes and support organizational goals with the latest technolo

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade estimates that more than $600,000 million worth of trade has been disrupted in just the first 18 hours of the West Coast work stoppage.

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Supply Chain Dive

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Secondary 25, housed in the Memphis World Hub, still needs employees to help move bulky packages as technological improvements boost throughput.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

IBP and its predecessor S&OP were developed as executive decision-making forums. In support of effective decision making in the IBP process, we could expect many decision centric capabilities in an organization. But how decision centric is your S&OP/IBP process, your meetings, your organization? Any idea? To create some baseline insights, I developed an 11-question checklist to assess IBP decision centricity.

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Advertiser: GEP

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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Procurement Leaders

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The study highlights the thinking of 83 CSOs and senior sustainability decision-makers and will assist them in developing their ESG strategies.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Spend Matters honors a vast array of procurement solution providers each year by selecting them for our ‘50 to Know,’ ‘50 to Watch,’ ‘Future 5’ and ‘Hall of Fame’ celebration lists. Discover everything you need to know about these accolades here, including who is on them. For the Future 5, Spend Matters analysts scour the market to find new specialist solution providers that can answer a burning need of procurement practitioners today.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The brief strike by East and Gulf Coast dockworkers brought to the fore the ongoing controversy about automation at U.S. ports, and its ultimate impact on human workers.

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Supply Chain Dive

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

CEO Andy Jassy said initial efforts to improve inventory placement are bearing fruit while more investments are underway.

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Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

JWH – What is the difference between Agentic AI and Agent-based AI? Over two decades ago, the foundational elements for successfully utilizing advanced, self-learning algorithms to optimize the procurement process using an agent-based model were well established. Somewhere along the line, we got distracted by SaaS and digital transformation, and now we are at risk of being sidetracked by Agentic AI.

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The Good Spending

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The comparison—where a $100K sales win gets a $10K bonus, but saving $100K on a procurement contract gets nothing—might seem like a compelling argument for unfairness at first glance. However, this comparison oversimplifies the complex roles of sales and procurement teams. Let’s unpack this misconception from different angles. Different Objectives and Impact While it’s tempting to see a $100K sales win and a $100K procurement savings as equivalent financial achievements, their impact on business

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Spend Matters is delighted to announce the 2024 roster for our ‘Future 5’ list. For the sixth year in a row, our analysts have highlighted five start-ups that excited them the most. This year, the five companies that have proven themselves as potential future trend setters are BlueBean , ivoflow, Covalyze, Halo Ai and True Value Hub. To warrant such attention, these vendors must have a product that is ideally 2 to 5 years old, is used by more than five customers and displays an innovative applic

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Logistics companies will see costs rise because of the increase in minimum wage and contributions employers will need to make to the country’s National Insurance program.

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Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Incorporating AI into procurement is a technical endeavor that must consider the human impact to be successful, 4C Associates’ director of digital innovation writes.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Regardless of the reasons or for that matter the degree, of the pending talent crunch or vacuum as I like to call it, a successful procurement practice is built upon the commitment (some would say passion) of its personnel. Even though I often refer to the continuing high rate of e-procurement initiative failures, there are examples (however rare) of successful programs.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 30, 2024

How quickly can you solve our supply chain crossword challenge? Are you faster than your friends.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis, we give an overview of IDAS, a solution from M.K. Technologies built to address critical challenges faced by manufacturers, particularly unexpected late deliveries, which can halt production lines and damage customer relationships. By providing a unique supplier portal that integrates data from various ERP systems, IDAS helps manufacturers maintain on-time delivery rates, ensuring operational efficiency and stability in complex supply chains.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Elon Musk and other conservative activists blame some of the planemaker's problems with aircraft quality on its decision to add diversity goals to its bonus targets in 2022.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The manufacturer is pursuing a 90% or higher on-time, in-full rate as it battles supply chain inefficiencies across its vast network.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: More than two decades ago, the foundational elements for successfully utilizing advanced, self-learning algorithms to optimize the procurement process using an agent-based model were well established. Somewhere along the line, we got distracted by SaaS and digital transformation, and now we are at risk of being sidetracked by Agentic AI.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

  In today’s episode of Women in Supply Chain, I’m joined by award-winning industry leader, Annie Torikian. Annie has been a driving force for efficiency and innovation in supply chain management for over 25 years. Over the course of her long career with Tecsys, Annie has spearheaded numerous transformative initiatives and served as a mentor for women, as well as being an invaluable member of her community.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A common thread among the conversations we’ve had recently with senior procurement practitioners tells of the extent to which attitudes towards risk have changed over the past decade. As little as 10 years ago, we heard stories of pretty much indifference to risk: “supply risk management was young,” we heard, and “we didn’t worry too much about risk; we spent a very small percentage of our time on it.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This whitepaper helps uncover the key areas that consistently deliver savings, value and continuous improvement in your supply chain and across your business to support your business case.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The aerospace company said G700 deliveries fell far short of expectations last quarter due to component exchanges and late engine shipments.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The National Association of State Procurement Officials is proud to make the State and Local Government Procurement: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition, available to government professionals, students, suppliers, educators, and others interested in learning about public procurement. Since the publication of the 3rd Edition, this guide has continued to be adopted by many procurement offices for use in their internal training programs and resource libraries.

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