Planergy

MARCH 12, 2025

How AP can improve relationships with your key suppliers. Download Free Copy Reshoring vs Nearshoring: Key Differences and Business Benefits Category Inventory Written by Lyle Del Vecchio 16 min read Tags Procurement Supply Chain Management Last edited March 12, 2025 Download PDF IN THIS ARTICLE What is Reshoring?

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How do technologies impact the relationships between customers and suppliers? The Inspiration For This Post I recently read a post on LinkedIn talking about “the power of trust” between buyer and supplier. Note that they represented the supplier side interests.

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this effort, Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are essential because they provide a variety of supply chain management solutions that simplify warehouse operations, order processing, and transportation. A dependable LSP is an essential factor for corporate development and growth. ” It is still primarily theoretical.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2020

Business today isn’t business as usual, as the COVID-19 pandemic impacts organizations and supply chains across the globe. In reality, procurement sees all the waste and redundancy that exists in the supply chain, and has a significant impact on a business’s bottom line. million , plus significant reputational damage.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 4, 2024

As supply chain technology improves for transportation, inventory management and warehousing, the procurement tools for manufacturing businesses now need to step up. These are predominantly focused on indirect spend and transactional efficiency. And stepping up, they indeed are.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The complexity of planning, transportation, collaboration, time and labor that went into the supply chain of that banana?—?being This is: The Journey of your Banana: A Supply Chain in Motion. The global banana supply chain is a complicated one, dependent on multiple moving parts and the collaboration of multiple parties.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 12, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Emerging procurement theory suggests that creating win-win situations within buyer and supplier agreements are the best ways to create long-lasting, engaging, creative, collaborative, and innovative partnerships. Importance of Supplier Collaboration. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In this blog we outline some ideas on how organizations can utilize supplier sustainability information beyond annual reports to the advantage of their business. However, that removes focus from the manufacturing side of the industry and doesn’t hold the industry accountable for its use of fossil fuels across global supply chains.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In this blog we outline some ideas on how organizations can utilize supplier sustainability information beyond annual reports to the advantage of their business. However, that removes focus from the manufacturing side of the industry and doesn’t hold the industry accountable for its use of fossil fuels across global supply chains.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Lots of things are happening in Supply Chain Management! It’s becoming more strategic, as companies integrate their Supply Chains and use them as a source of competitive advantage – instead of just a back-office function.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I am talking about a fully interactive, intuitive chatbot through which 90 percent of everyday procurement work can be effectively and efficiently managed. ” – Maverick Spend, Change Management, and Vendor Rationalization, Procurement Insights (2013) What is maverick spend?

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

These consumers can spot greenwashing from a mile away and are demanding complete transparency and data from brands to back up their ESG claims. . What’s more, 80% want to know the origin of their products, and 69% of these consumers would pay a premium for brands that readily provide this kind of transparency. .

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With another busy year of procurement and supply chain events tidily packed away behind us, Spend Matters is pleased to provide a round-up of the main events we attended in 2023, with a short recap of each and key takeaways. million unique suppliers. Read the Ivalua NOW key takeaways here.

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SPLC (Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council)

MARCH 27, 2018

New Market Research Shows Best Tools for Rating Suppliers’ Sustainability. Washington, DC – The Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) released a free market research guide that allows organizations to easily identify high-quality tools for rating the sustainability of their suppliers.

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Jaggaer

JULY 23, 2019

More than virtually any other sector, sourcing and supplier management in the fashion industry have been exposed to intense scrutiny in recent years, while the functions have become of increasingly strategic importance to business success. Supply chains are multi-tiered and therefore difficult to manage.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Organizations are ‘going carbon neutral by 2025’, and ‘implementing Artificially Intelligent business systems’ and ‘sourcing form solely environmentally friendly suppliers’. The responsibility of sourcing responsibly is shared between stakeholder, supplier, buyer and society at large.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

These consumers can spot greenwashing from a mile away and are demanding complete transparency and data from brands to back up their ESG claims. What’s more, 80% want to know the origin of their products, and 69% of these consumers would pay a premium for brands that readily provide this kind of transparency.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Their pricing is transparent and you can also use a free version to store limited contracts with just one user. Pricing is customisable depending on number of users, suppliers and the modules purchased. Kodiak Hub Kodiak Hub is a growing startup based in Sweden that offers an ecosystem of supplier relationship management (SRM) apps.

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SPLC (Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council)

MAY 29, 2019

They deployed a global sustainable procurement program that evaluated more than 1,100 suppliers by the end of 2018 using sustainability criteria. The criteria promote energy efficiency, reduce toxicity, ensure performance, support local and disadvantaged businesses and facilitate end of life management. They saved $19.4 Alameda County.

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Value Match

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Public Sector receives goods and services from 100,000’s suppliers, probably millions, there is not an exact figure. This is why historically Governments have used procurement as a mechanism to drive change whether to support SMEs and payment terms, support the living wage or ensure suppliers pay UK taxes.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 1, 2014

I was speaking at a large conference about the major impacts of globalization, technology, and supply chain on commerce. Great experience:It’s clear that today’s B2B customers have very high expectations of their suppliers. Suppliers who are not yet online risk being excluded from consideration by buyers at all spending levels.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 13, 2023

They place a high focus on providing a great user experience and easy onboarding for suppliers. It automates the entire sourcing cycle, improves compliance and transparency, reduces cycle times, enhances teamwork, and promises a near-immediate return on investment.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 21, 2018

A series of social compliance audits had failed to uncover structural problems in the five-story Rana Plaza building, which collapsed on April 24, 2013. In the past, it has been cobbled together from government licensing groups and brands’ supplier rosters. As Bonanni puts it: “It’s the new normal for mapping your supply chain.”

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In the trucking sector, the biggest change has been the federal government's movement to impose fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions standards on all heavy-duty trucks. This has been a priority of shippers for a long time in order to optimize their supply chains.

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SPLC (Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council)

MAY 18, 2018

As a leader in sustainable supply chains, Bon Appétit helped define what it means to source local food through a number of local food programs and extensive partnership programs with nearly 1400 local suppliers. Leadership Award for Supplier Engagement: Royal Philips. Supplier Leadership Award: HP Inc.

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Planergy

DECEMBER 22, 2022

How AP can improve relationships with your key suppliers. Governance: The governance pillar covers a company’s leadership, ethical practices, transparency, and accountability. This helps to create accountability and transparency around ESG issues. Start by keeping closer track of your procurement data across your supply chain.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 3, 2025

As a side note, in a follow-up 2013 and 2023 Procurement Insights post , I talked about companies like Market Dojo, Nipendo, Scout RFP, Tealbook, and several others. What unique benefits can the following ProcureTech solution providers offer to address the above-referenced supply chain challenges: ThroughPut.ai, FlockScore, ProcurEngine.

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