Procurement Insights

APRIL 2, 2025

I picked Chevron to prepare the following assessment based on the company’s interest in my recent LinkedIn post and the corresponding poll in the Purchasing & Global Supply Chain Professionals (PGSCP) group. Limited in ESG or strategic sourcing but supports operational agility.

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: I am under embargo regarding the advanced copy I received from ZIP with their Procurement Predictions for 2025. This integration will streamline strategic sourcing, reducing cycle times and enhancing efficiency. Resilient Supply Chain Management** : Building resilience into supply chains will be a priority.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In the fast-paced world of aviation, delays are often‍ unavoidable but always ‍impactful.The highly anticipated entry-into-service (EIS) of the Airbus A350F,originally slated for 2025,now faces unexpected hurdles. This setback impacts Airbus’s timeline and stakeholders, raising concerns within the aviation industry.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Scheduled for March 2-5, 2025 , this event isn’t just another industry conferenceit’s a strategic battleground where the biggest names in shipping, logistics, and technology will converge to address the challenges that have redefined the supply chain landscape. The timing of TPM25 couldn’t be more crucial.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Intelligent Supply Chain technologies article and permission to publish here provided by Dan Weinberger , UN Supply Chain Expert and CEO of Morpheus Network. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As 2025 approaches, its time to look back at what worked well and how we can build on those successes for the year ahead. In 2024, procurement leaders leaned heavily on data to fine-tune their procurement strategies, uncover hidden opportunities for savings, and improve supplier performance. Want to stay ahead in 2025?

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Arkestro

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This agreement was reached after a rigorous evaluation and fast implementation process, delivering tens of millions of material dollar value, driving a measurable impact on earnings per sharethrough hard savings and transformational improvement in performance and operational agility across multiple priority commodity types.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 20, 2025

According to the data, a key trend in the Supply Chain Management Software market in Saudi Arabia is the increasing adoption of cloud-based solutions, which offer scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. ” For more information about the partnership and its offerings, please visit www.jaggaer.com and www.tforce.com.sa.

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ivalua

JUNE 16, 2021

The pandemic was a wake-up call for businesses worldwide, who struggled to overcome operational disruption — everything from the transition to remote working, to supply chain chaos. MENA countries import a lot of food; disrupted supply chains and price increases mean potential food shortages. Enter eProcurement.

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Arkestro

MARCH 20, 2025

As supply chains and procurement grow increasingly complex in the face of global challenges, the Executive Advisory Board serves to ensure Arkestro remains strategically positioned and innovative in an evolving market. . billionin revenue.

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Planergy

MARCH 12, 2025

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? Benefits of Reshoring Challenges of Reshoring What is Nearshoring?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 24, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic! Companies rely on supply chain management to reduce costs and increase their production cycle. These developments, combined with the US-China trade war, found the supply chains experiencing unique hurdles.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In the YouTube video titled “2025 Investments, Supplier Decarbonization, and Lessons from Failures,” sarah Barnes Humphrey and guest Brenda from UBS delve into critical topics surrounding investments, supplier relations, and more within the supply chain industry.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 20, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What Supply Chain Management problem does this solve? The biggest problem in the transitional supply chain is lack of open and trustworthy information availability across the supply chain caused by multiple issues – trust, technology and legacy practices being the top ones.

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Arkestro

MARCH 5, 2025

This appointment underscores our dedication to leadership in AI-driven procurement technology and our commitment to helping enterprises unlock trapped savings, mitigate supply chain risk and drive greater, faster efficiencies. We are honored to have them join the team and we look forward to advancing the industry together.”

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Procurement Tactics

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Dwindling natural resources, climate change, and increasing demands on energy and food supply are disrupting business operations and supply chains in various ways many professionals do not expect. . Orsted has achieved its goal of sustainability by encouraging its supply chain ecosystem to align.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 4, 2024

But, with increased regulation around supply chain sustainability on the way, organizations must prioritize visibility into the environmental impact of their suppliers. For example, from 2025 the European Council will require firms to report on their indirect Scope 3 emissions — which make up 75% of an organization’s CO2 emissions.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 14, 2023

If you know the regulations well and you can think strategically, you can still be agile, innovative and drive value for money. I also brought in some new people into my national team and changed the culture to be more agile and service-orientated. The function was seen as more of a blocker than an enabler.

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SupplyShift

JULY 6, 2021

But only a handful of businesses are looking at the supply chain as another opportunity to advance diversity. For both of these reasons, companies need to look beyond their four walls and into the supply chain to truly advance DEI within their business. They have proven themselves to be agile in terms of responsiveness.”

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The global AI market is projected to grow to USD 190 billion by 2025, increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.62% from 2022, according to Markets and Markets. One of the largest children clothing retailer in the US utilizes this solution to streamline its complex supply chain.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

IDC estimates that 750 million cloud native will be built by 2025. Improved speed and agility: The world is changing rapidly and technology is the biggest enabler for this change. Adopt developer tooling and agile processes to increase your velocity and help you address these issues. It is a lightweight, fast Java runtime.

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Solvoyo

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

But what is a cognitive supply chain model and where does it fit into all this? Simply, a cognitive supply chain model utilizes machine learning, which is a type of artificial intelligence that has been merged with advanced analytics. How Cognitive Learning is Applied to Supply Chain Processes.

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2024

1999 Revisited (Video) – Real Agents Leveraging AI GEP Autonomous Agentic AI Agents (High-Level Summary) GEP is set to revolutionize procurement and supply chain operations by introducing autonomous AI agents into the Source-to-Contract (S2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes.

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SupplyShift

JULY 6, 2021

But only a handful of businesses are looking at the supply chain as another opportunity to advance diversity. For both of these reasons, companies need to look beyond their four walls and into the supply chain to truly advance DEI within their business. They have proven themselves to be agile in terms of responsiveness.”.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Initiatives that prioritize environmentally friendly practices, fair labor, and responsible sourcing improve brand reputation and mitigate potential legal and reputational risks. Automation increases efficiency and reduces errors, leading to faster and more accurate procurement cycles.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As the adoption of AI and other technologies continues to expand, it will transform how we perform work with the potential to disrupt 83 million jobs globally and create 69 million new roles by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. Creativity and collaboration will become increasingly valuable skills as people navigate changes.

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Arkestro

JULY 6, 2023

million cars from production due to ongoing supply chain issues and semiconductor shortages. Then we’ll show how autonomous, Predictive Procurement Orchestration (PPO) can help relieve supply chain issues, reduce costs, and help automotive brands navigate increased regulations.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 15, 2024

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), stored data is set to increase by 250% by 2025 , with data rapidly propagating on-premises and across clouds, applications and locations with compromised quality. Data must be combined and harmonized from multiple sources into a unified, coherent format before being used with AI models.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is to enable greater autonomy and agility. . Accordingly, the time is right for procurement to take centre stage and create benchmark KPIs to ensure sustainability in global supply chains. Ensuring responsible sourcing is a primary need of procurement teams now. Risk management.

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Positive Purchasing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Here is how our conversation went: We Start Where We Can Have the Greatest Impact Jonathan: ALDI is a huge retailing business with thousands upon thousands of different items, sourced from all corners of the world. Inevitably, there are some supply chains that are riskier than others.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

More recently, he launched Relish’s direct spend solution for sourcing and retail for direct spend, resulting in more than $300M in annual revenue. 43.44] The future for Relish and SAP, and for the industry, as we look towards 2025. 28.27] How technology can help suppliers be active participants in the risk management process.

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Arkestro

JUNE 20, 2023

Research-backed procurement strategies can help CFOs achieve their goals while minimizing risk exposure across global supply chains. In fact, according to Gartner®, “by 2025 50% of FP&A leaders will have enterprise-wide data strategy as a key responsibility.” With 36% of leaders prioritizing AI implementation in finance [1].

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

eProcurement solutions simplify catalog management, supplier onboarding, and requisition processes, while supply chain collaboration tools reduce delays and enhance communication with suppliers. According to Gartner, over 85% of organizations will adopt a cloud-first approach by 2025.

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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’. Responsible Sourcing. Subscribe Here! Email Address. 7 KPIs Your Procurement Team May Be Ignoring!

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If we look back over the history of supply-chain planning, we can properly say we are in the third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software (Van Hove, 2019). To become autonomous, supply chains require the new technology of Wave 3 planning systems, which we think of as systems of intelligence.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A CMP creates a single pane of glass (SPOG) that provides enterprise-wide visibility into multiple sources of information and data. According to a Gartner report (link resides outside ibm.com), almost two-thirds (65.9%) of enterprise IT spending will go toward Software-as-a-Service in 2025, up from 57.7% Google Workspace, Salesforce).

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

” You must read through the entire raw and unedited discussion stream because within its dialogue is the explanation regarding what will happen in 2025, e.g., the GenAI Bubble Burst. The initiative failure rate for procurement and sourcing implementations follows a similar arc as the M&A success rate going back to 2000.

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