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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EazyStock

JANUARY 17, 2022

The past few years have seen unprecedented supply chain challenges largely stemming from COVID-19 disruptions. Consequently, companies are becoming more focused on anticipating, reacting to, and planning for the unexpected through their supply chain strategies. Supply Chain Digitalization.

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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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Arkestro

JULY 6, 2023

Resources / Blog / Driving Cost Savings & Efficiency with Predictive Procurement Orchestration for Automotive Driving Cost Savings & Efficiency with Predictive Procurement Orchestration for Automotive The ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are still rearing their ugly head in the automotive industry.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 14, 2023

Public procurement regulations can be restrictive at times but the principles around openness, transparency and equal treatment are the right ones. If you know the regulations well and you can think strategically, you can still be agile, innovative and drive value for money. This took time and required a company-wide change.

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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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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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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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Arkestro

JUNE 20, 2023

Research-backed procurement strategies can help CFOs achieve their goals while minimizing risk exposure across global supply chains. This blog will cover the current challenges facing CFOs and procurement teams and several strategies that can be implemented to drive cost savings and increase efficiency.

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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.

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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. How can you pivot efficiently in response to the changing market conditions? How efficient is your release process?

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Understanding P2P: The Core of Effective Procurement The procure -to-pay (P2P) process drives purchasing efficiency for organizations of all sizes, covering every stage from initial requisition to final payment. A user-friendly, cloud based P2P system ensures adoption and fosters company-wide visibility and efficiency.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

and add-ons by September 2025. This collaboration equips customers with an industry-leading asset management system from IBM, supported by the scale, agility and cost-efficiency of AWS. ICCA for your AWS Cloud automates many modernization tasks, reducing complexity while increasing the speed and business agility.

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Positive Purchasing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Inevitably, there are some supply chains that are riskier than others. As a discount retailer, we need to offer our customer attractive prices which we aim to achieve through business efficiency – keeping our internal structures lean, focusing on the essentials and having a strategically limited product range.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A successful procurement transformation involves a strategic overhaul of processes, technologies, and approaches to achieve greater efficiency, cost savings, risk management, and value creation. 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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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. By 2025, customers will expect products that offer dynamic, proactive, and even prescriptive personalised experience.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

New Wave 3 Technology can empower a more efficient and responsive planning process. 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). TRADITIONAL IBP AND PLANNING TECHNOLOGY. Lacking insights.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He is regularly asked to speak at industry conferences and webinars on topics such as managing shared service center operations, procure to pay maturity models, best practice metrics/analytics, and process automation based on six sigma and lean principles. Speed and efficiency are the name of the game.”

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A prime benefit of cloud computing for business is its flexibility for quickly and efficiently scaling resources to meet business demands, freeing organizations from investing time and expense into expanding their own physical IT infrastructure. Google Workspace, Salesforce). Essentially, it’s the best of both worlds.

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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’. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Source: Accenture 2013.

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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. How about we stop covering companies that fail to give us transparent and unfettered access to their client base?

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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. This situation will exacerbate data silos, increase costs and complicate the governance of AI and data workloads.

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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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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The supply chain trends of 2024 have reshaped how businesses navigate challenges and embrace opportunities. As we wrap up the year, it’s clear the supply chain world isn’t slowing down. These supply chain trends will continue to evolve as geopolitical uncertainties persist into 2025.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Reshoring manufacturing to the US ­ has been a significant trend in recent years, driven by geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions, proximity to customers and markets, eco-system synergies and the need for positive impact on the domestic economy. Digital labor can make processes more adaptable.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 18, 2025

As we step into 2025, supply chain professionals are bracing for potential shifts in the global trade landscape. Whether youre directly involved in supply chain management or part of a broader organizational strategy, these changes can represent both risks and opportunities.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

  Today I’m joined by Blue Yonder , the number one supply chain platform delivering more growth, less waste, and amazing customer experiences Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. and an MBA from Indiana University.

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