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Spend Matters
DECEMBER 30, 2024
In readiness for our Q1 2025 theme of Procurement Transformation, which will include how to even start your digital journey, how to make the case for it, how to shape your digital roadmap and how to survive it, we have received input from some solution providers on their own customers journeys.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
In a world where the digital realm continues to shape the future of industries, the supply chain landscape stands at the precipice of profound conversion. As we fast forward to the horizon of 2025, the Institute for Supply Management News ventures into the unknown, exploring the enigmatic path that lies ahead.
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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now
Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains
ivalua
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
ERP vs. Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? That’s the question we set out to answer in our recent panel discussion with Procurement and Supply Chain experts. The verdict?
Skill Dynamics
JANUARY 21, 2025
How can you ensure that your supply chain team are consistently up-to-speed with the modern supply chain landscape? A well-defined supply chain competency framework can be extremely useful. It typically covers key supply chain areas including procurement , logistics, demand forecasting , and much more.
Jaggaer
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Opportunities for Procurement Technology As we look toward 2025, European businesses are reshaping their supply chains to navigate an increasingly complex global landscape. A recent report by Maersk and Reuters Events highlights that 68% of companies are making supply chain visibility and monitoring solutions a top priority.
Arkestro
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Resources / Blog / 5 Procurement Industry Trends to Watch in 2025 5 Procurement Industry Trends to Watch in 2025 In recent years, the procurement industry has undergone unprecedented transformations driven by the adoption of digital transformation, big data, and advanced technology like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and automation.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
With the rapid advancements in technology and the ever-evolving landscape of supply chain management, the role of artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly vital. Join us as we analyze the key takeaways from this engaging discussion and contemplate the implications for the future of supply chain management.
Jaggaer
MARCH 24, 2025
Top 3 Procurement Technologies to Embrace in 2025 Staying ahead of key procurement technology and advancements is essential for CPOs who want to improve spend cost reduction, drive strategic value, and navigate the increasingly complex procurement landscape.
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Skill Dynamics
JANUARY 14, 2025
Strong negotiation can lead to cost savings, more advantageous counteract terms, and overall a much more optimized procurement chain. It also allows you to develop stronger relationships with your suppliers, allowing your supply chain to become more resilient and perhaps even unlocking some cost efficiencies through your suppliers.
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Jaggaer
MARCH 6, 2025
Leveraging modern procurement technology has become essential for public sector organizations aiming to achieve efficiency, transparency, and compliance while meeting their social and environmental goals. Blockchain Technology: Blockchain ensures transparency, security, and traceability in procurement transactions.
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.
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Procurement Priorities for 2025 and Beyond The manufacturing industry is evolving rapidly, leaving Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) grappling with challenges that could make or break their organizations. This could include optimizing specifications, reducing waste, or exploring product substitution.
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. Diversify Sourcing: Explore alternative suppliers to reduce dependency on a single source and mitigate risks.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 17, 2025
ITS Logistics is one of North America’s fastest-growing, asset-based modern 3PLs, providing solutions for the industrys most complicated supply chain challenges. Using a holistic approach, he combines technology, supply chain expertise, and leadership skills to ensure sustained growth and profitability.
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Let's Talk Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The global shipping industry is undergoing a massive restructuring in 2025, with long-standing alliances dissolving and new partnerships emerging. These shifts are set to redefine carrier operations, impact freight rates, and change how businesses manage their supply chains.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Today Im joined by supply chain software brand Manhattan Associates. Manhattan provide more than just supply chain solutions. Today Mandar Rahatekar, Senior Director of Research and Development at Manhattan, joins me to talk all about the power of unified supply chain planning. Im a mechanical engineer.
SCMDOJO
DECEMBER 4, 2024
For the supply chain? Think of supply chain work for a moment: Do you need tech equipment that is going to handle some resource-intensive applications, even multiple applications at once? Some statistics show how many professionals in supply chain operations use them for work. Gaming laptops?
Procurement Insights
JANUARY 3, 2025
Starting with the CFO, then the CIO, CEO, and The Board, here is the outline of changes in how top executives view procurement going forward in 2025. Key Drivers of Change Global Events : The COVID-19 pandemic , trade wars, and geopolitical tensions forced CFOs to prioritize supply chain resilience and risk management.
Jaggaer
MARCH 20, 2025
RESEARCH TRIANGLE, NC, March 20, 2025 Rittal, one of the world’s leading system providers of electrical enclosures, power distribution, climate control, IT infrastructure, software and services, has confirmed JAGGAER for its procurement processes. Future-Proof Positioning Rittal now benefits from significantly streamlined processes.
SCMDOJO
JUNE 21, 2023
The Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) market has experienced significant growth in recent years, with even greater potential ahead. SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. Let’s delve into this emerging concept.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 19, 2025
Today Im joined by Rygen Technologies , a supply chain software brand with a vision to provide user-forward, practically-delivered, and thoughtfully-engineered solutions. And, in supply chain, you really get to implement them. 18.27] Tonys hot takes from Manifest, and what Rygen is investing in for 2025 and beyond.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 5, 2025
Its unique technology enables shippers to break free of expensive parcel shipping consultants with an easy-to-use software app that brings transparency to the black box of carrier agreements. With over 8 years of experience in strategic partnerships, Jack drives innovative collaborations that advance supply chain and logistics technology.
Procurement Insights
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
As we near the end of 2024, virtually all industry players are publishing their procurement predictions for their respective 2025 reports. Based on the ChatGPT assessment I would ask you the following three questions: Which perspective on AI and digital transformation in procurement in 2025 is the most insightful and useful?
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Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The supply chain management industry has undergone many changes in recent years. The introduction of IoT devices to the supply chain, the rise of edge computing, and its ability to increase connectivity and efficiencies, have changed how businesses operate across industries.
Procurement Insights
MARCH 3, 2025
As of March 3, 2025, the interplay between ERPs (e.g., Coupa, Jaggaer, Ariba) is a critical factor in procurement success or failure, given their overlapping goalsstreamlining processes, integrating data, and optimizing spend. By 2025, cloud ERPs (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) and procuretech solutions (e.g.,
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Leaders globally need to champion technology adoption by clearly communicating benefits, such as enhanced transparency, efficiency, and cross-functional collaboration. Lets start a conversation on making measurable impact in 2025 and beyond. echoes across organizations.
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Procurement Insights
MARCH 16, 2025
MCP ensures that AI-driven procurement solutions retain, process, and apply relevant context to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency. Contextualized Spend Analysis & Cost Optimization AI models use MCP to remember previous spend categories, budget constraints, and organizational purchasing behavior.
Supply Chain Game Changer
AUGUST 20, 2020
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. billion by 2025, and businesses can save millions of dollars if reverse logistics management is implemented and done properly. Clearly, more companies need to go back to basics and ask what is reverse logistics’ role in the top trends of the supply chain? Subscribe Here!
Let's Talk Supply Chain
JANUARY 20, 2025
Its someone thats open to multi modes of shipping, whatever is most efficient Someone thats flexible and wants to partner, someone who doesnt look at Werner as just a service provider. We want to work together to solve these transportation and supply chain issues. 08.23] The ideal client for Werner.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 2, 2025
EDITOR’S NOTE: Chevron was IN NO WAY involved with the following assessment, although I think they will find it to be an interesting read because it leverages their known capabilities and aligns them with my prior research and discussions on procurement efficiency, Shared Services, and Hansens RAM principles.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
In the fast-paced world of supply chain management, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for success. The YouTube video, “Top Supply Chain trends and Tech Innovations to Watch in 2025,” promises to shed light on the latest developments shaping the industryS future.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
In a fast-paced world where supply chain disruptions, generative AI innovations, and trade tariffs constantly shape the global economy, staying informed is vital. Hosted by Sarah Barnes Humphrey, the founder of Let’s Talk Supply Chain, the video promises an insightful discussion with special guest Audrey Ross.
Procurement Insights
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
February 2025 – A Liquid Network is a dynamic, decentralized, and adaptable system where ideas, information, and resources flow freely between interconnected participants, fostering innovation and collaboration. Supply chain risk management is proactive and data-driven. What are liquid networks?
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Procurement Insights
APRIL 4, 2025
Evolving Relationship: The March 2025 acquisition ties ProcureTech 100 and ORO Labs directly, while DPW remains an independent platform amplifying their impact. The acquisition strengthens the ProcureTech 100-ORO Labs bond, while DPW amplifies their collective influence, making them key players in shaping procurements digital future in 2025.
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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? This approach focuses on regional efficiency.
Procurement Insights
MARCH 23, 2025
“ The Forgotten Three A successful ProcureTech implementation can significantly influence product quality, supplier delivery performance, and full-time equivalents (FTEs) in indirect procurement by enhancing efficiency, visibility, and collaboration across the supply chain. Qualitative Effect: Enhanced traceability (e.g.,
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.
Procurement Insights
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
My First Procurement Insights Post on Strand Commonality (Excerpt) – Optimization Modeling and the Modern Supply Chain (A PI Q and A) by JonHansen (March 2008) Numerous studies and reports have been published on the various methods (e.g., Monte Carlo) used to determine supply chain optimization.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 12, 2025
Well be sharing the digital trends shaping 2025, and the challenges were up against when it comes to tech implementations. Well be exploring why tech is the perfect foundation for process optimization, and the benefit of combining technology implementation with physical assets. 25.11] What 2025 has in store for BlackBerry Radar.
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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Arkestro
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
This ongoing partnership highlights how predictive procurement drives efficiency and its cost-effective impact within complex, global procurement environments. We are thrilled to partner with this world-class company to maximize this value across its international supply chains.” cost reduction across all spend types.
Procurement Insights
MARCH 23, 2025
The company has established an ambitious goal of reducing indirect expenditures by $75 million to enhance operational efficiency and improve profit margins in an increasingly competitive market. Indirect spending typically represents 15-27% of revenue in manufacturing companies, making it a significant area for cost optimization.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
OCTOBER 13, 2024
Today I’m joined by supply chain software brand, Manhattan Associates. Manhattan provide more than just supply chain solutions. Guest bio: Over the last 13+ years, Bryant has served in various roles in the Supply Chain software space – including operations, implementation, and product management.
Supply Chain Game Changer
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
From the movement of trucks to managing a good economic supply chain, GST affected logistics in a great way. The statistics have shown an increase in freight shipping volume to about 1325 billion and these numbers are predicted to double by 2025. There used to be a lot of hassles which decreased the efficiency of the logistics.
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