Procurement Leaders
JANUARY 5, 2025
First, Id like to wish every CPO Crunch reader a happy new year and all the best for 2025 with all the challenges and adventures its likely to bring. Before the holidays, I spent a little time sharing how readers might want to prepare for a period of profound uncertainty , increasingly local-first strategies and internal competition for investment in AI.
ABC of Procurement
JANUARY 5, 2025
There is a way to monitor price trends for mass-produced goods. All you need to do is to go a bit up the Supply Chain and do some maths. The post Knowing the price movement before anyone else first appeared on ABC of Procurement.
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Supply Chain Queen
JANUARY 6, 2025
The AI Sustainability Revolution: Transforming Business Beyond Technology In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, artificial intelligence isn’t just another technological toolit’s a fundamental force reshaping how we approach sustainability and business transformation. Drawing from my experience as a global sustainability leader, I’ve observed AI following a trajectory remarkably similar to the Internet revolution: what began.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 1, 2025
With contentious union negotiations, rapid advancements in automation and AI, and growing global scrutiny on human rights abuses, 2025 is set to be a transformative year for labor.
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2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 2, 2025
The rule change will significantly impact foreign fashion brands and 3PLs using Mexico for de minimis shipments to the U.S.
Spend Matters
JANUARY 6, 2025
This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis gives an overview of Whats The Price (WTP), a solution built to quickly provide procurement professionals with insights into the costs and prices of any product or commodity. Successful supplier negotiations begin long before a category manager sits down at the negotiating table. Effectively sourcing a product or component requires understanding the fundamentals driving a category, the competitive dynamics in a given industry and a negotiation strategy based on
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Skill Dynamics
JANUARY 7, 2025
Global markets are facing significant uncertainty and negativity, with instability and continued risk expected to impact businesses for the next decade, according to the World Economic Forum. Global conflicts, macroeconomic shocks, and shifting global trade routes are all combining to provide real challenges to modern supply chains, and are driving the uncertainty that organizations feel.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 1, 2025
The ILA and USMX have until January 15 to come to a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement to avert another strike at U.S. ports.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 3, 2025
The steel producer is using GEP Software to analyze spend and forecasting while also managing its sourcing project pipeline.
Spend Matters
JANUARY 7, 2025
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. Maja Tepeh , Senior Brand Manager at supply chain risk management solution Prewave , shares what their customers are looking for from their digital procurement investment.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
Procurement Insights
JANUARY 3, 2025
The following is a 31-minute video of a 2011 lecture I gave at eWorld. It made me wonder if and how the C-Suite view of procurement has evolved over the past 14 years. 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. 2011 eWorld Video THE EVOLUTION OF THE CFO VIEW Between 2011 and 2024 , CFOs’ views of procurement have evolved significantly, reflecting changes in the business environment, t
Supply Chain Trend
JANUARY 7, 2025
Dear reader, As Im starting 2025 it is time for some change. I will finish my editorship at Foresight, and I will stop this blog supply chain trend. For 15 years Ive been writing this blog and related articles & field studies on average monthly. Content was anchored in S&OP and supply chain planning but touched visioning, strategy execution, company culture & behaviours, communication, philosophy, psychology, automation & augmentation, AI, human-machine collaboration & proces
Supply Chain Brain
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Organizations have problems when senior business executives are involved in troubleshooting everyday issues. Even if a company engages in strategic planning processes like Integrated Business Planning (IBP), it wont get the expected results without proper execution at lower levels.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 6, 2025
Network changes and new capabilities aim to snag market share in healthcare and automotive B2B, U.S. e-commerce, global air freight and Europe.
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Spend Matters
JANUARY 7, 2025
This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters. Indirect spending can be the silent killer. Software, consultants, office supplies and maintenance whether you know it or not these costs are taking a bite of your bottom line. In fact, software and tech spend is often one of the five largest spend categories (behind line items like Cloud, advertising and payroll), with an estimated 11% growth in worldwide business spending.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
JANUARY 6, 2025
In todays episode of Women in Supply Chain, Im joined by Gina Anderson software solutionist, high value business leader, supply chain and logistics expert, and C-Suite advisor. Gina has over 37 years experience in supply chain and logistics, and has led process and cost improvement projects for mega brands like Disney, Honda, Sony, and Louis Vuitton to name just a few.
Arkestro
JANUARY 2, 2025
Beverage alcohol retail technology remains ever-changing and constantly evolving.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 1, 2025
Supply chains are at the center of a transformative moment as 2025 approaches, with new policies reshaping the global landscape. This whitepaper delves into the multifaceted challenges supply chains face under evolving economic policies.
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 7, 2025
Delivery services across the central and eastern U.S. have been stymied by the severe weather.
CPO Rising
JANUARY 1, 2025
Happy New Year! To commemorate the occasion (and for auld lang syne), we will continue to reprise a few of our favorite articles from the last year. After that, we… The post Happy New Year! appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.
Spotlight on Procurement
JANUARY 7, 2025
As we step into 2025, the world of procurement and supply chains is brimming with challenges and opportunities. From navigating shifting global markets to embracing sustainability and technological advancements, this episode offers expert insights into what lies ahead. Host Simon Lipscomb and a panel of Efficio experts explore thekey trends impacting procurement and supply chains across various industries and regions.
Procurement Express
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Procurement software tends to fall into one of three categories. There are enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which are complex systems designed to help companies manage all ends of the supply chain. Then, there is accounting software that people use to keep track of POs, sacrificing a comprehensive procurement suite for all-in-one convenience.
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
Supply Chain Brain
DECEMBER 31, 2024
If the Covid-19 pandemic can be said to have had any positive impact, it would be in the technology advances to address longstanding performance challenges facing supply chains.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 2, 2025
Old Navy, H&M and Adidas were among the 107 companies reported to be using textile materials generated by petrochemicals linked to the Permian Basin, per Stand.earth.
CPO Rising
JANUARY 3, 2025
Editors Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, were publishing some best of 2024 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.… The post Best of 2024: CPO Rising Listicle: Battle Inflation with Five Smart Strategies appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.
Fraxion
JANUARY 7, 2025
Overcoming common agricultural procurement challenges In the agricultural industry, managing procurement through manual, time-consuming, and paper-based processes can lead to significant inefficiencies, limited visibility, and poor control over spending. This challenge becomes even more complex when managing multiple farms, ranches, and orchards across different locations, each operating as independent entities.
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For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic
Procurement Express
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Procurement managers are pros when it comes to negotiating deals down to the penny, working closely with suppliers to secure terms that place them at a strategic advantage. However, these strategies often only account for direct procurement or the purchases associated with the products a company sells. Indirect spending, or those purchases that fall into the everything else categoryfrom IT equipment and professional services to payrollaren’t always held to the same standard.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 2, 2025
The planned talks are a welcome sign for importers and exporters bracing for a labor disruption that would shut every major port on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 6, 2025
Struggling with returns? Discover key factors for reverse logistics success and how we can help!
Procurement Insights
JANUARY 1, 2025
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In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
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