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 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.
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. Sam Jenks , Chief Revenue Officer at Kodiak Hub , shares what their customers are looking for from their digital procurement investment.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
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.
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
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Supply Chain Brain
DECEMBER 30, 2024
The bill would require 10% of all import cargo into the United States from China to arrive on vessels built, flagged and crewed in 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
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.
Procurement Insights
DECEMBER 31, 2024
On January 10th, 2025, I will publish my review of the following GEP paper: The Rise of AI Agents Procurement & Supply Chain Enter the Autonomous Age 30
Advertiser: GEP
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
Arkestro
JANUARY 2, 2025
Beverage alcohol retail technology remains ever-changing and constantly evolving.
Supply Chain Brain
DECEMBER 30, 2024
For all their importance to global supply chains, logistics activities generate considerable amounts of waste.
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.
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.
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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.
Procurement Insights
JANUARY 1, 2025
@zachking Which art illusion took the longest time to make?
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.
CPO Rising
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Supplier management is one of the most critical aspects of procurement. But as is the case with a lot of areas within procurement, its complex. One of the biggest issues… The post Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays The Two Levels of Supplier Management Tech appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.
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 2, 2025
Nine of 10 citations were withdrawn, though the e-tailer has agreed to pay more than 90% of the penalties and inspections continue, according to the Department of Labor.
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.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Today were showcasing another of our fabulous live shows LogTech Live with Eric Johnson. Eric is Senior Editor of Technology at the Journal Of Commerce, he has SO much knowledge and more than a little insider info, so we love collaborating with him. Trust me if something’s going down in supply chain, he’s the first to know about it! Hes joined by special guests to break down key industry trends and insights on the first and third Friday of every month at 10am EST, so if you dont h
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.
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
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.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 2, 2025
The provision has come under fire in recent years, with any potential changes likely impacting manufacturing, parcel shipping and air cargo operations.
Procurement Insights
DECEMBER 30, 2024
The first graph below is from a McKinsey LinkedIn post from today regarding collaboration’s impact on transformation success. I don’t know who created the latest graphic representation of collaboration and transformation at McKinsey. However, over the last several decades, I have seen many graphic illustrations from McKinsey on this same topic.
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.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.
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 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 Brain
DECEMBER 30, 2024
The Teamsters say that they plan to continue their fight against Amazon, but did not specify where or when any additional strikes might occur in the weeks ahead.
Supply Chain Brain
DECEMBER 31, 2024
The project was brought about following the grounding of the Ever Given in 2021, which blocked the waterway for six days and impacted billions of dollars worth of trade.
Advertiser: GEP
As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.
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