All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 13, 2025

The holiday season is one of the busiest times for retailers.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 10, 2025

The move brings millions of packages back into the carrier's network for final-mile delivery, according to the union.

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Networking 118

All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2025, supply chains are undergoing a fundamental transformation to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 7, 2025

Delivery services across the central and eastern U.S. have been stymied by the severe weather.

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Advertiser: GEP

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.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 6, 2025

As they enter the new year, businesses need to be preparing for the next holiday rush. Artificial intelligence can help.

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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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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 7, 2025

The East and Gulf Coast port labor contract will expire again on Jan. 15, prompting fears of a new strike.

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Contract 125

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 8, 2025

"Companies can take a fresh look at the balance they strike between efficiency and resilience," says Marsh Advisory managing director James Crask.

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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 9, 2025

Strong supply chain capabilities drive efficiency and develop competitiveness in an oversaturated market. Global disruptions such as COVID-19 have unearthed a wide range of vulnerabilities within international supply chains. They taught businesses that you simply must be prepared for rapid change with contingency plans and alternative solutions ready to go.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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.

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All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 8, 2025

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has transformed how the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) sector designs and constructs buildings.

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Sustainability 147

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 9, 2025

The global battery supply chain must be purged of its reliance on forced labor and child labor.

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Supply chain Supply 102

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.

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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.

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All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 10, 2025

Last year, Halloween brought neighborhoods to life with lookalikes of Barbie, Spider-Man, and Indiana Jones lookalikes, all inspired by the years top trends.

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Inventory 130

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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Networking 115

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 7, 2025

Prosecutors claim Raxuter Chemicals shipped 20 kilograms of the chemicals to New York, falsely labeled as an antacid.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 9, 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. Jeff Collier , Chief Revenue Officer, SAP Intelligent Spend and Business Network , shares what their customers are looking for from their digital procurement investment.

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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?

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 12, 2025

No Code Procurement is a phrase I came up with to highlight the many opportunities that are out there to build procurement apps using existing No Code tools. The debate about Make vs. Buy never seems to go away. And, for the last 2-3 years, it seemed that “Buy” was pretty much the only game in town. I mean, WHY on earth would you try and build something when so much money in VC-land has been pouring into procuretech?

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Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 7, 2025

The new year presents a great opportunity for FMCG businesses to assess their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria and, more specifically, their carbon-reduction plans. Every leader should ask: Are we on track to deliver? With the Paris Agreement goal of reaching net zero by 2050 on business leaders minds, it is time to take stock. In practice, this means that business leaders, including Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), should gauge whether they are making a meaningful impact o

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 8, 2025

The agreement comes a week before a previous deal was set to expire, allaying concerns of a potential strike at East and Gulf Coast ports.

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Contract 111

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 9, 2025

While the exact scope of proposed new tariffs remains unclear, businesses can take proactive steps to prepare and reduce their risk of exposure.

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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

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 8, 2025

This analysis contains excerpts from a piece previously written by Bertrand Maltaverne. This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Zip and its solution for intake, orchestration and source to pay (S2P). As procurement becomes increasingly strategic and digital, intake and orchestration processes require intricate coordination across various departments, tools and data sources.

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Market analysis Sourcing Procurement team Buyers 85

Procurement Express

JANUARY 8, 2025

TL:DR Automated approvals make payments to vendors fast and easy. Real-time tracking highlights budget risks early. Accurate payments keep suppliers happy and stress low. The struggle with outdated financial systems As the financial controller at Piehole.tv, Roslynne, known as the fun accountant, faced significant challenges in managing the companys financial processes.

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Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 13, 2025

A large aerospace and defence company needed an interim manager to lead its technology procurement function. It also wanted to review the teams capabilities following a period of significant change both within the company and in the external technology landscape. Barkers provided a delivery director with the expertise to fulfil this role. His interventions have built capacity and knowledge within the team, rescoped and raised its profile, and delivered significant savings across major projects.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 7, 2025

Hapag-Lloyd and MSC are among the carriers planning fees ahead of a possible work stoppage at U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 7, 2025

Shifting from spend-based models to primary data positions companies as responsible actors and innovators ready to tackle the next generation of environmental challenges.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 13, 2025

This article provides deep intelligence into how procurement tech vendors are solving different parts of the tariff problem. Tariffs are currently a hot topic following the result of the US 2024 elections, however: The new or increased tariffs mentioned during the election campaign havent yet materialized and may never. They may just have been a way to put pressure on trade partners for upcoming negotiations and discussions, or new tariffs may, in fact, be implemented.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 13, 2025

Today Im joined by leading tech company, GAINS. GAINS is the supply chain performance optimization company. Its platform drives faster, smarter decisioning everywhere inventory matters. So, with GAINS, supply chain teams can make all the right decisions at speed and scale to right-size inventory, strengthen performance, and fulfill customer promises.

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CPO Rising

JANUARY 13, 2025

Editors Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, were publishing some best of 2024 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2025. Contract Lifecycle Management… The post Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays Contract Lifecycle Management: A Different but Critical Procurement Technology appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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