Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. To potential buyers — Halo Ai’s founder has a background in procurement and has built the tool with procurement in mind and to replace current TPRM and GRC point solutions.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 15, 2025

Manufacturing and industrials: Strengthening the supply chain backbone In the manufacturing world, procurement is about much more than just tracking spend its the heartbeat of supply chain management. Supply network modeling, now integrating large language models (LLMs), allows for precise tracking and material tracing.

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Real-time Visibility Procurement e2e Supply Chain Efficiency 69

Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 26, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Visibility Has Never Been More Important! Supply Chain visibility article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Miglio. And the limitations in supply chain visibility seem to start right here. would demand its implementation.

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Procurement Leaders

APRIL 6, 2023

That said, the biggest challenge remains going deep into your supply chain. UCB’s changing supply chain We have a categorisation beyond whether a supplier is strategic or not. It’s understanding the potential trade-offs that we might make from redesigning our supply chain.

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 25, 2022

Sebastian Chua started his procurement journey with Hewlett Packard/Agilent Technologies as their country manager for Singapore, India, Thailand, and the Philippines before he took on the job as the regional procurement manager. . Furthermore, He was voted by Supply Chain Digital as one of the top 10 procurement executives worldwide.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

In addition, diverse suppliers can improve their own supplier resilience, proving they are agile and can “turn on a dime” when it comes to responsiveness. This is crucial as businesses continue to be faced with supply chain and business challenges. Agile Procurement in Canada.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 24, 2025

Market Fluctuations and Inflation : External factors such as inflation, rising raw material costs, and global supply chain disruptions have a significant impact on procurement costs. Inflation has always been a top concern for higher management, as it is beyond the control of both suppliers and buyers. References Garnder, S.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Data centers are undergoing significant evolution. Catalysts and conundrums A dramatic shift in development and operations is making data centers more agile and cost-effective. Catalysts and conundrums A dramatic shift in development and operations is making data centers more agile and cost-effective.

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Data Sustainability Innovation Buyers 100

Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 20, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! You have also invested in supply chain systems to manage and monitor the flow of goods. In fact, the average mid-size and enterprise company has four supply chain system investments each!

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By selecting and developing the right suppliers and establishing streamlined, transparent communication with them, manufacturers gain the agility and resilience to respond to customer demands, rise to the top, and navigate disruptions more easily. That makes agility a foundational part of your manufacturing strategy.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, having an efficient supply chain department is more important than ever. A streamlined supply chain can make a significant impact on the overall success of a business, improving operational efficiency, increasing customer satisfaction, and driving revenue growth.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

February 2025 – Liquid networksdynamic, decentralized, and highly adaptable systemsare reshaping procurement and ProcureTech by enhancing supplier collaboration, innovation, and agility. Supply chain risk management is proactive and data-driven. Procurement workflows are automated using AI & smart contracts.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Building Stronger Relationship s : Effective Approaches to Multi-Tier Supplier Collaboration A chain is only as strong as its weakest link—but what if you can’t evaluate the entire chain? Tier 1 suppliers and their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers—make up an organization’s multi-tier supply chain.

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Collaboration Supply Chain Efficiency Suppliers Real-time Visibility 52

ivalua

MARCH 5, 2020

In this disruptive age, businesses must move faster and become more agile, so Procurement must respond, to this or we will become obsolete. And increasingly, that means collaborative working with key suppliers who can support that need to be innovative, flexible and agile.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 13, 2025

buyers, suppliers) interacting based on real-world commodity traits (e.g., AI and Learning: In his 2024 post (), Hansen discusses GenAIs role in orchestration and intake, suggesting AI can enhance procurement by processing data dynamically. Self-Learning Aspect: Algorithms parse unstructured data (e.g., Department of Defense).

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Real-time Visibility Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization Data 52

Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Fashion industry is one of the most primitive form of supply chain management and its practices have been extended, adopted and become the best practices that we use today. One year later "Kurt Salmon Associates" was assigned to investigate the whole apparel supply chain. Fashion SCM 1.0 Fashion SCM 1.0 Fashion SCM 2.0

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

Discover Ways to Boost Supply Chain Visibility through Digital Marketing Supply chain visibility is essential for providing a superior customer experience and sustaining customer loyalty over time. Customers face significant frustrations that erode brand trust and sales without supply chain visibility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Check out Brand Protection – The Definitive Role of the Supply Chain! The Supply Chain function within your company has many responsibilities. From planning to negotiating to buying, from moving goods to processing goods, and from managing data to managing inventory. Promoting Supply Chain Value.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Try this as a tongue twister: “Tripping through tantalizing TikTokers, tenfold to transform your tangled supply chain!” In our digital age, where viral trends dominate, TikTok’s influence now extends to supply chain management. Discover the Top 10 TikTokers reshaping how you view supply chains.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 9, 2025

Agent-Based Solution : Autonomous agents continuously learn from data (e.g., Agent-Based Solution : Agents represent suppliers, buyers, and logistics providers, sharing data and negotiating terms autonomously. Predictive Risk Mitigation Challenge : Reactive risk management leads to costly supply chain failures.

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Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Optimization Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Procurement Insights

APRIL 16, 2025

Mitchell, Spend Matters Chief Research Officer, is a recognized procurement expert who focuses on digital transformation, data analytics, and procurement technology, often emphasizing clean data and process efficiency (e.g., TealBooks ML, 2021) might downplay Hansens insistence on practitioner-led loops, though both value clean data.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Data Procurement Quality 52

ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

When it comes to estimation-based forecasting, Amrest has been able to capture some data, but they need to have the right tools in place to effectively utilize their data sets. Overall, their strategy must move toward data-driven decision-making to provide real-time information visibility.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 9, 2025

Supplier Focus: Ramps supplier management is buyer-centric (e.g., Ramp retains an edge in agility and UX (6,500 hours saved, Forrester), while Amexs legacy brand and Nipendos depth appeal to entrenched corporates. So, why is Ramp “hidden in plain sight” in the procurement and supply chain world?

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Spend management e2e Leadership 59

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In supply chain management, total lead time is a crucial metric encompassing the period from customer order to delivery, be it in B2B or B2C scenarios. As a critical supply parameter, managing lead time is essential for mitigating uncertainties in the supply chain.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Real-time Visibility 98

IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Supply chains are under enormous stress. As supply chain leaders, we’ve seen unprecedented levels of disruption, challenges with our ecosystem trading partner networks, tariff wars, real wars and tremendous turnover in human capital. Senior supply chain leaders are retiring in record numbers.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. However, whats really missing hereneeds analysis.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Product (or Master) Data Management? For the company buried in product data trying to navigate the waters of ecommerce, PIM software comes in like a gust that fills the sails. There is a way to aggregate, organize and clean-up data without all the manual toil.

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Inventory supply chain software solutions Management Supply Chain Optimization 98

Jaggaer

MARCH 6, 2025

These reforms and similar ones in other countries open up opportunities for public sector buyers. Public sector organizations must prioritize solutions that include: Advanced encryption to protect sensitive procurement data. Data-driven decision-making empowers public sector teams to improve efficiency and achieve better outcomes.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 20, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. When people hear about Blockchain technology they think of “Bitcoin” and because of this association – The underlying Blockchain technology has been always been viewed suspiciously due its rather radical approach to data sharing on an open platform using cryptography. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. A truly efficient and effective Supply Chain must include a strategy, plans, business processes, and performance metrics that incorporate disintermediation and the elimination of waste! Why Disintermediate the Supply Chain? Now consider what a Supply Chain entails.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

Livestock Commodities Livestock and meat commodities include lean hogs , pork, live cattle , and feeder cattle. It follows the principles of supply and demand as it is the driving force of commodity markets. Mintec Mintec provides market intelligence, commodity prices, and price forecasts across the agri-food supply chain.

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HICX

JUNE 28, 2022

In the session, we were joined by Andrea Sordi , Academic Director, Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee ; and Sammy Rashed , founder of the Think Tank ‘Beyond Group’ and subsequently SRCD where he provides consultancy and executive coaching services. Data visibility leads to agility.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Collaboration 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 5, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Procurement is one of the sole functions in an organization that can truly implement and realizes quality and sustainability initiatives in the line; considering procurement’s ability to impact the global supply chain network at the supplier level. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For years, supply chain professionals have measured success by how well they have been able to drive down costs and drive up efficiency. Then, 2020 sent shockwaves through many JIT strategies; the disruption was just too big to absorb and supply chain ecosystems had not been built to flex.

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ivalua

MARCH 27, 2023

Because a network is an unneeded link in the data chain and it acts as a data barrier to suppliers. As supply chains flip from a buyer to seller driven market, maximising the benefits of CTCs will remove the gaps from the process. Instant invoice approval, no supplier inquiries, and no exceptions.

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Procurement strategies Real-time Visibility Agile and Lean Supply Chain Networking 130

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As we are coming to the end of the year, procurement and supply chain leaders across industries initiate their annual strategic planning process for the next year. We have shortlisted 7 C ritical T rends that will help supply chain leaders and practitioners to build a strategic blueprint for 2023 and beyond.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The appetite for third-party risk management (TPRM) within procurement and the supply chain is keener than ever before — risks are more numerous and complex in what is an increasingly fast-paced and global business environment. Read our analysis: Risk is complex — The different types and sources of risk.)

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