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 13, 2025

The agency said the offering will reach about 87% of the U.S. daily by sending packages to its last-mile delivery units overnight.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 13, 2025

Exports from China into the U.S. increased by more than 15% year-over-year in December 2024, while exports into the EU went up by nearly 9%.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 13, 2025

Real-time location and condition tracking is supporting agile supply chains that enhance operational continuity.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply chain Supply 77

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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.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 13, 2025

Join a panel of seasoned industry leaders as they delve into the key trends shaping the electronics supply chain in 2025. In this engaging webinar, the experts will share actionable strategies to mitigate risks, optimize supplier relationships, and transform volatility into opportunity.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 13, 2025

The company has ceased operations after conversations with investors and potential acquirers fizzled out, founder Scott Ruffin said.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 13, 2025

Performance, efficiency and sustainability factors play a role in squared-off designs, along with the growing prevalence of robotics, industry leaders say.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 13, 2025

Companies need to understand their environmental impact and the risks they face, as well as the collaborative opportunities that mitigating and adapting to such risks presents.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 13, 2025

Lyn Cowgill will manage procurement strategy and supply chain operations at the renewable energy company.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 13, 2025

Biden cited a need to thwart smuggling efforts, close loopholes in trade policies, and establish the U.S. and its allies as the global leaders in AI technology.

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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.

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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 Brain

JANUARY 13, 2025

While the boats have been out of service for about three weeks, port personnel are slowly bringing tankers into harbor, causing a bottleneck.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 13, 2025

Japan's Nippon Steel now has until June 18, 2025 to fully abandon its bid to purchase U.S. Steel.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 13, 2025

Here is an excerpt from a post I wrote in 2007: “In my fall 2004 analyses of a study on the use of web-based applications I made the following observation: It is my position that a true centralization of procurement objectives requires a decentralized architecture based on the real-world operating attributes of all transactional stakeholders, starting at the local or regional level.

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