Procurement Leaders

MAY 13, 2024

Over the course of the coming week, large swathes of the global procurement community will congregate in London to collaborate, challenge, celebrate and learn at the World Procurement Congress. It’s a hugely energising experience – an opportunity to inhale knowledge, grow networks, and challenge our current beliefs, approaches and trajectories. This year’s agenda is world-class in every sense, featuring a diverse group of speakers – from a who’s who of the global CPO community to four-time Olymp

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All Things Supply Chain

MAY 13, 2024

Warehousing is an essential part of modern supply chain management, serving as a pivotal hub for storage, sorting and distributing goods.

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Procurement Leaders

MAY 13, 2024

Challenge With global energy demand on the rise and fossil fuels continuing to make up most of the world’s power consumption, cutting emissions in the energy sector represents a formidable task. What’s more, the pathways for companies to reach net-zero are not necessarily clear. The scale and complexity of the challenge is such that businesses are looking far and wide for answers to it.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 13, 2024

The ground delivery offering has been the target of controversial changes that would impact key shipping partners like DHL eCommerce and Pitney Bowes.

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Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 13, 2024

Gartner predicts that by 2028, 70% of companies will adopt regionally diversified supply chain models to improve network resiliency in the face of ongoing global disruptions.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 13, 2024

The delivery rivals are fighting to gain share in the lucrative volume segment as their relationships with larger shippers evolve.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 13, 2024

The race to secure market share is driven by looming e-commerce demand and upheaval to rate changes sparked by conflict in the Red Sea.

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Spend Matters

MAY 13, 2024

Part 2 of this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis focuses on the strengths and opportunities of Corcentric Platform’s source-to-pay (S2P) solution. It also looks at customer reviews and the elements to consider when looking at Corcentric Platform as a potential solution provider. Part 1 of the series provides a history and overview of Corcentric Platform’s S2P solution and the solution’s roadmap/vision.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 13, 2024

The facility places suppliers' less-than-truckload shipments into truckload hauls before sending them off to regional distribution centers.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 13, 2024

Woolworths locations across Southeast Queensland reported shortages of fresh items like bread, milk, fruit, and poultry, after an upgrade to their WMS went awry.

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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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Spend Matters

MAY 13, 2024

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Corcentric Platform and its source-to-pay (S2P) solution. In the ever-evolving landscape of business operations, organizations are constantly seeking ways to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and streamline their processes. For procurement professionals, the one-stop-shop offered by source-to-pay (S2P) solutions can be invaluable.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 13, 2024

Cybercriminals are focused on ransomware, business email compromise and cryptojacking right now, but a recent report from IBM X-Force thinks AI and ChatGPT could be next.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 13, 2024

The company says that, by consolidating deliveries of perishable and dry goods in one truck, food manufacturers, distributors and retailers can eliminate the costs of multiple deliveries.

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Procurement Freelancers

MAY 13, 2024

Imagine fully utilizing the enormous resources and skills available worldwide for your company. Efficient worldwide… The post Crucial Tips for Maximizing Global Sourcing Services first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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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

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 13, 2024

If approved, the measure would likely trigger contractual challenges for European logistics firms and political backlash from other gas-buying nations.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 13, 2024

This blog series demystifies enterprise generative AI (gen AI) for business and technology leaders. It provides simple frameworks and guiding principles for your transformative artificial intelligence (AI) journey. In the previous blog , we discussed the differentiated approach by IBM to delivering enterprise-grade models. In this blog, we delve into why foundation model choices matter and how they empower businesses to scale gen AI with confidence.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 13, 2024

Carlos Sugich, partner at the law firm of Snell & Wilmer, discusses the factors that are causing manufacturers to nearshore production in Mexico.

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The Good Spending

MAY 13, 2024

" One of the worst and most expensive contracting fiascos in the history of the public sector." Some real-life cases only require a little reflection to understand that the project was predefined for failure well before its launch. Can we make appropriate conclusions to prevent that from happening again? The first step is to deepen our study of such cases beyond populistic cliches.

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Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 13, 2024

Hexnode estimates that 33% of organizations fell victim to cyberattacks over the last year alone.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 13, 2024

Industry stakeholders want a stronger domestic solar supply chain to support ongoing innovation.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 13, 2024

According to S&P Global, seaborne containerized freight imports into the U.S. rose by 8% year-over-year in April.

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Negotiations Ninja

MAY 13, 2024

When it comes to negotiation, persuasive storytelling is an important skill to have in your repertoire. It can help you engage your audience, encourage trust, and ultimately, get potential clients past the finish line. With the help of Negotiations Ninja’s persuasive storytelling resources, you’ll master the fine art of persuasive storytelling in no time.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 13, 2024

Tesla has attracted intense backlash since the company opened the factory in March 2022, and later announced plans to expand into a nearby forest to increase its production capability.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 13, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second installment in a series that will accomplish the following three things: If you are a provider, this post will cause you to do some real soul-searching about why you are “really” in business. If you are a practitioner, this post will provide you with an infallible screening process to determine if the provider you are considering will “actually” enable you to succeed.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 13, 2024

Baltimore Port officials said they hoped to move the Dali within two days.

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CPO Rising

MAY 13, 2024

Today’s topic might seem a little ironic given that analysts are infamous among technology providers for issuing long and demanding questionnaires about everything under the sun. But for a buying organization, there are several issues with trying to select, or even shortlist, solution providers based on RFPs.

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Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a once-in-a-lifetime change management opportunity that might decide who wins and losses across every industry. As the AI era takes shape through digital transformation initiatives, executives and employees alike are contemplating how it affects employment and the skills needed to stay ahead. This is where AI upskilling and reskilling come into play.

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