Wed.Mar 13, 2024

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Empowering Women in the Supply Chain: Bridging Gaps and Fostering a Supportive Community

Supply Chain Brain

The path to gender parity is about spanning bridges across persistent gaps, and cultivating a supportive community that empowers women to thrive.

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Target deepens bets on supply chain, inventory management

Supply Chain Dive

The retailer has 10 new facilities in the pipeline and is investing in AI and machine learning to sharpen demand planning as it grows its profits.

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GenAI Could Make Up a Quarter of All Logistics KPI Reporting Within Next 4 Years

Supply Chain Brain

Half of supply chain leaders surveyed say they’re already working on plans to implement GenAI in the next 12 months.

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Why Walmart sees drone delivery taking flight

Supply Chain Dive

The retailer is increasingly using the technology for quick deliveries of items like meal solutions and over-the-counter medicines.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook Report 2025

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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Eli Lilly to Partner With Amazon Pharmacy in Latest Shift for Pharma Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

The pharmaceutical company will use Amazon Pharmacy to deliver a select range of medications.

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Better shipping contracts benefit BarkBox owner

Supply Chain Dive

Dog toys and treats brand Bark, which uses FedEx, the U.S. Postal Service and Pitney Bowes, joins other shippers that have trimmed their delivery costs.

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Digital Approaches, End-to-End Thinking Help Supply Chains Evolve

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Supply chain disruptions come in many forms, but digital approaches and end-to-end thinking are helping organizations evolve.

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Steelworkers Union Demands Investigate ‘Unfair’ Chinese Shipbuilding

Supply Chain Brain

U.S. steelworkers claim China has established a stranglehold on shipbuilding to dominate global trade.

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Where does food waste occur most in the supply chain?

Procurement Insights

The work started in 2020 by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) , WWF , Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic and ReFED created this movement. I’m very proud to join it as we seek to influence the legislative process federally, by state, and locally. If more families are fed because of this; it is worth doing! Flashfood hashtag#collectiveimpact – Nicholas Bertram , CEO Flashfood My parents, born in 1916 and 1918, lived through the Great Depression.

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USDOT Unveils Plan to Decarbonize Freight Transportation Across the Country

Supply Chain Brain

The USDOT plans to roll out a nationwide charging infrastructure for zero emission freight vehicles over the next two decades.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

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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Supply Chain Trends to Watch

The Network Effect

What the supply chain experts think we should expect in 2024 and the coming years.

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Technology Round-Up — March 13, 2024

CPO Rising

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider and you are continually innovating the way that procurement and supply chain leaders and practitioners drive value, we’d love to hear from you.

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AI will change the world—the terms are up to us

IBM Supply Chain Blog

IBM at the B7 We are living in a watershed moment for AI: the European Parliament has just voted on the EU AI Act, which will regulate and govern the use and implications of this technology. In turn, governments and enterprises are getting ready to set their own standards around AI. AI featured in the G7 Ministerial Meeting in Verona, Italy, and in conversations happening in parallel in the Business Federations gatherings, or B7.

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