Procurement Templates
JANUARY 5, 2024
UK Agencies, not in any particular order: Michael Page Procurement & Supply Chain Bramwith Consulting Hays Procurement 1st Executive Procurement PeopleCloud Portfolio Procurement Procurement Heads Edbury Daley Reed Procurement & Supply Chain Barclay Meade Procurement & Supply Chain Standing out in a job application process can be challenging, but it’s definitely possible.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
Rates from Asia to the U.S. East Coast reached $3,900 per FEU in the past week, with additional surcharges to start this month, according to Freightos.
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Procurement Templates
JANUARY 5, 2024
Creating a comprehensive contract management checklist involves several key steps to ensure effective oversight and compliance. Here’s a detailed checklist you can use: Contract Initiation: Define contract objectives and requirements. Identify stakeholders and their roles. Establish contract terms and conditions. Preparation and Drafting: Create a draft reflecting agreed-upon terms.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 5, 2024
71% of employees said burnout impacted their work with 45% saying they’re not as enthusiastic as they could be, while another 26% said they only performed their required responsibilities.
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Spend Matters
JANUARY 5, 2024
For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
To address the rising cost of returns, 44% of retailers have increased return or restocking fees, according to CBRE and Optoro.
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Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 5, 2024
The new offering, consisting of nine vessels, will provide the Georgia Ports Authority with access to ten services via the Suez Canal, including nine routes to the Indian subcontinent.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
JANUARY 5, 2024
Disruption has significantly altered the landscape for procurement leaders, challenging their ability to maintain stable supply chains and make strategic decisions. There are some options, though, to help mitigate the challenges.
Spend Matters
JANUARY 5, 2024
Throughout the year our analyst team provides vendor-specific profiles and tech solution analyses as part of Spend Matters Insider content. Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.
Procurement Insights
JANUARY 5, 2024
EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the most frequent questions I receive from solution providers is: what are the obstacles to landing new clients, and how do we address them? If you are a solution provider asking that same question, here is what I would write to you: Dear Service Provider. If someone said, “I would give you a million dollars to climb Mount Everest or five thousand dollars to jog up and down a small hill,” what would you choose?
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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.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
The industry group's recent report stressed the need for more investment to fortify the country's chip supply.
Procurement Freelancers
JANUARY 5, 2024
In today’s fluctuating economic environment, as a product sourcing expert, you hold a critical position:…
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
The China-based e-commerce company is expanding the reach of its logistics service into North America and Europe.
The Thomas Blog
JANUARY 5, 2024
The distinction between demand generation vs. lead generation is important but not always obvious. Demand generation matches people with the right product or service. As a business owner, you help the audience realize that your product or service fits their needs. On the other hand, lead generation means attracting prospects to your business. Once you’ve got their attention, you nurture and convert them into paying customers.
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
Pipefy
JANUARY 5, 2024
What is no-code automation? No-code automation refers to software platforms that empower businesses to automate manual or repetitive work for efficiency and cost savings. It optimizes workflows with intuitive, user-friendly interfaces for those with no previous coding knowledge or experience. Process automation is one of the most effective ways to leverage no-code technology because of its capacity to save resources.
The Thomas Blog
JANUARY 5, 2024
B2B (business-to-business) lead generation strategies are designed to identify and attract potential business customers or clients. The idea is to help your business find qualified leads and convert them into paying customers by building a robust lead pipeline. Lead generation. Image Credit: Shutterstock.com/Olivier Le Moal Your efforts can encompass content marketing, email marketing, and social media marketing among other tactics.
Pipefy
JANUARY 5, 2024
Businesses are constantly seeking new methods to improve their operations. To optimize performance, accountability, and compliance, one method many choose is optimizing their process tracking. This gives companies the means to lay out and orchestrate every process, system, and workflow, all of which are tightly interconnected with the common goal of creating a product.
The Thomas Blog
JANUARY 5, 2024
Lead prospecting refers to the process of identifying and qualifying potential customers or clients who are likely to be interested in a product or service. The goal of lead prospecting is to generate a list of potential customers who can be targeted for marketing and sales efforts. Effective prospecting goes beyond just building a customer pipeline; it establishes you as a reliable advisor and enables a focused approach to the right accounts.
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.
Pipefy
JANUARY 5, 2024
As artificial intelligence (AI) advances continue, an ever-growing number of workplaces are adopting them as enhancements to their existing process management systems. The human resources (HR) sector is no different. HR analysts often seek new ways to better serve their workforce while maintaining a reasonable workload and conserving IT resources. The answer many have discovered is the AI-powered chatbot.
CPO Rising
JANUARY 5, 2024
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2023 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. Fridays (in 2023) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle.
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