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Three Benefits of Channel-Free Logistics

Supply Chain Brain

Channel-free logistics connects existing infrastructure to simplify the whole order-to-delivery process, encouraging circularity and sustainability, maximizing profits and streamlining operations overall.

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Family Dollar to pay $41.7M for issues tied to rat-infested warehouse

Supply Chain Dive

The discount retailer pleaded guilty to one count misdemeanor violation after product contamination at the Arkansas distribution center.

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Advances in Thin Film Printed Electronics Enable Active Tracking and Automated Visibility

Supply Chain Brain

Thin film electronics is a rapidly evolving technology that has the potential to revolutionize supply chains and shipping as well as other industries.

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Most employees say their mental health has declined or plateaued in past year

Supply Chain Dive

Technology and management can worsen stress and burnout — but can also be part of the solution, Calm says.

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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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4 smart technologies modernizing sourcing strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Sourcing is getting smarter. To start, many organizations have already pivoted from a tactical to a strategic sourcing mindset—which can make all the difference when it comes to gaining and retaining a competitive advantage. Why? Because organizations with strategic sourcing mindsets look beyond price and cost savings-centered supplier selection initiatives.

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Report: Employers don’t practice what they preach on skills-based hiring

Supply Chain Dive

Fewer than 1 in 700 new hires benefited from businesses dropping degree requirements, Burning Glass Institute and Harvard Business School estimated.

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Meet AI in Supplier Management

Spend Matters

Artificial intelligence (AI) comes in many forms and despite being a consistent ‘hot topic’ for well over a decade now, continues to grow and evolve each year in the procurement industry. In this series of articles, we explore the current state of AI in procurement technology, starting today with the Supplier Management (SxM) market. We give an overview of its capabilities, a high-level market outline and an introduction to the emerging field of GenAI.

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The difference between ALIAS and CNAME and when to use them

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The chief difference between a CNAME record and an ALIAS record is not in the result—both point to another DNS record —but in how they resolve the target DNS record when queried. As a result of this difference, one is safe to use at the zone apex (for example, naked domain such as example.com), while the other is not. Let’s start with the CNAME record type.

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Port of Long Beach cargo volumes rise 18% YoY in January

Supply Chain Dive

Retailers rushed to fill warehouses ahead of the slowdown that occurs during the Lunar New Year holiday, the port’s CEO Mario Cordero said.

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Are women really reluctant to speak at conferences? WHY?

Procurement Insights

“ Women are often less assertive than men in the workplace and tend to apologize or minimize the importance of what they say when they do speak up —even female executives in meetings with their peers. But being on the defensive appears as a lack of confidence.” Speak Up and Don’t Apologize, Diversity Woman Media , Mar 27, 2023 I just came across this post by Stephen Ashcroft this morning – [link] Titled “Finding female speakers is proving difficult,” please ha

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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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URBN Outfitters opens second fulfillment center for its rental brand

Supply Chain Dive

Nuuly began operations at its new 600,000-square-foot facility in Missouri and plans to invest $60 million into it in the coming years.

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Southwest Air Boosts Bet on Corn Jet Fuel With LanzaJet Deal

Supply Chain Brain

The potential of a lucrative ethanol-based sustainable aviation fuel industry could be a major boon to U.S. corn ethanol.

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Veho nabs crucial link to shippers’ West Coast operations via Clearjet

Supply Chain Dive

The last-mile carrier is able to work with a wider range of clients via Clearjet's nationwide access to air cargo capacity.

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California Startup Has a Novel Solution to Clean Up Heavy-Duty Truck Emissions

Supply Chain Brain

Technology and funding programs are crucial to decarbonizing heavy-duty transportation, as are ones helping offset the high upfront purchase costs that have deterred buyers.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Telecommunications – Technical Maintenance

Vested Way

The buying company is a key leader in telecommunications in Europe (referred to TelCo). TelCo began their Vested journey like most organizations: wanting to understand if making the shift to a highly collaborative Vested relationship is worth the effort. Today TelCo has five Vested agreements. TelCo’s Vested initiative started as a pilot to see if the Vested model could work to streamline the maintenance for its thousands of technical sites including cell towers.

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FAA Gives Boeing 90 Days to Come Up With Safety and Standards Plan

Supply Chain Brain

During an all-day safety discussion at FAA Headquarters on February 27, Whitaker told Boeing that he expects the company to provide the FAA a comprehensive action plan.

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All You Need to Know About Workflow Orchestration

Pipefy

Businesses don’t outgrow their workflows, they transform them. What may have been a relatively simple process at one time can evolve as an organization adds employees and stakeholders, multiple systems, and data. Processes must sometimes undergo massive changes fast in order to adapt to a changing environment. These newly complex workflows must operate just as efficiently and smoothly as the previous iterations.

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New Leadership at Knight-Swift

Supply Chain Brain

Industry experts are watching its smaller less-than-truckload segment, where operating margins are better, and revenue grew rapidly last year.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Technology Round-Up — February 28, 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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Building trust in the government with responsible generative AI implementation

IBM Supply Chain Blog

At the end of 2023, a survey conducted by the IBM® Institute for Business Value (IBV) found that respondents believe government leaders often overestimate the public’s trust in them. They also found that, while the public is still wary about new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), most people are in favor of government adoption of generative AI.

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