Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Channel-free logistics connects existing infrastructure to simplify the whole order-to-delivery process, encouraging circularity and sustainability, maximizing profits and streamlining operations overall.
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The discount retailer pleaded guilty to one count misdemeanor violation after product contamination at the Arkansas distribution center.
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Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Thin film electronics is a rapidly evolving technology that has the potential to revolutionize supply chains and shipping as well as other industries.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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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Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Fewer than 1 in 700 new hires benefited from businesses dropping degree requirements, Burning Glass Institute and Harvard Business School estimated.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Managed DNS is where a third-party hosts and optimizes your DNS resolution architecture to provide the fastest, most secure, most reliable experience. Perhaps the easiest way to explain it is by looking at the opposite scenario: what if you don’t have a managed DNS service in place? Every query in the Domain Name System (DNS) follows the same logic to resolve IP addresses.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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.
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Technology and management can worsen stress and burnout — but can also be part of the solution, Calm says.
Procurement Insights
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
“ 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
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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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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 Brain
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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.
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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.
Vested Way
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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.
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
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The potential of a lucrative ethanol-based sustainable aviation fuel industry could be a major boon to U.S. corn ethanol.
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The last-mile carrier is able to work with a wider range of clients via Clearjet's nationwide access to air cargo capacity.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Industry experts are watching its smaller less-than-truckload segment, where operating margins are better, and revenue grew rapidly last year.
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.
CPO Rising
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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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