Most employees say their mental health has declined or plateaued in past year
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Technology and management can worsen stress and burnout — but can also be part of the solution, Calm says.
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Three Benefits of Channel-Free Logistics
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.
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Family Dollar to pay $41.7M for issues tied to rat-infested warehouse
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The discount retailer pleaded guilty to one count misdemeanor violation after product contamination at the Arkansas distribution center.
Advances in Thin Film Printed Electronics Enable Active Tracking and Automated Visibility
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.
From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Shopify's Modular Commerce Now
Speaker: Benjamin Woll
Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Shopify’s modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how Shopify’s composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.
Report: Employers don’t practice what they preach on skills-based hiring
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.
Meet AI in Supplier Management
Spend Matters
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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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4 smart technologies modernizing sourcing strategy
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.
URBN Outfitters opens second fulfillment center for its rental brand
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.
What is managed DNS, anyway?
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.
Are women really reluctant to speak at conferences? WHY?
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
GEP Spend Category Outlook Report 2025
Advertiser: GEP
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.
The difference between ALIAS and CNAME and when to use them
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.
Southwest Air Boosts Bet on Corn Jet Fuel With LanzaJet Deal
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.
Veho nabs crucial link to shippers’ West Coast operations via Clearjet
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.
California Startup Has a Novel Solution to Clean Up Heavy-Duty Truck Emissions
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.
5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
Telecommunications – Technical Maintenance
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.
FAA Gives Boeing 90 Days to Come Up With Safety and Standards Plan
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.
All You Need to Know About Workflow Orchestration
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.
New Leadership at Knight-Swift
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.
GEP Outlook Report 2025
Advertiser: GEP
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
Technology Round-Up — February 28, 2024
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.
Building trust in the government with responsible generative AI implementation
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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