All Things Supply Chain
APRIL 4, 2024
In today’s rapidly evolving global marketplace, the field of supply chain logistics stands at the forefront of innovation and efficiency, offering a wealth of opportunities for recent college graduates.
ProcurePort
APRIL 4, 2024
Businesses are always looking for ways to make their operations more efficient and save money in the fast-paced digital world. One such avenue that has gained significant traction in recent years is electronic procurement, commonly known as e-procurement. E-procurement uses digital tech to streamline the procurement process, from finding suppliers to buying and managing contracts. […] The post Why should I opt for E-procurement?
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Art of Procurement
APRIL 4, 2024
China’s role in the global supply chain is changing right before our eyes, leaving foreign buyers to feel the discomfort. The post Even with +1, China is still #1 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 4, 2024
Executives at an American Apparel & Footwear Association event underscored the need to find alternative sourcing as U.S.-China relations continue to fray.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 4, 2024
The popularity of private cloud is growing, primarily driven by the need for greater data security. Across industries like education, retail and government, organizations are choosing private cloud settings to conduct business use cases involving workloads with sensitive information and to comply with data privacy and compliance needs. In a report from Technavio (link resides outside ibm.com), the private cloud services market size is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 26.71% between 2023 and 2028,
Spend Matters
APRIL 4, 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.
Purchasing & Procurement Zone brings together the best content for professionals in the purchasing and procurement field from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Spend Matters
APRIL 4, 2024
This Spend Matters Brand Studio article was written in conjunction with Certa. Compliance and risk management is a growing and interesting use case of GenAI for procurement, finance and, of course, legal operations. The technology opens up a wealth of capabilities not previously possible for the procurement practitioner in terms of data availability, end-to-end visibility, cost, time and risk reduction, and ultimately the overall health of the third-party network.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
The potential of cobots in packaging — driven by AI, machine learning, and IoT integration — promises a new era of smart packaging lines and predictive maintenance.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 4, 2024
Michael Raphael will manage procurement activities and annual spending for the company and its clients.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
The new plant will mass-produce high bandwidth memory used for AI computing, and is expected to open sometime in the back half of 2028.
Advertiser: GEP
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.
Art of Procurement
APRIL 4, 2024
China’s role in the global supply chain is changing right before our eyes, leaving foreign buyers to feel the discomfort. The post Even with +1, China is still #1 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
The payment is reportedly for Alaska's pretax losses, as well as lost revenue and costs stemming from returning their Max 9 fleet to service.
Art of Procurement
APRIL 4, 2024
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – April 5th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
The report found that Amazon created 208 million pounds of plastic packaging in the U.S. in 2022, up nearly 10% from the previous year.
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
Procurement Talk with David Byrne
APRIL 4, 2024
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube Summary In this episode, Martin Smith interviews Brad Mills, the first recruit of Talent Drive, about his experience in procurement recruitment. They discuss the challenges and opportunities in the retail and hospitality sector, the market outlook for 2024, and the changes in procurement recruitment … Continued The post Diversity and Agility: Successful Hiring in Procurement with Brad Mills – Episode 91 appeared first on Tal
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
The Odesa region is home to Ukraine’s largest ports, where most of the country’s grain is shipped for export.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 4, 2024
The cloud represents a strategic tool to enable digital transformation for financial institutions As the banking and other regulated industry continues to shift toward a digital-first approach, financial entities are eager to use the benefits of digital disruption. Lots of innovation is happening, with new technologies emerging in areas such as data and AI, payments, cybersecurity and risk management, to name a few.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
The foodservice industry faces a huge challenge in becoming environmentally sustainable.
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.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 4, 2024
Business Process Management (BPM) is a systematic approach to managing and streamlining business processes. BPM is intended to help improve the efficiency of existing processes, with the goal of increasing productivity and overall business performance. BPM is often confused with other seemingly similar initiatives. For example, BPM is smaller in scale than business process reengineering (BPR), which radically overhauls or replaces processes.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
While more conventional direct theft of freight during transit still does occur, theft resulting from fraudulent activity has risen sharply in the last 18 months.
Art of Procurement
APRIL 4, 2024
China’s role in the global supply chain is changing right before our eyes, leaving foreign buyers to feel the discomfort.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
Ford shared that it will be "retiming" its planned EV launches at its Ontario plant, while pivoting toward a focus on hybrid offerings.
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Art of Procurement
APRIL 4, 2024
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – April 5th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
The report found that Amazon created 208 million pounds of plastic packaging in the U.S. in 2022, up nearly 10% from the previous year.
Fraxion
APRIL 4, 2024
The ultimate guide to streamlining your purchasing workflow This guide is your gateway to optimizing your team’s purchasing workflow. The purchasing workflow is essentially the sequence of steps determining how your organization acquires the goods and services necessary for streamlined operations, and the efficiency of this process holds the key to staying competitive.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2024
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has restarted operations as the island begins to recover from its worst earthquake in 25 years.
Advertiser: GEP
Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 4, 2024
EDITOR’S NOTE: In response to my post yesterday regarding Databricks and ZIP, Greg Tennyson’s response summed up perfectly the underlying message of that post when he simply wrote: “ Ryan Meonske well done.” In today’s post, I will tell you why Greg’s words were on the mark. “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets credit.” – Harry S.
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