Mon.Aug 05, 2024

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Entrepreneurs Can Navigate the Essentials of Business Contracts With This Guide

All Things Supply Chain

Establishing effective business contracts is crucial for securing the foundations of any enterprise. These documents serve not only as safeguards but also as frameworks for clear operational guidelines.

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CPO Crunch: Descend in style

Procurement Leaders

A couple of weeks ago I hosted a CPO Connect call during which we spoke to Sandro Scharlibbe, the former CPO of tier-1 automotive supplier Brose and the newly appointed CEO of Küster Holding. Sandro will be well known to many in the Procurement Leaders community – not least for the many awards he and his team picked up during his time as CPO – but also the work he championed on supplier-enabled innovation, which helped inspire many activities we hosted back in the pre-Covid days.

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FedEx strengthens China e-commerce access to US

Supply Chain Dive

The delivery giant is bolstering its FedEx International Connect Plus offering as cross-border demand booms.

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Visibility Is Key to Transportation Management Success

Supply Chain Brain

A survey by Descartes shows a correlation between financial performance and the strategic importance that senior management places on transportation management and related technology.

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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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Budget constraints may be behind hiring uncertainty in 2024, survey says

Supply Chain Dive

Although most hiring managers have a positive outlook on the remainder of the year, some reported their companies don’t have enough money to hire.

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Long-Feared Canada Rail Strike Could Arrive by End of August

Supply Chain Brain

The Railway Association of Canada says that more than half of the country's exports are moved by rail each year, worth an estimated $200 billion.

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Box First or Box Last? Punching Through Your Packaging Process

Supply Chain Brain

The complexity of order fulfillment is at an all-time high with warehouses utilizing technologies such as WMS, ASRS, AMR’s and AGV’s to manage, store, and move items throughout a systematic process with the goal of getting orders out the door quickly and accurately. But what about the shipping box?

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Slow auto demand drags NXP Semiconductors’ inventory

Supply Chain Dive

The company's revenue was down last quarter as its plan to normalize inventory levels takes longer than expected.

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Partnerships in the Real World: Great Supply Chain Partners 2024 Case Studies

Supply Chain Brain

Our annual 100 Great Supply Chain Partners issue is dedicated to showing what supply chain excellence looks like in the real world — through partnership.

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FLOW aids GE Appliances’ fast-growing logistics network

Supply Chain Dive

Joining the federal platform is one piece of the appliance manufacturer's larger supply chain strategy, VP of Logistics Marcia Brey told Supply Chain Dive.

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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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CrowdStrike Says Delta CEO Ignored Help Offer During Outage

Supply Chain Brain

The allegation builds upon CrowdStrike’s claim that Delta rejected the cybersecurity provider's repeated attempts to help.

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The expanding role of visibility in the connected supply chain

Supply Chain Dive

As global supply chains become increasingly intertwined, organizations need robust, unified technology platforms to deliver better visibility.

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New York Cannabis Dispensaries Struggle With 'Supply Crunch'

Supply Chain Brain

CANY blames the issues on changes in growing practices, with 26% of cultivators saying they planted less in 2024 than they did in the previous year.

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Parcel carrier Veho to grow Midwest market penetration

Supply Chain Dive

The company will begin operating in Detroit and Columbus, Ohio, later this summer as it eyes further expansion in 2025.

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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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U.K. Food Industry Says Imports Being Sent Back to EU Because of Lack of Testing Capacity

Supply Chain Brain

The U.K. is now facing a shortage in laboratory capabilities and is more reliant on international partners for help with sample testing.

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Ivalua: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — S2C solution overview, company background, platform and services overview, modules and application overview, roadmap and vision

Spend Matters

In today’s fast-paced business environment, procurement professionals face many challenges, from managing supplier relationships to mitigating risks and controlling costs. In the quest for operational excellence, organizations are increasingly turning to technology solutions to streamline their procurement processes and drive efficiency. To address these challenges, many organizations turn to source-to-pay (S2P) suites because they include a comprehensive suite of tools designed to optimiz

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AS/RS: Not Just For Retail Anymore

Supply Chain Brain

In this webinar from SupplyChainBrain, experts from Tecsys, EXOTEC and Sedlak debunk this myth to reveal how integrating advanced systems can transform industrial distribution. Explore the benefits of AS/RS, discover how to implement it, and get tips for transitioning from legacy systems.

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Magnus Mondays (Reprisal) — Category Management: All Talk No Action?

CPO Rising

[**Over the next few weeks, we’ll be running “best of” Magnus Mondays posts, reprising some of the most popular topics of the series. Magnus returns with new content in August.]… The post Magnus Mondays (Reprisal) — Category Management: All Talk No Action? appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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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.