Mon.Apr 08, 2024

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Collaboration Crossroads: Breaking Down Silos and Building Bridges

All Things Supply Chain

Collaboration within a company is one of the many keys to its overall success. But unfortunately, many studies suggest organizational silos stop effective collaborations from occurring within companies.

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CPO Crunch: When it comes to AI, the key to starting is starting

Procurement Leaders

Given it’s dominated almost every conversation over the past 18 months, it was no surprise that artificial intelligence was top of everyone’s minds at the recent Americas Procurement Congress in Miami. What was evident from the discussions in the room is everyone understands the importance and the potential of AI. The issue leaders continue to grapple with, however, is identifying and prioritising use-cases for the technology – particularly when budgets are limited.

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Watch: The Risk to Supply Chains From Increasing Trade Restrictions

Supply Chain Brain

Amir Fadavi, senior director with K2 Integrity, advises on the risks that supply chains face today in complying with a growing number of trade regulations and restrictions.

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LSQ: Vendor Analysis — Working capital solution overview, roadmap, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary

Spend Matters

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of LSQ and its solution for Working Capital Management. LSQ is an active participant in the fintech industry with its LSQ platform, which offers a suite of working capital management solutions. From spend insights to supplier management and payment management, LSQ’s FastTrack provides essential tools for businesses.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

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.

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Streamlining Multiple Legacy IT Into a Single Data Ecosystem

Supply Chain Brain

Freight brokerage and transportation management company Transportation Insight needed to streamline multiple legacy systems for interacting with customers and carriers.

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Supply chains and corrugated packaging: A marriage made to last

Supply Chain Dive

Products that arrive in perfect condition can capture the hearts and minds of consumers.

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Pitney Bowes launches regional delivery service in Midwest

Supply Chain Dive

The added coverage means shippers can reach 90% of the U.S. in 1 to 3 days via the offering.

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Southwest Airlines Boeing Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Engine Cover Falls Off

Supply Chain Brain

The Boeing 737-800 out of Denver International Airport was supposed to fly to Houston on April 7 before an engine cowling came off and hit the wing flap.

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Top 20 most-asked questions about Amazon RDS for Db2 answered

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 offering allows customers to migrate their existing, self-managed Db2 databases to the cloud and accelerate strategic modernization initiatives. In our recent  webcast , IBM, AWS, customers and partners came together for an interactive session. In this session:   IBM and AWS discussed the benefits and features of this new fully managed offering spanning availability, security, backups, migration and more.

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Mulls Possible Tariffs on Green Energy Exports from China

Supply Chain Brain

Yellen had previously expressed concerns that China's surplus of green technology exports could be hurting American manufacturers.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

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.

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Why CHROs are the key to unlocking the potential of AI for the workforce 

IBM Supply Chain Blog

It’s no longer a question of whether AI will transform business and the workforce, but how it will happen. A study by the IBM® Institute for Business Value revealed that up to three-quarters of CEOs believe that competitive advantage will depend on who has the most advanced generative AI. With so many leaders now embracing the technology for business transformation, some wonder which C-Suite leader will be in the driver’s seat to orchestrate and accelerate that change.

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A Mandate for Manufacturers: Resolve to Fight Payment Fraud in 2024

Supply Chain Brain

Fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated by the day. Are manufacturers being proactive enough to fight the growing threat of vendor payment fraud?

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The Difference Between Logistics and Supply Chain

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

The globalized world relies on efficient and well-coordinated supply chains. But within this complex system, two terms often get thrown around interchangeably. While intrinsically linked, there’s a crucial difference between the two. Understanding this distinction is essential for anyone entering the procurement, purchasing, or supply chain field.

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Boeing’s 777 ‘Gliders’ Signal More Cash Woes

Supply Chain Brain

The bottleneck highlights how Boeing’s manufacturing challenges extend beyond its cash-cow 737 Max jet.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

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

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Greenhouse Gas Protocol – Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard

Value Match

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Taiwan Company to Get Billions in Federal Funds for New Chip Factory in Arizona

Supply Chain Brain

TSMC will get $6.6 billion in federal subsidies for a third semiconductor factory in Arizona, set to open by 2028.

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Product lifecycle management for data-driven organizations 

IBM Supply Chain Blog

In a world where every company is now a technology company, all enterprises must become well-versed in managing their digital products to remain competitive. In other words, they need a robust digital product lifecycle management (PLM) strategy. PLM delivers value by standardizing product-related processes, from ideation to product development to go-to-market to enhancements and maintenance.

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Unlocking the Power of Predictive Procurement Orchestration for Financial Success

Arkestro

This eBook was primarily written for the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or Head of Finance roles in the manufacturing industry.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

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.

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Magnus Mondays: Zip — One App to Rule Them All?

CPO Rising

We’ve written about intake management and procurement process orchestration (IM&PPO) a couple of times previously. It’s certainly a topic and solution set that is gathering a lot of interest from procurement organizations, investors, and consultants alike.

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Biden Administration Shares Timeline for Restoring Traffic to Port of Baltimore

Supply Chain Brain

According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the hope is have the main shipping channel to the port fully reopened by the end of May.

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$8M grant will double auto capacity at Port of Baltimore’s only unaffected terminal

Supply Chain Dive

New parking lots at Tradepoint Atlantic will allow Sparrows Point to welcome more ships after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, President Joe Biden said.

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What Are Fusion Teams: Definition and Core Attributes

Pipefy

What are fusion teams? Fusion teams are multidisciplinary squads that blend together technology, analytics, and domain expertise, and organize their work by technologies or functions. Rather than a structure that includes traditionally separate or independent teams, interests, or organizational roles, fusion teams are linked and share accountability for business, technology, and customer outcomes.

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.