Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2024

SB 707 makes apparel producers responsible for the recycle, reuse and collection of their products.

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“Let me be clear: we don’t want any form of semi-automation or full automation. We want our jobs—the jobs we. The post East and Gulf Coast Port Strike – Part 1 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Most manufacturers believe they're prepared for supply chain disruptions because they have contingency plans in place. In reality, those plans are often fragmented and short-term in focus.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Collaborations can lower procurement costs and drive operational change, but experts say aligning objectives and cost structures are key to success.

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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.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Spend Matters is delighted to announce the 2024 roster for our ‘Future 5’ list. For the sixth year in a row, our analysts have highlighted five start-ups that excited them the most. This year, the five companies that have proven themselves as potential future trend setters are BlueBean, Covalyze, HaloAi, Ivoflow and True Value Hub. Today we are sharing the reasoning behind our selection of BlueBean.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In a crowded field, the company believes ShipAccel's ability to easily evolve as a user's business grows is a competitive differentiator.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Spend Matters honors a vast array of procurement solution providers each year by selecting them for our ‘50 to Know,’ ‘50 to Watch,’ ‘Future 5’ and ‘Hall of Fame’ celebration lists. Discover everything you need to know about these accolades here, including who is on them. For the Future 5, Spend Matters analysts scour the market to find new specialist solution providers that can answer a burning need of procurement practitioners today.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The automotive supply chain has never been more challenging. From the rapid shift to electric vehicles and skyrocketing costs to raw material shortages, geopolitical tensions, and volatile market demands, suppliers face pressures that can define their success or failure.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is a quick synopsis from a session that speaks directly to my recent post: Is it time for practitioners to build their “own” ProcureTech solutions? Below are the highlights from Kearney’s presentation this morning. Have a read, and I will follow up with another post later today, sharing my thoughts. The survey was with 200 procurement executives (CPO, digital leads) in large companies (min 1bn majority was 5-20bn in revenue) In a nutshell, they almost considered t

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Government headed by Labour Party seeks to clamp down on poor working conditions at sea with laws on collective dismissal and minimum wage.

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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.

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Arkestro

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Resources / Blog / SIG Fall 2024 Global Executive Summit: Discover the Trends, Innovations, and Solutions Shaping High-Performance Procurement Teams SIG Fall 2024 Global Executive Summit: Discover the Trends, Innovations, and Solutions Shaping High-Performance Procurement Teams Arkestro was thrilled to attend the SIG 2024 Global Executive Summit on October 7-9 at Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho Mirage, California.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Last year, total losses from the practice amounted to $101.1 billion, causing a massive headache for retailers.

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ContractSafe

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Managing commercial contracts is a crucial part of any successful business. These legally binding agreements protect your interests, reduce risk, and ensure smooth business operations.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The transportation and logistics sector tends to see a lot of mergers and acquisitions because it’s highly fragmented, creating an opportunity for rollup plays.

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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.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As a follow-up to my previous post , I would like to open this post with the following statement: AI, GenAI, and ProcureTech success, in general, have nothing to do with technology. In other words, it is not an IT department play – at least not at the beginning. If companies continue to view AI, GenAI, and ProcureTech as the center of the digital transformation of the procurement practice, they are continuing to use an equation-based model that has failed to deliver the expected results 80

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The 4th Global Trade and Supply Chain Summit, hosted by The New Economy Academy, empowers young professionals with the tools and knowledge to navigate and capitalise on the evolving landscape. This makes the Global Trade and Supply Chain Summit an unparalleled opportunity to connect with forward-thinking individuals who are actively shaping the UAE’s economic future.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 10, 2024

JAGGAER’s Strategic Response (Part 2) The annual CPO Agenda from the Hackett Group always makes fascinating reading, as it ranks the top ten current priorities of the world’s procurement leaders. These have changed over recent years as new challenges have emerged. Now we have entered a period of relative stability, spend management and cost reduction has moved back to the top spot, and ensuring supply continuity has moved from first down to second.

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