Fri.Jan 31, 2025

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UPS SurePost’s Postal Service split sparked by service, cost worries

Supply Chain Dive

UPS executives acknowledged the shift could lead to a loss of customers, but touted upsides in making those deliveries in-house.

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A Must-Read for Supply Chain Leaders: The Definitive Guide to Adaptive Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Brain

Disruptive global events, fluctuating demand patterns, and rising customer expectations are pushing traditional supply chain planning systems to their breaking point. Download the Definitive Guide to Adaptive Supply Chain Planning and take the first step toward future-proofing your supply chain.

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Supply chain outlook 2025: Key trends and risks to follow

Supply Chain Dive

The industry expects another year of geopolitical turmoil, severe weather and pricing pressure. Here's what you should know.

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Automotive Suppliers Outlook for 2025: Key Trends and Challenges

Supply Chain Brain

S&P Global Mobilitys new whitepaper, Automotive Suppliers Outlook for 2025, reveals key takeaways and quotes from the executive interviews, offering insights into how each company plans to approach disruption in the years ahead.

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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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Shortages 2025: Geopolitics, severe weather fuel uncertainty

Supply Chain Dive

Tariff threats, lingering storm impacts and regulatory uncertainty are creating challenges for supply in the automotive, medical and food sectors.

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How Safety-Driven Transportation Providers Deliver High-Ranking Advantages

Supply Chain Brain

As a shipper, you know that safety has a direct impact on your supply chain, business operations, and costs. The right carrier will have a good reputation for safety and should be able to easy demonstrate the protocols that protect your brand, your freight, and the public.

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6 Ways to Improve Packing and Packaging in 2025

Supply Chain Brain

This white paper highlights key areas of improvement to pack more efficiently, in the right size box while reducing costs and shipping sustainably.

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Agentic AI Will Finally Enable Procurement Teams To Achieve 100% ProcureTech Implementation Success – Cunningham L.

Procurement Insights

According to Cunningham, agentic AI requires minimal human interaction to enable procurement and achieve optimal results. What are your thoughts?

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Ocean Carriers May Have to Pay a Fee in the Baltic

Supply Chain Brain

Authorities continue to investigate multiple cases where ships have allegedly dragged anchors across the sea floor, damaging cables and raising concerns about potential sabotage.

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Licensing Agreements: Your Guide To Protecting Intellectual Property

ContractSafe

Licensing agreements are the foundation of collaboration, from tech giants striking deals to indie artists sharing their creations. But crafting a solid licensing agreement template can be tricky you need to protect your intellectual property without keeping it locked away from the world.

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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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Whole Foods Sets New Code of Conduct for Fishing Worker Conditions

Supply Chain Brain

O ne out of every five fish is caught through illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in conditions where abuses of workers are common, according to a United Nations estimate.

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Procurement Achievements Over a Quarter Century

CPO Rising

When business historians reflect on the first quarter-century of the new millennium, the broad-based transformation that occurred within the average enterprises procurement department will be on the list of top… The post Procurement Achievements Over a Quarter Century appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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Why Your Next Manufacturing Facility Should Be Located Closer to Your Customers

Supply Chain Brain

Getting closer to customers has become a major priority for manufacturers that are looking to reduce transportation costs and delivery times. Expectations for faster delivery have risen thanks to the Amazon effect. Add in disruptions from recent years the pandemic, geopolitical instability, extreme weather, trade issues, labor unrest and you have a mandate for the increasing realignment of supply chains, production and sourcing.