Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Achieving resilience in supply chains is essential, but it's crucial to implement measures carefully so they do not hinder or conflict with other competing priorities.
Procurement Leaders
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Like many within the procurement community, dsm firmenich’s deputy chief procurement officer Gianluca Colombo is a keen chef in his spare time. “I like cooking and discovering new recipes, he told Procurement Leaders. “I mean, sometimes the result is not that amazing but at least I discover new cultures.” Following the completion of the merger between DSM and Firmenich in May 2023, in his day job, Colombo finds himself breaking silos like a chef might eggs to ensure the s
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The logistics provider is leveraging an automated storage and retrieval system to improve throughput times.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Brick-and-mortar retailers are seeking out hi-tech ways of tracking the habits of flesh-and-blood shoppers while they’re in their stores.
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Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Much is at stake for the shipping provider's e-commerce logistics segment to reliably deliver for the holidays. Automation will play a big role.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Through the first ten months of 2023, the Port has processed 7,123,900 TEUs, which represents a 16.6% drop-off when compared to the same period in 2022.
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Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
For both medicines, shortages will get worse as the end of this year approaches, according to a letter to healthcare professionals published November 21 by the European Medicines Agency
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
As automakers ramp up production efforts, labor challenges and geopolitical risks may continue to plague operations, according to industry experts.
Arkestro
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
As they strive to make their supply chains more resilient, global companies are grappling with two challenges: the difficulty in discerning potential sources and the extended time required to find, vet, and onboard new suppliers. Companies such as Walmart, Tyson Foods, Koch Industries, Maersk, Siemens, and Unilever are using AI tools to swiftly find and engage with alternative suppliers during unexpected disruptions.
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Despite the overall drop, the port saw a 4% increase in loaded export containers processed at the port.
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Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The ship is equipped with a semi-automated INDOSAIL wind propulsion system, enabling it to reach a speed of roughly 12 knots with a sailing area of 500 square meters.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Apache Kafka is a well-known open-source event store and stream processing platform and has grown to become the de facto standard for data streaming. In this article, developer Michael Burgess provides an insight into the concept of schemas and schema management as a way to add value to your event-driven applications on the fully managed Kafka service, IBM Event Streams on IBM Cloud ® What is a schema?
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Business committee members said that the U.K. has a “limited window in the next three years to attract further investment into this sector.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The supply chain provides a means for mid-cap companies to improve shareholder and equity value, if they pull the right levers
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Account-based marketing (ABM) is a key strategy for driving sustainable growth. Today, many B2B companies use ABM teams or technologies to make sales. But getting a program off the ground successfully doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Watch this webinar with Rachael Foster, Director of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo, and Dan Dolph, Manager of Account-Based Experience at ZoomInfo.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Sphera said its tool gives businesses information regarding lead times for sourcing raw materials, risk events and real-time data on potential supply chain disruptions.
Procurement Insights
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December 2010, I wrote an article about one of Time Magazine’s picks for the Top Innovations in 2008 – Made-in-Transit Packaging. In my December 2019 post , Sorry, Charlie, there is something wrong with the world’s seafood supply chain I talked about consumer demand for tracking the seafood industry from source to plate.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
A spokesperson for the car manufacturer said that the company commissioned two investigations into the mine to "examine social and environmental standards at the location.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Black Friday—and really, the entire Cyber Week—is a time when you want your applications running at peak performance without completely exhausting your operations teams. Observability solutions can help you achieve this goal, whether you’re a small team with a single product or a large team operating complex ecommerce applications.
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Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
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Positive Purchasing
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Marcus Evans has been advising us for over ten years and is also a senior instructor on our Red Sheet<sup>®</sup> advanced negotiation course. Before this, he spent 30 years in advertising, running agencies for Ogilvy, BBDO and TBWA, where he spent a good proportion of his time selling to enterprise clients. He makes no secret of the fact that he has never enjoyed his negotiations and interactions with his client’s procurement teams, so we thought – as he has now “come over to th
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Jeremy Tancredi, partner and leader of the Supply Chain Practice of West Monroe, recalls the plight that merchandisers found themselves in when they responded to a surge in demand during the pandemic, only to be left with excess inventory and capital equipment when it was over.
Procurement Insights
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
You have shared another thought-provoking post , Joël Collin-Demers. As you know, Indirect MRO is an area about which I never get tired of talking. In my recent post, Are you chasing solutions or solving problems? (Part 1 of 3) I talk about an agent-based versus equation-based approach. Here is the link – [link] Everything you are talking about is excellent and on the money and will improve procurement.
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Procurement Talk with David Byrne
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on Amazon Episode show notes “Procurement has been really effective in seeing growth opportunities and saying ‘Let us manage this, we can look after this’.” While Will Bowley’s route into procurement may not be conventional, his pedigree in the industry matches … Continued The post Taking the Leap Into Procurement Business Ownership with Staverton Consulting Director & Co-Founder, Will Bowley – Episode 8
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
IBM ® Maximo ® has been a leading enterprise asset management solution in the industry for four decades, helping customers streamline work processes with a centralized platform for managing tasks, inventory, regulatory compliance and reporting capabilities. IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS), the next generation of IBM Maximo, delivers a better user experience, faster integration, robust AI analytics, and a broad range of cloud deployment options.
The Procuretech Podcast
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In this episode of The Procuretech Podcast, host James Meads is joined by Simon Geale, VP of Procurement at leading UK-based consultancy Proxima. This is a fireside chat-style episode about the latest trends in procurement technology. Simon talks about his background and role at Proxima, and the company's focus on serving large enterprise clients with complex procurement problems.
Spend Matters
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Last month, I presented at a customer advisory board (CAB) session that Fairmarkit invited me to join to present on stakeholder engagement and alignment. Fairmarkit has pioneered high-volume tail spend sourcing (think ‘mid tail’ rather than just ‘tip of the tail’) in its go-to-market approach towards guided sourcing and autonomous sourcing. It has also recently announced a partnership with Amazon Business to support RFx/bid automation for SKU-based items going out to the B2B marketplace (Amazon
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