Mon.Jan 06, 2025

article thumbnail

What’s The Price (Buynamics): Vendor Analysis — Cost Management solution overview, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary

Spend Matters

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis gives an overview of Whats The Price (WTP), a solution built to quickly provide procurement professionals with insights into the costs and prices of any product or commodity. Successful supplier negotiations begin long before a category manager sits down at the negotiating table. Effectively sourcing a product or component requires understanding the fundamentals driving a category, the competitive dynamics in a given industry and a negotiation strategy based on

Price 102
article thumbnail

How AI Can Help Avoid Future Holiday Season Disruptions to Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

As they enter the new year, businesses need to be preparing for the next holiday rush. Artificial intelligence can help.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Reverse logistics simplified: Should you manage returns in-house?

Supply Chain Dive

Struggling with returns? Discover key factors for reverse logistics success and how we can help!

article thumbnail

Shein Pledges 'Rigorous Transparency' with CBP Data Program

Supply Chain Brain

The program dates back to 2019, and was first designed to gather import data on low value shipments from major retailers to better identify counterfeit goods.

Data 59
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

FedEx targets growth in 4 customer segments

Supply Chain Dive

Network changes and new capabilities aim to snag market share in healthcare and automotive B2B, U.S. e-commerce, global air freight and Europe.

article thumbnail

444: Women In Supply Chain, Gina Anderson

Let's Talk Supply Chain

In todays episode of Women in Supply Chain, Im joined by Gina Anderson software solutionist, high value business leader, supply chain and logistics expert, and C-Suite advisor. Gina has over 37 years experience in supply chain and logistics, and has led process and cost improvement projects for mega brands like Disney, Honda, Sony, and Louis Vuitton to name just a few.

More Trending

article thumbnail

US Steel and Nippon File Lawsuit Against Block of Sale

Supply Chain Brain

US Steel has warned that a failure to conclude a deal would put thousands of U.S. union jobs at risk and that it would close some steel mills.

Risk 52
article thumbnail

Why better supply chain visibility is critical in 2025

Supply Chain Dive

Optimizing supply chains will be crucial this year, but is your manufacturing operation ready to take on the challenge?

article thumbnail

Canada's Atlas Van Lines Targets Boost to Cross-Border Logistics

Supply Chain Brain

Orbit Brokers will merge into the logistics division of Atlas, and help streamline the company's customs processes in the months to come.

article thumbnail

How retailers and manufacturers are navigating tariff concerns

Supply Chain Dive

Companies are evaluating sourcing plans and procurement networks ahead of expected trade landscape changes under President-elect Donald Trump.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Boeing Culture Overhaul a ‘Work in Progress,’ Buttigieg Says

Supply Chain Brain

Oversight of the planemaker will soon pass to President-elect Donald Trumps administration once he begins his second term in office on January 20.

64
article thumbnail

The AI Sustainability Revolution: Transforming Business Beyond Technology

Supply Chain Queen

The AI Sustainability Revolution: Transforming Business Beyond Technology In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, artificial intelligence isn’t just another technological toolit’s a fundamental force reshaping how we approach sustainability and business transformation. Drawing from my experience as a global sustainability leader, I’ve observed AI following a trajectory remarkably similar to the Internet revolution: what began.

article thumbnail

Retail in 2025: Price and Convenience Will Continue to Trump Tech

Supply Chain Brain

The greatest benefits of tech in 2025 will be felt further back up the retail supply chain, where it can lower costs by better managing inventory and distribution.

article thumbnail

Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays — GenAI Is Cool, but Should Everything be Automated?

CPO Rising

Editors Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, were publishing some best of 2024 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2025. If you havent… The post Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays GenAI Is Cool, but Should Everything be Automated? appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Donations to GOP Could Save U.S. Companies from Trump Tariffs

Supply Chain Brain

Although 14.6% of exemption applications for Trump's 2018 tariffs were approved, that number jumped to 18.5% for those that contributed to the GOP.

76