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Latest research – Beyond centre-led: The future of procurement operating models

Procurement Leaders

In association with SpendHQ: Discover how functional structures are evolving in response to changing demands and their own particular circumstances

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Sriracha shortage: Supply chain woes strike Huy Fong Foods again

Supply Chain Dive

The popular hot-sauce maker has notified wholesalers of a production halt that will last for months, citing issues with the chile crop this year.

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Cape Town Tells Port to Improve After Being Ranked Last in World

Supply Chain Brain

The World Bank added 57 new ports to the index this year, and South African harbors took up the last two spots with the Port of Ngqura coming in at 404th.

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Alaska Airlines names new VP of strategic sourcing and supply chain

Supply Chain Dive

Justin Neff will build sourcing and aircraft management best practices, engine acquisitions and maintenance support agreements.

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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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7 Ways a Sourcing Agent Can Transform Your Imports

Procurement Freelancers

Effective importing procedures are essential in international trade. They are what keep supply chains operating… The post 7 Ways a Sourcing Agent Can Transform Your Imports first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Shippers, agencies plan for full return of Baltimore-bound cargo

Supply Chain Dive

Shipping lines have already resumed some services while federal agencies work with stakeholders to coordinate plans.

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Procuring Success: How Provisur Technologies Sliced Spend by 20% with Arkestro

Arkestro

Case Studies / Procuring Success: How Provisur Technologies Sliced Spend by 20% with Arkestro Procuring Success: How Provisur Technologies Sliced Spend by 20% with Arkestro The leader in manufacturing of industrial food processing equipment turned to Arkestro to help increase efficiency, cut costs, and create more flexible global procurement processes.

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If you don’t have grapes, what good is a wine press?

Procurement Insights

Late last month, I wrote the following post: Are Solution Providers Solving The Right Practitioner Problems? It highlighted the top challenges the oil and gas industry faces in 2024. In today’s post, I focus on a LinkedIn share by LCBO’s Chief Supply Chain Officer, Nick Nanos. By the way, Nick has been with LCBO for 34 1/2 years. We are not only talking about experience here; we are talking about expertise.

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Procurement 6 – June 7th, 2024

Art of Procurement

Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – June 7th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Procurement 2024 BIG Predictions (Part 2): AI Reality, AI Governance, and IM&PPO in 2024

CPO Rising

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Procurement-themed report, “Procurement 2024: BIG Trends and Predictions.” Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion points from the report. Chief Procurement Officers and their teams head into 2024 with a continued lack of clarity and a need for caution.

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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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Canada border agent strike averted, for now

Supply Chain Dive

The union representing border agents called off job action until further notice as mediated talks will continue until Wednesday.

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