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How to Implement Vendor Management Software Successfully

ProcurePort

In business, organizations rely on vendor relationships to shape their success. These relationships are complex and important for operations. Managing these relationships efficiently is no longer a choice but a strategic imperative. As businesses expand their network of suppliers, service providers, and collaborators, the complexity of vendor management grows exponentially.

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GE Business to Build Turbines for Massive Wind Project

Supply Chain Brain

GE Vernova will utilize its Pensacola, Florida factory to fulfill the large order, while tower manufacturing operations will come from facilities in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado.

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Fire Prevention Within the Supply Chain

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Disruption is the new norm within the supply chain, but with C-suite backing, and the right decisions, supply chain managers can better prepare their organizations for the inevitable.

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Auto suppliers sitting on surplus semiconductors, chip company says

Supply Chain Dive

Mobileye said its customers hold millions of excess units to hedge against shortages and are now working through the inventory.

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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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New Year Insights for the procurement solutions and services marketplace 2024: SpendHQ

Spend Matters

For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.

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Enhancing supply chain performance measurement frameworks with external global indicators

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Adopting a hierarchical supply chain performance measurement framework allows a firm to organize its performance metrics and align them with its supply chain management structure.

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When the dust settles, what can AI actually deliver in procurement?

Spend Matters

This content does not necessarily express the views or opinions of Spend Matters. There’s been a lot of hype around AI this year. ChatGPT-3 made almost every news headline, lauded as a groundbreaking tool that will change the operations of every industry. In reality, when the dust settled, it wasn’t the perfect solve-all solution people initially thought it was.

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Toyota Motor Restarts Japanese Operations After Earthquake

Supply Chain Brain

Company president Koji Sato said Toyota is attempting to determine how its supply chain would be affected after suppliers Sumitomo Electric and Aisin suffered damage during the quake.

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Turning the Page: One industry’s paper-thin use of AAA

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Developing agile, adaptable, and aligned supply chains can help the printing-paper industry weather supply chain turmoil.

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Back to Basics: How to build a successful delivery program

Supply Chain Dive

Delivery customers have larger appetites for impulse buys, opening doors for retailers to upsell, experts say.

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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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Next-Gen SupplyChains: Underpinning your ability to manage complexity and drive innovation

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Traditional supply chain engineering is no longer effective. But no single transformation model is universally useful. Instead, there are three pillars that should guide supply chain digitization.

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Episode 147: Successful Companies Need Strong Communities with Erica McMannes

Una

EPISODE 147 Successful Companies Need Strong Communities with Erica McMannes By Kelly Barner | January 10, 2024 Supporting decisions about which suppliers to work with is one of procurement’s most critical responsibilities. But, like so many other business decisions, the ‘Why’ matters, both to the supplier being chosen and to the potential for value creation associated with that partnership.

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Sustaining Competitive Advantage: The Salesperson’s critical value

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

The ability to communicate and diffuse knowledge is critical to supply chain success, yet the utilization of salespeople as a communication conduit within the supply chain is surprisingly undervalued, exposing a critical opportunity.

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A look back at Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems’ turbulent year

Supply Chain Dive

From quality issues to missed delivery goals, these aircraft manufacturers navigated stormy skies in 2023.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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APQC Infographic: Open Innovation Maturity & Supply Chain Success

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Organizations can build on their relationships with key supply chain partners and stakeholders by adopting an open approach based on collaboration and co-creation.

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Big Batteries May Save U.K. Power System Up to £24B by 2050

Supply Chain Brain

The British government is promoting big batteries as a means to store cheap renewable electricity at times when the grid is oversupplied.

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The importance of data ingestion and integration for enterprise AI

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The emergence of generative AI prompted several prominent companies to restrict its use because of the mishandling of sensitive internal data. According to CNN, some companies imposed internal bans on generative AI tools while they seek to better understand the technology and many have also blocked the use of internal ChatGPT. Companies still often accept the risk of using internal data when exploring large language models (LLMs) because this contextual data is what enables LLMs to change from g

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After Beyond Yoga suppliers stiffed workers, DOL recovers $1.1M in wages, damages

Supply Chain Dive

The athleisure brand agreed to update its vendor code of conduct and establish a monitoring program as part of a compliance agreement with the agency.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

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Want to be a hybrid cloud winner? The recipe for XaaS success

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Picture this: your business is a dynamic player in your industry at the brink of a pivotal juncture. Struggling with the limitations of conventional approaches, you recognize the imperative to embrace IT-as-a-service to stay ahead, with the infusion of AI becoming the catalyst for change. The result? A revolution across revenue operations, customer engagement, employee satisfaction and the seamless flow of product development and delivery.

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Qcells, Microsoft expand solar panel supply partnership

Supply Chain Dive

Wafers and cells will be produced at the energy company's upcoming factory in Georgia, slated for construction this year.

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Here’s what I’m intrigued by in 2024

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

The supply chain could undergo significant change this year as we adapt to the new normal.

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4 Key Trends Reshaping Manufacturing Procurement in 2024

Arkestro

Resources / Blog / 4 Key Trends Reshaping Manufacturing Procurement in 2024 4 Key Trends Reshaping Manufacturing Procurement in 2024 The dust is settling after the upheaval of the pandemic, yet the manufacturing industry remains forever changed. According to Deloitte, the manufacturing industry was in contraction throughout most of 2023 due to challenges like increased lead times, tight labor markets, and rising costs.

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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Watch: How to Optimize Production Planning for Repackaging

Supply Chain Brain

Mark Holmes, senior advisor for supply chain with InterSystems, lays out the challenges that manufacturers face in optimizing their repackaging processes, and proposes some solutions for addressing those hurdles.

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Top 10 Hottest British Procurement Startups

Procurement Software

The UK has a hot startup scene, thanks to its entrepreneurial spirit and ease of doing business. British procurement startups are also well-represented within this startup ecosystem. We dive into 10 procuretech startups from the UK who are making waves in this space. The 10 Hottest UK-based Procurement Tech Startups Before we give you the list, we should briefly touch on what we’ve defined as a “Startup” Less than 50 employees, according to data on LinkedIn.

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Introduction to Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement Orchestration

Arkestro

Webinars / Introduction to Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement Orchestration Introduction to Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement Orchestration Derek Mellott Arkestro Solution Consultant Summary: In these overview videos, you’ll learn about the innovative features of Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement Orchestration platform. Using a unique blend of behavioral science, game theory, data science, and automation, Arkestro redefines procurement management, tackling challenges such

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Smart Procurement: Build More Agile and Efficient Processes

Pipefy

The procurement process is a complex series of workflows that spans various systems, departments, and operational business units. Because of this complexity, it can also be prone to errors, risks, and costly inefficiencies. And that’s where smart procurement comes in. Smart procurement is the use of technology to improve efficiency and help build more agile procurement processes.

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How Hellenic Bank Transformed Its Indirect Procurement Operations With GEP Software

Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.

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My sales advice to solution providers (practitioners have a listen, so you will know what to look for in a provider partner)

Procurement Insights

Question to practitioners: How do you choose a service provider partner? Do you focus on technology or problem-solving ability? Question to providers: Are you lost on the Solution Map? Are you pushing technology features, functions, and benefits or client problem-solving? In this brief video – the first in a series*, I will focus on the following critical points: How to stop chasing solutions and start solving problems How to determine if the rapport “beyond the technology” bui

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7 Effective Business Process Improvement Examples 

Pipefy

Have you ever wondered how streamlining just one key process could significantly elevate your company’s performance? In an era where agile operations and maximum cost optimization are essentials for survival, business leaders need to be constantly asking themselves if their departments are understanding and implementing effective business process improvements.

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Communicating Procurement’s Value Up the Chain

Art of Procurement

Procurement often feels like they are increasingly asked to ‘do more with less,’ and there seems to be no shortage. The post Communicating Procurement’s Value Up the Chain appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Conversational Ticketing: Transforming Digital Business Management

Pipefy

Real-time support is an increasingly important aspect of customer service, resulting in the emergence of conversational ticketing as a means to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Both agents and bots can provide this capability for collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Slack. Conversational ticketing is so named for its ability to allow users to open a ticket by simply having a conversation, resulting in a streamlined process for creating, processing, and managing ticket

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro