Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 4, 2024

AI is infiltrating our personal lives and the workplace, and soon will be everywhere and irreplaceable in everything you do. At home and in the workplace. Developing and cultivating an AI Mindset will become a must for the modern knowledge worker. In a series of short blogs, I will explore three elements of an AI mindset. In this blog, Trust. Granting Trust to AI Within seconds of meeting someone new, we unconsciously identify if we can trust this person.

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – October 4th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The port will resume discharging cargo tonight, with two terminals opening this weekend for trucking activity.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2024

On September 25, Zip hosted its second annual ‘ Zip Forward ‘ Conference in San Francisco, California. Headlined “forging paths to sustainable success,” the event attracted roughly 400 live attendees and featured Zip’s new branding and the announcement of new features. Zip also hosted panels, Q&A sessions and more with various procurement and finance leaders from Prudential, Pixar, Arm, Coinbase and others.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Parcel carriers continued to report delivery delays a week after the storm made landfall.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2024

“Jon, I sometimes get ostracized by my own Procurement community when I make a statement that a lot of the new age procurement tech is still trying to make the “horses run faster”… they are still very much centered around a source to contract and a procure to pay tool. and you can only add enough juice to make the legacy processes run faster, more efficiently.” – “SK” Sanjeev Kumar Roy (October 4th, 2024) The above comment to one of my posts stopped me cold in my tr

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 4, 2024

While the ILA and USMX found common ground on wages, the remaining issues may prove to be thornier ones.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The regional grocer is expanding its partnership with omnichannel platform Flybuy to reduce wait times for drivers.

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CPO Rising

OCTOBER 4, 2024

As one of the few industry analysts with roughly a quarter century focused on and working in procurement, it was surprising to me how little I knew about the multi-billion… The post Can Amazon “Reshape” the Procurement Industry appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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Fraxion

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In private, independent, and charter schools, balancing spending and budgets with educational priorities is essential to ensure resources are allocated efficiently and educational goals are met. With teachers and staff already stretched thin by curricular and student needs, time-consuming tasks like procurement can divert valuable focus. Procurement automation can transform how schools manage purchasing, expenses, and accounts payable, reducing the administrative burden for staff and giving educ

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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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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The two sides agreed to a three-month extension of the current master contract, reopening ports and allowing cargo flow to resume.

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