Mon.Oct 14, 2024

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Tackling Child Labor in Global Supply Chains

All Things Supply Chain

Imagine walking into your local supermarket and picking up a bar of chocolate or a new smartphone without a second thought.

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Boeing to Cut Workforce by 10% as Strike Eats Into Reserves

Supply Chain Brain

Boeing has already initiated a range of cost-cutting plans as it grapples with dwindling reserves and low output.

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Wesco taps Relex to upgrade supply chain operations

Supply Chain Dive

The Midwest convenience store chain plans to integrate the automation technology across 55 of its stores.

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Turkey Turns to World Bank to Finance $4B Railway Project

Supply Chain Brain

The railway would cross the Yavuz Sultan Selim suspension bridge, one of the longest and widest of its kind in the world.

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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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How to Find U.S.-Based Suppliers

The Thomas Blog

American manufacturers have increasingly been looking to optimize their production and sourcing processes by bringing them closer to home. These reshoring efforts involve moving production or shifting sourcing from overseas back to the U.S., which can reduce shipping costs, shorten lead times, improve sustainability and help companies avoid supply chain issues brought on by geopolitical uncertainties and sheer distance.

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Buying and Selling Through Rebate Programs? Here’s How to Evaluate Them

Supply Chain Brain

Without detailed tracking, you won’t know how well they work and what might need to change.

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Five Things You Need to Consider Before Pinning Your Industrial Space to the Ground

Supply Chain Brain

After a period of overcapacity, demand for industrial space, including warehouses and manufacturing facilities, is growing, and lease rates are rising as a result. Companies therefore need to be more careful than ever as they weigh a variety of factors when considering distribution network design and investment.

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Building The Bridge Between The Build Versus Buy Debate

Procurement Insights

“ Joël Collin-Demers this is what I have exactly done over the last decade in both the public and private sectors. Unfortunately, the companies get ahead of themselves and market what is in progress and market themselves trying to gain clients!” – Jenti Vantertuig’s response to the following comment from Joël Collin-Demers. EDITOR’S NOTE: Given our professional agree-to-disagree discussion over the weekend, it may surprise some that, in this instance, I agree with J

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Plans Are Nothing, Planning Is Everything — Are You Prepared to Compete in Any Environment?

Supply Chain Brain

The COVID-19 years showed us that the worldwide supply chain was unprepared for the global disruption that defined 2020 and beyond. Recovery was a challenge for most, as they scrambled to address old problems alongside a host of new ones.

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Magnus Mondays — Conferences, Innovations, and Sore Feet

CPO Rising

This time of the year is always full of conferences and last week was certainly a whirlwind! Early Tuesday morning I flew down to Amsterdam for Keelvar Konnect and on… The post Magnus Mondays — Conferences, Innovations, and Sore Feet appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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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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Tesco Announces Global Success in Grocery E-Commerce

Supply Chain Brain

Learn how one of the world’s largest pioneers in grocery e-commerce improved their online shopping experience to help them surpass $75bn in revenue.

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Fraxion recognized as a Market Leader in Procurement Software by FeaturedCustomers

Fraxion

We're thrilled to share that Fraxion was recognized as a Market Leader in the Procurement Software category of the FeaturedCustomers Fall 2024 Customer Success Report. This achievement highlights our customers' positive experiences and the commitment of our team in delivering top-tier procurement solutions.

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FDA outlines new Drug Supply Chain Security Act exemptions

Supply Chain Dive

Several groups have been granted additional time to comply with the more than 10-year-old legislation.

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Delivery Driver Retention Will Make or Break the Holiday Season

Supply Chain Brain

Driver turnover is worse than ever. Notwithstanding the state of the market, it’s critical to retain drivers heading into the holiday season.

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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

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4 reasons why all companies need real-time inventory visibility

Supply Chain Dive

Real-time inventory visibility is no longer a luxury. It’s a necessity.

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CPO Crunch: Keep calm and carry on

Procurement Leaders

There are so many powerful and disruptive forces in play globally in the modern era that the volume of alerts, red flags and supply chain issues can soon become dizzying. CPOs are in the eye of the storm, managing disruption after disruption – from extreme weather to port strikes to out-and-out war. And these past two weeks have had all of these and more.

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Why Do We Have to Bother With Transactional Costs?

The Good Spending

The true cost of a Purchase Order In today's business environment, transactional efficiency in procurement processes is crucial in maintaining smooth operations and optimizing costs. One of the most common aspects of procurement is processing purchase orders (POs). Whether running a small business or a large enterprise, understanding the cost per PO is essential for identifying inefficiencies and improving the transactional cost.

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Real-Life Lessons from Kongsberg Maritime and Boston Beer: Tackling Category Complexity

Jaggaer

Does today’s rise in category complexity increase the delays, complications, and headaches in your procurement operations? Complexity has become a significant concern in the world of procurement. Yet instead of eroding profits and monopolizing your time, complexity in the categories can be addressed effectively when you have the right strategies in place.

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The Current and Future Use of Gen-AI in Supply Chains

AI isn’t the future. It’s here, now. 30% of businesses have invested in AI. Another 57% will do it in the next 12 months*. From demand forecasting to inventory optimization, risk mitigation to sustainability — AI is set to transform everything. But here’s the secret: success will only come from strong human-AI collaboration, reveals this new new Economist Impact report.

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Zapro.ai: Vendor Analysis — Source-to-pay solution overview, roadmap, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary

Spend Matters

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Zapro.ai and its solution for Sourcing, Contracts, Procurement, AP Automation, Vendor Onboarding, Budgets, Reporting & Analytics and Vendor Risk Management. Companies seeking support in areas across the source-to-pay (S2P) process can struggle with managing multiple tools. Zapro.ai aims to provide a unified approach to managing the entire procurement cycle and eliminate fragmented systems.