Fri.Apr 19, 2024

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Port of Los Angeles cargo volumes rise 19% YoY in March

Supply Chain Dive

The West Coast port expects volumes to continue to grow in April, despite being a more muted shipping season.

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When it comes to BI and AI, A should always follow B!

Procurement Insights

Earlier today, I attended a LinkedIn Event hosted by Evalueserve. I came across it by accident, but I am glad that I did. Titled “Revolutionize Your BI: Digital Transformation Stories from the Real World,” the panel included Whirlpool’s Gowri Namboodiri , Caterpillar ‘s Ben Newman, and Coyote Logistics ‘ Director, Supply Chain Engineering & Analytics Jay Zaleski.

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The scoop on cold chain: Why Unilever’s spinoff offers supply chain upside

Supply Chain Dive

Without the ice cream business, the company's operations become "a lot easier from a control standpoint," one expert said.

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The journey to a mature asset management system

IBM Supply Chain Blog

This blog series discusses the complex tasks energy utility companies face as they shift to holistic grid asset management to manage through the energy transition. Earlier posts in this series addressed the challenges of the energy transition with holistic grid asset management, the integrated asset management platform and data exchange, and merging traditional top-down and bottom-up planning processes.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Shopify's Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Shopify’s modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how Shopify’s composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Sportsman’s Warehouse cuts SKUs, vendors to support inventory strategy

Supply Chain Dive

The retailer has been rationalizing its stock in several product areas, including fishing, to improve productivity.

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China Vows to Act After U.S. Calls for Tariffs on Steel Products

Supply Chain Brain

Beijing earlier blasted a U.S. plan to launch a formal review of its maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sector, calling the investigation a mistake “based on the need of domestic politics.

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Play Ball!

Supply Chain Action Blog

It’s baseball season again. As I grow older, I’m more and more interested in the art of the game and less about the success of any particular team, but that’s the perspective of experience, I suppose – or in other words, I’m just getting old! Back in 2011 (see – told you I was old) the film “Moneyball” showed us how the Oakland A’s built a super-competitive sports franchise on analytics, essentially “competing on analytics”, within relevant business parameters

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Cotton used by H&M and Zara linked to illegal deforestation: report

Supply Chain Dive

A year-long Earthsight investigation found that fiber certified by ethical supply chain organization Better Cotton was grown on "stolen" and "deforested" land in Brazil.

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CPO Rising Listicle: Procurement AI in Action, Part 3

CPO Rising

It’s Friday, which means we’re sharing another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams improve operations. We’ll also include a summary graphic for you to share with your team.