Art of Procurement
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
I pre-interview about a dozen people each month for all of the podcasts produced by Art of Procurement. One thing. The post Developing and Deploying Digital Empathy appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The International Longshoremen’s Association has refused to continue negotiations, the United States Maritime Alliance said in a statement Wednesday.
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Finale Inventory
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The upcoming Q4 holiday shopping season is set to be one of the most lucrative a nd unpredictable yet. With a perfect storm of factors in play—ranging from shifting consumer habits and economic pressures to supply chain hiccups—this season will be anything but predictable. For e-commerce sellers, it’s not just about riding the holiday wave, but preparing for some unexpected twists and turns along the way.
Spend Matters
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
For this year’s Spend Matters Fall 2024 SolutionMap release – our comprehensive methodology designed to help organizations evaluate and select procurement solutions – we launched a new module: third-party (and supply chain) risk management (TPRM and SCRM). This module is a data-backed granular view of risk management solution providers and their capabilities (including suites, supplier-management–centric, and TPRM and SCRM specialists).
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Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The carriers reported disruptions Thursday in the Tampa Bay area as the hurricane advances along Florida's western coastline.
Spend Matters
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
In business, potential risk lurks everywhere, and procurement professionals need to be aware of what is out there. However, even a dip into the risks procurement professionals face can leave readers drowning in a sea of terms, definitions and acronyms. To help those still orienting themselves to the landscape of risk, we’ve broken down the main terms used to describe the various aspects of managing risk.
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Spend Matters
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters In today’s hyper-competitive landscape, customer experience is the silent force that can either propel a business forward or pull it under. Nowhere is this more evident than in accounts receivable (AR) collections, where the balance between managing unpaid debts and maintaining strong customer relationships is delicate but crucial.
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The manufacturer is leveraging its logistics partnerships to help the nonprofit bring food to communities in need across Europe.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The probe from the AGCM — Italy's antitrust watchdog agency — will focus on the Dublin-based company that operates Shein's website and app.
Procurement Insights
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Tom Craig – Finance took enterprise ERP and made it an accounting tool. And limiting how much and what used. It meant companies wasting money on the unused part they paid for. Will they limit AI the same way? Jon W. Hansen EDITOR’S NOTE: Take a few moments to access Tom’s original LinkedIn post and join the discussion stream by sharing your thoughts.
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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.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The ILA halted negotiations with the USMX in June, after discovering that a handful of ports were using automated systems to check in trucks.
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The first-of-its-kind standard is aimed at helping companies comply with laws like the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The ILA halted negotiations with the USMX in June, after discovering that a handful of ports were using automated systems to check in trucks.
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Leadership’s patience around getting returns on tech investments is thinning, according to new data from IBM.
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
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state grants have helped spur an influx of spending to develop EV chargers for the heaviest U.S. trucks.
Arkestro
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
AI is taking the digital transformation industry by storm. Whether it’s by streamlining employee processes, improving quality control, predicting demand and optimizing the supply chain, every aspect of a business has become easier with the help from AI. AI is taking the digital transformation industry by storm. Whether it’s by streamlining employee processes, improving quality control, predicting demand and optimizing the supply chain, every aspect of a business has become easier with the help f
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
How does the world’s largest retailer protect itself against a slew of supply chain disruptions?
Skill Dynamics
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
So you’ve invested in your workforce, you’ve introduced training and development plans , but now you want to know exactly how effective these initiatives really are… Training and development is so important in the modern supply chain and procurement industry, but being able to measure and show the results of it is just as vital. Whether you’re trying to generate buy-in from leadership, or convince more employees to get involved, measuring the impact of training is a key step in the employee deve
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.
Procurement Insights
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
“There are companies that will give you a demo, and even let you ask questions and request specific actions during the said demo, Jon W. Hansen. Obviously not as many as one would like, however it is a sure sign of the readiness of the product proposed.” – Dr. Thierry Fausten, LinkedIn Comment Sept. 26, 2024 Dr. Thierry Fausten , the demos do not have to be perfect, but they do have to “demonstrate” a clear agent-based understanding and show a clear path to the prog
Skill Dynamics
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
On the surface, businesses invest in training programs to improve the skillset of their employees and enhance team performance. However, the effectiveness of these training programs relies on a lot of factors, many of which are overlooked. Whether it is creating tailored learning plans that tackle individual, unique skillsets or measuring ROI with a specific set of metrics, let’s deep dive into what makes a procurement training program drive team efficiency and achieve organizational objec
Jaggaer
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Overcoming Procurement Challenges: Cost, Resilience, and Sustainability If you’re a CPO (or other procurement leader) you are like the protagonist in a thriller that has not one but three exciting plotlines. Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and even Sherlock Holmes himself would have trouble disentangling this drama and revealing the solution in the final scene!
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The closure will impact nearly 270 employees, with layoffs starting Nov. 10.
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Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Navigating the growing complexities of today’s supply chain requires a dynamic approach that focuses on trade-offs, rather than perfection.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
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