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Consolidating the USPS Final Mile

Art of Procurement

Maybe it is because I grew up watching Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, but there is something about the United States Postal. The post Consolidating the USPS Final Mile appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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A Trucker Uses AI to Boost Efficiency for LTL Operations

Supply Chain Brain

PITT OHIO increases efficiency and reduces costs for its pickup, delivery and linehaul trucking business by replacing outdated legacy systems with an AI-powered platform.

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Alison Supply Chain Courses VS SCMDOJO: A Comprehensive Guide

SCMDOJO

Digging in to find an absolute top-notch website to level up your supply chain management can be a bit difficult where there is less awareness about it. However, it depends on the product offering of various websites from where students are eager to learn and grow. Alison Supply Chain Courses and SCMDOJO are among the most reliable sources on the internet when selecting an appropriate course.

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Spend Matters Future 5 2024 – Introducing Halo Ai

Spend Matters

Spend Matters honors a vast array of procurement solution providers each year by selecting them for our ‘50 to Know,’ ‘50 to Watch,’ ‘Future 5’ and ‘Hall of Fame’ celebration lists. Discover everything you need to know about these accolades here, including who is on them. For the Future 5, Spend Matters analysts scour the market to find new specialist solution providers that can answer a burning need of procurement practitioners today.

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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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CSX debuts double-stack rail service at the Port of Baltimore

Supply Chain Dive

A northern route has opened while a long-awaited expansion of a 1.7-mile tunnel is set to be complete by the end of next year.

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Report: Supply Chain Sustainability Software Market is Needed, Growing

Supply Chain Brain

The Verdantix report concludes that political and regulatory events are driving the need for supply chain sustainability software.

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Strong Economy Boosts Outlook for Holiday Shopping Season in U.S.

Supply Chain Brain

The National Retail Federation projects $979-989 billion worth of retail sales in the U.S. during the November-December holiday season in 2024.

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How Amazon sellers are navigating capacity constraints

Supply Chain Dive

As the holiday shopping rush looms, e-commerce businesses are willing to pay more to avoid bottlenecks at warehouses along the West Coast.

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Rolls-Royce Likely to Hit 2025 Profit Goals Despite Supply Chain Woes

Supply Chain Brain

Under CEO Tufan Erginbilgic, Rolls-Royce has put greater focus on profitable contracts as well on slashing costs internally.

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Freight shipments drop 21% in soft trucking market: US Bank

Supply Chain Dive

Q3 performance signals continued challenges regarding volume and shipper spending, according to the bank.

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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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Hapag-Lloyd Orders 24 New LNG Ships

Supply Chain Brain

All 24 ships will have dual-fuel engines that can run on LNG and biomethane, and will be equipped for ammonia fuel as well.

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Spend Matters Future 5 2024: Why we chose Halo Ai

Spend Matters

Spend Matters is delighted to announce the 2024 roster for our ‘Future 5’ list. For the sixth year in a row, our analysts have highlighted five start-ups that excited them the most. This year, the five companies that have proven themselves as potential future trend setters are BlueBean , ivoflow, Covalyze, Halo Ai and True ValueHub. To warrant such attention, these vendors must have a product that is ideally 2 to 5 years old, is used by more than five customers and displays an innovative applica

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Hershey invests $500M to improve cocoa farming struggles

Supply Chain Dive

The confectionery giant is working with cooperatives in Côte d’Ivoire to help improve sustainability for growers and the environment.

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Horizontal Stacking Versus Intelligent Vertical Integration

Procurement Insights

“I am dividing the frontend functional solutions from the AI operating system providers – the two categories of solution providers emerging after the 2025 shake-up.” – Procurement Insights An Example of A Frontend Functional Solution Provider Last month, I posted the article Globality Demo > The Road to the ProcureTech Cup: Episode 25-06 , where I provided a fair assessment.

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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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Hack The Box Releases AI-Powered TTX for Cybersecurity Incidents

Supply Chain Brain

Crisis Control tracks and analyzes past cyber incidents, and then tailors scenarios to specific cybersecurity concerns to build out a simulation for employees to participate in.

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Listening in Leadership: How To Build Trust in Procurement with Jonathan Wharfe – Episode 101

Procurement Talk with David Byrne

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube Summary On this episode of the Talent Talks Podcast, Martin talks to Jonathan Wharfe, Director of Procurement and Commercial Operations at Transport for London. Jonathan shares insights from his extensive career in procurement. He emphasises the importance of building communities, listening to stakeholders … Continued The post Listening in Leadership: How To Build Trust in Procurement with Jonathan Wharfe – Episode 101 appea

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AI: The Game-Changer in Supply Chain Demand Forecasting

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chain leaders are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to revolutionize their demand-forecasting and inventory-management strategies.

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Turning ProcureTech Demos Into Powerful Dialogues

Procurement Insights

“ All right. So I kind of want this to be not a dialogue on some level, John, and so I trust you to assist me with that endeavor. I’m going to start you here and I’m going to really focus on showing you how we think we differentiate from our competitors. And I’m going to do that by starting as somebody in like in the sourcing organization.

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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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Podcast | What’s It Mean for a Retailer to Be ‘Channel-Agnostic’?

Supply Chain Brain

The omnichannel has been with us for a long time. But does that mean that retailers are truly “channel-agnostic”?

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Build your school’s financial resilience with these 5 strategies

Fraxion

With operational costs rising, the pressure to stretch school budgets is greater than ever. Technology, building maintenance, and supplies are taking a larger bite out of budgets, leaving less for programs. Attracting and retaining teachers and staff often means offering higher salaries, delays in grants and donations can disrupt financial planning, and shifting student numbers create funding instability, impacting staffing and resource decisions.