Spend Matters

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In readiness for our Q1 2025 theme of Procurement Transformation, which will include how to even start your digital journey, how to make the case for it, how to shape your digital roadmap and how to survive it, we have received input from some solution providers on their own customers journeys. Mike Jud , Senior Director Customer Experience at P2P solution provider Vroozi , shares what their customers are looking for from their digital procurement investment.

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Supply Chain Dive

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Freight Logistics Optimization Works program now has 85 members, including Best Buy, True Value, BNSF and CMA CGM.

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Are low staff and dispatcher-to-driver ratios and high costs impacting your top- and bottom-line? Are inefficient, error-prone and manual processes preventing you from scaling? Are you struggling to meet increasing levels of visibility, connectivity and data accuracy?

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Supply Chain Dive

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Bel Group deployed Kinaxis Maestro software across its operations to improve disruption mitigation, shelf-life management and distribution optimization.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Mars is planning to have cocoa it purchases physically separated from products that come from other unverified sources at every stage in its supply chain.

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Supply Chain Dive

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The retailer's multi-year initiative will lead to more bulky products delivered via its in-house network, Chief Supply Chain Officer Colin Yankee said.

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Supply Chain Dive

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The drug distributor is helping manufacturers tackle compliance with the long-awaited law's implementation.

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Trucking companies need to invest in the resources that will help them predict and prepare for future recessions, and whatever else may await them in the coming years.

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Supply Chain Dive

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The retailer plans to contract many operations at these three centers to third-party logistics companies.

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In this webinar, well explore how AI technologies are redefining high-stakes decision-making to amplify human potential. Through a real-world example, youll see how a connected approach to AI transformed operationsstreamlining workflows, optimizing decisions, and enabling teams to focus on what ultimately drives business success.

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Advertiser: GEP

2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.

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Procurement Freelancers

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Market uncertainties across the globe have transformed how businesses approach procurement practices. Sourcing consultants now… The post Risk Management Strategies From Leading Sourcing Consultants first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Following is a four-step approach to ensuring a smooth post-merger or acquisition supply chain integration, and setting up the new entity for success.

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The Procuretech Podcast

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In this episode of The Procurement Software Podcast, host James Meads welcomes Gregory Vider, co-founder and CEO of Apadua, to discuss their recent Indirect Procurement Days invite-only mini conference held near Frankfurt, Germany. Their conversation delves into the benefits of networking in a more intimate setting compared to larger conferences. Tune in to explore how these innovative events could shape the future of marketing in the procurement space.

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Exxon's planned facility would be the first natural gas power plant in the U.S. operating at a commercial scale with carbon capture technology.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Spotlight on Procurement

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Host Jessica Spicher takes the mic for a new series of shorter, insightful episodes called Procurement Snapshot. We start the series with a focus on procurements critical relationship with finance. Jessica interviews Vice President, Fabian Bodoky, about the evolving collaboration between procurement and finance in private equity and high-growth tech companies.

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Workers at two Amazon facilities near Atlanta, Georgia, and a delivery facility in Skokie, Illinois, outside of Chicago, also voted to authorize strikes December 15.

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Digital transformation is in full swing, and the AI Workforce is emerging as a strategic tool for companies seeking to integrate artificial intelligence into their operations. This concept revolves around incorporating intelligent agents into business workflows, enhancing efficiency and team productivity. Keep reading to uncover how this approach can transform your operations!

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Over long holiday weekends, distribution centers and warehouses are known to operate with reduced staffing, offering attractive targets to would-be thieves.

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Advertiser: GEP

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Digital transformation is in full swing, and the AI Workforce is emerging as a strategic tool for companies seeking to integrate artificial intelligence into their operations. This concept revolves around incorporating intelligent agents into business workflows, enhancing efficiency and team productivity. Keep reading to uncover how this approach can transform your operations!

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Andrew Jackson, North America business development manager with AutoStore, details the right and the wrong way to automate a modern-day warehouse.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

CSCMP Certification and SCMDOJO are rich in knowledge and resources, but we must distinguish their prominent differences to select the best. As you know, time is money and should be utilized wisely. Isnt it high time we chose one to elevate your supply chain career? Lets dig deep and analyze what we need to know about both these platforms. Overview: CSCMP Certification VS SCMDOJO CSCMP Certification They offer certifications, such as the ScPro, Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), and Cer

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s post aims to identify the patterns or similarities of three significant economic policy events. These events should challenge us to better understand and prepare for the inevitable impact on our collective supply chains both today and in the future. The big question is will they finally enable us to implement the three most important supply chain practices?

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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