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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Artificial intelligence is offering new and better ways of making supply chains more sustainable, by improving efficiency, enhancing decision-making, and increasing transparency in operations.

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Trump’s tariffs: How manufacturers can prepare

Supply Chain Dive

Frontloading commodity imports could be a temporary solution, but diversified sourcing will be critical long term, experts say.

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Maersk Tankers to Install Suction Sails on Five Vessels

Supply Chain Brain

The technology works by dragging air across each sail's surface, and then through small perforations to generate lift and propulsion.

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Risk management solution providers and what their customers really want – State of Flux

Spend Matters

As part of our Q4 research into supplier risk, third-party and supply-chain risk management (TPRM/SCRM) and the solutions that support it, we have not only conducted analyst- and market-led research in the shape of analyses, advisory, definitions and webinars. We have also taken the pulse of the practitioners who use that technology and who deal with risk on a daily basis (for example here and here ).

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GEP Spend Category Outlook Report 2025

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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Mozambique Ports At Risk as Opposition Chief Urges More Protests

Supply Chain Brain

The demonstrations have also interrupted commercial activity in Maputo, and raised concerns about further delays to a $20 billion natural gas export project.

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DHL Supply Chain experiments with GenAI

Supply Chain Dive

Dive Brief:• DHL Supply Chain is deploying a pair of artificial intelligence applications in partnership with consulting agency Boston Consulting …

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Ulta bets big on market fulfillment center model

Supply Chain Dive

As part of its supply chain transformation, the beauty retailer is retrofitting some of its existing regional distribution centers with automation upgrades.

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MIT MicroMasters Program In Supply Chain VS SCMDOJO

SCMDOJO

Supply chain management has grown tremendously in recent economic times. It has evolved dramatically and has significantly impacted various experts and their professional experiences. However, the question arises: Which platform can provide the best supply chain courses? There’s tough competition between the MIT MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain and SCMDOJO.

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UNFI improperly discounts payments to suppliers, lawsuit claims

Supply Chain Dive

The grocery wholesaler delays paying food companies for their goods and factors in “prompt-payment discounts” when it pays invoices late, per a class action suit.

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Get Out of the “Bad Habits” of Traditional Procurement by Leveraging 21st Century Technology

Arkestro

Resources / Blog / Get Out of the “Bad Habits” of Traditional Procurement by Leveraging 21st Century Technology Get Out of the “Bad Habits” of Traditional Procurement by Leveraging 21st Century Technology By Matthew Mills, Solutions Consultant at Arkestro Procurement has long been at the forefront of organizational strategies, with the objective of managing spend efficiently and driving cost savings.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

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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Better Trucks expands delivery coverage into New England

Supply Chain Dive

A partnership with Optima Overnight will allow the last-mile carrier to access Boston and other northeast markets.

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What is procurement’s inconvenient truth and why we must finally face it

Procurement Insights

In yesterday’s post, How do you eat an elephant one bite at a time if you don’t know it is an elephant? community thought-leader Claude Egli wrote the following: “ Great point, Jon W. Hansen. A few things coming to my mind – neither about tools nor about AI 1. A healthy company has at least two organisations: (1) according to the org chart – the budget holders, (2-n) the grey matter; shadow organisations that keep the company going across functions. 2.

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Art of Procurement Founder Philip Ideson Featured in The Procurement Ledger

Art of Procurement

While he can almost always be found sitting in the interviewer’s chair, Art of Procurement Founder and Managing Director Philip. The post Art of Procurement Founder Philip Ideson Featured in The Procurement Ledger appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Why is this ProcureTech Sales Rep calling me?

Procurement Insights

Firmographics, Technographics, Psychographics, Business Situation, Business and Operating Models, and Resources. My first thought was to ask if you are familiar with these terms. Then I realized it doesn’t matter because they are ultimately irrelevant to achieving successful ProcureTech implementation outcomes. I want to take you behind the scenes of a meeting with one of my Suite 6 solution providers to see what very few are willing to openly share—the strategy or, as I call it, the commo

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

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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Canada Labor Minister Orders End to Labor Disputes at Country's Ports

Supply Chain Brain

MacKinnon said that the ongoing stoppages at the Port of Montreal and in British Columbia have significantly impacted the country's supply chains.

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Steve Madden to slash China sourcing as tariff concerns escalate

Supply Chain Dive

The fashion brand is among several companies looking to limit their exposure to President-elect Donald Trump's promised tariff hikes.

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4 manufacturing issues to watch under a new Trump administration

Supply Chain Dive

President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda could mean raised tariffs, lower taxes and curtailed clean energy subsidies.

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