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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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