Wed.Dec 27, 2023

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How Supply Chain Experts Said They’re Handling the Peak Season Rush

Supply Chain Brain

2023’s peak season will have seen supply chain professionals both relying on tried-and-true peak season strategies and testing next-gen solutions.

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U.S., Mexico Expected to be Big Winners As Companies Move Away from China

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Nearly 75% of companies plan to reduce their share of sourcing from China, with the U.S. and Mexico appearing to be the big winners according to an AlixPartners survey.

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Raised Consumer Expectations Puts a Strain on Worker Safety

Supply Chain Brain

While retailers and shippers may balk at the prospect of altering the functional status quo, making concrete changes to protect workers will pay dividends in the long run.

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What “technology musicians” are in your procurement automation orchestra pit?

Procurement Insights

EDITOR’S NOTE: Yesterday’s post certainly started to stimulate some thought-provoking feedback from people like Dave Jones and R.Gökhan Hüner. The following are their respective comments and my corresponding response. Dave Jones, MCIPS (and Next Gen Rebel) Great post. Failure to involve end users in tech decisions and subsequent implementation is the main reason things fail.

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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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Manifest Vegas 2024: A Sneak Peek

Supply Chain Brain

A preview of what to expect at Manifest 2024, the premier gathering of supply chain executives, logistics service providers, innovators and investors.

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New Year Insights for the procurement solutions and services marketplace 2024: Pactum

Spend Matters

For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.

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Manifest Vegas 2024

Arkestro

Unlock Your 60-Day Savings Journey at Booth #709 Join us at Manifest Vegas where we will be presenting the magic of AI technologies and unlocking endless possibilities for transforming end-to-end supply chain and logistics.  Caesars Forum 3911 S. Koval Lane Las Vegas, NV 89109 Exhibit Hall: Arkestro Booth #709, Forum and Summit Ballrooms } February 5 – 7, 2024 Our Featured Speaker On Tuesday, February 6th at 2:55pm, our own Neil Lustig will be featured on a panel discussing Unlocking Eff

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China Names a New Naval Chief as Maritime Tensions Climb

Supply Chain Brain

The Chinese military has held major military drills around Taiwan twice since August 2022 because President Tsai Ing-wen met senior U.S. lawmakers.

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My Q&A on Agility for "Trusted Magazine" (December 2023.)

The Good Spending

The source link. How could you describe your career path in a few words? I worked in procurement for 22 years - telecom, airline, railways, public infrastructure services and consulting industries, and multiple geographies. I’m a Fellow of CIPS and an author of “ The Technology Procurement Handbook ,” where I tried to share my passion for what we used to call “IT Procurement.

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Hapag-Lloyd Says Red Sea Route Still Too Dangerous

Supply Chain Brain

By contrast, both Maersk and CMA CGM said they were devising plans to gradually increase the number of ships they send through the Suez Canal.

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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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The Role of Sourcing Consultants in Streamlining Supply Chain Operations

Procurement Freelancers

Navigating the intricate supply chain maze can leave you feeling lost, but you don’t have…

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Maersk Prepares to Resume Shipping through Red Sea

Supply Chain Brain

According to BBC News, Hapag-Lloyd has said it will decide on December 17 whether to resume using the route.

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Best of 2023: Question Everything You Know

CPO Rising

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2023 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. Over the last 30 years, Chief Procurement Officers and their enterprises operated in a relatively stable and prosperous economic environment.