Procurement Leaders
JANUARY 16, 2024
Procurement Leaders’ CPO community will gather next Thursday to discuss the concept of early supplier involvement – a simple idea that formalises how key suppliers are involved early enough to contribute maximum value to a buying organisation’s strategic initiatives. Those procurement functions pursuing a deliberate supplier-enabled innovation programme will see the early involvement of suppliers as a positive thing.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 16, 2024
The company's Express unit has activated contingency plans following "substantial disruptions" at a critical U.S. hub.
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Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
Unmonitored supply chains, underlying inventory assets, a host of third parties, and frequent transactions make the manufacturing and retail industries a sweet spot for procurement and inventory fraud schemes.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
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Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 16, 2024
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's mid-quarter transition was "difficult but critically needed" to help meet holiday demand, its CEO said.
Spend Matters
JANUARY 16, 2024
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.
Purchasing & Procurement Zone brings together the best content for professionals in the purchasing and procurement field from the widest variety of thought leaders.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
JANUARY 16, 2024
While shifting Asian cargo from East Coast to West Coast U.S. ports adds time and cost, it is one option shippers have to counter continued risk in the Red Sea.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 16, 2024
While B2B marketplaces hold immense potential for optimizing supply chain dynamics, their success hinges on addressing the intricate nature of payments. The convergence of digital and traditional practices is key to unlocking the full potential of marketplaces.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Businesses are increasingly embracing data-intensive workloads, including high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These technologies drive innovation on their hybrid, multicloud journeys while focusing on resilience, performance, security and compliance. Companies are also striving to balance this innovation with growing environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 16, 2024
The 1 million-square-foot facility in Indiana will add new delivery capabilities for the imaging and technology company.
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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.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
Stellantis will temporarily lay off 2,250 Italian workers after announcing plans to cut the jobs of 539 supplemental workers in the U.S.
Una
JANUARY 16, 2024
EPISODE 148 Optimization of Procurement in the Automotive Industry with Robert Čačković By Kelly Barner | January 17, 2024 Procurement professionals often talk about how they ‘fell’ into the field without a plan. And while this means procurement has a diverse range of skill sets in their ranks, it does leave many teams without a solid educational foundation like what might be found in marketing or operations.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
Michelin suspended shifts at Spanish plants during the weekend of January 13 due to raw material delivery delays that arrive by sea from Asia.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Beyond the traditional challenges of today’s markets, many organizations must also address the challenges of real estate and facilities management. These issues include managing rising real estate costs, increasing lease rates, new sustainability goals and under-utilized hybrid work environments. Successfully managing your facilities can directly impact employee productivity and customer satisfaction.
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
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 16, 2024
Despite the drop, total containers processed increased significantly from pre-pandemic levels.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
The California-based oil giant is working with naval authorities in the U.S. and Middle East to move its cargoes through the region, said CEO Mike Wirth.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
To remain competitive in today’s relentlessly paced and ever-expanding marketplace, companies must think carefully about what products they’re developing and how they’re developing them, continuously iterating their processes to maintain a competitive edge. A finely tuned product development strategy is a holistic, cross-collaborative endeavor with the capacity to help any organization weather unforeseen events or market changes.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
The resolution has already received support from Scottish Widows, Candriam and Rathbones Group, as well as the French asset management firm Amundi.
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.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
JANUARY 16, 2024
December imports, at 2.2 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units), increased 9% in December, matching November’s annual percentage gain. For all of calendar year 2023, S&P reported that imports fell 8.5%, to 28.9 million TEU, while the fourth quarter posted an 8% annual improvement.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
There are strategies that leaders can employ to help themselves and their teams capitalize on the knowledge they need to tackle a world filled with uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
The Thomas Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Lead generation. Image Credit: Shutterstock.com/Funtap Finding and nurturing new consumers or clients is a key component of lead generation. It’s critical to any modern company. The whole goal is to guide mere prospects toward your products or services and make them more likely to buy. Leads come in many forms, and each reaches engagement stages and purchasing readiness at different times.
NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)
JANUARY 16, 2024
In today’s competitive business landscape, maximizing value creation is no longer a privilege. It’s a necessity. Procurement, traditionally focused on cost reduction, is undergoing a transformation to become a strategic driver of value creation for organizations. The Expanding Definition of Value Creation in Procurement Historically, the value delivered by procurement was measured primarily by cost savings.
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Procurement Software
JANUARY 16, 2024
Could more visionary procurement leaders be the cure for procurement teams not getting the recognition they deserve? We often don’t have the necessary organisational clout to orchestrate change. Is a lack of vision and creativity the culprit? This is a more editorial piece compared to what we typically publish. I desperately feel that there’s an urgent need to have this debate.
The Thomas Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Qualifying inbound leads is the most critical early step in the sales process. You can be sure that your sales team is focusing their efforts on leads with the highest potential for conversion. Every client-related action has a potential zero return, and this is made considerably more likely by poor qualification at initial or early engagement. Qualified leads.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 16, 2024
Explore a range of cutting-edge solutions encompassing AI, machine learning, transportation management systems, advanced planning systems, data analysis, automation solutions and more. These innovations can transform a product's journey, enhancing its overall effectiveness.
The Thomas Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
In the ever-growing and competitive landscape of small businesses, lead generation is vital to your sustainable growth. Effective lead generation enables small businesses to expand their reach and build robust, loyal customer bases. To effectively generate leads, however, it is essential to consider and employ strategic approaches that maximize results.
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Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.
Arkestro
JANUARY 16, 2024
Press Releases / Materne North America Squeezes Out Significant Savings on Packaging with Arkestro Materne North America Squeezes Out Significant Savings on Packaging with Arkestro Maker of GoGo SqueeZ Uses Predictive Procurement Orchestration to Save $1 Million in Product Packaging Costs and Expand Supplier Base SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 16, 2023 – Materne North America , also known as GoGo squeeZ, is the global leader in “applesauce in a pouch.
The Thomas Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Local lead generation describes methods and processes for attracting and/or retaining the attention of potential customers/clients who are geographically co-located with the business. It's a marketing strategy used to drive particularly proximal local traffic or inquiries from individuals or businesses within a short distance. Local lead generation.
Procurement Insights
JANUARY 16, 2024
I have been negotiating as either a buyer or a seller for most of my life. For example, I still can’t understand why, after considerable research and diligently outlining the many advantages in point form, my parents wouldn’t let me get a pet monkey when I was 10. That proves that sometimes, no matter how well-prepared you are, the other side of the table remains unreasonable.
The Thomas Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
B2B lead generation. Image Credit: Shutterstock.com/Wright Studio There’s an important distinction between sales qualified leads (SQLs) and marketing qualified leads (MQLs) when it comes to B2B lead generation. Maximize your marketing effects by listing your organization in niche directories and building a strong SEO plan of action. In addition to cutting expenses, these strategies expand and generate sales prospects.
Speaker: Paul Heller
Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro
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