Fri.Jan 19, 2024

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Six Factors to Consider Before Automating Warehouses

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Warehouse efficiency is enhanced by six crucial factors that signal when the time is right to embrace automation.

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Carton shortage may last through school year, but brandless packaging brings relief

Supply Chain Dive

Pactiv Evergreen said the generic containers are part of its response “to minimize supply chain complexity” amid a monthslong disruption challenging dairies and schools.

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Ford Cutting Back F-150 Lighting Production Due to Lower EV Demand

Supply Chain Brain

The American car manufacturing giant said that it would be cutting back production at its Michigan Rouge Electric Vehicle Center to just one shift starting April 1, 2024.

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Traceability platform TrusTrace lands $24M growth investment

Supply Chain Dive

The funding will help the company advance its goal of creating “a global network where all value chains are traceable, circular, and fair.

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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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How to design & optimize your supply chain

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

In this webcast, Tompkins will share his insights from his storied career and help you apply these lessons to today's supply chain.

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Why top apparel brands fall short in supplier partnerships

Supply Chain Dive

Improving supply chain working conditions requires clarity of expectations and accountability on both sides.

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

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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How to build a successful disaster recovery strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Whether your industry faces challenges from geopolitical strife, fallout from a global pandemic or rising aggression in the cybersecurity space, the threat vector for modern enterprises is undeniably powerful. Disaster recovery strategies provide the framework for team members to get a business back up and running after an unplanned event. Worldwide, the popularity of disaster recovery strategies is understandably increasing.

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CGT: How Materne North America Slashed Packaging Costs with Predictive Procurement

Arkestro

The post CGT: How Materne North America Slashed Packaging Costs with Predictive Procurement appeared first on Arkestro.

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Exploring the hyper-competitive future of customer experience

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The future of customer experience (CX) is more : more data, more technology, more surprising and delighting. It’s also more pressure to retain those customers, whether those interactions happen online or in-store. As customer expectations and habits change, so too must the CX that organizations provide. Study after study shows that customer loyalty is decreasing, as customers demand more from the providers of goods and services and show their displeasure by switching brands.

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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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Vendor Analysis: What Is It, Process, Types, and Best Practices

Planergy

What's Planergy? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficiently by automating purchasing and invoice processing. Learn more We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with Planergy.

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CPO Rising Listicle: Procurement Haiku (2024)

CPO Rising

Fridays (in 2024) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendation designed to help procurement teams improve operations. We’ll also include a summary graphic for you to share with your team.