All Things Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Sustainable procurement has become more and more critical for businesses that want to reduce their environmental impact and improve their sustainable practices.
ProcurePort
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
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Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The initiative at a California hub offers on-site day care in emergency situations, which will expand to more company facilities in 2024.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Detecting and reducing supply chain fraud can be done using artificial intelligence and the existing supply chain systems and the familiar transactions that they produce.
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Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Re-shoring or near-shoring factories, “just-in-case” inventories, and qualifying alternative suppliers are among the most common ways that companies are building resilience. However, these strategies come with tremendous complexity and a heavy price tag.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Advanced organizations know their greatest assets are their employees. However, keeping employees happy and engaged can be challenging, especially when considering available resources and the need to meet other organizational goals. An organization is only as strong as its talent pool, so organizations have increasingly embraced talent management as a core component of their overarching strategy.
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Spend Matters
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The term ‘ESG’ can mean a lot of things to different stakeholders such as regulators, customers, investors, employees and functional leaders — including procurement. ‘Environment,’ ‘society’ and ‘governance’ can be such broad, overwhelming concepts that the details of what each goal means in terms of an organization’s strategy and process can get lost in translation.
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The New York senator is calling for help “to find packaging alternatives” and resolve the issue. Many point to Pactiv Evergreen as the source of the supply chain snarl, although no official cause has been confirmed.
Procurement Insights
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
With 900 plus radio interviews under my belt as a host, plus numerous television and webinar appearances, the only thing I have enjoyed more than the live broadcasts are the green room discussions before going live. While the live events are energized and engaging, the raw, uncut, and unedited discussions have a different feel that is not as formal and can be unpredictable.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The mine-sweeping force wouldn’t be considered a NATO operation but would be the first major combined action of Black Sea allies since President Vladimir Putin ordered the war on Ukraine.
Advertiser: GEP
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.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Today’s healthcare providers use a wide variety of applications and data across a broad ecosystem of partners to manage their daily workflows. Integrating these applications and data is critical to their success, allowing them to deliver patient care efficiently and effectively. Despite modern data transformation and integration capabilities that made for faster and easier data exchange between applications, the healthcare industry has lagged behind because of the sensitivity and complexit
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
What exactly is an "engaged" frontline workforce in warehousing and logistics? And what is its impact on the business? Steven Klima, head of revenue enablement with WorkStep, offers a perspective.
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Trim stock levels and a faster supply chain helped the retailer chase faster-moving goods and keep replenishing them on its shelves.
Spend Matters
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis, we give an overview of Exiger, a solution built to reduce risks in supply chains. It offers a comprehensive risk assessment product encompassing various risk dimensions, such as ownership control, operational, financial health, ESG, cyber, reputational, criminal, regulatory and product risk within the supply chain.
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 Brain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In the ever-evolving landscape of retail, mobile shopping has become the primary touch point for many customers.
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In recent months, San Pedro Bay ports have increased their U.S. market share of containerized imports from Asia.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
German manufacturers exported around 2.6 million new passenger cars in the 10 months through October, up 22% year over year.
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Corrugated boxes’ environmental impact substantially reduced, greenhouse gas emissions cut in half.
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.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Recent technological advancements in data storage have prompted businesses and consumers to move away from traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) towards faster, lower-latency solid-state drive (SSD) technology. In this post, we’re going to look at this new technology, as well as the fastest and most popular protocol available to connect it to a computer’s motherboard— non-volatile memory express (NVMe).
HICX
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
By Costas Xyloyiannis, CEO of HICX While inflation and economic pressures are forcing pharmaceutical brands to watch their pennies, they will do well to not tackle cost efficiency as a solo issue. Brands will also need to focus on resilience in various areas of their incredibly complex supply chain. Chief among these concerns is compliance as stringent regulations must be followed.
Finale Inventory
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Are you struggling to keep track of your business finances? You’re not alone. Many sellers excel in providing top-notch products and services but find financial management, especially detailed accounting, daunting. That’s where QuickBooks Online class tracking in Finale comes into play. This blog will explore how class tracking can simplify financial management for ecommerce businesses and how sellers can gain clarity and control over their diverse inventory.
Skill Dynamics
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Digital transformation is a necessary step in today’s business landscape and is becoming increasingly common as technology continues to evolve and be adopted by organizations. To ensure the introduction of new technology and processes can be successful, change management is crucial. Change management relies heavily on securing the buy-in of the people and teams directly and indirectly impacted by the introduction of new technologies.
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Let's Talk Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Today I’m joined by Optilogic , a forward-thinking supply chain software brand that is passionate about designing supply chains to thrive. Optilogic’s cloud-native supply chain design solution enables businesses to build digital models of future supply chains to evaluate trade-offs across cost, service, risk, and sustainability. Today Don Hicks, founder and CEO at Optilogic, joins me to talk all about Optilogic and what they do; taking a proactive approach to risk and resilience; answe
Negotiations Ninja
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Ryan Dunlap is a conflict strategist. He helps leaders and teams improve how they show up in conflict. He has a background in law enforcement, hostage negotiation, crisis intervention, etc. He went into ministry for a long time before landing in executive leadership.
Procurement Freelancers
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Quality control (QC) is one of the most important facets of any sourcing or procurement…
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Polish firms say the vast majority of trade has been taken by Ukrainians since the passes were abolished by Brussels.
Advertiser: GEP
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.
CPO Rising
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In last week’s article, we kicked off our discussion on suites vs. specialist providers by discussing the primary considerations in setting an overall procurement technology strategy. Generally, it is not a matter of either/or, but rather, it’s finding the balance of what approach to take and in what situations.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In 2023, organizations have faced an unprecedented level of pressure to digitally transform with the rise of generative AI as well as imperatives such as sustainability, labor productivity and security. The “ Cloud Transformation Report ,” a new global survey from the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), found that many leading enterprises share a common foundation to digital transformation—a clear hybrid cloud strategy.¹ These businesses cite several key benefits to us
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
While the impact of the Israel-Hamas war has been contained so far, markets have been wary that the fighting will draw in other nations in the region, particularly Iran.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
We are thrilled to share that IBM is named a Leader in the most recent Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management. IBM is recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. As a team, we’ve been working hard to deliver on a roadmap of identity and access management capabilities that we believe solve the biggest challenges organizations are facing when it comes to managing identities in today’s dispersed, hybrid cloud environments.
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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