Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 2, 2024

Warehouse operators can increase the density of their pick operations by installing pick towers and mezzanines within their current facilities, boosting throughput inside their existing building.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 2, 2024

The carrier will lay off an undisclosed number of employees at the facility, which was the center of a brief Teamsters strike threat in December.

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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

JANUARY 2, 2024

While nearshoring can be a risk mitigation tool, it’s important for businesses to consider the differences between countries, including cultural, trade and even weather patterns, which can lead to road closures or weight reductions.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 2, 2024

This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters. After the last few tumultuous years, procurement teams are still facing steep challenges in getting ahead of supplier and supply chain risks. Some organizations have opted to invest in new, more robust supplier and third-party risk management (TPRM) systems, while others are optimizing their existing systems.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 2, 2024

A call to action for supply chain and procurement leaders to demand better intelligence platforms.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 2, 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.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 2, 2024

“In the UK, two main treatment options exist: permethrin and malathion. A combination of supply chain problems, the war in Ukraine and a rise in the cost of raw materials has resulted in months-long shortages of both.” – Doctors report ‘nightmare’ surge in scabies across UK by Andrew Gregory Health editor The Guardian (January 1st, 2024) I did not know this, but Scabies is highly contagious and, if not treated rapidly, can lead to a significant outbreak.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 2, 2024

The world’s second-largest iPhone manufacturer will pay $300 million to Pegatron to acquire a 62.5% stake in the company's Shanghai facility.

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 2, 2024

Last month, we published our first ever Mid-Market Procurement Tech Map. I’m still a little surprised and humbled by just how many people shared, liked and commented on the initial post. Clearly, there is a demand for this type of diagram. Even despite the number of “best of” lists and other charts and diagrams already out there. How did we choose the companies for our Mid-Market Procurement Tech Map?

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 2, 2024

The company said that its vessel, the Maersk Hangzhou, was targeted by Houthis in attack boats December 31.

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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.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 2, 2024

South Korea sold $11.3 billion of goods to the U.S. in December 2023, beating out China by roughly $400 million.

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Export 86

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 2, 2024

The American car company was able to deliver a record number of vehicles during Q4, helping the organization hit its 2023 target of 1.8 million automobiles.

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