Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The Boeing supplier vowed to increase inspections, improve training and add automation to its processes after last month's Alaska Airlines incident.
Art of Procurement
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
On January 5th, Alaska Airlines flight 1282 left Portland, Oregon en route to Ontario, California. Just minutes into the flight, The post Savings v. Safety in Aircraft Manufacturing appeared first on Art of Procurement.
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Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The city was late on registering 77% of its contracts in the first half of its fiscal year, leading to long payment delays and financial issues for contractors.
Spend Matters
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
We recently concluded our annual insights series, which, throughout the months of December and January, gives insights for the year ahead from procurement-related tech and service providers. Our respondents gave us their observations on 2024 and how they anticipate them shaping the market in the year to come. It has been a fascinating read, and our senior analyst Bertrand Maltaverne has the privilege of wrapping it up and adding his own observations.
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Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Supply remains scarce due to heavy rains and the spread of black pod disease in West Africa, according to a recent CoBank report.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Tackling global climate change and tracking greenhouse gas emissions has become an all-hands-on-deck endeavor. The World Bank recently launched an initiative, in collaboration with NASA and the European Space Agency, to collect and organize satellite-based measurements of concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. 1 Back on Earth’s surface, companies around the world are also tracking greenhouse gas emissions —the ones produced by their businesses and value chains.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
As the line between employees’ personal and professional lives becomes more blurred than ever, employees expect a more flexible and empathetic workplace that takes their full selves into account. This shift in employee expectation is happening in a challenging environment of rapid technological advancements, widening skills gaps and unpredictable socioeconomic issues.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The agreement, which took effect in January, allows gas to be shipped via pipeline to Italy and then on to Germany, a spokesperson for Sonatrach said.
The Network Effect
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The post Fielding Software to Defense: A Journey of Ineffectiveness, Inefficiency, and Frustration appeared first on The Network Effect.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The European Artificial Intelligence Act, while not yet law, is driving new levels of human oversight and regulatory compliance for artificial intelligence (AI) within the European Union. Similar to GDPR for privacy, the EU AI Act has potential to set the tone for upcoming AI regulations worldwide. The European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the EU AI Act in December 2023, it is now making its way through the final phases of the legislative process and is expected to rollout in st
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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
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Seven states will fund projects that expand the capacity for the processing, manufacturing, storage and distribution of food products through the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure program.
Supply Chain Dive
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The last-mile carrier wants to prove it can deliver effectively "for basically every e-commerce category out there," its CEO said in an interview.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Simon Geale, executive vice president of procurement at Proxima, discusses the potential impact of President Biden’s new White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
A data dive into supply chain salaries and job openings at Zetwerk found the median salary above $90,000 with logistician and industrial engineers seeing the highest job growth opportunities.
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
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
C.H. Robinson said that touchless appointments allow some users to save up to 7.4 hours on average in terms of being able to deliver products to market.
Art of Procurement
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – February 9th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
BCA executive Ihssane Mounir asked suppliers during the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance conference February 7 to bear with the planemaker while it’s being audited by the FAA.
Procurement Freelancers
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
As a seasoned business manager, you must already understand how crucial sourcing agents are in…
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.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Data from Gallup’s “ State of the Global Workplace: 2023 ” shows that U.S. engagement sits at a meager 31%, with nearly 50% of workers looking to leave their current positions.
The Network Effect
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The post Fielding Software to Defense: A Journey of Ineffectiveness, Inefficiency, and Frustration appeared first on The Network Effect.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
As trends like social commerce and personalization continue to proliferate, more APIs will be necessary to “wow” customers with exceptional shopping experiences. But there's a security risk.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Renewable energy is critical to combatting climate change and global warming. The use of clean energy and renewable energy resources—such as solar, wind and hydropower—originates in early human history; how the world has harnessed power from these resources to meet its energy needs has evolved over time. Here’s a quick look at how different forms of renewable power generation evolved to diversify the global energy sector and the world’s energy supply.
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Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
In the face of market volatility, success hinges on a tri-fold approach. First, adapt workforce, systems, and resources to foster end-to-end supply chain connectivity, fostering agility and resilience. Secondly, recalibrate digitalization strategy, prioritizing cost-effective solutions for maximal business impact. Lastly, harness the power of master data integration throughout the supply chain, granting real-time visibility and risk mitigation, ensuring that business sails smoothly through turbu
Spend Matters
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters. There is growing enthusiasm among procurement professionals, vendors and industry pundits about the concept of procurement orchestration. Spend Matters notes it as a key emerging market that is “meant to break silos and create bridges between applications, thereby making [procurement] complexity less visible or even disappear.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
In 2024, the White Label World Expo will be returning to the Javits Center in New York; focused on the practice of white-labeling products for eCommerce businesses, with showcases from over 200 speakers and 400 exhibitors. Across four theaters, a product sourcing trail, an E-Market Research Hub, and various other features, visitors will be able to learn from and network with countless fellow industry professionals.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The term ESG, or environmental, social and governance , is well-known in the investor community. It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer.
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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.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
An industry-wide drive towards sustainability, an uncertain economic landscape, heightened geopolitical risks, and continued digital and drug/device innovations are creating new challenges and opportunities for pharma and med tech supply chain leaders. LogiPharma returns on 16 – 18 th April 2024 in Lyon, France to address how to navigate this evolving landscape.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The $191 billion generated represents a three-year low in terms of farming and agricultural exports coming out of the U.S.
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
How often does a major construction project come in on time and on budget? Why is the answer “hardly ever”?
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