Tue.Jan 14, 2025

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The Complete Procurement Competency Framework 2025

Skill Dynamics

Procurement is often an overlooked area within organizations, working behind the scenes to ensure businesses have the goods and services they need to operate at their best. Without it, many of the worlds most successful companies would simply cease to exist. Considering its importance, it makes sense that modern procurement teams have a structured approach to developing essential skills and capabilities.

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Procurement transformation 2025: Why invest in procuretech and how to make the case – Tipalti

Spend Matters

In readiness for our Q1 2025 theme of Procurement Transformation, which will include how to even start your digital journey, how to make the case for it, how to shape your digital roadmap and how to survive it, we have received input from some solution providers on their own customers journeys. Ruth Orenstein , Senior Director of Product Management at global finance automation specialist, Tipalti, shares what their customers are looking for from their digital procurement investment.

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2025’s logistics risks include tariffs, labor strife

Supply Chain Dive

Potential disruptions could pressure costs and reliability across transport modes. Here's what supply chain experts are watching this year.

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Transformation for Supply Chain Resilience: Engineering and Manufacturing's Crucial Role

Supply Chain Brain

Continued disruption is driving transformational change in industry supply chains. Companies are urgently evolving to new levels of technology and process maturity to address increasing challenges. But, what does supply chain resiliency look like and how do companies need to innovate to achieve it?

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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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Albertsons to ramp up automation at distribution centers

Supply Chain Dive

The grocery retailer expects technological upgrades to help it better manage inventory and lower costs.

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Starbucks: Buy Something or Leave

Supply Chain Brain

The move is part of the "back to Starbucks" strategy to push back against diminishing sales.

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Best Practices for Maintaining Food-Grade Warehouses

Supply Chain Brain

Food-grade warehouse maintenance requires exceptional attention to detail, a commitment to strict regulatory compliance, and a proactive approach to quality management.

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5 questions about FedEx’s planned Freight spinoff

Supply Chain Dive

The parcel giant's plan for its trucking unit raises questions on timing, leadership and impact on the wider LTL market. Here's what we know so far.

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How Will GRIs Impact Your 2025 Budget?

Supply Chain Brain

Download the 2025 GRI Guide today and take control of your shipping strategy for the year ahead. Dont let the rising costs of parcel shipping derail your budgetgain the clarity and confidence to make proactive, informed decisions.

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Hydro Flask maker builds inventory, bracing for tariff impact

Supply Chain Dive

Helen of Troy is continuing to pursue diversified sourcing despite uncertainty around U.S. trade policies.

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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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Retail Brands Want to Make Sales Associates Shine in AI’s Spotlight

Supply Chain Brain

The latest technologies offer a vision of the future where sales associates are empowered to make consumers feel they are seen and known, not impersonal data caches.

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JAGGAER Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Direct Spend 2024 Vendor Assessment

Jaggaer

Driving Procurement Efficiency and Strategic Success in Direct Materials Sourcing and Supply Chain Management Research Triangle, NC, January 14, 2025 : JAGGAER, a global leader in enterprise procurement and supplier collaboration, has been positioned in the Leaders category of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Direct Spend 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc # US52734424, December 2024).

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U.K. Bars German Livestock Imports Over Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak

Supply Chain Brain

German officials first discovered the disease in a herd of water buffalo on January 10 outside Berlin in the Brandenburg region.

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Egypt Inks Deal with Medlog for New Dry Port and Logistics Area

Supply Chain Brain

Egypt currently has 22 dry ports and logistic zones, and has a goal to eventually increase that total to 32.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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U.S. Bans Imports from 37 Chinese Companies Linked to Forced Labor

Supply Chain Brain

Among the new additions to the list is one of the world's largest textile manufacturers in Huafu Fashion, as well as 26 companies in the cotton industry.

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CBP Looks to Increase 'De Minimis' Data Requirements

Supply Chain Brain

The proposal would require low-value shipments to include additional data to allow customs agents to easily and accurately verify the contents of each package.

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