Supply Chain Dive

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The agency's proposal would add an extra day in transit for some volume at post offices far away from its major processing plants.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The fact that employees spend many paid work hours on clerical tasks doesn’t help a company's bottom line.

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Supply Chain Dive

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In an evolution of THE Alliance, Ocean Network Express, Hyundai Merchant Marine and Yang Ming Marine will cooperate on trade lanes starting in 2025.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Some rail operators were locked out of the Port of Hamburg on the morning of September 6.

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Advertiser: GEP

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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Supply Chain Dive

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Federal Maritime Commission allowed the Gemini agreement to take effect Monday after initially halting it in July.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The FAA capped output of Boeing’s 737 Max at a rate of 38 per month in the wake of a January 2024 near-catastrophe, in which a door cover blew off during flight.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Bulk shipping and consolidation strategies are emerging as potential tools for businesses looking to simplify their international shipping.

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Strategy 96

Supply Chain Dive

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Construction tools and equipment maker Marshalltown’s $27 million facility investment will feature robotics and automation.

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Procurement Freelancers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Selecting the correct items to sell might be difficult. You hunt vendors for hours, bargain… The post Why Dropshipping is a Lucrative Opportunity for Sourcing Agents first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Procurement Software

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Proving that there is an ROI on procurement software is often tough. Our colleagues in Sales tend to get given whatever they want to facilitate their roles, but we definitely have it tougher. Rather than complain about it, I’m going to explain how to embrace it. It’s all about starting small and building momentum. Make your stakeholders happy on a shoestring budget , and get some small wins that create a snowball effect.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Chinese authorities are looking into the company’s collection of patient data to assess whether it infringed on data privacy laws.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“The Gartner Hype Cycle for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions helps companies understand the maturity and potential of different procurement technologies over time. First introduced to the procurement space around the early 2000s, it categorizes technologies into different phases of the hype cycle: “Innovation Trigger,” “Peak of Inflated Expectations,” “Trough of Disillusionment,” “Slope of Enlightenment,” and “Plateau of Productivity.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

FedEx will use Nimble’s fulfillment centers in North America to expand robotics capabilities and attract more e-commerce customer.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Around the same time I started working earnestly with using self-learning algorithms in the late 1990s, SEO “officially” became a thing. Conceptually, I understood the potential benefits. However, I also understood the risks of using algorithms to search, sort, and control the dissemination of information. It is one of the reasons I thumb my nose at LinkedIn’s algorithmic attempt to limit the distribution of content by penalizing people for things like tagging or including nece

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Advertiser: GEP

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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The Procuretech Podcast

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In this episode of The Procurement Software Podcast, host James welcomes Shaun Syvertsen, CEO of Convergent IS, to discuss how organisations can enhance their procurement processes by improving the user experience of SAP. They delve into the complexities of the system and share insights on how to leverage procurement technology to simplify the intake-to-procure process for companies who use SAP as their ERP.

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