Mon.Jan 15, 2024

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Remember the Mall? Now, it’s a Fulfillment Center, and More

Supply Chain Brain

What’s particularly attractive about shopping malls is that they offer the possibility of creating a hybrid facility that combines logistics and fulfillment activities with in-person activities for shoppers.

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Pick a 3PL That Can Grow With Your Business

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

The use of a 3PL offers flexibility and scalability while bringing fulfillment and distribution expertise and at the ready software systems. But just like not all brands make every consumer product in their vertical, let alone in the market, not all 3PLs are set up for all logistics business models.

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Majority of Suppliers Expect More Disruptions Over the Next Two Years

Supply Chain Brain

The survey showed that 53% of organizations are investing in resources to develop and maintain programs that prepare a company for significant supply chain disruptions.

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New Year Insights for the procurement solutions and services marketplace 2024: mdf commerce

Spend Matters

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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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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U.S.-Owned Cargo Ship Near Yemen Hit by Missile

Supply Chain Brain

The situation is even causing a rise in demand for shipping containers in Asia as shippers and forwarders foresee cargo demand in the coming weeks.

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Data Semantics: Vendor Analysis — AP Automation solution overview, roadmap, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary

Spend Matters

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Data Semantics and its solution for AP automation. AP automation systems bring efficiency to the often tedious and manual process of accounts payable. They streamline the entire workflow, from invoice processing to payment, thereby reducing the risk of errors and saving valuable time and resources.

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Unlocking value: Top digital transformation trends

IBM Supply Chain Blog

While digital transformation has been a trend for some years, emerging technologies have made this movement even more important. Companies are rethinking their business models to become more digital and competitive. They face an ever-increasing cadre of startups and established organizations, all of whom are also trying to keep up to date on digital transformation trends to achieve a competitive edge.

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Understanding ABC Analysis for Better Inventory Management

Finale Inventory

Did you know that by effectively managing stock, businesses can achieve a significant 10% reduction in inventory costs ? In the ecommerce industry, where decisions can make a huge impact on profits, it’s essential to have streamlined inventory management. ABC analysis is an inventory categorization approach that can help every seller manage their inventory better.

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How IBM process mining unleashed new efficiencies in BoB-Cardif Life

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Enterprises now recognize the importance of leveraging innovative technologies to drive digital transformation and achieve cost efficiency. However, a lack of precise top-level planning and a narrow focus on technology without integration with business needs led to significant investments with suboptimal results for many companies. The path of digital transformation is fraught with challenges.

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How to Leverage New Products to Get a “Deal”

Negotiations Ninja

A vendor like Microsoft or Salesforce wants the adoption and utilization of their products—especially the new ones. The “new” things must be deployed well as a new revenue stream. The deployment and buy-in usually fall on salespeople.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

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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5 key areas for governments to responsibly deploy generative AI

IBM Supply Chain Blog

In 2024, the ongoing process of digitalization further enhances the efficiency of government programs and the effectiveness of policies, as detailed in a previous white paper. Two critical elements driving this digital transformation are data and artificial intelligence (AI). AI plays a pivotal role in unlocking value from data and gaining deeper insights into the extensive information that governments collect to serve their citizens.

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Inventory Optimization: How Can You Tell How Close to Optimal You Are?

Supply Chain Brain

Inventory optimization is a phrase much used and abused. The honest minority of supply chain professionals will admit that they don’t objectively know what "good" looks like.

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Why Is There An Increasing Demand For Freelance Procurement Jobs

Procurement Freelancers

Procurement is soul of the business process for any organization.

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385: Make The Right Decisions For Your Supply Chain, with GAINS

Let's Talk Supply Chain

 Today I’m joined, for the second time, by GAINS – a long-standing supply chain tech company that is on a mission to democratize supply chain planning, with a platform that helps businesses large and small to move forward faster with greater agility, resilience, confidence, and sustainability. GAINS is the supply chain performance optimization company.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

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