Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 5, 2024
The world’s major ocean container lines can’t get enough of big new ships — never mind the threat of severe overcapacity and a resulting downward pressure on freight rates.
Spend Matters
MARCH 5, 2024
Today Spend Matters is delighted to announce the release of its Spring 2024 SolutionMap and TechMatch℠ procurement technology rankings, which include 79 procurement technology vendors. Known as the most data-centric functionality assessment of procurement technologies in the industry, SolutionMap Insider put these 79 procurement technology vendors through rigorous functionality and capability assessments via 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories, with mandatory demos and
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Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 5, 2024
Supply chain sustainability might once have once seemed like a luxury: nice to have, but not a strategic imperative. Those days are over.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
MARCH 5, 2024
The long history of academia, industry and students working together to create supply chain solutions has never been more important as complexity increases.
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.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 5, 2024
The shift is Whirlpool’s latest effort to overhaul its more than century-old business as consumers pull back on large purchases following the upheaval of the pandemic.
Supply Chain Dive
MARCH 5, 2024
Lordstown misrepresented its timeline for delivering the Endurance electric pickup truck by failing to account for production delays due to parts problems, the SEC said.
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Supply Chain Dive
MARCH 5, 2024
The alliance-like structure with Maersk will include some unique arrangements, but two carriers should be sufficient, the shipping executive said.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 5, 2024
Supply Chain leaders face increasing expectations around their supply chain's sustainability performance from regulators and other stakeholders, while cost savings and business growth remain key priorities.
Supply Chain Dive
MARCH 5, 2024
The oat milk maker is gaining more market share and saw profit margins improve after scaling down its operations.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 5, 2024
The company has previously sponsored the restoration of the Apollo basin in the gardens of the Versailles Palace and the renovation of the Musee National de la Marine.
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.
Procurement Insights
MARCH 5, 2024
“Delighted to launch our first End-to-End Supply Chain graduate programme. Please share with anyone in your personal or professional network who might be interested” – Stuart Nicholas , Global End-to-End Supply Chain Strategy & Transformation Director – Costa Coffee (The Coca-Cola Company) “Our brand new, 2-year rotational programme starts in January 2024 and provides a fantastic opportunity to build a career in Supply Chain through placements in areas including
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 5, 2024
This brings the number of months of consecutive growth to 19, mainly driven by companies buying vehicles for use by their employees.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
MARCH 5, 2024
The Services PMI, at 52.6 (a reading of 50 or higher signals growth), fell 0.8% in February, while growing, at a slower rate, for the 14th consecutive month. This marks growth in 44 of the last 45 months, with December 2022 being the one month with a decline over that period.
Una
MARCH 5, 2024
EPISODE 155 Don't Get Fired with Mark Grieco By Kelly Barner | March 6, 2024 Procurement professionals constantly find themselves in a tough spot, multiple cost and non-cost based objectives to hit, stakeholders to appease, suppliers to wrangle with, and that is just the beginning. They’re also finding ways to do all of the above in a work environment where we have less in-person access to their colleagues.
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
Supply Chain Dive
MARCH 5, 2024
The footwear brand plans to double capacity in the next three years, spending tens of millions of dollars along the way.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 5, 2024
For Target and other retailers, paid memberships are valuable because they bring in additional revenue and deepen loyalty among its customers.
Positive Purchasing
MARCH 5, 2024
Approach Purchasing and Procurement Strategically, Effectively and Sustainably with Category Management. Category Management in Purchasing will help you source strategically and deliver profitability and new supply-side value effectively with a step-by-step guide to the tools, techniques and application of category management. Now in its fifth edition, this highly regarded and essential text provides what everyone in procurement needs when striving to make category management a reality.
Procurement Software
MARCH 5, 2024
Hot diggity dawg! US procurement startups are killing it. There are so many, in fact, that we expanded our article to include 25 of them. What started out as a top 10 article quickly became obvious that we needed to cover more! It’s no surprise that in the home of big tech, Silicon Valley and seemingly endless VC investors, there’s a thriving and diverse procurement tech ecosystem.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 5, 2024
Forget about the omnichannel. We're living in the world of "channel-free" logistics, says Bill Thayer, founder and chief executive officer of Fillogic.
Una
MARCH 5, 2024
Finding Purpose In and Through Procurement Lessons from Ikigai and considering procurement’s true value in the world and the joy that can be found when contributing to it. By Mackenzie Oakley | March 5, 2024 Search Search Finding purpose, meaning, and balance can bring great benefit to your professional and personal life, but contemplation of this sort often ends up overshadowed by more “important” demands of the day.
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