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 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.
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.
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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
The alliance-like structure with Maersk will include some unique arrangements, but two carriers should be sufficient, the shipping executive said.
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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
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 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.
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.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
Forget about the omnichannel. We're living in the world of "channel-free" logistics, says Bill Thayer, founder and chief executive officer of Fillogic.
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