Fri.Oct 18, 2024

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GM invests $625M in lithium production capacity

Supply Chain Dive

The automaker is partnering with Lithium Americas to develop the Thacker Pass Mine in Nevada, where GM agreed to buy up to 100% of lithium produced for 20 years.

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“I Had To Jon, There Was No Money Or Management”

Procurement Insights

Is another Solution Map Star falling? The following is a message I wrote to someone in our industry for whom I have great respect. I will not provide specific details because of respect for this individual and the solution provider they worked with. But I will say that this was a needless occurrence brought on by the fear of getting left behind in the GenAI “Hype Cycle.” A cycle in which solution providers were given little choice but to proclaim “we are now a GenAI companyR

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Honda supply chain woes had little impact on September sales

Supply Chain Dive

While the disruptions from Hurricane Helene have subsided, retooling efforts for Ohio EV production are still hampering its manufacturing activity.

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Oxfam Files Formal UN Complaint Against Amazon, Walmart’s ‘Systematic Human Rights Violations’

Supply Chain Brain

The organization has support in its allegations from a number of other groups and two anonymized employees — one from Walmart and one from Amazon.

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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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Levi Strauss taps Maersk for fulfillment and logistics

Supply Chain Dive

The logistics provider opened an omnichannel facility in Ohio to service Levi’s wholesale, retail and e-commerce channels.

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Cultivating an AI Mindset: AI-Collaboration

Supply Chain Trend

AI is infiltrating our personal lives and the workplace, and soon will be everywhere and irreplaceable in everything you do. At home and in the workplace. Developing and cultivating an AI Mindset will become a must for the modern knowledge worker. In a series of short blogs, I will explore core elements of an AI mindset. In this blog; Collaboration.

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CPO Rising Listicle: Replacing an Incumbent Supplier? Here are Six Considerations

CPO Rising

Fridays (in 2024) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help… The post CPO Rising Listicle: Replacing an Incumbent Supplier? Here are Six Considerations appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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Procurement 6 – October 18th, 2024

Art of Procurement

Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – October 18th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Emerj: Driving Analytics Efficiencies and Insights in F&B Procurement

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This interview analysis is sponsored by Arkestro and was written, edited, and published in alignment with our Emerj sponsored content guidelines.

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Why should problem-solvers versus PR/Marketing and Sales people be the ones to take the lead in giving demos?

Procurement Insights

(NOTE: This is a spontaneous and unedited video in which the solution provider had no advance notice of the questions or format) Watch this video to learn why. Backgrounder: I am choosing 5 or 6 solution providers with whom to work because I am tired of the marketing/PR-filtered industry narrative and the decades-long 80% rate of initiative failure.

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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.