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Justice Department to Charge Boeing, Seeks Guilty Plea from Planemaker

Supply Chain Brain

Boeing will have until July 5 to decide whether to plead guilty to the charges, the department told the families of victims of two fatal 737 Max crashes and their attorneys in a meeting June 30.

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All About Relationships: Changing Your Mindset for Better Procurement

Art of Procurement

The speed of business is dramatically accelerating. Procurement teams need to be able to react quickly and pivot within their. The post All About Relationships: Changing Your Mindset for Better Procurement appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Logistics Resource Management: Optimizing Your Drivers, Fleet and Delivery Routes

Supply Chain Brain

In this ebook, Aptean presents a comprehensive guide to leveraging advanced resource management techniques within logistics operations. Discover how strategic resource optimization can significantly enhance efficiency and profitability across your entire fleet and logistics network.

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Do you need a better approach to trading partner collaboration?

Supply Chain Brain

Learn how the SAP Business Network solution determines how non-networked organizations and businesses can best collaborate with their suppliers by understanding the challenges and benefits of participating in a multi-enterprise business network.

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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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Mabe: Making supply chain collaboration more efficient and agile

Supply Chain Brain

Discover how household appliances manufacturer Mabe is enabling better collaboration with its suppliers using a cloud-based business network for real-time data sharing and workflow management.

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Automate and Optimize Production Planning One Step at a Time

Supply Chain Brain

Gain insights into how you can transform your supply chain to be more resilient, responsive, and competitive in today's dynamic market with the whitepaper, 'Automate and Optimize Production Planning One Step at a Time'.

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B2B commerce networks: The top 5 benefits of digitizing your supplier network.

Supply Chain Brain

Learn how a B2B commerce network is a critical pillar to enable business resiliency, agility, speed to market, and the achievement of your suppliers aligned with your sustainability objectives.

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Case Study: High Ridge Brands Sees 20% Cost Reduction with Integrated Supply Chain Solution

Supply Chain Brain

High Ridge Brands (HRB) was experiencing supply chain challenges and faced escalating retail compliance charges, communication issues across multiple third-party logistics providers (3PLs), and rising transportation costs, prompting a need for streamlined operations. HRB looked to ODW Logistics for a supply chain solution, aiming to integrate warehousing and transportation management.

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Three Mistakes Procurement Makes in Category Management

Supply Chain Brain

In the paper, "Three Mistakes Executives Make in Category Management", we explore what you should and should not be doing, provide key questions for Procurement to consider, and share a capabilities checklist for category management to deliver on its promise.

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Evaluating AI Use Cases and Adoption Strategies for Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

In this webinar, procurement technology experts from Spend Matters and the SAP Ariba team share how advancements in AI are being used right now and attendees will walk away with a summary of real-life source-to-pay use cases that are or can be enhanced by AI.

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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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What’s Keeping CPOs Up at Night?

Supply Chain Brain

Disruption in supply chains, rising costs, and continued uncertainty has put more pressure on Procurement – and inevitably, created a few sleepless nights.

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Blue Diamond Growers: Digitalizing the world’s largest almond cooperative

Supply Chain Brain

Learn how Blue Diamond Growers is Integrating solutions to digitalize their supply chain to be an intelligent, data-driven organization thanks to SAP solutions.

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Four Warehouse-Optimization Tips for Manufacturers

Supply Chain Brain

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the overall annual turnover rate for warehousing, transportation and utilities is a massive 53%.

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The U.S.-China Trade War Heats Up, And Businesses Move to Adjust

Supply Chain Brain

The “quiet” trade war that has been underway between the U.S. and China for a few years now is getting louder.

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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

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IDC white paper - Enabling an Adaptive Supply Chain: Multi-Enterprise Business Networks & Supplier Collaboration

Supply Chain Brain

Download your IDC Spotlight to learn how to react quickly to supply chain disruptions, use tools to improve collaboration with suppliers and increase supply chain visibility using a bu siness network.

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Procurement: A Force for Change, Six Priorities for Procurement Leaders in 2024

Supply Chain Brain

Every leader wants to be a strategic partner. But few know how.

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Expanding Automation Beyond Robotics: Five Ways To Drive Supply Chain Success

Supply Chain Brain

Leap ahead of your competition! This eye-opening report reveals keys to expanding automation beyond robotics.

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Spend Matters discussion of AI in Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

Now’s the time to get savvy. And we’ve got just the right guide to help you.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

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.

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Watch: Supply Chains in a World of Disruption

Supply Chain Brain

Disruptions will continue, so supply chains must be resilient, and artificial intelligence can help, says Volker Albrecht, chief executive officer of Siemens Digital Logistics.

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Vietnam Air Gets Loan Extension to Avoid Insolvency Risk

Supply Chain Brain

The company will focus on restructuring its assets, capital, investment portfolio and organizational structure as well as corporate governance reforms.

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