June, 2021

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Why an integrated supply chain works a lot like a successful football team

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Shortly before the start of the European Football Championship (for our US readers: it’s all about Soccer) this Friday, many Europeans are again feeling the tension and anticipation of this…

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Supplier Diversity: From Checking the Box to Driving Business Strategy

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Part I: Building Business Cases and Driving Momentum. Supplier diversity programs are something many procurement professionals in the United States (U.S.) have accepted as a key element of procurement. These programs are as familiar to procurement professionals as concepts like spend analysis or category management. This mainstream awareness is directly attributable to the U.S.

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What is a Supplier Portal?

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Is there a cost-effective way to effectively manage a supplier database? Procurement teams are always on the hunt for resources that allow them to streamline the vendor management process. That’s why in the world of e-Procurement, one tool that is exceedingly appreciated is the supplier portal. This extremely useful system simplifies supplier management allowing for […].

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How AI Is Tackling Waste in Factories and the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

If we want a world without waste, we might need something other than the human brain to achieve it.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook Report 2025

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.

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6 Generations of Demand Forecasting Software

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In this blog, we will discuss 6 Generations of Demand Forecasting Software, how the logic and algorithms are developed over time. This article is written in collaboration with LOKAD where they have talked about,, “How companies went from using technologies that were fundamentally based on mathematics, which had not changed that much since the 18th.

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Women in Supply Chain: Sheri Hinish Joins Alison Levine and Leaders from SAP, Dr. Pepper Keurig, and Colgate Palmolive

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Tomorrow June 3 - Join me and other leaders from SAP, Keurig Dr Pepper, and Colgate Palmolive in a provocative discussion of empowerment and elements of leadership excellence that can enhance your supply chain career.Keynote remarks from Alison Levine the first American Women's Everest Expedition Team Captain and author of the New York Times bestseller.

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Accounts Payable Metrics That Matter

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The Ultimate Guide for AI in Procurement

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Artificial intelligence always has been, is still, and possibly always will be a very hot topic. From theory to practicality, to cinematic wonder, and otherworldly possibility – artificial intelligence has been the focal point for a lot of great minds across fields and industries, for a long while. Today, though, AI is more heavily practiced […].

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How the Internet of Things Could Help Solve the Chip Shortage

Supply Chain Brain

The recent computer chip shortage has created problems across industries, leading companies to reassess how they mitigate supply chain risk.

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5 Things Startups Must Know Before Launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Minimum Viable Product article and permission to publish here provided by Julia Beyers. Let’s be honest – the modern business climate could not be imagined without startups, but how many of them actually succeed?

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

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.

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Behind the Scenes Look at JAGGAER’s Newest Procurement Expert

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Winning on the Battlefield and Winning in Business

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Ivalua 2021 Supplier Relationships Report

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8 Useful Features in ERP Procurement Modules

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are one of the organizations’ most critical tools today. Estimated to be worth more than $25 billion globally, the ERP software market is thriving – and for due reason. According to Selecthub, 88% of companies acknowledge ERP integration as pivotal in their success with the top reasons for implementing the […].

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From Reactive to Resilient: Charting Your Supply Chain Maturity

In this webinar, supply chain industry experts share insights and best practices for enhancing supply chain efficiency, resilience and adaptability. Watch the webinar to learn strategies to develop supply chain maturity and save on costs. Delve into the stages of supply chain maturity, from foundational management to advanced optimization and innovation.

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Out-of-Control Shipping Costs Fire Up Prices From Coffee to Toys

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The costs are already being passed to consumers.

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What are White Glove Services? All You Need to Know!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Omnichannel Customer Service Best Practices! White glove services article and permission to publish here provided by Christian Cabaluna. The growth of the eCommerce industry redefined the whole meaning of customer satisfaction. A product’s quality and price no longer define how much value a good has.

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Global Dentistry Company Digitizes Its Procurement Processes with JAGGAER

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Labor Shortage, Need for Speed: Why Robots Will Multiply in the Warehouse

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Warehouse automation is becoming more mainstream and affordable for smaller and middle-market e-commerce businesses.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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2021 Manufacturing Trends: Using Technology to Overcome Adversity

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Our third annual trends report offers a picture of the latest challenges and opportunities in the manufacturing industry. As before, our intent is to unlock insights that manufacturing companies can use to better prepare for the year ahead.

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Top U.S. Maritime Regulator Sees Shipping Snarls Lasting to 2022

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The top U.S. maritime regulator said stretched global supply chains pushing ocean-freight rates to record highs may stay strained into 2022, raising concerns about whether small American companies can weather another year of a tangled transport system and much higher costs.

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The Rising Role of Chief Supply Chain Officer

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Recent high-profile events — from COVID-19 to the Suez Canal debacle — have brought the role of chief supply chain officer (CSCO) into the spotlight.

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How Trump’s Trade War Built Shein, China’s First Global Fashion Giant

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Shein is upending a $36 billion industry by using a seemingly ingenious combination of supply-chain savvy, data-driven clothing design and tax loopholes that came to the fore during the U.S. and in China trade war.

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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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Transforming the Procurement Process Through Robotics

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Automation in operations, manufacturing, finance and marketing have enabled significant improvements in productivity. So where does technology go from here? Robotic process automation holds the answer.

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E-Commerce Aggregators Are Spurring a New Kind of Gold Rush

Supply Chain Brain

Investors are pouring billions into successful global marketplace sellers and businesses, providing back-end resources to expand internationally.

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How Energy Intensity Clouds Blockchain’s Future

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If blockchain is ever to fulfill its potential as a reliable way of recording key business transactions, it’s going to have to burn a lot less energy that it does today.

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Watch: How Inefficient Warehouses Are Slowing Global Supply Chains

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Alex Wakefield, chief executive officer of Longbow Advantage, says the inability of warehouses to take full advantage of the data that’s available to them is a greater threat to supply chain continuity than a containership blocking the Suez Canal.

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The Evolution of Control Towers to Command Centers

Are fragmented control towers hindering your supply chain’s growth and response time? Attempting to manage disruptions through various departmental control towers with basic analytic overlays hinders agility and, ultimately, your resiliency. Today’s volatile landscape requires inherent visibility across your entire value chain and the ability to orchestrate course corrections within a unified platform.

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How A Global Technology Consulting Leader Digitized Government Compliant Systems

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Booz Allen Hamilton

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Ivalua Completes the Source-to-Pay Journey with Embedded Global Supplier Payments

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Enabling rapid, cost-effective and transparent supplier payments anywhere in the world. Redwood City, CA, June 30, 2021 – Ivalua, a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions, announces an extension of its source-to-pay platform with a new payments solution to digitize and streamline global supplier payments. Today’s supplier payments remain complex and crucially lack transparency and efficiency that strain supplier relationships, increase transactional costs and cause frustration for all

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Almost Two Thirds of European Suppliers Say Late Payments Put Them at Financial Risk

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Financial impact of COVID-19 has delayed payments and kept focus on cost, but research shows this is adversely affecting supplier relationships and access to innovation. London, UK – 29 th June 2021 – Research from Ivalua , a leading global spend management cloud provider , has revealed almost two thirds (65%) of suppliers feel late payments are putting their company at financial risk.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

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