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How Pharma Cold Chain Requirements Could Change Overtime

All Things Supply Chain

It goes without saying that 2020 has placed stress on numerous sectors.

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5 Types of Supplier Management Tools That Make Life Easier

ProcurePort

The procurement landscape has changed a lot since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) have had to adapt quickly to disruptions in local, regional, and international supply chains. That’s why many have turned to procurement software industry-leaders like ProcurePort for solutions that make life easier. Top of the list has been […].

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Paris 2021 – FR – Source-to-Pay – 3-55pm

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Quels sont les avantages d’intégrer la Comptabilité Fournisseurs au processus Source-to-Pay ? Les jours impayés (DPO) sont l’une des principales mesures financières utilisées pour identifier la santé d’une entreprise. Par conséquent, être capable de contrôler le DPO est un outil puissant pour le directeur financier. Cependant, trop d’organisations sont encore aux prises avec des processus de facturation manuels et des temps de cycle longs qui entraînent des problèmes de D

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New Class of Online Grocery Shoppers Brings Fresh Industry Demands

Supply Chain Brain

Food retailers are in a prime position to capitalize on Covid-related changes in purchasing behavior, and these three digital strategies will help retain customer loyalty in the long term.

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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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Can We Rely on Machine Learning Yet?

All Things Supply Chain

I am no stranger to Machine Learning, since I work for an AI company, which last year brought several machine-learning (ML) applications to various industries globally.

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Agile Procurement: What It Is and How to Implement

ProcurePort

Are you looking for ways to improve your procurement strategy in 2021? There is no doubt that we are living through precarious times that have disrupted local, regional, and global supply chains forcing many procurement officers to find ways to adapt. Procurement is not a static operation and must respond to the shifts in the […]. The post Agile Procurement: What It Is and How to Implement appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Watch: Securing the Vaccine Supply Chain Against Cyber Threats

Supply Chain Brain

Stacy Scott, managing director of the Cyber Risk Practice of Kroll, Inc., explains where vaccine supply chains are most vulnerable to cyber attack, and what steps must be taken to protect them.

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How to Incorporate a Company Online!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Get Our EBook here. Incorporate a company online article and permission to publish here provided by Carenne Johnson. Establishing and incorporating a corporation online may be the best choice for organizing your business. And building up a corporation online is a simple way to register a company.

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How to Manage Vendor Information Effectively

ProcurePort

2020 flew by as fast as it arrived. However, unlike years past, 2020 left a mark. Not just an indent either; 2020 certainly secured itself at least a few pages in the history books to come. One of the major results of the year was a massive acceleration into a more virtual economy. The digital […]. The post How to Manage Vendor Information Effectively appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Paris 2021 – FR – Source-to-Contract Process – 3-55pm

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Créer de la valeur durablement tout au long du processus Source-to-Contract. Le processus source-to-contract est le moment où le décideur Achats identifie et crée de la valeur pour son organisation. Cette série complexe de processus comprend tout, de la gestion des fournisseurs et des catégories aux projets sourcing et négociations de contrats, et souffre souvent d’inefficacité, de mauvaise visibilité, de complexité inutile et d’opportunités manquées.

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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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Podcast | Can We Fix the Broken Vaccine Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Brain

Blame the glitches in rolling out COVID-19 vaccines on any number of factors, but is there a quick solution to the obstacles encountered on the distribution end?

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Difficult Interview Questions and How to Answer Them!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 5 Minute Job Interview Tips for Success! Get Our EBook here. Interview questions article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Coleman. A job interview is a very stressful event where people need to present themselves in the best way possible to get the desired job. At the same moment, firms want to select the most qualified workers.

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Transforming the Grocery Shopping Experience with Last Mile Delivery

Solvoyo

It was mid-March when my flatmate and I burst into a panic as the first cases of COVID-19 were officially announced. Both of the companies we were working for abruptly told us to stay home and work remotely. In several days, the lockdown period started, and we were so anxious that we could neither buy any groceries from supermarkets nor order food from restaurants. .

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Paris 2021 – EN – Source-to-Pay – 3-55pm

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The benefits of embedding Accounts Payable within the Source-to-Pay journey. Days payable outstanding (DPO) is one of the key financial measurements used to identify the health of an organization. Therefore, being able to control DPO is a powerful tool in the Chief Finance Officer toolkit. However, too many organizations are still saddled with manual Invoice processes and long cycle times that results in DPO challenges.

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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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Six Ways to Manage Risk in the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Risk management is mandatory for any company that seeks to ensure continuity and achieve long-term success.

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The Supply Chain Detective™ and the Holiday Readiness Catastrophe!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Get OUR EBOOKS HERE. It was our first Holiday season working in Retail. From a Supply Chain perspective the pressure was intense. Despite massive investments the previous year and repeated assurances of Holiday readiness from the incumbent staff the entire experience was disastrous.

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Building Resilient Supply Chains through AI Led Digital Transformation

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

Supplier Risk Management. Enterprises are actively reviewing their supply chain strategy according to the highest importance following the unprecedented disruption caused by the Covid 19 pandemic’s unprecedented disruption. From a risk management and vaccine distribution point of view, the supply chain will continue to be a CXO priority as we step into 2021.

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Paris 2021 – EN – Keynote Bertrand Piccard – 4-35pm

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Closing Keynote by Bertrand Piccard: How to achieve the impossible? The impossible is not in the reality but in our own way of thinking. Therefore, we need to change our believes if we want to find new solutions. Bertrand Piccard. Explorer, Psychiatrist, Inspirational speaker, Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation. The post Paris 2021 – EN – Keynote Bertrand Piccard – 4-35pm appeared first on Ivalua.

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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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Rogue Captain’s Mid-Ocean Detour Tips Investors to Crisis at Sea

Supply Chain Brain

In one of the most hidden horrors of the pandemic, cargo ships turned almost overnight from engines of global commerce into floating prisons.

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How to Optimize Inventory Management for eCommerce

EazyStock

Better Inventory Management for eCommerce. The growth of eCommerce in 2020 was phenomenal as more customers, B2B and B2C alike, shopped online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Q3 of 2020 Amazon reported sales up 37% year-on-year, with eBay close behind at 25%. Forrester projects that B2B eCommerce transactions will reach $1.8 trillion by 2023 , indicating a need for more robust online sales strategies.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 01/29/2021 – 02/04/2021

All Things Supply Chain

DHL Supply Chain sets new industry standard in e-commerce with its European Fulfilment Network The e-commerce boom during the global COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for mail order and…

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Paris 2021 – FR – Keynote natacha 2-20pm

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De la reconstruction à la renaissance: comment la fonction Achats peut-elle contribuer à la relance économique ? On ne peut plus faire de copier-coller du passé, la crise Covid a mis en lumière l’impérieuse nécessité de repenser les Business Models des entreprises. Quelles sont les tendances clés futures et comment impactent-elle les Business Model ?

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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Watch: How the Hybrid Store Format Will Transform Retail

Supply Chain Brain

Retail stores are increasingly adopting a hybrid model, whereby they accommodate both in-store shoppers and the fulfillment of e-commerce orders, according to John Morris, retail and industrial & logistics leader, and Melina Cordero, managing director for retail capital markets, with CBRE.

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The Future of Temperature Controlled Logistics

The Network Effect

The post The Future of Temperature Controlled Logistics appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Large-scale Sourcing Cheat Sheet: Essential Guide to Sourcing Optimization

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

Despite sourcing being central to supply chain and procurement processes and the business as a whole, it continues to take a backseat in most organizations’ digital transformation priorities. However, in a worrying trend, 1 in 3 organizations isn’t sure where to start digitalizing their sourcing & procurement processes, despite nearly 84% admitting its criticality. .

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Paris 2021 – FR – Rolls Royce Keynote 3-25pm

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Rolls Royce : Comment la science comportementale favorise-t-elle l’adoption des plateformes digitales ? Le plein potentiel d’une digitalisation ne s’atteint pas simplement grâce à l’implémentation d’une nouvelle plateforme, mais plutôt grâce à des changements de comportement rendus possibles par cette technologie. Une gestion du changement réussie est toujours un défi, mais elle l’est d’autant plus dans les moments difficiles où les employés ont beaucoup de préoccupations, pas uniquement liées a

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How Hellenic Bank Transformed Its Indirect Procurement Operations With GEP Software

Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.

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Freight-Cost Pain Intensifies as Pandemic Rocks Ocean Shipping

Supply Chain Brain

Soaring freight rates and delivery delays have sparked a global backlash by companies frustrated about the destructive mix of deteriorating service and higher ocean shipping costs.

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Procurement in the Non-Profit Sector: Verity White of The Prince's Trust

ProtoCast

Much is published about how procurement's different challenges manifest themselves in the public sector. However, procurement in the non-profit sector is only really starting to emerge from its perception as being an administrative and tactical function. Growing procurement into a strategically minded organisation in the charity sector has many challenges: How do you attract capable, experienced employees when you can't compete on salaries?

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What Has Coronavirus Taught Us about Managing Supply in Healthcare?

Jaggaer

The post What Has Coronavirus Taught Us about Managing Supply in Healthcare? appeared first on JAGGAER.

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Paris 2021 – FR – Panel Discussion – CPOs- 3-45pm

ivalua

Table ronde : La vision des CPOs pour propager l’innovation au sein de l’entreprise. Le principal obstacle à l’innovation est… le succès ! Les contraintes et les crises incitent à l’innovation ! La crise COVID en remettant en question l’avantage concurrentiel des entreprises, la solidité et résilience de leur Supply Chain, leurs relations avec leurs clients et leurs fournisseurs… s’avère être un formidable accélérateur d’innovations.

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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.