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Supply Chain Sustainability: If a leopard can’t change its spots, can supply chains ever be sustainable?

All Things Supply Chain

They say a leopard can’t change its spots but if they could, how would they change them? What color would the spots be?

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Top 6 Reasons to Automate Source to Pay for Oil, Gas and Energy

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The future of the Oil, Gas and Energy promises to be highly dynamic. Production and operations in the oil, gas and energy sector are typically high-cost, high-risk and capital-intensive. Effective management of safety, deep collaboration with field suppliers and engineers, and reducing supplier risk is crucial to optimizing performance. Companies will face a variety of short and long-term challenges, such as balancing the effects of downward prices, output cuts, movement of demand to alternative

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7 Reasons to Hire on Contract for Supply Chain!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Hiring Mistakes in Supply Chain! (Infographic). Hire on Contract article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Sam White at argentus.com. Economists have done a lot of analysis on the rise of the so-called “gig economy.” More workers are using short-term contracts and other forms of employment to provide additional income to supplement or replace permanent jobs – think Uber, DoorDash, etc.

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Coronavirus: Considerations for an Emergency Supply-Chain Response Plan

Supply Chain Brain

As the outbreak continues to develop, manufacturers should consider actions to mitigate risk and prepare for how they’ll deal with material shortages and other disruptions.

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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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The Coronavirus and the Supply Chain

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The post The Coronavirus and the Supply Chain appeared first on The Network Effect.

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A Humble 2020 Procurement Resolution – Transform the World 

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As we entered the new year, many of us no doubt set personal resolutions (64.6% of adult Americans according to a recent survey ). Lose a few pounds. Save a little more each month. We do the same at work, typically in the form of MBOs. For Procurement leaders, that typically translates into saving a few percent here. Improving efficiency by some level.

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In Global Logistics, Orchestration Is the New Visibility

Supply Chain Brain

We’re all familiar with the “one-click” consumer experience. When will logistics daily work interfaces catch up?

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It’s Not Dumb If It Works: Why Autonomous Procurement is a Really Smart Idea

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As talk of “ autonomous procurement ” increases , critics are quick to dismiss the idea. However, some of these doubts might be a bit preemptive. Over the next five to ten years, procurement will be largely reimagined as technology continues to advance. Autonomous procurement is coming and leaders will embrace it. . What is autonomous procurement?

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Durvah ITC

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DURVAH is an emerging IT Consulting, Solutions & Services Company, driven by passion to deliver it’s offerings beyond Customer’s expectations. Founded in 2016, DURVAH is progressing quickly in making its mark in Indian market and meticulously spreading operations globally. Our approach is to first understand customer’s business and then apply suitable technology, services and solutions to provide our customers a significant market edge.

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Work from Home in a Coronavirus World!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Coronavirus Exposes Global Supply Chain Fragility! The spread of the Coronavirus has sent shock waves around the world. As of early March, 2020 there are over 100,000 cases and over 3000 deaths. While the virus originated in China, where the majority of the cases are, there are now almost 100 countries declaring they have at least one case in their country.

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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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How Do We Hasten Supply-Chain Digitization?

Supply Chain Brain

Digitizing the supply chain has huge implications for companies that step forward, and for businesses throughout the world.

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Executive Insight: Michelle Charpentier #WSW

Ms. Category Management

Executive Interview with Michelle Charpentier, Senior Director at BioMarin (lead to Financial S2P process, Global Sourcing and Travel.

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Axbility

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Axbility Consulting is a major player in management consulting with 215 consultants for a turnover of $31 million. Axbility Consulting assists the main large companies in the digital transformation of their organizations and their information systems. We offer our clients consulting services with high added value : – Operational Strategy & Digital Transformation Plan. – Transformation of organizations & managerial agility. – Operational Excellence & Digitalization o

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Spend Aggregation Obstacle Course for Procurement!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Procurement – How to Enable Spend Aggregation! . The theory is simple! If you can increase spend levels through centralized spend aggregation across entities then you increase your leverage in negotiations. This leverage should translate to lower costs and better terms and conditions.

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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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Will Robots Destroy the Gig Economy?

Supply Chain Brain

Many worry that the much-ballyhooed gig economy is merely a stepping stone to a time when all of those jobs will be performed by robots. But don’t tell that to Brett Helling.

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Category-based Procurement

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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. when should I use it? And what challenges will I face? Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. The Strategic Nature of Focusing on a Category. 3. Typical Steps Associated with Category Purchasing. 4. Project and Category Procurement Differences. 5. Category-based Procurement Examples. 6. The Inherent Challenges of Category-based Procurement. 7.

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Washington – Jyotsna Loomba, Fatma Laidioui

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Customer Keynote: 05/04/2020 – 3:00-5:00pm. The Do’s and Don’ts of Workflows | Jyotsna Loomba & Fatma Laidioui. Learn the Do’s and Don’ts of configuring a workflow. Specific use cases will be described such as hierarchical, parallel, integration and how to stop a workflow. Additional topics discussed include Linking workflows together, rejecting workflows and loops.

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Artificial Intelligence in Energy Management! (Infographic)

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Internet of Things (IoT) – Welcome the Digital Supply Chain! Artificial Intelligence in Energy Management article originally published at [link]. Permission to publish here provided by Daisy Welch. When you think of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, you might think of freaky, futuristic robots.

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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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The Global Supply Chain in a Public Health Emergency

Supply Chain Brain

Three major innovations have shifted the global supply chain into hyperdrive.

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Welcome To The Procuretech Podcast

The Procuretech Podcast

If you've just found us and want to learn more about what The Procuretech Podcast is all about, our inaugural episode does just that. It's a solo episode with just me, outlining what to expect from the series and from future episodes. Technology is having an ever-more important impact on our lives. It's a golden opportunity for us in the procurement function to have our moment in the spotlight and grab the C-Suite's attention.

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Washington – Laurence Michali, Sanket Shah

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Customer Keynote: 05/04/2020 – 3:00-5:00pm. Managing Tax Systems | Laurence Michali & Sanket Shah. We will focus on the various tax systems across geographical regions and how to manage them in Ivalua. You will learn how to configure the Ivalua solution to make tax management quick and easy for your user. We will also show how tax can be handled in electronic invoicing (CXML/EDI).

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To Centralize or to Decentralize? That is the Organization Design Question!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Outsourcing Sourcing! 5 Lessons from Around the Globe! . It seems that every time there is a Management change in an organization there is movement to change the existing organization structure. In some cases your Function or company is decentralized and new management wants to centralize everything.

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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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Category-based Procurement

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When should I use it? And what challenges will I face? Introduction. This is the third article in a series. The first two articles covering Bespoke Procurement and Project-based procurement. Category procurement is perhaps the most common break down for. Procurement teams and certainly is the most focused on in terms of. written articles. Often these articles are focused on specific. categories and their respective challenges.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 03/06/20 – 03/12/20

All Things Supply Chain

U.S. travel ban is expected to snarl trans-Atlantic airfreight The U.S.

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Washington – Nicolas Lievain, Naoto Kawabe

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Customer Keynote: 05/04/2020 – 1:00-3:00pm. Discovering the PBI User Experience | Nicolas Lievain & Naoto Kawabe. V162 is a major improvement for PBI and how you will create your analysis. Come discover the PBI user experience, new canvas system, report best practices, how to embed your reports in other screens, how to transport configuration, a migration perspective, and more!

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Washington – Thomas Le Ponner, Shweta Akhila

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Customer Keynote: 05/04/2020 – 1:00-3:00pm. Building an Executive Summary | Thomas Le Ponner & Shweta Akhila. The purpose of an executive summary is to communicate the What, Why and How of a topic in a concise manner, giving an overview of the material without having to dive into details. We will demonstrate how our Customers can build their own contract executive summary.

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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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Washington – Thomas Le Ponner, Shweta Akhila – Improving UX

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Customer Keynote: 05/04/2020 – 3:00-5:00pm. Improving User Experience Through Advanced Design Mode | Thomas Le Ponner & Shweta Akhila. Our main focus will be showcasing the most commonly used advanced design properties employed during Ivalua implementation projects. These properties are meant to improve user experience and to leverage standard configuration capabilities to address complex business requirements.

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Washington 2020 – Christophe & Jyotsna

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Customer Keynote: 05/04/2020 – 1:00-3:00pm. Learning Risk Center and NEW 360 Vision. Learn about our exciting, NEW Risk Center feature which provides one unique scorecard to give risk managers a 360 degree vision of supplier risk. You will learn how to use and configure the Risk Center, manage different risk factors (financial, compliance, security, operational), and how to leverage the questionnaire component of the Ivalua Solution across the application – for your Supplier Evaluati

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Washington – Nathalie Otala, Jim Demarco

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Customer Keynote: 05/04/2020. To be determined. Details coming soon. The post Washington – Nathalie Otala, Jim Demarco appeared first on Ivalua.

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IWD 2020 Celebrating Women in Procurement

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As we prepare to mark International Women’s Day (Wednesday, March 8th), we reached into our network of impressive female procurement executives, consultants, and thought leaders. They provided us with frank insights about the unique opportunities for impact within procurement, what we can do to make procurement a more inclusive profession, and – most importantly – why they LOVE procurement. .

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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.