Procurement Templates
JANUARY 5, 2024
UK Agencies, not in any particular order: Michael Page Procurement & Supply Chain Bramwith Consulting Hays Procurement 1st Executive Procurement PeopleCloud Portfolio Procurement Procurement Heads Edbury Daley Reed Procurement & Supply Chain Barclay Meade Procurement & Supply Chain Standing out in a job application process can be challenging, but it’s definitely possible.
Procurement Templates
JANUARY 5, 2024
Creating a comprehensive contract management checklist involves several key steps to ensure effective oversight and compliance. Here’s a detailed checklist you can use: Contract Initiation: Define contract objectives and requirements. Identify stakeholders and their roles. Establish contract terms and conditions. Preparation and Drafting: Create a draft reflecting agreed-upon terms.
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Spend Matters
JANUARY 3, 2024
For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 1, 2024
Physical operations will present the biggest challenge to companies at the beginning of 2024 with the ongoing conflict in the Middle East coupled with climate issues disrupting shipping networks.
Speaker: Benjamin Woll
Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Shopify’s modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how Shopify’s composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 4, 2024
Procurement used to be tasked with a clear and basic mission: Sign up the best suppliers at the cheapest price. Not anymore.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
Rates from Asia to the U.S. East Coast reached $3,900 per FEU in the past week, with additional surcharges to start this month, according to Freightos.
Purchasing & Procurement Zone brings together the best content for professionals in the purchasing and procurement field from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Spend Matters
JANUARY 4, 2024
For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 1, 2024
While recent actions won’t end the issue of forced labor entirely, this may well be a meaningful milestone in the long-running effort.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 4, 2024
Here’s a look at how the technology is making waves in supplier management, predictive analytics and more, from Vroozi's Shaz Khan.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
JANUARY 2, 2024
While nearshoring can be a risk mitigation tool, it’s important for businesses to consider the differences between countries, including cultural, trade and even weather patterns, which can lead to road closures or weight reductions.
Advertiser: GEP
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.
Spend Matters
JANUARY 5, 2024
For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 2, 2024
Warehouse operators can increase the density of their pick operations by installing pick towers and mezzanines within their current facilities, boosting throughput inside their existing building.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 3, 2024
Strategic shifts from both carriers complicate efforts to renew their air transportation contract, which expires in September.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JANUARY 3, 2024
Most everyone has heard of large language models, or LLMs, since generative AI has entered our daily lexicon through its amazing text and image generating capabilities, and its promise as a revolution in how enterprises handle core business functions. Now, more than ever, the thought of talking to AI through a chat interface or have it perform specific tasks for you, is a tangible reality.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
Spend Matters
JANUARY 4, 2024
This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis gives an overview of Opstream’s intake solution. Opstream aims to revolutionize the way companies buy and manage spending through its procurement platform. With a focus on providing full visibility and control over spending before it happens, Opstream offers a self-service, AI-driven system that caters to cross-functional teams and ensures quick implementation.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 4, 2024
The combination of low latency, high bandwidth, massive device connectivity, reliability, and other factors makes 5G technology well-suited for various automation and virtual-enabled technologies across industries.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 3, 2024
Lead times, cost-pressures and geopolitical risks are just a few reasons why companies are making operational changes.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
JANUARY 1, 2024
Supply chain professionals in the global container shipping industry expect more technology investment and positive growth in the market in 2024.
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Spend Matters
JANUARY 5, 2024
Throughout the year our analyst team provides vendor-specific profiles and tech solution analyses as part of Spend Matters Insider content. Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 3, 2024
It's hard to predict what a warehouse will look like in ten years.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 2, 2024
The carrier will lay off an undisclosed number of employees at the facility, which was the center of a brief Teamsters strike threat in December.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
JANUARY 4, 2024
The current economic climate has some similarities to the post-Cold War 1990s, and that means a boom could be on the horizon.
Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja
Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever
Spend Matters
JANUARY 2, 2024
This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters. After the last few tumultuous years, procurement teams are still facing steep challenges in getting ahead of supplier and supply chain risks. Some organizations have opted to invest in new, more robust supplier and third-party risk management (TPRM) systems, while others are optimizing their existing systems.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 1, 2024
A future is coming where environmental stewardship is not just a choice but an absolute necessity.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
To address the rising cost of returns, 44% of retailers have increased return or restocking fees, according to CBRE and Optoro.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JANUARY 5, 2024
Derived from the Greek words for “hidden writing,” cryptography is the science of obscuring transmitted information so that only the intended recipient can interpret it. Since the days of antiquity, the practice of sending secret messages has been common across almost all major civilizations. In modern times, cryptography has become a critical lynchpin of cybersecurity.
Advertiser: GEP
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
Spend Matters
JANUARY 2, 2024
For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 4, 2024
An estimated 181 vessels that were originally supposed to travel through the Suez Canal have been rerouted around Africa since the Houthi attacks began.
Supply Chain Dive
JANUARY 3, 2024
As supply chains transform, teams will need to step out of their siloed functions and focus on organization-wide priorities, Kearney experts write.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
JANUARY 3, 2024
Global trade tensions and continued material shortages will continue to hamper the supply chain in 2024 says a Deloitte forecast.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
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