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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 12/4/2020 – 12/10/2020

All Things Supply Chain

Hackers target vaccine cold chain distribution network New research suggests that hackers are escalating attacks on the distribution networks of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Category Management Tactics and Execution

ProcurePort

No matter who is playing, a chess match is played one move at a time. However, the greats, the grandmasters and prodigy’s, they all play these matches far, far more quickly than that. See, in the mental landscape of a chess grandmaster, they are likely playing the game 10 or 15, or even 20 moves […]. The post Category Management Tactics and Execution appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Ivalua and Tealbook Partner to Solve The Pain Points Around Poor Supplier Information

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Offering customers a market leading source-to-pay platform coupled with powerful supplier discovery, diversity and data enrichment from Tealbook. Redwood City, CA –December 8, 2020 — Ivalua , a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions and Tealbook Inc. , the ‘Trusted Source of Supplier Data’ today announced a new partnership to provide a seamless experience between Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay Platform and Tealbook’s Supplier Intelligence Platform.

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Three Lessons for the Food Industry in 2021

Supply Chain Brain

COVID-19 has taught the food industry some important lessons about modernizing quality, safety and vendor management.

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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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Three essential trends driving Asia Pacific e-commerce automotive aftermarket size by 2026

All Things Supply Chain

The Asia Pacific e-commerce automotive aftermarket is poised to record substantial gains owing to increasing automotive part sales in the region.

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Inventory Management vs Product Information Management (PIM)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Product (or Master) Data Management? Get Our EBOOK HERE. The following Product Information Management (PIM) article was written by guest author Alex Borzo, a content contributor at Amber Engine , a software company passionate about eCommerce. The company’s fast and simple PIM software gets sellers, distributors and brands to market in weeks instead of months.

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Three Route-Planning Basics for Large-Scale Retailers

Supply Chain Brain

As retail operations grow increasingly complex, delivery planning becomes a crucial part of the entire logistics supply chain.

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10 Commandments of Inventory Management

All Things Supply Chain

Amongst the primary operations of running a supply chain department is inventory management. It is a crucial responsibility that could either break or make a business.

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6 Techniques to Reduce Last Mile Delivery Costs!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Last Mile Delivery Explained! (Infographic). Get OUR EBOOKS HERE. Reduce last mile delivery costs article and permission to publish here provided by R. Kamalesh. Last mile deliveries are one of the major costs that companies bear when it comes to breaking down the costs of the supply chain as a whole.

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Emerging Procurement & Supply Chain Issues from COVID-19 and the Lessons Learned

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The post Emerging Procurement & Supply Chain Issues from COVID-19 and the Lessons Learned appeared first on Ivalua.

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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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How Digital Twins Can Help Boost Logistics Performance

Supply Chain Brain

A powerful new streaming data software technique can provide the insights needed to answer critical questions for logistics providers.

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Driving Dock Efficiency with a Yard Management System

FourKites

Dock workers are the backbone of the yard. Without them, goods don’t make it in or out of a trailer. But when it comes to visibility, dock workers aren’t typically given the foresight they need to do their jobs efficiently. That’s where a yard management system can help. Let’s take a look at the common dock management problems in the yard to better understand how a YMS can alleviate many of those day-to-day pain points.

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How to Get Great Amazon Reviews!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How to Sell on Amazon! The Complete Guide! Amazon reviews article and permission to publish here provided by Susan Melony. When you have a product you sell on Amazon, the whole package is important, quite literally. Customers have thousands of options at their fingertips in any given product category, and that means they can be discerning.

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AMER 2021 – Jorge Pont – Google

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Jorge Pont Director, Commodity Management – Memory, CPU/GPU/OEM H/W, Google Cloud. Jorge and his team work with the Google data center platforms engineering teams selecting. memory and processor technology and suppliers. He manages the memory and processor. supply chain, including supplier selection, negotiation of business and other terms, and. management of quality, cost, and supply.

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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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A Dangerous Level of Dependence Binds China and U.S. Farmers

Supply Chain Brain

Measured by the bushel, the U.S.-China relationship has never been stronger.

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Inventory Carrying Cost: What It Is, How to Calculate It and How to Reduce It

FourKites

What is inventory carrying cost? Inventory carrying cost, or more simply referred to as “carrying cost,” is the sum of all the costs associated with holding inventory or stock in storage or warehouse. It includes hard costs like your investment in the product, physical warehouse or storage space, transportation and distribution fees, as well as soft costs like taxes, insurance and the personnel needed to manage the product.

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Why Get a Product Sourcing Agent?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Importing From China! The Essential Guide! Get OUR EBOOKS HERE. Product Sourcing Agent article and permission to publish here provided by Joyce Chen at Epic Sourcing. When starting your importation business, finding the primary resources required is one of the first and most vital steps.

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Amer 2021 – Cleveland – Speaker

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John D. McCullough CPHIMS, RHIA, MBA, Interim Associate Chief Information Officer & Executive Director, ITD Digital Business Applications. John D. McCullough, CPHIMS, RHIA, MBA is the Domain Lead of ITD Digital Business. Applications at Cleveland Clinic. He leads a team of caregivers charged with advancing. and transforming enterprise administrative systems, including revenue cycle, patient. access, enterprise content management, service management and data integration.

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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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Can a Dual-Use Strategy Save the Struggling Shopping Mall?

Supply Chain Brain

Lou Conforti sees no reason why a shopping mall can’t contain both traditional brick-and-mortar stores and last-mile fulfillment operations for online purchases.

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How To Adopt a Customer-Driven Supply Chain Strategy

FourKites

What is a customer-focused supply chain? Having a customer-focused supply chain essentially means meeting the customer on their terms, rather than making them settle for yours. It’s about promoting transparency and sharing information with your customers proactively, without making them dial into your helpdesk or support team. For example, many of our customers use tools like FourKites Notification Rules, encrypted links and watcher settings to simultaneously alert key stakeholders both within t

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The Economic Impact of the Pandemic: Survival of the Most Adaptable

Jaggaer

The post The Economic Impact of the Pandemic: Survival of the Most Adaptable appeared first on JAGGAER.

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Tealbook

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Tealbook is a Big Data company that provides a platform to fix enterprise supplier data forever. Tealbook does this through proprietary Autonomous Data Enrichment technology which proactively captures and maintains changing supplier information. In addition, Tealbook provides a data foundation that can be leveraged by other eProcurement solutions to ensure these larger investments are successful.

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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

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Podcast | What It Takes to Make Direct-to-Consumer Fulfillment Work

Supply Chain Brain

Retailers selling over the internet can’t hope to compete without a reliable and effective direct-to-consumer (DTC) model for fulfillment. But setting one up is anything but easy.

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How to Create Baseline in Absence of Historical Data!

Empowering CPO

What is Baseline? Baseline preparation is one of the most important phase during any Strategic Sourcing process. Procurement service provider completes this step immediately after the collection of historic data and after understanding of the requirement for the next contract period. Baseline can be defined as the total cost of ownership for the set of goods or services as defined in the RFP scope.

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How Supplier Risk Management needs to evolve in 2021

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

The pandemic has taught us supply chain professionals a precious lesson in supply chain risk management. The pandemic has put to the test, flexibility, adaptability, and resilience of supply chains. Very few were able to stand their ground. The supply disruption triggered in China sent shock waves all around and shut down the global economy. It exposed weak links in production strategies and supply chains of organizations.

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How to Drive Internal Adoption of Your Real-time Transportation Visibility Platform

FourKites

At its core, rolling out a real-time transportation visibility platform – or any enterprise technology, for that matter – is both a change management project and a leadership opportunity. By focusing on the people, process and technology as three critical legs of the solution, a good business leader can overcome just about any challenge that’s thrown their way.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

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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Watch: Should Startups Take Outside Funding in 2021?

Supply Chain Brain

Ian Pribyl, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Pivotal Group, explains why small startups shouldn’t automatically accept money from venture capitalists and other outside investors, no matter how tempting the offer might be.

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Are you still spending time and money to run a lengthy RFI/RFQ/RFP process for a SaaS platform purchase?

Solvoyo

Companies tend to engage in request for information (RFI), request for quote (RFQ) and request for proposal (RFP) processes to make sure they end up choosing the right software that meets their business and IT requirements. However, I believe there is a major drawback in this traditional process that ignores today’s fundamental improvements in technology and the need for higher speed in business decisions. .

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5 Ways to Get Employees Engaged in Supplier Diversity Efforts

GoProcure blog

Implementing a supplier diversity program can be a great way to improve procurement. Doing so can help expand your access to innovative products and services, while also gaining benefits like improved employee experience and the ability to recruit top talent. “Most job seekers (70%) value a commitment to diversity in potential employers,” notes business news website The Manifest.

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FourKites’ Latest CAB Shows Supply Chain Collaboration on the Rise

FourKites

Since 2017, FourKites has convened a panel of the most involved companies within our global customer base for our Customer Advisory Board (CAB). We leverage these panel discussions to validate product ideas and guide our product roadmap, create champions and buy-in for our brand, and gather intelligence about the state of the industry. We also structure the conversations in such a way to maximize peer-to-peer collaboration between executive sponsors at our customers in order to reinforce the pow

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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.