All Things Supply Chain
APRIL 8, 2024
Collaboration within a company is one of the many keys to its overall success. But unfortunately, many studies suggest organizational silos stop effective collaborations from occurring within companies.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 9, 2024
Retailers have an opportunity to prioritize a more sustainable supply chain. But how can they do this while continuing to grow the business?
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Supply Chain Queen
APRIL 11, 2024
Transforming Supply Chains: EY’s Sheri Hinish Featured in WRI’s Global Leadership Series As EY’s Global Sustainability Tech + Ecosystems Leader and Global Sustainable Supply Chain Leader, I recently shared insights in World Resources Institute’s groundbreaking podcast series “Voices of Supply Chains.” This CREST Initiative explores the critical intersection of sustainability, technology, and human-centered supply chain.
Procurement Leaders
APRIL 8, 2024
Given it’s dominated almost every conversation over the past 18 months, it was no surprise that artificial intelligence was top of everyone’s minds at the recent Americas Procurement Congress in Miami. What was evident from the discussions in the room is everyone understands the importance and the potential of AI. The issue leaders continue to grapple with, however, is identifying and prioritising use-cases for the technology – particularly when budgets are limited.
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.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 9, 2024
The delivery giant anticipates both financial and efficiency benefits by handling U.S.-destined volume further upstream.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 11, 2024
The “next generation” of packaging must meet strict standards of recyclability, reusability, compostability, biodegradability and traceability.
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Procurement Bulletin
APRIL 7, 2024
Summer of High Oil Prices My local news station has been warning drivers of surging gas prices as Summer nears. Oil prices are near a five month high. This coincides with the current production cuts by OPEC at least until June. UPS In, Fedex Out with USPS The collaboration between the US Postal Service (USPS) and Fedex is coming to end after almost two decades.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 10, 2024
Daytime flight operations and pilot staffing are likely targets for reductions once the air transportation contract expires in September, experts say.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 8, 2024
Amir Fadavi, senior director with K2 Integrity, advises on the risks that supply chains face today in complying with a growing number of trade regulations and restrictions.
Spend Matters
APRIL 8, 2024
This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of LSQ and its solution for Working Capital Management. LSQ is an active participant in the fintech industry with its LSQ platform, which offers a suite of working capital management solutions. From spend insights to supplier management and payment management, LSQ’s FastTrack provides essential tools for businesses.
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.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 10, 2024
IDC estimates that 750 million cloud native will be built by 2025. Where and how these applications are deployed will impact time to market and value realization. The reality is that application landscapes are complex, and they challenge enterprises to maintain and modernize existing infrastructure, while delivering new cloud-native features. Three in four executives reported disparate systems in their organizations and that a lack of skills, resources and common operational practices challenge
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 12, 2024
The software giant's March update included features like description generation and supplier recommendations.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 10, 2024
Of those surveyed, 39% said that extreme weather events have been their chief concern in 2024, the most of any category.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 9, 2024
The term “logistics” may be relatively new, but its general principles date back to ancient civilizations. The early Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans pioneered the principles of logistics and designed trade routes to facilitate their connections with other nations. The Silk Road became a massively critical route that moved goods from the Mediterranean region to East Asia.
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Spend Matters
APRIL 9, 2024
In the past year, numerous commodity markets faced disruptions due to factors like the Russia-Ukraine war, rising U.S. and European interest rates, and volatile economies. The Smart Cube’s “Commodity in Focus” series analyzes commodity markets to understand these influences and offer forecasts. This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 12, 2024
Infrastructure and low dwell times contributed to the Port of Savannah's 436,000 total TEUs handled in March.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 9, 2024
The agreement was signed by six Northern European nations in the face of concerns over increased risks to underwater energy infrastructure in the region.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 10, 2024
I just sat in on the Spend Matter webinar Navigating the Future: Meet AI in Procurement. Right off the bat, it was a very well-run 60-minute webinar that provided succinct insights on various elements of AI and its impact on Procurement. Having attended two different webinars in the past 48 hours, I can clearly see a difference between how a provider presents AI and the analyst approach.
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?
IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
To foster innovation in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), IBM® researchers have begun publishing challenges on the FHERMA platform for FHE challenges launched in late 2023 by the Fair Math and the OpenFHE community. FHE: A new frontier in technology Fully homomorphic encryption is a groundbreaking technology with immense potential. One of its notable applications lies in enhancing medical AI models.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 12, 2024
The new service is part of the railroad's push to convert freight from trucks to rail, saying it lowers overall costs for shippers.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 7, 2024
New anti-greenwashing rules by the European Parliament shine a light on the need for transparent, sustainable logistics operations.
Art of Procurement
APRIL 11, 2024
On February 28th, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued JBS, the largest meat company in the world, under Executive. The post Net Zero in New York? JBS Accused of Greenwashing appeared first on Art of Procurement.
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
IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 12, 2024
This blog series discusses the complex tasks energy utility companies face as they shift to holistic grid asset management to manage through the energy transition. The first post of this series addressed the challenges of the energy transition with holistic grid asset management. The second post in this series addressed the integrated asset management platform and data exchange that unite business disciplines in different domains in one network.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 9, 2024
Monique Picou is the VP of Google Cloud supply chain and operations at Google’s parent, Alphabet.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 9, 2024
U.S. imports have continue to increase even as supply chain challenges in the Red Sea and at the Panama Canal have persisted.
Spend Matters
APRIL 10, 2024
This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis gives an overview of Matchory, a solution built to simplify and accelerate the supplier discovery process. In times when nearshoring and ally-shoring are at the top of the agenda of many procurement professionals, supplier scouting is making a comeback as an essential capability. Specifically, these discovery tools can help by making the job of sifting through the massive number of available companies more manageable.
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.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 7, 2024
It’s Sunday morning. The sun is shining, and the snow from this past week’s snowstorm has melted into a beautiful spring day. With a hot cup of coffee – that first sip is always the best, and the faint sound in the background of the Commodores singing “Easy like Sunday morning,” a lighthearted look at our industry seems appropriate.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 9, 2024
Understanding supply chains is key to both regulatory compliance and scaling solutions, executives said at an American Apparel & Footwear Association’s event.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 7, 2024
With every advance in communications technology comes a fresh vulnerability that opens the user to cyberattack. So it goes with 5G mobile connectivity.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
APRIL 9, 2024
At the Masters®, storied tradition meets state-of-the-art technology. Through a partnership spanning more than 25 years, IBM has helped the Augusta National Golf Club capture, analyze, distribute and use data to bring fans closer to the action, culminating in the AI-powered Masters digital experience and mobile app. Now, whether they’re lining the fairways or watching from home, fans can more fully appreciate the performance of the world’s best golfers at the sport’s most
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