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Ivalua Continues Global Expansion with New Office in Sydney, Australia

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Eric Wimphen Joins Ivalua as Head of Australia and New Zealand. REDWOOD CITY, California , May 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that it has opened an office in Sydney, Australia to support its rapid growth and increased presence in the Asia Pacific region.

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Walmart Is Tightening OTIF Requirements. Can Suppliers Step Up Their Game?

Supply Chain Brain

Suppliers are scrambling to meet Walmart’s tighter standards for delivery performance — and they can expect the giant retailer to keep raising the bar.

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How Businesses Benefit from an Integrated S2P Software Solution

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Source-to-Pay software or, simply put, S2P is an integrated suite of applications developed to take care of and manage each and every process within the procurement function. A typical S2P solution can effectively manage purchasing activities that range from spend analysis, e-auctions, purchase requisitions, sourcing events, invoice and payment processing and vendor relations.

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5 Tips for Delivering Chocolate without Melting!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! (Videos). Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Valerie Castro at gopeople.com.au. As a chocolatier, you spend a lot of time and effort in crafting one of the most delicious and most celebrated confectioneries of all time.

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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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Contract Data Management With AI

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Christopher Bourez, Artificial Intelligence Architect at Ivalua. Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repositor. One significant area of Artificial Intelligence is language understanding, also called machine reading comprehension (MRC), and the new technologies in this field lead the way for thousands of new applications, such as sourcing, tre

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Blockchain and Edge Computing: Supercharging the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Emerging technologies like predictive analytics, augmented reality and blockchain have the potential to transform supply-chain operations. Leading the charge for businesses in the digital age: edge computing.

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What’s the Difference Between a Freight Forwarder and a Customs Broker?

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Common Mistakes in Importing and Exporting! (Infographic). Article, and permission to publish here, provided by Victor at excelsior.ph. Understanding the nitty-gritty of the supply chain process is extremely crucial to succeed in the international trading industry. Regardless of how big your business is, knowing the entities that will bring your shipment to its intended destination efficiently is imperative to maintain effici

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Contract Analysis leveraging AI – A Technical Overview

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Christopher Bourez, Artificial Intelligence Architect at Ivalua. Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repository. Over the last year, Ivalua’s AI team has been hard at work buil ding an AI layer across the platform.

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Effective Reverse Logistics: Protecting the Bottom Line and Gaining Competitive Advantage

Supply Chain Brain

In an increasingly competitive industry, retailers can no longer rely on providing the right product at the right price, with customer service taking center ground in the battle for consumers’ hard-earned cash.

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Worker Insights to Drive Action: How to Operationalize Worker Voice Using Technology

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Last month’s worker voice piece by SupplyShift highlighted the change management groundwork needed to occur within an organization, driven by internal champions and a collective desire to learn from their workforce – whether direct employees or across their global supply chain. But once ripples turn into tides, organizations need practical and scalable tools to operationalize worker voice.

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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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Top 10 Tips for Career Success!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Ground Rules for Creating a Game Changing High Performance Organization (HPO)! Success means different things to different people. How you define success is just as important as how someone else defines success. For our purpose here we are going to discuss 10 Tips for Career success.

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Ivalua Continues Global Expansion with New Office in Sydney, Australia

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Eric Wimphen Joins Ivalua as Head of Australia and New Zealand. REDWOOD CITY, California , May 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that it has opened an office in Sydney, Australia to support its rapid growth and increased presence in the Asia Pacific region.

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To Ease the Squeeze of New Tariffs, Focus on Compliance

Supply Chain Brain

A year after tariffs on more than 1,300 Chinese goods first sent importers reeling, the news supply chain managers everywhere have been dreading is finally here.

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Nightmare IT Negotiations

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MsCategoryManagement blogs about IT Sourcing and Nightmare Negotiations.

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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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Technologies that Impact Procurement

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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Technologies and Procurement Table. 3. Conclusion. 1 Introduction. There are a lot of articles around on what Procurement needs to do; how Procurement needs to change; and how technology will fundamentally change Procurement. Rather than repeat these and try to tell you what you already know, that change is a good thing if it produces better results.

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Integration Consultant – Redwood City, CA, USA

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The post Integration Consultant – Redwood City, CA, USA appeared first on Ivalua.

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Optimizing 3PL and Freight Forwarder Relationships to Drive Innovation

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Integration Consultant – Redwood City, CA, USA

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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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Ivalua Solution Brochure

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ASL Global goes live world-wide

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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (May 12, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based eProcurement solutions, today announced that ASL Global has deployed Claritum to their world-wide offices. “The Claritum solution will ensure that ASL’s customers will be able to readily access their own branded catalogues to source promotional and marketing services products.” said Prof.