Warehousing solutions for handling sudden high demand in eCommerce
All Things Supply Chain
AUGUST 10, 2020
If you’re going to have a problem in your eCommerce business, a sudden spike in demand is about the best one to have.
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5 Best Practice Effectively Roll-out Digital Procurement Software
ivalua
AUGUST 11, 2020
Anyone who has been through a Procurement software implementation will know, it’s not always simple. Having been at Ivalua for many years I thought I’d share my perspective. Here are a few points which I hope demonstrate my knowledge of the Procurement process and show my understanding of how the Procurement function needs to operate to be successful.
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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity
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Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software. In this article, Niels argues that these technological advances can lead to either (a) planning-process and decision automation or (b) planning and decision augmentation.
How to Choose Eco-Conscious Suppliers
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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 Weekly Wrap-Up 08/07/20 – 08/13/20
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Walmart and Instacart partner for same-day U.S. delivery Walmart has partnered with Instacart to offer same-day delivery starting in a few U.S. market.
Report: Achieving Resilience in the Manufacturing Supply Chain
ivalua
AUGUST 13, 2020
The post Report: Achieving Resilience in the Manufacturing Supply Chain appeared first on Ivalua.
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The 5 Major Benefits of e-Tendering
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Before implementing a procurement software, or a series of procurement technologies just because it’s industry standard; it’s important to understand the reasoning, and the benefits. e-tendering is a term slightly more common in foreign markets, and is essentially interchangeable with e-RFX. In other words, e-tendering just refers to procurement and tendering operations and procedures that […].
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Automating Tail Spend Sourcing – Kevin Frechette from Fairmarkit
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Tail spend is a huge, untapped opportunity that you're probably not exploiting to its full potential. If you're following the 80/20 rule, then managing the tail isn't going to be a key priority when it comes to resource allocation. Meaning a lot of opportunity goes to waste. Especially if headcount is being cut and procurement teams are having to deal with bigger workloads.
Is Covid-19 the Death of Global Supply Chains?
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