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The Potential and Risks of Cryptocurrency in Procurement

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“Change of this magnitude is hard. You know you’re on to something when so much pressure builds up.” – David Marcus, Co-creator of Libra on Twitter.

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Duct Tape Can’t Fix Your Legacy Systems

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A decade ago, very few public sector jurisdictions or agencies were concerned about the amount of disparate systems they were operating and what data-driven challenges this might lead to in the future. If they needed contract management, they put a contract management system in place. If they needed an ERP system or a workforce management system, they would define their requirements and either select a system to implement or build their own. .

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RFQ, RFP, and RFI: When Do You Use Them?

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If you work within the vendor side of B2B business, then you are sure to be accustomed to receiving RFP’s or, “request for proposals” from potential clients interested in your products and services. An RFP consists of a document that companies, operating and searching for enterprise services, can use for a detailed overview of service/product […].

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Why is 3D Printing Revolutionary for Supply Chain?

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing – Changing Future Supply Chains! Imagine having virtually no raw material inventory on hand because all of the components and parts that you need can be made on demand. Imagine having virtually no finished goods inventory on hand because you can make the products precisely when ordered in real time and have them personalized or customized to a customer’s individual specifications.

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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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Amazon-Whole Foods: Two Years After the Deal

Supply Chain Brain

It’s been two years since Amazon bought Whole Foods. At the time, analysts touted the deal as an Amazon initiative to dominate food retail. But is that what really happened?

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Transparency with Purpose – Public Sector Procurement

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Procurement transparency exists within the public sector because it is required by law. And yet, not all transparency is equally effective. In order for the public to be well-served by transparency, the agencies providing it need to consider which groups need transparency, why they need it, and what actions they expect to be able to take as a result of what they see.

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How to Compare Metal Fabricators!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Strategic Supplier Relationship Management – Do’s and Don’ts. Article written for Supply Chain Game Changer by, and permission to publish here provided by, Eada Hudes. Are you in a dilemma in deciding which company to choose for your next big project for steel equipment?

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The Differences Between Mexico and U.S. Customs Brokers

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While there are similar regulations and overlapping requirements governing both Mexico and U.S. customs import processes, there are drastic differences that savvy shippers should be aware of.

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Unique Problems Require Unique Solutions

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By now, the question has been asked so many times that it is hard to stifle an eye roll: Why can’t the public sector be more like the private sector in the implementation and use of technology? Enormous, complex, global enterprises use procurement technology to manage their spend, suppliers, contracts and bids every day without seeming to run into the same stumbling blocks as the public sector, which operates on a smaller and more localized basis.

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The #1 Thing that Will Kill Your Procurement Compliance Effort

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You identified a compliance problem within your procurement process. You came up with a plan. You created PowerPoints and ROI spreadsheets worthy of an award. Your boss loved it. Now all you have to do is get everyone else on board. With a plan that makes such obvious sense, it should be a piece of cake, right? And then comes that one meeting. You know the one.

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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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How to Create Interesting Content for E-Commerce!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Content Marketing Trends for Supply Chain! Article written for Supply Chain Game Changer by, and permission to publish here provided by, Nina Wayne. Content is the greatest selling point for e-commerce businesses. It makes it easier to sell products online and build strong relationships with your customers.

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Calculating Total Cost of Ownership in the Age of Big Tariffs

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Companies managing global supply chains need to go well beyond what they pay their suppliers to calculate the true cost of ownership.

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Paris 2020 – FR – ASA

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Alex Saric Directeur Marketing Groupe. Alex possède 20 ans d’expérience dans le développement d’éditeurs de logiciels, dont quinze axés plus spécifiquement sur le marché des solutions e-Achats. Précédemment, Alex avait rejoint Ariba pour y monter une offre d’analyse des dépenses, qu’il a pilotée en qualité de Directeur Solutions Management. Par la suite, il a constitué et dirigé l’équipe en charge du Marketing en Europe chez Ariba jusqu’au rachat de cette entité par SAP, prenant alors la tête du

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It’s Halloween: Avoid a Technology Horror Story

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The post It’s Halloween: Avoid a Technology Horror Story appeared first on The Network Effect.

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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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The Go-To List of Ways to Improve Inventory Management!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Dave Joseph at [link]. Today’s warehouse managers need better inventory management strategies. Shareholders want to increase profitability. Customers wish for better customer service.

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Another Round of Supply-Chain Predictions From S.F. Roundtable

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In Silicon Valley, a roomful of prognosticators gather once more to divine the future of global supply chains.

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Paris 2020 – EN – ASA

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Alex Saric CMO. Alex has 20 years’ experience growing enterprise software companies, including 15 focused on Spend Management. Alex joined Ariba to build its spend analytics business, which he led as general manager. He then built and led Ariba’s international marketing team until successful acquisition by SAP, transitioning to lead business network marketing globally.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap Up from 10/25/19-10/31/19

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Amazon unveils free grocery delivery Amazon has announced that it will offer its Amazon Fresh service to prime customers for free.

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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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Why Procurement Simplified Is Much More than a Slogan

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Deloitte’s 2019 Global CPO Survey identifies the key challenges that procurement professionals are struggling to tackle. The biggest risk factors, according to the survey, are the economic downturn and deflation (cited by 42% of respondents), internal complexity due to M&A activity, organizational silos, non-standard processes (39%), managing complexity within mega-suppliers (37%), trade war (33%), managing digital fragmentation internally and within the supply base (29%), Brexit uncertainty

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Rethinking the RFP: Using Data to Achieve Accuracy and Agility

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Access to better data is changing the way organizations operate, and it’s time transportation procurement strategies changed as well.

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Public Sector eProcurement Implementation: Ways to Mitigate Risk and Ensure Success

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Embarking on an eProcurement implementation can result in more efficient government, improved compliance and increased transparency. So where do you start and what should you know before you start? There hasn’t been an implementation project that I have been a part of where the team walked away without lessons learned for future implementations, and public sector implementations are no exception.

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Paris 2020 – FR – Contact – Intro

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Veuillez trouvez ci-dessous une Foire Aux Questions pour l’évènement Ivalua Now 2020 – Paris. Si votre questions ne fait pas partie de cette liste, merci de nous envoyer un email ivaluanow-emea@ivalua.com. S’INSCRIRE. The post Paris 2020 – FR – Contact – Intro appeared first on Ivalua.

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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Washington 2020 – DKD

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David Khuat-Duy Founder & Corporate CEO. David founded Ivalua more than 18 years ago and assembled an executive team to set the foundations for best-in class software design, continuous sales growth and rigorous operations management. Those efforts have allowed Ivalua to be recognized by leading analysts as one of the top global spend management software vendors growing consistently and profitably for more than 18 years.

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Paris 2020 – FR- Contact – Hero

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Foire Aux Questions. The post Paris 2020 – FR- Contact – Hero appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply-Chain Planning and Execution Work Better Together

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The modern supply-chain management system should be able to predict the impact of external events — and react accordingly.

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How a TMS Can Enable Visibility Within Global Supply Chains

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Transportation management software is key to managing today’s complex and ever-changing supply chains.

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How Hellenic Bank Transformed Its Indirect Procurement Operations With GEP Software

Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.

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Paris 2020 – FR – Steven Schumacher

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Steven Schumacher Directeur Général. Steven Schumacher est Directeur Général chez Credit Suisse où il gère le département Strategy, Sourcing & Execution au niveau du groupe et reporte au COO. Steven a rejoint Credit Suisse en 2008 au poste de Head of Sourcing & Vendor Management jusqu’en 2014. Auparavant, il a eu l’occasion d’occuper diverses fonctions au sein de Credit Suisse Investment Banking et des divisions CFO et COO du groupe.

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Paris 2020 – EN – Steven Schumacher

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Steven Schumacher Managing Director. Steven Schumacher is a Managing Director at Credit Suisse where he leads the Bank’s. global Strategy, Sourcing & Execution's functional area reporting to the Group COO. Steven joined Credit Suisse in 2008 and was the Head of Sourcing & Vendor Management. (SVM) since April 2014. Previously, he served in a variety of roles in Credit Suisse.

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Paris 2020 – EN – DKD

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David Khuat-Duy Founder & Corporate CEO. David founded Ivalua more than 18 years ago and assembled an executive team to set the foundations for best-in class software design, continuous sales growth and rigorous operations management. Those efforts have allowed Ivalua to be recognized by leading analysts as one of the top global spend management software vendors growing consistently and profitably for more than 18 years.

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Paris 2020 – FR – DKD

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David Khuat-Duy Founder & Corporate CEO. Il y a plus de 18 ans, David Khuat-Duy a fondé Ivalua et réuni une équipe dirigeante pour créer les bases de la conception du meilleur logiciel de sa catégorie, d’une croissance durable et d’une gestion rigoureuse des opérations. Ces efforts ont valu à Ivalua d’être reconnue par les analystes comme l’un des éditeurs de solution Achats les plus performants au monde, affichant une croissance constante et rentable depuis plus de 18 ans.

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The Evolution of Control Towers to Command Centers

Are fragmented control towers hindering your supply chain’s growth and response time? Attempting to manage disruptions through various departmental control towers with basic analytic overlays hinders agility and, ultimately, your resiliency. Today’s volatile landscape requires inherent visibility across your entire value chain and the ability to orchestrate course corrections within a unified platform.