ivalua

APRIL 30, 2019

Digital transformation often fails because of an inability to onboard suppliers and poor user adoption. Ivalua has announced the findings of a worldwide survey of supply chain, procurement and finance business leaders, on the status of their digital transformations, the obstacles encountered and keys to success. The research, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, used a digital maturity index to assess organizations’ structure, strategy, process, measurement and technolo

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 2, 2019

Last year, supply-chain disruptions hit a record high, with North America at the top of the list as the most affected region.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 1, 2019

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Digital Supply Chain (SC 4.0) Overview! What You Need to Know! (Video). Article written for Supply Chain Game Changer by, and permission to publish here provided by, Andrei Klubnikin at at R-Style Lab. According to a recent survey conducted by Forbes Insights , 65% of logistics, supply chain and transportation executives acknowledge the necessity to revamp existing models and add flexibility to business operations in ord

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Ms. Category Management

APRIL 30, 2019

Join Ms. Category Management in her 2019 blog to talk about Business Networking.

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2019

The post Executing a Successful Procurement Transformation appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 29, 2019

Imagine yourself at the head of a company that’s on the brink of dizzying growth — a 50-fold increase in employees, and 300 times revenues — within the next three years. Would you be excited or scared?

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Supply Chain Minded

APRIL 27, 2019

Sales & Operations Planning: All demand (sales) and supply (capacity, materials) of a product is balanced and planned to secure on-time delivery to our customers, while making optimal use of our full supply network. Why is S&OP important? Sales & Operations Planning is important as the plan agreed on is leading for the operational activities […].

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2019

The post Webinar: Executing a Successful Procurement Transformation, 29th May 2019, 10am EST, 4pm CET appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 2, 2019

Imagine that a logistics company learned that a concealed flaw in truck engines was costing up to 100 minutes in lost productivity with every incident – and that the number was continuing to rise.

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Logistics 79

Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 2, 2019

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Keys to Success in Warehouse Management/Order Fulfillment! (Video). Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Adam Robinson at cerasis.com. Growing e-commerce fulfillment demands and costs have collided to bring about an uptick in average 3PL fulfillment prices within the outsourced fulfillment industry, as was evidenced by FulfillmentCompanies.net’s annual poll of 500+ warehouses across

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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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Claritum

MAY 2, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Key transactional areas of Procurement. 3. Strategic focus areas of Procurement. 4. Automation to reduce Transactional Activity. 1 Introduction. If your procurement team is spending over half their time on transactional activity, what opportunities are they missing? Perhaps, opportunities to drive profitability within your organisation; develop environmental or ethical initiatives; or engage with suppliers to develop stronger bus

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 30, 2019

A 2014 Deloitte survey found that 69 percent of chief procurement officers saw cost reduction as their main priority over the following 12 months. In 2018, the same survey showed that the number had jumped to 78 percent.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 30, 2019

When it comes to car transportation services, considerations of price and quality are key. No one wants a car with scratches, paint chips and dents when it arrives.

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Quality Price 55

Claritum

APRIL 30, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (April 30th, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, is proud to be named as a Bath Creative Awards Finalist. “The team at claritum has focused on creativity and making our company stand out amongst the crowd.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum.

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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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