ABC of Procurement
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Both Procurement and Warehousing are part of the Supply Chain. But so often their interest are exactly opposite. How to find the right balance? The post Procurement vs. Warehouse – war or cooperation? first appeared on ABC of Procurement.
ProcurePort
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, procurement plays a pivotal role in an organization’s success. Efficient procurement processes can lead to substantial cost savings, improved supplier relationships, and enhanced overall competitiveness. To achieve these objectives, many businesses are turning to e-sourcing tools, revolutionizing the traditional procurement landscape.
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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Over the past year, there has been an uptick in procurement recruitment, a trend driven by global disruptions that exposed vulnerabilities in supply chains.
Spend Matters
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Spend Matters constantly updates its understanding of the state of the procurement tech market via RFIs for our SolutionMap dataset, vendor interviews, global event attendance and product demos with the aim of keeping tech-selection decision makers ahead of market trends. But we also endeavor to grow our understanding of the wants and needs of the customers using that tech – the practitioners.
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Procurement Freelancers
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
With companies becoming more competitive today, it’s important to improve sourcing and procurement processes. Increased… The post Streamline Your Sourcing and Procurement for Success. first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.
All Things Supply Chain
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Electric car rules could cost carmakers billions The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) has warned that new Brexit trade rules related to electric vehicles (EVs) could cost European manufacturers £3.
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Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Greenhouse gases used in supply chains represent the largest source of most industries’ carbon footprint, but many firms are just beginning to account for them.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Thanks to a trio of bills passed in the past few years, investment in U.S. manufacturing is at all-time highs, and that means the economy could be poised to take off again.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
As the pace and volume of digital business continue to increase, organizations are facing mounting pressure to accelerate the speed at which they do business. The ability to quickly respond to shifting customer and market dynamics has become key for contending with today’s growing digital economy. In a survey run by IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice, 43% of technology leaders indicated that they were “planning to deliver innovative digital products and services
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
The project to make bricks from recycled drinks bottles instead of oil-based plastic would actually have led to higher carbon emissions over the product’s lifetime, Lego said.
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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.
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The collaboration with Dexterity AI aims to help the delivery giant more efficiently load the wide variety of shipments it handles.
SCMDOJO
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Supply chain management professionals know the essentiality of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): these software systems automate everything from procurement, inventory, and financials, as well as assist with customer relations and human relations. Of those programs, JD Edwards (JDE) is the most well-respected, being used in thousands of organizations worldwide thanks to its ease of use and comprehensive functionality.
Procurement Bulletin
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
How Home Depot is Meeting Green Goals ESG has gained a lot of attention over recent years and Home Depot is showing other companies how they made use of purchase orders to help meet their green goals by working with manufacturers to move to battery-operated machines. Apple’s Failure to Build Key Part of New iPhones Apple has been working at moving away from external chip producers by designing its own chips for their products.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Data-driven, predictive and agile supply chains can help companies achieve their net-zero emissions goals by enabling end-to-end efficiency.
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
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The e-commerce giant defended the practices outlined in the lawsuit, saying they “spur competition and innovation across the retail industry.
SCMDOJO
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Companies operate on a balance between expenses and revenue. When revenue outpaces the cost of doing business, profitability is attained. When revenue is unable to keep up with expenses, the business will start to lose money. How an organization uses its available resources is one of the main priorities for leadership to determine. If you are running a business or fulfilling an executive position, part of this responsibility rests on your shoulders.
Procurement Freelancers
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
Supply chains are growing globally and are becoming more complicated to manage. With companies sourcing… The post The Role of Sourcing Agents in Global Supply Chains first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
The reason Mexico didn’t rise as a great near-shore market before was that supply chain resiliency just wasn’t top of mind in the last few decades, when landed cost was king.
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.
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
“Packaging is the hardest piece to corral” due to the complexity of the sector’s data, said Specright founder and CEO Matthew Wright.
Spend Matters
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Part 2 of this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis 2023 update focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of SAP Ariba’s S2C solutions. We also look at the elements to consider when looking at SAP Ariba solutions as potential options. This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read. The post SAP Ariba: Vendor Analysis 2023 Update (Part 2) — S2C solution strengths and weaknesses, tech selection tips appeared first on Spend Matters.
Art of Procurement
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Google is currently defending themselves in court because the U.S. Department of Justice claims they have violated the Sherman Antitrust. The post The Competitive Expectations Behind the Google Antitrust Trial appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
A successful supply chain transformation begins with "changing the narrative," says George Raptis, vice president of operations at JP Outfitters. Among other things, the company had to stop viewing itself as "small.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Modern application environments need real-time automated observability to have visibility and insights into what is going on. Because of the highly dynamic nature of microservices and the numerous interdependencies among application components, having an automated approach to observability is essential. That’s why traditional solutions like New Relic struggle to keep up with monitoring in cloud-native environments.
Spend Matters
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
This is the first in a three-part series that covers SAP Ariba’s source-to-contract (S2C) offerings, a subset of SAP’s larger platform. Since its initial founding as Ariba in 1996, SAP Ariba has maintained a longstanding reputation in the digital procurement space for its downstream procure-to-pay (P2P) product. While Ariba’s pre-SAP Ariba history is complex, there is little doubt today that any procurement organization evaluating S2C offerings will have SAP Ariba on their longlist — and likely
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
The proposed deal will also provide UPS with added technology and reach, as MNX already serves more than 100 countries and territories.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Under the plan, carrier partners will deploy reduced or zero lifecycle carbon-capable ships on the Trans-Pacific routes starting in 2025.
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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.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Accelerate threat detection and response (TDR) using AI-powered centralized log management and security observability It is not news to most that cyberattacks have become easier to launch and harder to stop as attackers have gotten smarter and faster. For those defending against cyberthreats, things continue to get more complicated. The list of challenges is long: cloud attack surface sprawl, complex application environments, information overload from disparate tools, noise from false positives
Spend Matters
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Forty years ago, the Harvard Business review published Peter Kraljic’s article ‘ Purchasing Must Become Supply Management ,’ which debuted the supplier segmenting method that we now know as the Kraljic matrix. While Kraljic had his own vision when putting forward his method, Spend Matters Senior Analyst Bertrand Maltaverne believes that these decades later you can jokingly say “Purchasing must really become supply management.
Supply Chain Dive
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Ryder and other providers are storing millions of dollars worth of products in warehouses as they await payment from a company that is out of cash.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Trade between China and Russia grew substantially during the first seven months of 2023 to $134.1 billion, a 26.5% increase compared to 2022.
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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.
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