All Things Supply Chain
APRIL 8, 2022
Sunflower oil supply disruptions causing havoc for supply chains The recent invasion of Ukraine has led to disruptions of almost half of the world’s sunflower oil exports, meaning companies are…
ProcurePort
APRIL 7, 2022
• Accounts payable automation is the installation of technology to electronically receive, check, audit, and pay suppliers. • It leads to faster handling of invoices, which can easily pile up when handled manually. • There are several other reasons to consider automation of payables, including accuracy, lower costs, and better relationships with suppliers due to […].
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ivalua
APRIL 7, 2022
Ivalua NOW Paris Day 1 + 2 Recap . Shaking hands, sharing ideas, having a laugh, and a glass of champagne (or two)…we are renewed, recharged, and re-energized from Ivalua NOW Paris! Ivaluans, customers, sponsors, and prospects gathered at the exquisite Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac to meet, exchange ideas, and collaborate in-person! Below, we’ve summarized Day 1 and Day 2, but stay tuned for video recaps and more photos from Paris!
SCMDOJO
APRIL 3, 2022
eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. Procurement specialists can use eAuctions to engage and negotiate with more vendors utilizing an organized approach which thus eliminates any need for cumbersome one-on-one meetings. They are far more convenient than conventional discussions and negotiations, providing procedural integrity and transparency while also lowering final
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All Things Supply Chain
APRIL 6, 2022
Warehouses and fulfilment centres are currently experiencing widespread labour shortages and are failing to attract workers.
ProcurePort
APRIL 6, 2022
• The pace of business in the world today has become so fast that managing numerous suppliers simultaneously can be extremely draining. • A business working with multiple suppliers needs to keep up-to-date details about their location, catalogs, certifications, invoices, and performance. • Vendor portal best practices today make supplier management easier.
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ivalua
APRIL 7, 2022
The post Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Checklist appeared first on Ivalua.
All Things Supply Chain
APRIL 4, 2022
Industry 4.0 revolutionized many industries, and now it’s being applied to supply chains. Dubbed Supply Chain 4.
ProcurePort
APRIL 5, 2022
· Contemporary supplier and contract database software promise to streamline how procurement teams approach contracts and sourcing. · This technology ensures real-time communication, collaboration, and management of the contract lifecycle. But how do you know if you should invest in supplier and contract database software? What are the signs telling you it’s time to get […].
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 4, 2022
Advances in automotive technology aim to bring an end to the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine. Will the human driver be jettisoned along with it?
Advertiser: GEP
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 Game Changer
APRIL 4, 2022
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How 3rd Party Liability Insurance Protects Your Supply Chain! Product liability is a legal term that details the manufacturer, distributor, and seller’s responsibilities. This includes what may happen if a buyer becomes injured by a defective product. Manufacturers are tasked by law with the responsibility of maintaining certain standards.
Bonfire
APRIL 8, 2022
All across the US, governments at the state, tribal, and local levels are wading through the enormous task of managing a combined $1.9 trillion in federal funding. The money, approved in March 2021 through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) , is helping communities at all levels rebound from the detrimental impacts of Covid-19. But, as it turns out, managing and allocating the funds is no easy task.
ProcurePort
APRIL 3, 2022
There’s no doubt that initiating a new relationship is hard, whether it’s a personal or business relationship. To forge a strong relationship and succeed in your endeavors, you have to build trust and loyalty among your circle of suppliers. Strong relationships attract meaningful and lasting business opportunities. Lifecycle management gives suppliers and businesses opportunities to […].
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 6, 2022
Shippers walk a tightrope in balancing sustainability goals with demand for goods and the need to remain competitive. Fortunately, the two paths don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
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 Game Changer
APRIL 7, 2022
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Video Call Etiquette for a Great Video Call Experience! Abandoned calls in a business represent missed business opportunities as well as poor customer support. Even though different reasons might force a client to abandon a call, the bottom line is that the client was not able to get what they were looking for.
SpendHQ
APRIL 6, 2022
Within the past few years, organizations faced extreme demand volatility and supply chain disruptions that have forced them to radically adapt their procurement systems. While many of these challenges have been out of procurement and their organizations’ hands, there are still trends procurement can follow and prepare to encounter. The post Spend Trends Procurement Leaders Should Expect in 2022 appeared first on SpendHQ.
Sourcing Solved
APRIL 7, 2022
We live and work in a busy world in which there is little time to read, watch or listen beyond the headlines. Hello, my name is Iain Campbell-McKenna, and this is “Procurement in 5-minutes.” That’s right, in 5-minutes I promise to tackle some of the biggest challenges and deepest questions our profession and industry face on a day-to-day basis. In today’s 5-minutes I welcome senior procurement executive and long-time industry expert, René Gotfredsen to answer the question: “ How can procur
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 5, 2022
The new report updates previous work by the IPCC — its last work on this topic came out in 2014 — as well as assessing the potential of technology and offering evidence that climate action, done right, can improve the health and wellbeing of people around the world.
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 Game Changer
APRIL 6, 2022
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Tips to Master Forex and Binary Options Trading! The forex market is the largest financial market in the world. Its large trading volume provides a highly liquid trading environment that attracts a large pool of retail traders and investors on a daily basis. Unfortunately, most beginner traders are unable to make consistent profits due to the lack of professional guidance and information on the realities of forex trading.
Purchasing Insight
APRIL 7, 2022
Mistakes were the inevitable consequence of a pragmatic decision to override most of the normal procurement rules. But we could have expected more of our politicians than to seize the opportunity to line the pockets of their friends and supporters. The post Procurement Pandemonium appeared first on Purchasing Insight.
The Procuretech Podcast
APRIL 5, 2022
We're diving in again to the ever-expanding contract management space this week, looking at a piece of software that straddles the murky waters between procuretech and legaltech. Redlining and amending contracts is a boring and tedious process to most procurement professionals, but a necessary evil that comes with the territory for commercial contract negotiations post-sourcing and award.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 5, 2022
ICT Spring is a centrepiece of Luxembourg’s event calendar and one of the top European tech conferences. Organized by Farvest and hosted next June 30th and July 1st at LuxExpo the Box, the event will inspire delegates across a variety of important topics. Key areas of focus are the fast-growing FinTech industry, innovations and technologies building the future of the economy, European Sovereignty in Data & Cloud, Supply Chain initiatives, IT Security, HealthTech, entrepreneurship as well as
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Supply Chain Game Changer
APRIL 5, 2022
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chains Are Broken. Denial Will Kill Your Company! As pandemic related restrictions are lifted in our personal and professional lives, the key question is what will our lives be like? What will our new normal be? How will Supply Chain progress? The level of Supply Chain disruption has been pervasive, unrelenting and indiscriminate.
Negotiations Ninja
APRIL 3, 2022
Brian Ahearn is the Chief Influence Officer at Influence PEOPLE. He’s a keynote speaker, trainer, coach, and consultant who specializes in the science of influence and persuasion popularized by Robert Cialdini. Brian has written multiple books on the science of influence, including “Influence PEOPLE: Powerful Everyday Opportunities to Persuade that are Lasting and Ethical” and “Persuasive Selling.
Zycus Cognitive Procurement
APRIL 4, 2022
After the financial crisis of 2008, companies started to focus on improving their overall value creation to survive the demanding market and economic situation. Unfortunately, with stakeholder pressure to deliver growth and profits in the short term, many companies lost sight of their long-term strategic goals and long-term investments. As a result, these companies forgot to reinvent themselves and remain relevant in this ever-changing market.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 5, 2022
A measure of U.S. supply chain pressures rose to a record, adding to already stiff inflationary headwinds from logistics amid dwindling warehouse space and unprecedented inventory costs.
Advertiser: GEP
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.
The Good Spending
APRIL 3, 2022
Category management is the brain and spine of strategic procurement. Procurement largely relies on category management in its constant endeavor to transform transactional purchasing into a value-creation machine. This post analyzes what makes genuine category managers and " separate future physicians from those who wanna play doctor." Category management is an integral part of the "plan-to-procure" cycle.
Jaggaer
APRIL 5, 2022
The post JAGGAER Doubles Down on Customer Success, Receives Customers’ Choice Distinction in P2P for Second Straight Year appeared first on JAGGAER.
Zycus Cognitive Procurement
APRIL 4, 2022
Singapore has consistently ranked as one of the most sustainable cities in Asia and globally for several years. Hence it is not surprising that the nationwide e-invoicing initiative led by the IMDA aligns with ‘ The Singapore Green Plan 2030 ‘ The Singapore Green Plan 2030 is a strategy to make Singapore a global leader in sustainability by 2030, in line with Singapore’s commitments under the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Paris Agreement.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 6, 2022
Non-fungible tokens came into the mainstream on the back of the art, collectibles and gaming spaces. Now, everyone seems to be getting on the bandwagon.
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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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