All Things Supply Chain

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It is a well-known fact that environmental protection starts on an individual level.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Alex Saric, Smart Procurement Expert, Ivalua. Supply Chain Managers today have never been so reliant on suppliers to deliver goods and services to customers. Globalisation has made is much easier for UK businesses to trade across borders, allowing access to lower cost sources of supply and new markets. This drive has resulted in increasingly global and complex supply chains, which expose organisations to more supply chain risk than ever before.

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ProcurePort

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Today’s business technology landscape is advancing at a rapid rate. Businesses now have the technology available to them to automate large portions of repetitive tasks, streamline operations, and supercharge employee output. Companies that fail to adapt to technology will find themselves losing out to competitors who have successfully embraced change and implemented new solutions to […].

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 22, 2019

What Is the Best Way to Secure Sustainable Competitive Advantage from New Technologies? Until now the focus of attention has been process automation or augmentation. Our recently published report, “ Digital Transformation in Procurement: How Close Are We? ”, which is based on a global survey with responses from 391 CPOs and other senior procurement decision makers, showed that most progress had been made with the automation of supplier management, procure-to-pay and spend management processes.

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All Things Supply Chain

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Wings teams up with FedEx for Drone delivery Wings, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, has partnered up with FedEx Express to use drones instead of trucks for last…

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ivalua

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Ivalua is delighted to be partnering with Procurious for their November 2019 CPO Roundtable event. Procurious roundtable events keep CPOs up to date with all that’s happening in the world of procurement, help with growing and retaining the best talent in their teams and solve day to day challenges. The roundtable combines the expertise of presenters with the knowledge of CPOs, resulting in stimulating discussions, ideas and key take-aways.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. From Click to Ship in 4 Minutes! … Principles for World Class E-Commerce Fulfillment! Article and permission to publish here provided by Christina Morrison. Whether you’re running a small family business or a large-scale distribution center, you know that gaps in efficiency can seriously slow your business.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Mattias Pohlin, Materials Planner at Jönköping Healthcare Region , has improved service levels and streamlined the procurement process. That’s why he’s October’s automation hero. Name: Mattias Pohlin. Job title: Materials Planner. Company: Jönköping Healthcare Region. Congratulations on the award Mattias! Could you tell us a little about yourself?

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ivalua

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Date: October 31st – Nov 1st. Location: QEII Centre, London, SW1P 3EE. Visit us at stand #16. Book a meeting with one of our trusted advisors to discuss your procurement challenges and priorities – please email amr@ivalua.com as spaces are limited. The post CIPS UK Conference appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The health of the freight industry seems to appear much different to investors versus those working in the field.

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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 23, 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, Jake Rheude at redstagfulfillment.com. You may have seen or read coverage depicting a fulfillment center as a terrible place to work. John Oliver’s most recent Last Week Tonight episode focused on the dangers of fulfillment center work.

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Claritum

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. ?Bath, UK (October 23rd, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced that MBA Group had signed with Claritum to provide a solution for their print management service business unit. A critical requirement for MBA was to rapidly introduce workflows to address new markets and products.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Timings: 10am EST | 9am CST | 7am PST | 3pm GMT | 4pm CET. Registratation: click here. It is time to step it up a gear. Transformation is fundamental to Procurement reaching its goals, adapting its Procurement process and changing objectives, however, development can sometimes be slow and hold-ups can mean delays. Turn your focus to developing effective strategies for both talent and technology.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Flexibility and simplification are critical to keeping pace with technological advances in supply-chain management.

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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 Network Effect

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The post How to use Master Data Management to Drive Transformation appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Claritum

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Focus on Facts not Fiction. 3. Define your Solution Needs. 4. Challenge Everything. 5. User Interface / Experience. 6. Plan for Change. 7. Ongoing Support. 8. Conclusion. 1 Introduction. In the market for a new eProcurement platform? To help guide your search, we’ve compiled important considerations and questions, relating specifically to addressing automation of Indirect Procurement.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The Ivalua team is looking forward to attending the California State Association of Counties Annual Meeting. The CSAC will be celebrating their 125th year anniversary as an association and we look forward to being a part of it! . Ivalua at the CSAC Annual Meeting. This year’s meeting theme is “Connecting California’s Communities”. The conference will feature thought-provoking speakers who will inform and inspire, workshops on critical issues of concern for counties, and key updates on the legisl

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 21, 2019

When will ocean carriers shed their obsession with vessel size? Not anytime soon, according to one economist.

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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Naming Your Project Will Rally Everyone To Your Cause! The organization was spinning off from the parent company within a year to become its own corporation. A lot of work had to be done to in order to get ready to be an independent, publicly traded company. The CEO called me into his office and said, “I’d like you to lead the effort to name the company.” Wow!

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ivalua

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The post Reinventing Procurement: Key Strategies for the Decade Ahead – Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2 PM EDT appeared first on Ivalua.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The post CPO Event – October 24th – Newport, Celtic Manor appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It’s not enough to have all of the required safety clothing and equipment on site. A focus on people is also necessary.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Digital platform technology is the key to improved disaster response, and the safety of patients and consumers.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Ivalua will be a Premium Sponsor at the upcoming SCLTalk in Berlin on Monday 4th November and Tuesday 5th November. This event focuses on Supply Chain, Logistics Excellence & Innovative Technologies. Don’t miss our Workshop session on Day1 of the conference from 11.45am to 12.15pm. This workshop will be hosted by Ivalua’s Head of Manufacturing Solutions, who will bring his expertise to the table and speak about “Unlocking Innovation and Efficiency through Collaboration fro

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Supplier failure and supply shortages are the biggest risks, yet many businesses are unprepared to mitigate these events in the future. 24 th October 2019, London – Research from Ivalua , a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions , has shown that almost three quarters (74%) of UK businesses have encountered some type of supply chain risk in the last 12 months.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The post Risky Business: <br>How global supply chains have left organisations blind to risk appeared first on Ivalua.

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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.

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