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Is the industrialized world overly dependent on sourcing from Chinese?

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As Sophie Kersgens wrote for ATSC earlier this month, “As the world’s leading exporter and one of the fastest growing economies, China is a decisive business factor for companies all…

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Making a Case for ProcurePort

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We are in a very different and exciting time in the procurement industry. Unlike year’s past, where there were limited avenues through which a practitioner and service provider could come together, in today’s social media world access to anything and everything is virtually unlimited. The bounty of information that is readily available at a single […].

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Paris 2020 – EN – Jeroen Wennink

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Jeroen Wennink CPO. Jeroen joined Capgemini in 2009 and has spent the last 10 years working in various management roles in Group Procurement. He has in depth knowledge of outsourcing relationship management, a strong expertise in procurement and a passion for talent strategy. In 2018 Jeroen was appointed Europe CPO, with a team of 140+ professionals and leads the transformation of Europe’s procurement organization where he is also responsible for driving best practices and operational excellence

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Third Annual GLOBE Awards Honor Excellence in Transportation Logistics

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Awards Program Sponsored by UltraShipTMS Honors Transportation Excellence at Altria, Perdue Farms and KeHE Distributors. February 24, 2020 – Fair Lawn, NJ – Its time again for the annual GLOBE Awards program, recognizing excellence in the utilization and promotion of leading-edge technologies supporting effective transportation planning, execution and management. .

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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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Four Predictions About Field Service in 2020

Supply Chain Brain

Transformational technologies can enable new revenue models that make field-service organizations stickier and more intimate with customers.

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A Checklist for a Manufacturing Company Internal Audit!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Cyber Security: The Weakest Link is Your Biggest Risk! Internal audit article and permission to publish here provided by Angela at Reciprocity Labs. Today, manufacturing firms face increasing threats from cybercriminals targeting weaknesses in SCADA (supervisory, control, and data acquisition) systems.

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Next-Generation Supply Chain for Retailers: Using AI and ML In Forecasting and Replenishment

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Thanks to companies like Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba and Zara, retail businesses across the globe, whether they are grocery, mass merchant or fashion, are becoming faster and smarter. . “Getting closer to the customer” is now part of everyday conversation, and those who are pushing the envelope on that front know it takes more than just getting customer insights reports out of CRM systems. .

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How Automation Will Impact the Global Packaging Landscape

Supply Chain Brain

A broad range of technological innovations promises to transform the global packaging equipment industry in the near future.

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What is Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Strategic Supplier Relationship Management – Do’s and Don’ts. Regardless of what industry your company is in you are dependent on suppliers to operate your company. Thus it makes sense to have a Supplier Relationship Management program. Suppliers provide components for products you manufacture and sell.

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How To Improve Stock Availability

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Stock Availability – A Common Inventory Management Challenge. The global marketplace is constantly evolving due to political, economic, technological and social factors. As small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) try to remain competitive, many are coming up against inventory management challenges. In this three-part blog series we’re looking at three of the most common inventory management issues faced by stock holding companies.

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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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Next-Generation Supply Chain for Retailers: Using AI and ML In Forecasting and Replenishment

Solvoyo

Thanks to companies like Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba and Zara, retail businesses across the globe, whether they are grocery, mass merchant or fashion, are becoming faster and smarter. “Getting closer to the customer” is now part of everyday conversation, and those who are pushing the envelope on that front know it takes more than just getting customer insights reports out of CRM systems.

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Will the Coronavirus Epidemic Serve as a Wakeup Call for Global Supply Chains?

Supply Chain Brain

The coronavirus is not to be taken lightly. As of mid-February, the number of cases worldwide had risen to more than 64,000 globally, 63,000 of which were in China, with the death toll at almost 1,400 and climbing.

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How Vehicle Tracking can help Businesses Negotiate Emission Zones!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Vehicle Tracking article and permission to publish here provided by Thomas Goodall at Masternaut. Emissions zones in cities are becoming more prominent across Europe, to try to reduce the environmental impact of vehicles and improve the health of members of the public living and working in those cities.

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GWPP – Panelist for Global Women Procurement Professionals Event #WSW

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GWWP - Global Women in Procurement Professionals. Panelist for event in Foster City, CA. Roadmapping Your Career.

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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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Project Based Procurement

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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. when should I use it? And what challenges will I face? Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Typical steps associated with a project purchasing process. 3. Project and Category Procurement Differences. 4. Table of the key differences between Project and Category based procurement. 5. Types of activity suitable for Project based procurement. 6.

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The Potential of AI in the Healthcare Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

There’s no shortage of enthusiasm — or predictions — about the potential use of artificial intelligence.

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How to Safely Handle Chemicals!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. A Comprehensive Warehouse Safety Guide! Chemicals article written for Supply Chain Game Changer by Carla Sanz. Every time I am asked about how to handle and transport chemical products I answer that it is all about being well-informed. Indeed, there are various elements that one has to know when it comes to the storage and handling of chemical products.

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Developing Your Personal Brand Without Promoting Yourself – My Interview in ProcureRising Q1 2020 Magazine

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Developing Your Personal Brand Without Promoting Yourself.

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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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Project Based Procurement

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when should I use it? And what challenges will I face? 1: Introduction. Project-based procurement occurs when there is a specific project activity and goal. This may be a project that repeats at regular intervals or it may be a one-off project. The project could include volume purchases, small purchase volumes, standard items, specification of unique one-off items and tailoring of items based on individual projects.

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Hybrid Demand Sensing: Readying Supply Chains for Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Brain

Today’s supply chains are challenged by product-line proliferation, shrinking product lifecycles, increased complexity and massive amounts of data.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 02/21/20 – 02/27/20

All Things Supply Chain

Coronavirus to disrupt electronics supply chain The electronics industry could face severe delays and disruptions due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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RiseNow

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[link]. RiseNow is a supply chain management consulting firm with a platform-agnostic approach, serving healthcare and the Global 2000. Together, we bring you a 360-degree view of your challenges and solutions, and offer services that ensure your projects are completed on time, on budget, and to your standard of success. The post RiseNow 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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Three Ways to Compete As Trade War Progresses

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With the right tools in place, price-change decision making can take place in minutes — not months.

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Washington 2020 – Vincent Laperriere

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Vincent Laperriere. Manager, Supplier Processes & Tools. SESSION: DATE – HOUR. Lorem ipsum. Vincent Laperriere joined Cogeco Communication as Manager, supplier, tools & processes in 2019. His role, as part of the Center of Excellence department is to support continuous improvement relative to strategic procurement. He is responsible for the Ivalua software and it’s integration, enterprise wide.

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LegalSifter

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LegalSifter makes contracts easier with AI and expertise. With Sifter Concierge Cleanup, on a periodic, regular or one-time basis, as part of an Ivalua implementation, we will clean and organize your document data. We use A.I., attorneys, and paralegals to deliver your information faster, more affordably and more accurately than you could on your own.

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Paris 2020 – EN – S?awomir Peter

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S?awomir Peter Solution Area Manager. S?awomir Peter is Solution Area Manager in the IKEA Supply Business Solution, responsible for the application landscape in the area of purchasing and supplier development. S?awomir has long and comprehensive experience in the purchasing / logistics business. Seven years ago, he joined the organization of business solutions with the task of building and managing the organization responsible for conducting business and developing IT tools.

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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 – EN – Nichlas Jespersen

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Nichlas Jespersen Project Manager. Nichlas Jespersen is Multi Project Manager at Inter IKEA being responsible for all ongoing and upcoming initiatives within the S2P domain, having an overall roadmap & portfolio responsibility. Nichlas has a long and exhaustive experience from multiple senior management positions within the IKEA group but also from the FMCG industry and the Insurance business.

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Paris 2020 – EN – Erik Walle

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Erik Walle Project Manager. Erik Walle is Project Manager for Inter IKEA’s first, and to date’s biggest, Ivalua related initiative covering the entire S2C processes on IKEA’s direct material side. Erik has an exhaustive background in project management and process improvements within the procurement area, spanning multiple industries such as Telecom, FMCG and Electronics Manufacturing.

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BME eLösungstage – 24-25 März 2020 – Düsseldorf

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The post BME eLösungstage – 24-25 März 2020 – Düsseldorf appeared first on Ivalua.

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Jian Xu – DC

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REGISTER NOW. Jian Xu, Ph.D.,CSCP. Procurement Director. REGISTER NOW. SESSION: DATE – HOUR. Lorem ipsum. Jian works as a Director of Procurement at Fannie Mae. She leads a team that is tasked with identifying, designing, and implementing best practices and innovative solutions in support of corporate procurement’s delivery of business objectives and performance excellence.

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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.