All Things Supply Chain
MARCH 24, 2021
Ever wondered how supply chains are holding up these days? Nowadays, you’ll hear about automation taking many industries by storm – the same is true for supply chain management.
ProcurePort
MARCH 23, 2021
The risk will always be a part of our everyday lives. There’s no escaping it, honestly, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, the right risks, made with calculations and well-founded information, yield some of the best rewards. That being said, there are certain times and places that we want to […]. The post How to Assess Supplier Risk Management in Procurement: An Overview, Report, and Checklist appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.
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ivalua
MARCH 24, 2021
The role that procurement plays in manufacturing organizations is a difficult one. This function must simultaneously balance cost reduction, quality, and assurance of supply in their quest to maximize profits. . Without digitization, many manufacturing organizations see one or more of these areas suffer due to a reliance on manual processes, a lack of collaboration with suppliers, and little to no visibility of risk during the product development process.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 25, 2021
Businesses and suppliers alike must take preemptive action to rid their supply chains of forced labor, or face irreversible damage to their consumer base.
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All Things Supply Chain
MARCH 22, 2021
The recent worldwide turmoil due to the pandemic has forced organizations to rethink their supply chain strategy.
ProcurePort
MARCH 25, 2021
Why is there a distinction made between direct and indirect procurement? Both direct and indirect goods and services procurement are vital business functions that consolidate enterprise purchasing. So why treat one function as more important than the other? Well, as the world of procurement evolved, two decidedly separate disciplines emerged into what we now know […].
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Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 23, 2021
Intel Corp. has unveiled an ambitious bid to regain its manufacturing lead by spending billions of dollars on new factories and creating a foundry business that will make chips for other companies.
ProcurePort
MARCH 24, 2021
“Just the tip of the iceberg” – it’s a common phrase used when there’s a lot more to something than first meets the eye. This is certainly the case when it comes to procurement. Procurement, while often reduced to the actions of buying and selling, awarding contracts, and sourcing goods or services for a company […]. The post Invoice Payment Process and Approval in Procurement Cycle appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.
Supply Chain Game Changer
MARCH 25, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Get Our EBOOK HERE. SCM software article and permission to publish here provided by Irina Kapetanakis. For decades, forward-thinking supply chains were defined by how robust their investments into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) was. In the early days of supply chain digitization , these systems provided increased visibility and data pools to improve supply chain operations.
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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 Brain
MARCH 25, 2021
A massive container ship blocking the Suez Canal showed no signs of budging for a third day, forcing container carriers and other vessels to weigh costly and time-consuming voyages around Africa that threaten to destabilize the already fragile underpinnings of global trade.
Jaggaer
MARCH 23, 2021
The post Benchmark your Organization – Results of the 2020 Procurement Performance Excellence Survey appeared first on JAGGAER.
Supply Chain Game Changer
MARCH 23, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Is Your Supply Chain A Cost Centre or a Value Creator? GET our EBOOK HERE. Supply Chain responsibilities are vast in any organization. These jobs reach far and wide, touching virtually every business process, most metrics, and all functional areas. But too often the expected deliverables from Supply Chain professionals are established without a real understanding of the totality and breadth of actual tasks that must be perfor
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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 Brain
MARCH 21, 2021
A fire at a semiconductor factory in Japan, cold weather in North America and ongoing competition for chips are all hitting the global auto industry at the same time, threatening to exacerbate supply shortages of a key component that began late last year.
The Network Effect
MARCH 26, 2021
The post New Analyst Report: Supply Chain Planning Solutions Ranked appeared first on The Network Effect.
Jaggaer
MARCH 25, 2021
The post The eHealth Project RELIEF Selects Two Apps for the Self-Management of Chronic Pain appeared first on JAGGAER.
Supply Chain Game Changer
MARCH 24, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Warehousing: Optimize Storage Locations! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Warehouse storage space article and permission to publish here provided by Marvin Chandler. With businesses booming every day, warehouses are reaching full utilization of their storage capacity. This can lead to congestion, uncomfortable work environment for the workers, damage, increased costs and time going to waste moving products around trying to make more space
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 Brain
MARCH 22, 2021
In his bid to extend Tesla’s dominance in electric vehicle production beyond the U.S.to Germany and other countries, is CEO Elon Musk at risk of over-reaching?
Claritum
MARCH 22, 2021
6 ways you can help your organisation save time and money. Cut operational costs and improve efficiencies. Eliminate the need for disparate systems across departments and geolocations, and instead centralise and integrate these functions into a single cloud deployed system to manage processes, with multiple languages and currencies supported if required.
Jaggaer
MARCH 26, 2021
The post Cross-functional Team Implements JAGGAER at the College of Southern Maryland appeared first on JAGGAER.
Zycus Cognitive Procurement
MARCH 25, 2021
Although e-Invoicing is not a new technology, its relevance has grown multi-fold in recent times. The pandemic was the catalyst in pushing several procurement organizations to grow up digitally overnight and adopt touch-less technologies such as e-Invoicing for more reasons than one. . Having mandated it many years ago (as early as 2014), the American and European markets were the early adopters and have a higher adoption rate by now.
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Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 23, 2021
Recently I set out to acquire a new Ford Bronco. Ford Motor Company’s marketing department had done a masterful job at whetting the appetite for pre-orders of the vehicle, and making the launch a draw for thousands of potential buyers. But could it deliver on the wish fulfillment?
All Things Supply Chain
MARCH 26, 2021
Factory fire adds to computer chip supply crisis One of the car industry’s biggest computer chip suppliers has warned that a major fire at one of its factories in Japan…
Jaggaer
MARCH 23, 2021
The post Auburn University Extends JAGGAER Implementation with Spend Analytics appeared first on JAGGAER.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 26, 2021
More than 60% of logistics companies agree that last-mile delivery is the most inefficient process in the entire supply chain.
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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.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 25, 2021
Guy Harrison, general manager of risk and compliance with Dow Jones, describes the risks that companies face today from new sanctions and regulations imposed by the U.S. and other governments around the world.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 24, 2021
Crews are struggling to remove Ever Given, a stranded container ship longer than the Eiffel Tower, and a look at the type of cargoes waiting to pass show the shipping delays have the potential to affect a range of industries.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 24, 2021
With the success of AI/ML in areas like image recognition, medicine, and the web, why are we only seeing incremental gains in the supply chain? What’s throttling AI’s ability to drive optimal supply chain performance? Ranjit Notani, co-founder and CTO of One Network Enterprises, and Joe Bellini (COO), will explode common myths about AI/ML and why network strategies are essential to success in Supply Chain Control Towers.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 23, 2021
A discussion of what constitutes an “autonomous” supply chain, the functions that it controls, and how far it is from becoming a reality, with two executives from aThingz: Vijaya Neela, president and chief executive officer, and Kannan Ramachandran, chief artificial intelligence officer and chief commercial officer.
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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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