All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 18, 2021

Make no mistake, disasters can, and frequently do, wreak havoc on communities and businesses.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 20, 2021

COVID-19 was a wakeup call for procurement teams who failed to invest in the tools and resources necessary to protect their supply chains.

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ivalua

JANUARY 21, 2021

The post 2021: Procurement Insights & Key Issues appeared first on Ivalua.

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ProcurePort

JANUARY 21, 2021

What is RFP and what does RFP stand for? To those new to the procurement industry, RFP sounds a lot like RFI or RFQ. In fact, it’s a classic rookie mistake to use the terms interchangeably. We can hear you say, “But wait, are these terms divergent? What is the difference between RFP and RFQ?” […]. The post What is RFP? appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Speaker: Benjamin Woll

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Shopify’s modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how Shopify’s composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 19, 2021

Group Futurista’s Future of Digital Supply Chain in a Post-COVID world (FODS 3.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 20, 2021

Melinda McLaughlin, vice president and general head of research with Prologis, paints a picture of warehouse demand in the U.S., now and over the next five years.

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ProcurePort

JANUARY 20, 2021

Request for information (RFI) is a prevalent business practice in the procurement industry. It provides a succinct way to gather information from various suppliers which can then be used to craft requests for proposals (RFPs) in the future. RFI helps SMEs create vendor profiles, reduce the sourcing to contract life cycle, and enlightens procurement managers […].

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All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 20, 2021

When we speak about Capital Expenditures or commonly called CAPEX in an organization, generally speaking they are managed either by a Project Manager or their future users (the concerned department…

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 19, 2021

A key U.K. government customs system has been overwhelmed within weeks of Brexit and threatens to trigger more disruption as freight traffic rebounds.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 22, 2021

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Small business inventory management tips article and permission to publish here provided by Simcha Michael. Many overwhelming strategies, processes and techniques will come your way if you have to learn and perform inventory management.

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Advertiser: GEP

2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.

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ProcurePort

JANUARY 19, 2021

The procurement process is truly a comprehensive and fully integrated one. It is one of the systems that affects and involves the entirety of the business from top to bottom. One of the main components that makes up procurement is sourcing. This is contrary to the sometimes-popular misnomer that sourcing and procurement are interchangeable terms. […].

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All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 22, 2021

British hospitals to use blockchain to track COVID-19 vaccines Two British hospitals are using blockchain technology to track the storage and supply of temperature-sensitive COVID-19 vaccines, which is one of…

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 20, 2021

Near-sighted planning, supply-chain complexities and a tradition of keeping inventories low caused the semiconductor shortage that is now forcing carmakers to idle production lines and straining their relationship with chip manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 20, 2021

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Product suites article and permission to publish here provided by Irina Kapetanakis. If you are in the business of manufacturing and/or distributing physical products, your company has invested in systems for digital commerce, CRM, and HR.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 19, 2021

The post Intelligent Procurement: The Final Frontier or a Step Towards Something Greater? appeared first on JAGGAER.

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The Network Effect

JANUARY 21, 2021

The post Q&A with Joe Bellini on Supply Chain Trends of 2021 (Part 1) appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 20, 2021

Duravant, a global engineered equipment and automation solutions provider to the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, announced the introduction of nVenia, LLC, a new operating Company within Duravant’s Packaging Solutions Segment formed by combining Arpac, Hamer-Fischbein and Ohlson into a single entity.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 19, 2021

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Get Our EBook here. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action ” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. This interview is with Stephen Beard, VP of Network Development at Flexe.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 21, 2021

Dynamics 365 Business Central, or Dynamics BC, is Microsoft’s newest ERP to the market. Predominantly based on the functionality of Dynamics NAV, it’s easily connected with Microsoft’s other solutions from the 365 software suite to provide a fully integrated business system. Dynamics Business Central has primarily been developed for the cloud and, as a SaaS product, businesses can choose to pay per user and month, making it very scalable to meet changing needs.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 19, 2021

The post JAGGAER Teams up with TransferMate to Offer Seamless Solutions from “Source to Settle” appeared first on JAGGAER.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 18, 2021

Pirate attacks have pushed up insurance and other costs for shippers operating off West Africa, with some resorting to hiring escort vessels manned by armed navy personnel.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 21, 2021

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Procurement drowning in data article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Global Trade has grown to a value of 25.3 Trillion USD, reported in 2018 ( wto.org 2019 ). At the same time, the global availability of information & data has grown at 4x the speed of global trade ( hbr.org 2019 ).

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Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

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Claritum

JANUARY 18, 2021

Bath, UK (January 18, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced that it has secured a contract with Gem to collaborate on delivering procurement infrastructure to support Gem’s customer marketing campaigns. “Gem offers our clients the ability to create and deliver customised communications across door drop, direct mail, SMS and Email tailored to individual customers and campaigns,” said Anthony Bagshaw, CEO at Gem.

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ProtoCast

JANUARY 18, 2021

This week on ProtoCast I am joined by a veritable celebrity of the procurement world. My guest is none other than former CIPS President, Peter Smith. Peter is also a distinguished former CPO in both the public and private sector, as well as the former editor of Spend Matters UK & Europe. In his newly released book, Peter takes us on a journey through the journey of how bad buying happens in the first place, what can be done to prevent it, and how it's often a very fine line between what is c

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 22, 2021

If you’re a business that’s outsourcing services, don’t think for one moment that you’re shedding responsibility for the health and safety of a vendor’s staff when they show up on your premises.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 21, 2021

What must a returns-management system provide to retailers to help ensure they’re effectively equipped to be compliant?

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Advertiser: GEP

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 21, 2021

Kivnon, specialists mobile robotics solutions, recently announced its new three models of autonomous vehicles: the K03 Twister, the K50 Pallet Truck and the K55 Pallet Stacker, capable of circulating around the environment using magnetic guidance or mapping navigation, based on SLAM technology.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 18, 2021

Elaine Turner, a shareholder and partner in the law firm of Hall Estill, explains when employers can and cannot require their employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it’s available.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 19, 2021

Global gaps in access to COVID-19 vaccines are raising concerns that the continued spread of the coronavirus will breed more dangerous versions of the pathogen, weakening medical weapons and further crippling economies.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 21, 2021

The World Health Organization has said there’s no evidence of people catching the coronavirus via food and food packaging, while China has taken increasingly drastic steps to test and halt imports.

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