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Learning Logistics During COVID-19 Lockdowns

All Things Supply Chain

While working from home is not usually the norm for many people, it has become the “new normal” due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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How We Have Virtually On-Boarded New Employees During the Lockdown

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Business changed overnight when lockdowns were announced to curb the spread of Covid-19. As of 12th March, our entire workforce was advised to work from home and shortly thereafter this became mandatory. As a talent acquisition team we are fortunate enough to work at a financially sound and growing company that is still hiring for new roles. However, nearly all aspects from interviewing all the way through to hiring and onboarding have changed in some way.

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Using Tail Spend Management to Your Procurement Advantage

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Did you know that 80% of the transactions in a typical American procurement department are tail spend? Father of Modern Management, Peter Drucker once said, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Tail spend as we know is spend that is not actively managed and may lead to all sorts of financial difficulties for procurement […]. The post Using Tail Spend Management to Your Procurement Advantage appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Building Better Supply Chains for the Future

Supply Chain Brain

A “return to normality” requires the mending and rehabilitation of the international supply chains that power so much of our globalized economy. But supply-chain leaders must first figure out how to answer some exceedingly difficult questions.

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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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Time to Rethink Sourcing Rare Earth Elements

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! Rare Earth Elements article, and permission to publish here, provided by Joe Carson and Shubho Chatterjee. It’s amazing how quickly $4 trillion dollars can change a conversation. With the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, and the resulting supply chain fallout , many have speculated on how the U.S. found itself so reliant on a foreign country, mainly China, bu

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“Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2020 Ardent Partners’ Annual Survey Results of Chief Procurement Officers”

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The post “Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2020 Ardent Partners’ Annual Survey Results of Chief Procurement Officers” appeared first on Ivalua.

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How IoT Can Help Retailers Succeed in a Post-Pandemic World

Supply Chain Brain

Here are three ways internet-of-things devices can help retailers adjust to the new world, and adhere to critical safety standards.

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Supply Chain Risk Management is a Cirque Du Soleil Calibre Act!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Disaster Strikes!!! Is Your Supply Chain Ready To Recover? Recently we took our Granddaughter to see a Cirque du Soleil show. While we had seen several Cirque shows before it was her first time. The show made an indelible impression on her. She talked about it for weeks and will remember it for the rest of her life.

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Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2020

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The post Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2020 appeared first on Ivalua.

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Measuring Procurement's Value Delivery – Pierre Laprée from Per Angusta

The Procuretech Podcast

Procurement has an image problem. We're often seen as the department our stakeholders and business partners run to when they have a problem that requires an immediate reaction. We're often brought in to extinguish the fire extinguisher, but rarely to prevent them from happening. So, how do we move from being a reactionary department seemingly in servitude to our stakeholders, to a better respected business partner that is seen as a value generator.

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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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Six Common Logistics Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Supply Chain Brain

In the process of implementing new strategies, companies may overlook these aspects that can affect supply-chain performance.

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4 Revolutionary Changes in Biofuel!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategy. Biofuel is an excellent alternative solution to non-renewable fuel. There is a general assumption that biofuel is only used in the transport industry. Biofuel provides clean up and cooking oil, gives us hydrogen, and much more.

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Ivalua Demo Days

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 06/12/20 – 06/18/20

All Things Supply Chain

Peak Shipping Season Runs Aground as Ocean Lines Pull Capacity Ocean container lines are bracing for limited demand during the usual peak shipping season heading into the Fall, with supply…

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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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How AI Depalletization Is Shaking Up Logistics

Supply Chain Brain

The growing demand for fast supply-chain processes has reached yet another niche market: the unloading of boxes from pallets, or a so-called depalletization.

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How to Talk to Your Partners About Supply-Chain Security

Supply Chain Brain

The unfolding pandemic has thrown into sharp relief just how complex and interdependent today's international supply chains are — and how little visibility companies can have over those interdependencies.

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A Sustainable Strategy for Managing Excess Apparel

Supply Chain Brain

Apparel retailers are facing a mounting pile of overstock unlike anything they’ve seen before.

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At Ag Exporters’ Meeting, the Chassis Debate Rages On

Supply Chain Brain

Ocean carriers, shippers and truckers can’t stop bickering over an issue that has plagued the transportation industry for years, and shows no sign of being easily solved: the ownership and management of chassis.

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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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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Helps Protect Trademarks

Supply Chain Brain

U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently reported the seizure of a shipment of Pokémon action figurines valued at more than $600,000.

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Scaling Up Delivery Operations Safely and Efficiently

Supply Chain Brain

Growing too quickly can cause delayed deliveries, inefficient inventory management, overworked drivers and disappointed customers.

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Five Questions to Test Your Post-Pandemic Business Strategy

Supply Chain Brain

Does your company's strategy still make sense?

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It's Time to Advance Your S&OP, Data and Planning Systems

Supply Chain Brain

Here's what it takes to achieve “optimal symbiosis.

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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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Ivalua Launches Innovations to Improve Sourcing Decisions, Savings Capture and Supply Chain Visibility

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London, UK – June 18, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading provider of spend management software, today announced the general availability of its new platform release 166. The release features a broad array of innovations to empower customers to better manage their spend and suppliers. Innovations focus on supporting smarter and faster decisions around supplier relationships and sourcing initiatives, improving the capture and recognition of savings, increasing accounts payable automation and ensuring access

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Ivalua Launches Pre-Packaged Spend Management Solutions for Healthcare Providers

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Accelerated digital transformation of healthcare supply chains to lower the cost of care and improve patient outcomes now possible. Redwood City, CA June 16, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced the availability of a pre-packaged suite of solutions for healthcare providers. The new packages span the full source-to-pay process and enable healthcare providers to digitally transform their supply chain processes to lower the cost of care