Procurement Heads

OCTOBER 26, 2022

How did you get into procurement? It was during my time at Tesco. I actually have a background in finance, but I was looking at labour services and the commercial prospect of combining services and multiskilling staff, before I knew what facilities management was. I was asked by the CPO if I fancied the challenge and have never looked back. What are the roles and responsibilities the procurement function holds within your organisation?

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RPF360

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Many businesses have experienced supply chain disruptions recently. Find out if your organization needs to switch from Traditional to Agile procurement. The post Agile procurement vs. traditional procurement appeared first on RFP360.

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Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 27, 2022

33 Procurement Interview Questions in 2022. Success! First Name. Email. Download Free Whitepaper ?. ?. Or receive our famous weekly newsletter. Logistics Statistics 2022 — 18 Key Figures. Logistics statistics in 2022 allow people, especially professionals, to see the growth of logistics today and in the coming years. However, what are the factors that affect logistics and figures to see its growth?

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With just 3.6% of global reserves, access to the critical mineral is vital to the country’s sustainable energy plans.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Argo AI, darling of Ford and VW, is shutting down. Tesla’s self-driving claims are under criminal investigation. It's the end of years of faulty presumptions about driverless-vehicle technology.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Opportunities and Challenges. One of the most significant investments in our nation’s infrastructure, the $550 billion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) , has begun to release its first waves of funding. While this bill is transformative for states, cities, counties, utilities, and education, there are massive hurdles that must be addressed before any initiatives are implemented.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Experts note that shipping rates are negotiable, but how amenable the delivery giants will be to concessions is up for debate.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The supply chain of the future has clear visibility and is collaborative. Organizations will need to understand the state of the supply chain in real time, while aligning cross-functionally to reduce ad-hoc firefighting.

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Positive Purchasing

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Jonathan O’Brien looks at what the coming food crisis means for all of us and how procurement functions must get creative to navigate their way through the challenging times that lie ahead. We ain’t seen nothing yet! There has been much written about the cost of living crisis but what we’re about to see will blow that out of the water. Put simply, we ain’t seen nothing yet!

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Procurement Heads

OCTOBER 26, 2022

How did you get into procurement? It was during my time at Tesco. I actually have a background in finance, but I was looking at labour services and the commercial prospect of combining services and multiskilling staff, before I knew what facilities management was. I was asked by the CPO if I fancied the challenge and have never looked back. What are the roles and responsibilities the procurement function holds within your organisation?

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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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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Levi Strauss, J.M. Smucker and three others completed the first aggregated purchase power agreement under the retailer’s Project Gigaton, which encourages vendors to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Nearly a third (32%) of procurement teams concede to cutting corn ers with their sourcing criteria for suppliers to secure supply. 81% of procurement teams feel pressured by executive teams to respond more quickly and effectively to challenges such as inflation, disruptions, and shortages. 49% believe that global supply chains won’t fully recover to pre-Covid operational norms until 2024 or beyond.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Traditional spreadsheet solutions do not work anymore. Today’s “plug ‘n play” technology solutions are purpose-built to evolve materials management.

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Strategic Sourceror

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For retailers, inventory shrinkage is an unavoidable reality. Whether it's caused by products containing defects, items getting lost or misplaced during shipping or a variety of other scenarios, when merchandise isn't available for purchase, it's chalked up to shrinkage. Another shrinkage contributor is theft, and based on a newly released report , it's a multi-billion dollar problem across the country.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen and their employers agreed to avoid service disruptions until December as part of a "status quo" period.

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Una

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How to Improve Procurement Efficiency. By Hugo Britt | October 26, 2022. Procurement was once known for imposing clunky purchasing processes. In recent years, however, many teams have managed to successfully shake off this long-outdated reputation. Procurement professionals are now celebrated for their innovation, creativity, agility, and cost-saving initiatives.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Creating resilient and agile supply chains requires leveragING economies of scale when working with suppliers while minimizing risk, disruptions and shortages.

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Strategic Sourceror

OCTOBER 27, 2022

To paraphrase a familiar axiom, you don't fully appreciate the things that make your day-to-day business affairs possible until those things either aren't there anymore or aren't performing. This was a sentiment shared by just about every product-based company during the pandemic, when the efforts designed to stamp out COVID-19 wound up wiping out supply chains more than anything else.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The retailer fell half a billion short of its cost-cutting goal this past quarter, and Q4 isn't expected to add much progress.

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Una

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Episode 88: Global Energy Supply and Demand with Kris Lance. By Kelly Barner | October 26, 2022. Although Europe’s energy challenges may be different than the ones faced in the United States, there isn’t any location or industry that isn’t being affected by the high prices or short supply of gas, oil, and electricity. In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Italy’s Guardia di Finanza is alleging that Pfizer’s unit, Pfizer Italia Srl, transferred excess capital to affiliates in the U.S. and the Netherlands to avoid taxes on profits.

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All Things Supply Chain

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Shipping hazardous materials requires following specific procedures to identify the contents and avoid accidents properly.

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Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The automaker will expand a South Carolina plant and partner with a battery supplier to build a nearby facility.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Under Pressure, Will Procurement Take Performance Higher in 2023? . Procurement and supply chain teams have been trying to hold the line against macroeconomic and global market forces that have been pushing hard against them for nearly three years. But the line has been slipping. If they aren’t able to overcome their challenges, 2023 could be their breaking point. .

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 27, 2022

To ensure that U.S. companies aren’t impacted by trade tensions with China in the near future, they must act now. .

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Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Ukraine Export Statistics 2022 – 18 Key Figures. Ukraine’s Export Statistics allow people all over the world to know its situation despite the invasion of Russia. . In this article, we will tell you the figures regarding Ukraine’s export statistics amidst the ongoing war. We will discuss the relevant factors regarding Ukraine’s export that will let you know more about its situation. .

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Advertiser: GEP

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The food and beverage giant is hoping practices like cover cropping can help it meet its goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2040.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Categories: Procurement Strategy & Planning , Purchasing , Technology Tags: procurement strategy and planning , SaaS It’s time procurement caught up with the fourth industrial revolution. Procurement, as it is traditionally understood, was born during the second industrial revolution, thanks to the electrification of industry the growth of railways and telegraphic communication.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Following are four tips to help businesses avoid some of the most common causes of failed deliveries in the last mile.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain’s Moment of Truth Has Arrived! We are at an interesting inflection point in the history of Supply Chain and Logistics. It is no longer sufficient to think locally. We must think global logistics! I recently had the opportunity to talk with La Chang, CEO at Think Global Logistics (TGL).

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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