Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
By adopting a circular economy approach, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer is now sending less than 1% of returned products to landfills.
Supply Chain Queen
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Today, I share a distinguished honor with other leaders I respect and admire being named the Top Leader in Supply Chain Digital’s supply chain leaders 2021 list. And as you explore the list, this stands out…the composition and representation of folks highlighted, especially in the Top 10.This tells a story that describes why diversity and equity. Read more.
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ProcurePort
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Imagine this: an enterprise has locations in Chicago, San Francisco, Florida, and Seattle, and is utilizing traditional, paper-based processes for its expense management and procurement. How exactly would that work? This process is time-consuming, inefficient, and doesn’t allow for a comprehensive, 360-degree view on spend management. What happens if a purchase order or invoice gets […].
ivalua
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
The post Connecting the Dots Between ESG Objectives and Source-to-Pay Processes appeared first on Ivalua.
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Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
Stuck in a loop of fluctuating demand, capacity problems and ongoing disruptions, shippers and third-party logistics providers say they’re investing in technology that connects people, processes and information to navigate supply chain challenges, according to a new study.
Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Content Marketing Trends for Supply Chain! Content marketing strategy article and permission to publish here provided by Sarah Dawson. Content marketing isn’t something that you can have a set plan about. In this era of digital marketing, you need to keep your content marketing strategies as dynamic as possible.
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ivalua
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The post A Case for Change: Aligning Strategy with Action for Procurement Transformation appeared first on Ivalua.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
The number of container ships waiting to enter the biggest U.S. gateway for trade with Asia reached an all-time high of 65 vessels late last week, carrying potential payloads of cargo boxes that would stretch halfway across the country if lined up end to end.
Jaggaer
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The post The State of Supplier Diversity: Highlights from Our Latest Report appeared first on JAGGAER.
ProcurePort
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
3- way matching procurement refers to comparing purchase orders with the goods receipt note and the supplier invoice before releasing payment. It is done to ensure that what the supplier is billing the company for is what was ordered and delivered. This sounds rather simple, but it can get quite complicated in big organizations dealing […]. The post Why Do You Need to Implement a 3-way matching process in Procurement?
Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon
This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia
ivalua
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Rapid Optimization of Contract Management, Supplier Management and Direct Materials Sourcing. Redwood City, CA September 21 , 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions , today announced that Asian Paints successfully deployed Ivalua’s Contract Management and Supplier Information solutions to enhance their strategic sourcing processes.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
In any other year, expectations of strong sales for the upcoming holiday shopping season would be the fulfillment of a dream for retailers. Instead, it’s shaping up to be something of a nightmare.
Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 9 Key Considerations in an Effective Last Mile Delivery Strategy. Out for delivery article and permission to publish here provided by Jake Rheude. Dealing with delivery issues is part of life for eCommerce companies. You need to track your packages and work with the carrier and your customer when problems arise.
Purchasing Insight
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The world is analogue. This is why OCR won’t die. Together with technologies like RPA and AI, it helps to deal with the world as it really is not how we’d like it to be. The post Some things just refuse to die – OCR is one of them appeared first on Purchasing Insight.
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ivalua
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
About Brightleaf. Brightleaf provides a technology powered service to extract information from clients’ contracts using its own proprietary semantic intelligence/natural language processing technology, its own team of lawyers to check the output, and a Six-Sigma process to deliver, highly accurate, extracted data from clients’ contracts. Learn more here – [link].
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Buildings are flooded with more packages than ever, forcing mailroom managers to rethink how they store and distribute to tenants.
Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The New Mission for Employee Health and Safety! Delivery vehicle accidents article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. The rise in the demand for goods being shopped online has also brought about a new phenomenon of more and more delivery vehicle trucks and drivers on the road.
Jaggaer
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
The post Aligning Procurement: People, Technology and Processes to Deliver Value appeared first on JAGGAER.
Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón
Enterprise commerce is evolving fast, and brands relying on rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions risk losing agility. But modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. In this webinar, we’ll explore how an extensible, modular approach empowers brands to integrate new capabilities, enhance performance, and scale efficiently—all while leveraging Shopify’s strengths.
The Procuretech Podcast
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Business relationships at their heart are all about people, when you put the commercials, the products or services, and the mechanism or process used to manage those relationships to one side. Managing people-to-people relationships, whether with stakeholders or suppliers, through email chains and Excel sheets isn't particularly effective. Especially when it comes to continuity and longer term collaboration based on mutual trust.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The supply chain field is a good career choice, according to nearly all respondents (99%) in a new survey.
Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Outsourcing Sourcing! 5 Lessons from Around the Globe! Outsource Logistics article and permission to publish here provided by Carol Trehearn. Logistics are a vital part of many businesses and are integral to the company’s overall business system. If you and your business are currently doing everything yourself, then you might not only wonder if you could free up more time to do the things you need to be doing but also how thi
Jaggaer
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The post Supplier Diversity Moves up the Corporate Agenda – but Europe Lags behind North America appeared first on JAGGAER.
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Purchasing Insight
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Even good, clean data reflects the uneven and imperfect world that we work in. It’s not good to have holes in your data but it not natural to have none. Uneven data can be difficult to read but perfectly straight lines only exist in theory. The post Making sense out of chaos appeared first on Purchasing Insight.
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
You might think that the recent spate of supply chain disruptions would have caused a stampede of manufacturers out of China, or at least prompted them to diversify sourcing. But that hasn’t been the case.
Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Is Just In Time Past Its Time? Get Our EBOOK HERE. Most of the pre-pandemic Inventory Management strategies were centred around improving inventory turnover, keeping inventory levels as low as possible, and reducing the amount of cash tied up in inventory. The backbone of all long-standing philosophies such as Just-In-Time , Lean manufacturing, and Kanbans were all designed around minimizing the amount of inventory on hand in
IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
For years, supply chain professionals have measured success by how well they have been able to drive down costs and drive up efficiency. Just-in-time (JIT) became an artform and masters of the practice achieved new levels of precision. Goods arrived exactly when needed, waste and holding costs were kept to a minimum, and single source strategies prevailed due to ease and cost savings.
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The Supplier Experience
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
An Interview on The Rise of Marketing Procurement with Sarah Scudder. For this episode of Supplier Experience Live from HICX we welcomed Sarah Scudder. Based in San Francisco, Sarah is a data-driven marketing strategist, social media influencer, and public speaker. She is an advocate for ‘marketing procurement’ and is currently busy working on marketing and sales strategies for a procurement software start-up, Real Sourcing Network , a technology company that provides an innovative and painless
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The U.S. supply chain is squeezed, with industry reports stating that the country needs to add at least 330 million square feet of warehouse space dedicated to e-commerce by 2025 in order to keep up with the current rate of demand.
Procurement Innovation with Raj Verma
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Procurement Rising
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
Today on Procurement Rising Podcast Series we welcome Thomas Udesen, the Chief Procurement Officer at Bayer. Thomas is also the co-founder of the Sustainable Procurement Pledge (SPP), a community of CPOs and other procurement executives who are committed to bringing sustainability into their procurement practices. In our discussion, we talk about Thomas’ career, how he ended up working at Bayer, what lead him to co-founding the SPP, and why it is so important for procurement leaders to incorpora
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