All Things Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
In supply chain management, data and its targeted analytics are necessary to make statements about important influences on the supply chain: Which deliveries are often uncertain?
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
From smart cartonization to last-mile delivery and beyond, supply chains offer fertile ground for new technologies to improve sustainability by trimming wasted fuel, materials and time.
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Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Get Our EBOOK HERE. Weighbridge article and permission to publish here provided by Emily Bartels. As businesses grow in this era of technology, they aim to enhance their efficiency and productivity. Technology makes businesses more efficient and productive in the best possible ways.
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All Things Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
“The world is in trouble”, said David Attenborough who recently broke Instagram records with his campaign aiming to tackle environmental crises and share potential solutions.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The adoption by logistics providers of modern-day technology is a case of applying digital solutions to an analog world.
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SupplyShift
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
2020 has been a defining year for transparent supply chains. When the pandemic hit, most people expected sustainability efforts to take a back-seat role. On the contrary, companies seem to be more focused than ever on driving sustainability in supply chains. In fact, Gartner, Deloitte, and McKinsey all echoed the same sentiment early on in the pandemic – transparency is the only way to be proactive about supply chain vulnerabilities going forward.
GoProcure blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
As we enter the final calendar quarter of what has been a tumultuous year, many companies need to cut costs to get budgets back on track. Ideally, finance and procurement teams can start with cost savings that do not affect the quality of operations. One way to find that balance, and perhaps even improve operations, is to move from a single source to a multisource procurement strategy.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Ann Marie Uetz, head of the coronavirus task force with the law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP, discusses the results of a pair of surveys about how executives are responding to supply-chain disruptions caused by the pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions.
Jaggaer
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
The post The Lowdown on the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites appeared first on Jaggaer.
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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.
SupplyShift
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
2020 has been a defining year for transparent supply chains. When the pandemic hit, most people expected sustainability efforts to take a back-seat role. On the contrary, companies seem to be more focused than ever on driving sustainability in supply chains. In fact, Gartner, Deloitte, and McKinsey all echoed the same sentiment early on in the pandemic – transparency is the only way to be proactive about supply chain vulnerabilities going forward.
EazyStock
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Maintaining cost-effective inventory levels is critical for any manufacturer, wholesaler, supplier or retailer. But just how much inventory is the right amount to hold? How can you ensure you have enough to cover fluctuating demand without over-stocking? How long can you hold ‘healthy’ stock until it becomes excess or even obsolete? Most businesses struggle to find an optimized balance between these two costly challenges.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
As part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a new rule requiring stricter controls over the monitoring of food products throughout the supply chain.
ProtoCast
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Welcome to the very first episode of ProtoCast, where every 2 weeks we will bring coffee break-sized podcasts full of insightful content to the procurement community during these difficult times. This inaugural episode looks at how ProctoCast came into being, and how we fit into the Proctopus network and community. Join the Proctopus group on LinkedIn Looking forward to have you with us on our journey into ProctoCasting!
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
All Things Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Amazon shipping costs outpace sales growth due to soaring pandemic operating expenses Amazon’s shipping costs increased by 57% Year on Year in the third quarter to reach $15 billion.
Jaggaer
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
The post How to Strengthen Your Supplier Management Strategies appeared first on Jaggaer.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 31, 2020
Tackling the job of assessing all of its contracts for indirect-materials spend, Intel Corp. scraps a laborious and outdated manual process, and puts its entire supply chain on the road to digitization.
Supply Chain Game Changer
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. From Click to Ship in 4 Minutes! Ultimate Principles for World Class Fulfillment! 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.
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
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Patrick Thielen, senior vice president of financial lines with Chubb, explains why malware attacks are on the rise, and what manufacturers must do to protect their people and systems from cyber criminals.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 31, 2020
More companies are waking up to the need for change, and this year’s crop of candidates was especially strong.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
VeriShip, a shipping expense optimization platform, announced a merger with Sifted, a provider of a data science-driven predictive logistics platform.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Rosemary Coates, executive director of The Reshoring Institute, explains why the coronavirus pandemic might finally be the crisis that drives manufacturers to shift production from China back to the U.S.
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Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
With staff off work, an economic slowdown, and swings in the supply and demand for essential goods, new Covid-related restrictions will add to pressure on logistics firms and supply chains.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
The last few months have seen a lot of so-called risk-management strategies fall by the wayside, as businesses have scrambled to cope with unimaginable upheavals in supply chains and consumer habits brought about by COVID-19. What’s the best way to cope with a crisis? The first piece of advice is old as the hills: Don’t panic. You might think you have the right tactics and strategies in place, but in the real world you’re likely to be blindsided by a disaster, whether it’
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
LeanDNA, a provider of factory-focused inventory optimization solutions, has launched role-based workflow capabilities within its platform for the manufacturing industry.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
The digital transformation of supply chains has been underway since 2010, but COVID-19 kicked it into top gear.
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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
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, recently announced the 2020.2 release of its Prophet 21 solution.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 31, 2020
Rob Wilson, president of Employco USA, offers advice on how employers should protect workers from contracting the coronavirus in the workplace, and what action to take when they do.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Once COVID-19 is behind us, will traditional business-to-business retail stage a comeback, or is direct-to-consumer e-commerce the new normal? For an uncertain future, one strategy gaining ground is the “warehouse-in-a-warehouse.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Oil forecasters have had the same long-term challenge for decades: figuring out how much of the world’s liquid hydrocarbons will be in demand years into the future, and where, and in what mix of products and uses.
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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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