All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 15, 2025

Supply chain organizations must be efficient, strategic and aligned with modern values.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 13, 2025

While the boats have been out of service for about three weeks, port personnel are slowly bringing tankers into harbor, causing a bottleneck.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 16, 2025

The ocean carrier used Craft's supply chain intelligence platform to help navigate last fall's East and Gulf Coast port strike.

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Supply Chain Queen

JANUARY 15, 2025

The New Frontier of Work: Where Sustainability Meets Supply Chain Innovation The numbers are staggering: 170 million new jobs created, 92 million displaced by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 reveals that 22% of current jobs will transform within just seven years. This isn’t merely change it’s a fundamental reimagining of how value.

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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 13, 2025

The holiday season is one of the busiest times for retailers.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 14, 2025

In readiness for our Q1 2025 theme of Procurement Transformation, which will include how to even start your digital journey, how to make the case for it, how to shape your digital roadmap and how to survive it, we have received input from some solution providers on their own customers journeys. Ruth Orenstein , Senior Director of Product Management at global finance automation specialist, Tipalti, shares what their customers are looking for from their digital procurement investment.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 13, 2025

Companies need to understand their environmental impact and the risks they face, as well as the collaborative opportunities that mitigating and adapting to such risks presents.

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The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Here at Thomas , we've been powering North Americas largest and most active network of B2B buyers and industrial/commercial suppliers for more than 120 years. We understand the challenge of finding the best and most reliable suppliers. That's why we developed the Thomas Network to help you search for qualified manufacturers, distributors, and service companies.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 13, 2025

This article provides deep intelligence into how procurement tech vendors are solving different parts of the tariff problem. Tariffs are currently a hot topic following the result of the US 2024 elections, however: The new or increased tariffs mentioned during the election campaign havent yet materialized and may never. They may just have been a way to put pressure on trade partners for upcoming negotiations and discussions, or new tariffs may, in fact, be implemented.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 17, 2025

The fast food giant said it will shift to conducting “more integrated discussions” with suppliers about inclusion.

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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 Brain

JANUARY 16, 2025

Between November and December, seven of nine retail categories tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau also saw year-over-year gains in total sales.

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Procurement Freelancers

JANUARY 12, 2025

In todays interconnected world, businesses rely on global sourcing to meet their production and operational… The post How Procurement Agents Navigate Complex International Trade Regulations first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Skill Dynamics

JANUARY 14, 2025

Procurement is often an overlooked area within organizations, working behind the scenes to ensure businesses have the goods and services they need to operate at their best. Without it, many of the worlds most successful companies would simply cease to exist. Considering its importance, it makes sense that modern procurement teams have a structured approach to developing essential skills and capabilities.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 15, 2025

Purchasing Inmar Supply Chain Solutions nets the company 14 return centers and about 800 new associates.

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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 Brain

JANUARY 16, 2025

Crate & Barrel alleges that it had to pay $30 million more than it would have had carriers honored their service commitments.

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Procurement Freelancers

JANUARY 15, 2025

In the fast-paced and competitive world of global commerce, businesses are constantly searching for ways… The post How a Product Sourcing Agent Creates a Competitive Edge first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 17, 2025

What is the very first question you should ask a ProcureTech solution provider? Hint #1 – What did Van Parunak, Robert Savit, Rick L. Riolo, and Jon W. Hansen have in common in 1998, and why does it matter to AI and Procurement in 2025? Hint #2 – The missing piece from Van Parunak, Savit, and Riolo’s comparison between agent-based and equation-based models was my theory of strand commonality*, a key part of my SR&ED research funding in 1998.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 14, 2025

Potential disruptions could pressure costs and reliability across transport modes. Here's what supply chain experts are watching this year.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2025

Joe Biden may have been a one-term president, but his time in office could end up being defined by his impact on U.S. supply chains in the years following the pandemic.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 15, 2025

2025 Vision: Transforming Indias Procurement Landscape Indias dynamic economy and distinctive procurement landscape offer significant opportunities for growing businesses to scale strategically. As industries navigate the complexities of diverse supply chains, increasing digital adoption, and sustainability goals, organisations that adopt innovative solutions and a deep understanding of the market are best positioned to thrive.

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Planergy

JANUARY 16, 2025

What's PLANERGY? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Learn more We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with PLANERGY.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 17, 2025

Lance Moll will step into an executive advisor role at the carrier at the end of the month.

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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 Brain

JANUARY 13, 2025

Join a panel of seasoned industry leaders as they delve into the key trends shaping the electronics supply chain in 2025. In this engaging webinar, the experts will share actionable strategies to mitigate risks, optimize supplier relationships, and transform volatility into opportunity.

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Skill Dynamics

JANUARY 16, 2025

Looking to improve operations and achieve cost savings within your procurement processes? Perhaps you already have a process audit report, or are interested in discovering how it could benefit you and streamline your operations. Either way, heres some insight into how you can use a process audit report to your advantage, including a complementary process audit report template for you to get started within minutes.

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The Supplier Experience

JANUARY 16, 2025

Supplier marketing is the process by which companies engage suppliers, build strong supplier relationships and create supplier value in order to capture value from suppliers in return, Anthony Payne , CMO at HICX , explained at Supplier Experience Live 2023 Conference during a session about how to drive supplier adoption & engagement with supplier marketing.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 15, 2025

The provisional shutdowns are resulting in layoffs across several states, but the carrier said it plans to reopen the sites in 2026.

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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 Brain

JANUARY 12, 2025

As companies strive to uphold the rights of human workers in their global supply chains, they shouldnt overlook another critical concern of regulators: trees.

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 12, 2025

No Code Procurement is a phrase I came up with to highlight the many opportunities that are out there to build procurement apps using existing No Code tools. The debate about Make vs. Buy never seems to go away. And, for the last 2-3 years, it seemed that “Buy” was pretty much the only game in town. I mean, WHY on earth would you try and build something when so much money in VC-land has been pouring into procuretech?

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Planergy

JANUARY 16, 2025

What's PLANERGY? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Learn more We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with PLANERGY.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 13, 2025

The agency said the offering will reach about 87% of the U.S. daily by sending packages to its last-mile delivery units overnight.

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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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