Procurement Templates

JANUARY 17, 2024

Procurement processes in the USA and the UK share some similarities, but there are also key differences due to variations in legal frameworks, regulations, and cultural practices. It’s important to note that specific details can change over time, and you should always refer to the latest guidelines and regulations in each country. Here are some general differences between procurement in the USA and the UK: Legal and Regulatory Framework: USA: In the United States, procurement is subject to

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Procurement supply chain budgeting Export Competitive bidding 130

All Things Supply Chain

JANUARY 17, 2024

The supply chain is undergoing a sustainability revolution. Organizations conscious of their green credentials are investing in electrification to reduce their carbon emissions.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 18, 2024

In the last few years, the growing sophistication of artificial intelligence has brought unprecedented levels of precision, efficiency and innovation to supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain Supply chain management Supply chain management 131

Procurement Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2024

Procurement Leaders’ CPO community will gather next Thursday to discuss the concept of early supplier involvement – a simple idea that formalises how key suppliers are involved early enough to contribute maximum value to a buying organisation’s strategic initiatives. Those procurement functions pursuing a deliberate supplier-enabled innovation programme will see the early involvement of suppliers as a positive thing.

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Innovation Supply chain management Supply chain management Suppliers 130

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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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Procurement Templates

JANUARY 17, 2024

What is demand management and why should we use it? Criteria: Procurement plays a key role in leading demand management across the organisation with clear benefits as a result.Demand management improvement opportunities have been identified and a prioritised, structured plan is in place to address.Evidence of some benefits achieved is available. Evidence of up to date internal management information availability.

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Demand Management Buyers Purchasing 130

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

JANUARY 19, 2024

Warehouse efficiency is enhanced by six crucial factors that signal when the time is right to embrace automation.

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 16, 2024

Shipping experts warn that additional rate increases, capacity shortages and delays are on the way.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s a new year, and there are reasons to suggest that 2024 might be a departure from the fresh chaos that has hallmarked supply chain since the 2020’s started, or at least a de-escalation. Over the last few years, supply chain professionals have navigated an endless array of challenges. When managing logistics and supply chains, they’ve responded to global pandemic factory closures, volatile and spiking inflation, and geopolitical tensions including wars that have limited critical supplies—thin

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Logistics Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting Supply chain 105

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

JANUARY 19, 2024

In this webcast, Tompkins will share his insights from his storied career and help you apply these lessons to today's supply chain.

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Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain Supply 98

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 18, 2024

Forty-four percent of healthcare organizations are using AI to improve customer experiences while another 35% use this technology to forecast consumer demands.

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Consumer demands Supply chain Demand Supply 115

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

Pactiv Evergreen said the generic containers are part of its response “to minimize supply chain complexity” amid a monthslong disruption challenging dairies and schools.

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Procurement Bulletin

JANUARY 14, 2024

Houthi Attacks Affecting Global Trade The Iranian-backed Houthi Rebels continue to attack cargo ships passing through the Red Sea, causing shippers to re-route their transport routes resulting in increased costs. This critical shipping route accounts for 40% of Asia-Europe trade. Is Nuclear Energy the Best Energy Source? A Deep Dive As the world transitions to electrification of vehicles, the key question is “How are we going to power all these vehicles and devices?

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Sourcing 97

SCMDOJO

JANUARY 17, 2024

With the increase in online purchases, especially after the health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, the eCommerce industry is booming like anything. Most eCommerce and online businesses focus on forwarding logistics and last-mile delivery to reduce delivery time. Unfortunately, the majority of them miss one of the critical aspects of the supply chain – the Return Management of goods.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2024

What’s particularly attractive about shopping malls is that they offer the possibility of creating a hybrid facility that combines logistics and fulfillment activities with in-person activities for shoppers.

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Logistics 116

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 16, 2024

The company's Express unit has activated contingency plans following "substantial disruptions" at a critical U.S. hub.

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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

JANUARY 15, 2024

The use of a 3PL offers flexibility and scalability while bringing fulfillment and distribution expertise and at the ready software systems. But just like not all brands make every consumer product in their vertical, let alone in the market, not all 3PLs are set up for all logistics business models.

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Logistics 97

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

You want to use AI to accelerate productivity and innovation for your business. You need to move beyond experimentation to scale. You have to move fast. Join us in Boston for Think 2024, a unique and engaging experience that will guide you on your AI for business journey, no matter where you are on the road. From building AI readiness with a thoughtful hybrid cloud approach, to scaling AI across core business functions and industry needs, to embedding AI into the heart of your enterprise strateg

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Sustainability Strategy Innovation 96

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2024

The situation is even causing a rise in demand for shipping containers in Asia as shippers and forwarders foresee cargo demand in the coming weeks.

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Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 18, 2024

Embracing change can mean nearshoring, retooling distribution networks and paying suppliers more for materials, according to AlixPartners.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.

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Procurement solutions Procurement Sourcing Innovation 95

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Project-based learning is taking off at the university level, giving supply chain graduate students real-world experience to pair with theory-based instruction.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2024

The survey showed that 53% of organizations are investing in resources to develop and maintain programs that prepare a company for significant supply chain disruptions.

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Suppliers Supply chain Supply 111

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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

Supply chain

Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 18, 2024

Omaha Industries alleges that the grocery distributor withheld over $250,000 from invoice payments to offload its own risk.

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Suppliers Risk 116

Spend Matters

JANUARY 18, 2024

For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.

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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

JANUARY 16, 2024

While shifting Asian cargo from East Coast to West Coast U.S. ports adds time and cost, it is one option shippers have to counter continued risk in the Red Sea.

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Risk 90

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 16, 2024

Unmonitored supply chains, underlying inventory assets, a host of third parties, and frequent transactions make the manufacturing and retail industries a sweet spot for procurement and inventory fraud schemes.

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Procurement Inventory Supply chain Supply 111

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Buyers

Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 18, 2024

The supermarket chain is implementing a technology platform to centralize its global shipping volume and increase visibility.

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Management 114

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Whether your industry faces challenges from geopolitical strife, fallout from a global pandemic or rising aggression in the cybersecurity space, the threat vector for modern enterprises is undeniably powerful. Disaster recovery strategies provide the framework for team members to get a business back up and running after an unplanned event. Worldwide, the popularity of disaster recovery strategies is understandably increasing.

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Strategy Data Risk Import 89

The Network Effect

JANUARY 18, 2024

In a world of perpetual disruption, your organization will need optionality – multiple sourcing for key products, parts and raw materials.

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Raw materials Supply chain Sourcing Supply 88

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 18, 2024

A case study with Roambee Corp., about how the world's leading reusable packaging container (RPC) supplier managed to track hundreds of millions of units without having to tag each one separately.

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Suppliers Management 105

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