All Things Supply Chain

MAY 27, 2024

Today, businesses are constantly navigating a dynamic landscape filled with unforeseen challenges.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 29, 2024

With supply chains facing increasing complexities and risks, a “China Plus One” sourcing strategy has emerged as crucial for businesses operating on a worldwide scale.

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Supply chain resilience Supply chain Supply Risk 126

Supply Chain Dive

MAY 29, 2024

The soup and snacks maker will invest $230 million for improvements to its supply chain.

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Supply chain Supply 116

Procurement Leaders

MAY 28, 2024

Those who attended the World Procurement Congress a couple of weeks ago will have heard that Procurement Leaders is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. During that time, the procurement profession has changed significantly – evolving from back-office afterthought to a function of board-level, strategic relevance. How we bring value has changed and how we measure our value has changed as well.

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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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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 31, 2024

The new era of generative AI has spurred the exploration of AI use cases to enhance productivity, improve customer service, increase efficiency and scale IT modernization. Recent research commissioned by IBM® indicates that as many as 42% of surveyed enterprise-scale businesses have actively deployed AI, while an additional 40% are actively exploring the use of AI technology.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 30, 2024

This is in response to the EU's Corporate Social Responsibility Directive, which mandates emissions reporting starting in 2026.

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Spend Matters

MAY 29, 2024

Last week, the Spend Matters team attended Ivalua’s annual Americas conference in Miami, Florida. Located at the Faena Forum, the two-day event featured keynotes, breakout sessions, solution demonstrations, partner/sponsor booths and more. The first Ivalua NOW conference of 2024 took place in Versailles in March; we covered it here. Both conferences were titled ‘Procurement [Re]Imagined’ and highlighted the impact of AI (especially generative AI) on daily procurement tasks.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 26, 2024

Under Kenny, Red Lobster also cut two of its longtime shrimp suppliers— and competitors to Thai Union — to purchase more shrimp from Thai Union at higher costs, according to Red Lobster’s bankruptcy filing. Kenny’s decision came “in apparent coordination with Thai Union and under the guise of a ‘quality review,’” Red Lobster said. These changes culminated in a $20 endless shrimp promotion in 2023 that would come back to haunt Red Lobster.

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Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain Networking 89

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 27, 2024

Organizations that can draw on granular product lifecycle intelligence in product development will enjoy a competitive advantage over their peers.

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Product development 125

Supply Chain Dive

MAY 29, 2024

The Package Shippers Association said regulators should assess if there is enough competition for Parcel Select, a delivery service slated for a 25% average increase.

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Price 115

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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Spend Matters

MAY 28, 2024

Spend Matters chose Intake and Orchestration as its main research theme for this quarter because we believe it is the fastest-growing procurement tech market segment today. If you’d like to understand more about what intake management and orchestration mean for procurement, read our Guide to Intake and Orchestration. As part of our research we are conducting analyst-led analysis / thought leadership , solution provider deep-dive analyses , webinars and interviews with both the practitioners who

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Procurement Procurement team Collaboration Management 88

SCMDOJO

MAY 27, 2024

Are you looking to enhance your professional skills and expand your knowledge base in the comfort of your own home? When considering online learning platforms, comparing LinkedIn Learning vs SCMDOJO is worth doing. LinkedIn Learning and SCMDOJO are two comprehensive online learning platforms that can help you achieve your goals. But how do you choose between the two?

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 27, 2024

Supply chain consulting firm MWPVL International estimates that Amazon is planning for at least 170 new distribution facilities in the U.S. alone.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 30, 2024

The distributor can now deliver parts up to 50 miles away in as fast as two hours.

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Spend Matters

MAY 29, 2024

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of ConvergentIS and its solution for P2P enhancement on the SAP ecosystem. SAP’s impressive partner ecosystem includes numerous vendors that extend SAP’s capabilities. ConvergentIS is one of these partners. It compliments SAP’s P2P process by going beyond SAP’s standard offerings and delivering advanced functionalities, such as real-time visibility into vendor-specific metrics, flexible service entry sheet submission with

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Real-time Visibility Market analysis Buyers Contract 87

Procurement Insights

MAY 27, 2024

Please take a few moments to closely examine the following Deloitte Solution Provider Map and tell me who you think is missing. Then, I will tell you who I think should be on it. Who is my missing provider – One Network Enterprises. Why This Provider? One paragraph—the opening paragraph from their “ Our Story ” page—was all it took.

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Real-time Visibility supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency e2e 81

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 30, 2024

What exactly is so smart about “smart” connected products — and just what are they connected to?

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 29, 2024

Shippers are grappling with the ongoing Red Sea conflict and pending East Coast labor contract renewal as demand is poised for growth at U.S. ports.

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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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Spend Matters

MAY 28, 2024

Alongside our free-to-read content, Spend Matters provides a subscription service of data-driven procurement technology analysis, research and thought leadership based on granular rankings of procurement technology capabilities and customer satisfaction surveys. We strive to improve how we communicate this procurement tech market intelligence based on customers’ requests.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 28, 2024

Virtually every organization recognizes the power of data to enhance customer and employee experiences and drive better business decisions. Yet, as data becomes more valuable, it’s also becoming harder to protect. Companies continue to create more attack surfaces with hybrid models, scattering critical data across cloud, third-party and on-premises locations, while threat actors constantly devise new and creative ways to exploit vulnerabilities.

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Data Strategy Risk Real-time Visibility 81

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 30, 2024

Amazon will expand the area it services with drones in Texas, and will start integrating such shipments into its same-day delivery network this year.

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Networking 111

Supply Chain Dive

MAY 28, 2024

About a third of positive-tested items had fibers solely from the banned region, despite U.S. regulations over forced labor concerns.

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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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Procurement Insights

MAY 25, 2024

Unfortunately, the word solution is an overused misnomer that usually refers to a particular type of technology. As you read the rest of this post, you will find that eVA and its growing success have very little to do with technology – in this case, Ariba, and more to do with methodology. By the way, here is the link to the eVA site: [link].) As a result, they avoided the trap of eVA becoming a software project, as Bob put it, and were thereby able to shift the emphasis from an exercise in c

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Art of Procurement

MAY 30, 2024

Supply chains are never far from news headlines, but when those headlines are reporting drug shortages, it is personal. 323. The post Symptoms of Disruption in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 29, 2024

Too many warehouse automation projects are failing, leading to widespread layoffs in the autonomous mobile robots industry, and putting the future of organizations at risk.

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Risk 111

Supply Chain Dive

MAY 28, 2024

Sigfrido Delgado, a former VP at Jabil Healthcare, will be tasked with maintaining the pace of Avanos’ supply chain transformation plan.

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Supply chain Supply 99

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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SCMDOJO

MAY 30, 2024

The logistics department is the unsung hero of the modern world, ensuring products reach their destination promptly and securely. But who are the key players behind the scenes? In this article, we will provide an insightful breakdown of the logistics department and the various professionals that make up this crucial team. From the warehouse manager to the transportation coordinator, each role in the logistics department contributes to the smooth flow of deliveries.

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Logistics Supply Chain Optimization Order Fulfillment Inventory 79

Supply Chain Trend

MAY 26, 2024

Many Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycles around the world are based on a 30-year-old process definition supported by 30-year-old planning concepts. This traditional IBP is often not sufficient anymore for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making and taking the right action means competitive advantage. Well run, traditional IBP can have many positive outcomes, but there are also many limitations like sequential process steps, arbitrary periodic planning & decision cycles, e

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Quality Data Strategy Demand 78

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 28, 2024

Overhaul tracked a 9% year-over-year increase in cargo thefts in the United States in 2023, and expects that number to skyrocket to 35% by the end of 2024.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 30, 2024

TeraWatt Technology announced Annie Liu as an external director earlier this month.

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Supply chain Supply 97

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