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Discovering the Importance of Cold Chain Logistics

All Things Supply Chain

Back in the late winter / early fall of 2020, the whole world became intimately familiar with the detailed innerworkings of the supply chain profession.

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Invoice Hub – the Next Horizon for AP Automation

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My journey in Accounts Payable started back in 1998, when I worked on my first Accounts Payable automation solution combining scanning, OCR and workflow. It was a fun project and it felt like the first step towards something more powerful. After this came the next AP Automation project, and ever so slowly, innovation just became the norm, now it’s legacy Invoice Processing.

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What Does Procurement Mean for your Organization?

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Every organization is different, unique, and has specific needs. Any one organization could very well need to source a spectrum of tasks and activities to other companies, or vendors. These vendors then fulfill the terms of the contract, therefore providing the company whatever it was they needed in order to move forward. That could be […]. The post What Does Procurement Mean for your Organization?

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How Technology Provides a Crucial Link in Ethical Supply Chains

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With companies relying increasingly on complex global supply chains, their need for verifiable manufacturing ethics and supplier transparency is growing.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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Event Review: Supply Chain Europe Virtual 2020

All Things Supply Chain

The true business impact of the COVID-19 crisis will be best measured by the response of industries to learn lessons and rebound as strongly and quickly as possible.

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Unlock the Power of Invoice-to-Pay

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Using Invoice-to-Pay to create a top performing Accounts Payable Team. The performance of your Accounts Payable department can have a significant impact on the organization. Recent trends have increased the strategic importance of an effective, transparent Invoice-to-Pay process, managed by AP. Increased outsourcing has made businesses increasingly dependent on suppliers to drive innovation.

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How Savvy Retailers Will Tackle the 2020 Holiday Season

Supply Chain Brain

As retailers begin to land on their feet and steady themselves from COVID-19-related shutdowns and downturns, the holiday season is quickly approaching — and with it, many uncertainties tied to the future of their businesses.

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Why Cognitive Automation makes IBP more Agile and more Strategic

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A common IBP cycle has a monthly cadence providing an – up to 24 months – forward view of a business. It is often supported by a weekly control cycle, sometimes called Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE). This cycle plans demand & supply in more detail and over a shorter horizon, often around 12 weeks. IBP is data and resource hungry.

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GM Events – Executive Virtual Boardroom – Mitigating Supply Chain Risk and Building a Resilient Enterprise

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Process Based Inventory Turnover Improvement!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! Order our EBOOK HERE. Inventory management is a critical area for most companies. Too much inventory, especially the wrong inventory, can negatively impact cash flow, return on investment, customer satisfaction, and profitability.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

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.

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Second Cyberattack in a Week Hits Global Shipping Industry

Supply Chain Brain

The cyberattack is raising concern about disruptions to supply chains already straining to move goods heading into the usual peak season for consumer demand.

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Supply Chain Resilience and the Power of Business Networks

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How Effective Partnerships are Essential to Transforming Your Digital Capabilities at Pace

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Infrastructure Planning Guidelines for Supply Chain!

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. GET our EBOOK HERE. Infrastructure planning article and permission to publish here provided by Kenny Johnson. Over the years, digital disruption has become a norm for all industries, and supply chain businesses are not an exception. Technology has changed the entire structure, right from internal communications to physical operations.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

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

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Watch: U.S. Expands Ban on Procurement of Chinese Telecom Tech

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Alex Sarria, member of the litigation practice of Miller & Chevalier, explains the content of a new rule by the U.S. government, further expanding its ban on the procurement of telecommunications equipment and services from Huawei and other Chinese technology companies.

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5 Ways to Tame Your Indirect Spend and Save Money

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While many companies have clarity on direct spend — costs like labor and materials that directly allow you to create products and services — not everyone has a handle on indirect spend.

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World Procurement Congress Virtual

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What is Drayage?

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. GET our EBOOK HERE. Article and permission to publish here provided by Jake Rheude at redstagfulfillment.com. We live in a multi-modal world. Before a product arrives on your customer’s doorstep, it has probably traveled on several different modes of transport. One of those was undoubtedly drayage.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

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.

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Watch: Is Manufacturing Really Abandoning China?

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Major brands and manufacturers are laying the groundwork for shifting operations out of China in favor of several other low-cost countries — and maybe even the U.S., says Juan Riboldi, principal and president of Ascent Advisor.

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When is it Time to Invest in Procurement Technology?

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At what point in an organization’s journey is it time to make the shift from reactive purchasing by non-practitioners to hiring and developing seasoned specialists who are able to look at spend holistically and create strategies that help an organization transform towards value management? When is it time to move from the tactical to the strategic? For every company, the answer to this question is going to be different, depending on the industry, the current organizational structure and other va

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Gartner Supply Chain Symposium

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Who is Your Best Supplier?

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Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Order our EBOOK HERE. Article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Who is your best supplier? Can you pick one, or a few, out of the bunch? Some procurement professionals can quickly identify their key, or champion, supplier partners. Unfortunately for many, basic supplier insights, such as contract, spend, performance, risk, and compliance data isn’t so easy to get a hold of, or begin to

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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Amazon Workers Hurt More Often Than Industry Rate, Report Says

Supply Chain Brain

The rate of injuries contradicts more rosy assertions the company has made to lawmakers and the public, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 09/25/2020 – 10/01/2020

All Things Supply Chain

Hong Kong’s finance chief pushes for lead role in global supply chain Paul Chan Mo-po, Hong Kong’s finance chief, is pushing for adaptation to a city that has been hit…

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SIG Global Executive Summit

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Acquisition Excellence 2020

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How Hellenic Bank Transformed Its Indirect Procurement Operations With GEP Software

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.

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Gartner IT Symposium Xpo

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World Procurement Awards

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Invoice to Pay Unlocked

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ProcureCon Indirect

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The Evolution of Control Towers to Command Centers

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.