Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

There are three absolutely critical reasons to finally implement a new logistics IT solution (or to replace the inferior one you already have) in 2019. Whether your organization would benefit most from a TMS, a powerful optimizer , fleet management tools, freight settlement solutions , advanced dock-door scheduling tools or even a yard management system, there are three nearly certain dynamics we’ll experience in 2019 that you won’t want to address without solid supply chain solutions at your

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out What’s The Difference Between Logistics and Supply Chain Management? (Infographic). What is the difference between Logistics and Distribution? On the surface some people may consider them synonymous. Without consulting a dictionary both Logistics and Distribution suggest imagery involving the movement of goods.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There are many compelling reasons for international businesses to ensure that their global supply chains are free from ethically or environmentally questionable practices. Any company that’s serious about corporate social responsibility, and about the commitment of their customers to their brand, would be horrified to learn that forced laborers are assembling its products or that its palm oil supplier is clear-cutting rainforest to expand production.

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Ms. Category Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Women in the Workplace - Behind Enemy Lines. Read my stories and struggles with other Women in the Workplace and what I've done to overcome them.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

“High freight, fuel and labor costs are forcing food distributors to streamline their businesses,” begins the recent article in the Wall Street Journal. The piece revealed a rise in operating expenses of 6% at world’s largest food distributor, Sysco Foods and a boost of 2% at US Foods. Read on to understand the driving factors behind the rising costs and the steps food shippers are taking to bend the cost curve back down and how TMS solutions can make a significant difference. — Food S

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post created by Adam Robinson and originally published on [link]. Check out 6 Major Delivery Logistics Trends! Shippers face many challenges in successfully delivering products to end-users, and last mile logistics will be a core focus of change in the coming months. Consumer demands and expectations are rising, and up to 25 percent of consumers are willing to pay extra for same-day delivery.

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Ms. Category Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Ho, Ho, Ho, Here We Go Again! What's in the Bag Santa? Sourcing Tools, SRM or a Sales and Marketing RFP?

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Jaggaer

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In a year full of recognition from industry analysts, JAGGAER was named by customers as a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites. After being named a Leader by Gartner analysts in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites and Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites*, JAGGAER was recognized on Gartner Peer Insights as a direct reflection of customer satisfaction.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published by Argentus at [link] and permission to publish here provided by [link]. Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. This week saw one of the year’s most highly-anticipated releases in the Supply Chain industry: the Institute of Supply Management (ISM)’s annual salary survey.

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Solvoyo

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives, it is not the strongest that survives, but the species that survives is the one that is able to adapt to and to adjust best to the changing environment in which it finds itself.” — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species (1859). Today, we’re in the throes of another changing environment, one where businesses rapidly embrace digitalization.

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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.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Mozambique makes it 70 countries! Claritum has added Mozambique to the list of user countries on the Claritum eProcurement cloud-based platform. “Claritum has passed the 70 country mark, doubling the number of countries in the last 12 month period.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “I am pleased that we are expanding in all geographies, including the African content.” Claritum now has users across the globe.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Why don’t you have a TMS (Transportation Management System) Solution yet? In going door to door trying to sell a Freight Management service, as well as in my experience working in companies, I have had the opportunity to see a variety of ways in which companies, large and small, were managing their Freight and Logistics spend.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post provided by [link]. Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Check out What Exactly Is Procurement? And What is Purchasing? It’s a good question. We often see these terms used interchangeably, but there are some concrete differences between Procurement and Purchasing such that we think they are two different practices, each with their own set of concerns and skills.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Supply Chain Collaboration – The New Way to Drive Value! Suppliers are an intrinsic part of the Supply Chain. It does not matter what business you are in, what products you make, distribute and sell, or what part of the world you are in. And it doesn’t matter where in the Supply Chain you are.

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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out Industry 4.0 – Smart Manufacturing of the Future! (Infographic). The Internet of Things (IoT) enables the end to end connectivity of all aspects of our lives in an unprecedented manner. In the arena of Manufacturing there has always been a reliance on processes, data, sensors, controls, analysis and metrics to allow for monitoring, management and optimization of those Manufacturing processes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out What Exactly Is Supply Chain Management? 10 Different Definitions! For his entire career my Father worked in the field of Procurement. But the job titles that he had during his career alternatively included either the word Procurement or the word Purchasing. I seem to recall that one of his business cards included both words.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published at [link] . Permission to publish provided by Karl Crisostomo at tenfold.com. Check out Ground Rules for Creating a Game Changing High Performance Organization (HPO)! Pain points are a part of business. They create opportunities to innovate , diversify and grow. Without customer pain points, there is no reason to be in business.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out 5 Trends in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Gartner recently announced their 2018 Top 25 Supply Chains List. I always find it interesting to see the list, to see who came out on top, and to hear what their views are on prevailing trends. But as I review the list, compare it to prior years, and consider the scoring methodology I do wonder whether the list in its current form continues to be relevant for identifying the best of the Suppl

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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog originally published at, and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at, [link]. Check out Supplier Collaboration is a Win-Win Strategy! Previous CIO of General Motors (GM), Tony Scott, was once quoted saying, “GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.”.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published by, and permission to publish provided by, Raanan Cohen at [link]. Check out Last Mile Delivery! What is your Strategy? 2017 was an important year for delivery logistics. With ecommerce sales reaching $23 trillion in annual sales worldwide, customers are relying on better and faster deliveries for all sort of goods and services.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Written for [link] by Daniel Lummis at [link]. Check out Supply Chain Innovation: The Path to Success! Consumer demand is rising in just about every conceivable industry. Customers want their products better, faster, and stronger; and as they adopt this mantra of “more, more, more”, companies have to keep up.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published at [link] by tenfold.com. Permission to publish provided by Abigail Rabi at tenfold.com. From The Terminator to Blade Runner, pop culture has always leaned towards a chilling depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) and our future with AI at the helm. Recent headlines about Facebook panicking because their AI bots developed a language of their own have us hitting the alarm button once again.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Article created and permission to publish here provided by Jenis Sheth at [link]. Check out Control Towers – Is Yours Real or Just Smoke and Mirrors? The concept of the “control tower” is increasingly becoming widespread in Supply Chain Management, and Control Tower technologies are a popular topic right within the supply chain community.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally published by Argentus at, and permission to publish here provided by, [link]. Check out McDonald’s Supply Chain Challenge: Switching from Frozen to Fresh Burgers! There’s another unfortunate entry in the annals of Supply Chain failures that burst into the wider world of business and pop culture: More than half of the UK’s Kentucky Fried Chicken stores recently closed because they ran out of chicken!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out A Comprehensive Warehouse Safety Guide! The first job I had at the beginning of my career was in the Materials Handling and Engineering department. As a part of my job I was responsible for Forklift and Material Handling equipment planning. To help me understand this area better I took the Forklift driver training course just like anyone else would have to do.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post originally created and published by Jill Button, CEO of ProcurePro at [link]. Permission to publish here provided by Jill Button. Check out Outsourcing Sourcing! 5 Lessons from Around the Globe! Any of this sound familiar? Then you need Virtual Procurement! “With recent minimum wage increases, I need to find better ways to control my costs and to stay profitable while still delivering the highest level of service to my customers.”.

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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.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out What is the Best E-Commerce Order Fulfillment Service for You? Amazon FBA or 3PL? The capability we had in E-Commerce order fulfillment was rather basic. We had employees manually pushing carts up and down standard warehouse racking aisles picking goods off of shelves. And when they had completed an order or a set of orders they would then push the entire cart back to a centralized order packing station.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Check out 5 E-Commerce Order Fulfillment Choices! The fast growing E-Commerce channel makes it an attractive avenue for most companies to participate in. The tremendous amount of investment required to participate in online product sales requires explicit decision making as to how a company is going to fulfill those orders.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post provided by [link]. Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Check out Is Your Supply Chain A Cost Centre or a Value Creator? Anyone who’s been paying attention knows that Supply Chain Management has emerged from its status a back-office function to become a major strategic differentiator for business.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Blog post provided by [link]. Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Check out Amazon and Uber’s Impact on Logistics! (Infographic). Big news out of the grocery retail world as Amazon has announced its acquisition of major organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market – for an eye-popping $13.7 billion sale price that doesn’t look so massive given Amazon’s $136 billion sales volume in 2016.

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