Tue.Oct 29, 2024

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Giant Eagle initiates warehouse management system upgrades

Supply Chain Dive

The grocery retailer is now using a cloud-based platform at three distribution centers, with plans to expand to the rest of its network by next summer.

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Webinar — The considerations that haunt Spend Matters 50/50 lists

Spend Matters

On October 31 at 10:30 a.m. ET, the Spend Matters Analyst Team will celebrate Halloween by treating all to a webinar that shares the insights they have derived while compiling this year’s 50 to Watch, 50 to Know and Future 5 lists. These lists mark the 11 th year in which Spend Matters highlights the best in procurement technology development and innovation.

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Follow up to yesterday’s “Do you see what I see in this screenshot” post

Procurement Insights

What do you see in the graphic below? – [link] Here is what I see: Best of Suite – In theory, end-to-end back-end platforms consisting of multiple Best of Breed front-end bolt-on ProcureTech solutions. (Think Mendocino Project, DUET, and Microsoft Office concept) Best of Breed – Bolt-on systems transformed to front-end Apps (up to 75% of which will be gone by the end of 2025 via acquisition, absorption, or closing down) Build Your Own Suite – The early stages of the Agent

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How Learning in the Flow of Work (LIFOW) is Reshaping Financial Training – And How We Fit Right In

Shapiro Negotiations Institute

Put hundreds of banking industry training leaders in a room and watch what happens. That’s exactly what our Director of Business Development Erica McNulty discovered at this year’s Bank Trainers Conference in St. Louis after countless discussions with Training and HR Managers from banks and credit unions across the country. Their message rang loud and clear: traditional training methods have hit their limit, and they want real solutions that work in today’s world.

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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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The Three Reasons Why Most ProcureTech Solution Providers Won’t Be Around After 2025

Procurement Insights

Michael Lamoureux – okay, gloves off When you read the following post , keep one word in mind: solipsistic! Many factors will contribute to the AI Bubble Burst in 2025, which will be more challenging in some ways but concentrated on specific industries. A big part of that is because most solution providers have these fatal flaws: They continue to use a tech-first equation-based development and implementation model.

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Tumbler manufacturer Stanley using AI to predict supply disruptions

Supply Chain Dive

Stanley 1913 expects to improve scenario planning and supply chain visibility with the Kinaxis Maestro platform.

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Trucking rates, demand to stay lackluster for rest of year, analysts say

Supply Chain Dive

Pricing is expected to remain relatively flat for LTL and truckload rates in Q4, according to the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index.

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Houthis Resume Attacks on Ships in Red Sea

Supply Chain Brain

Houthi rebels have carried out almost 100 missile and drone attacks against ships in the Red Sea over the last year.

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Q3 2024 Insider roundup: A deep dive into procurement tech market movements; updated coverage of 16 vendors

Spend Matters

Throughout the year our analyst team provides vendor-specific profiles and tech solution analyses as part of Spend Matters Insider content. Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.