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The Challenge of Plastic Waste: A Global Crisis

All Things Supply Chain

For decades, plastic recycling has been riddled with complexities. Many plastic containers, especially those composed of multi-layered films, have traditionally been deemed unrecyclable.

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The Power of Visualization in Freight Optimization and Resilience

Art of Procurement

Anyone who spends their day working with data will tell you that data alone is never enough. It needs to. The post The Power of Visualization in Freight Optimization and Resilience appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Optimizing the Supply Chain of Working Capital Turnover

Supply Chain Brain

By aligning loans with inventory turnover, reducing supply chain timelines, and carefully balancing inventory purchases, businesses can significantly cut costs and boost profitability.

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Clorox prioritizes supplier decarbonization efforts

Supply Chain Dive

The cleaning product manufacturer is partnering with a carbon tracking service Manufacture 2030 to gain visibility into its vendors’ emission reduction plans.

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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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GenAI and chatbots — The fallacy of ‘No UI is the new UI’ — Part 1

Spend Matters

The phrase “no UI is the new UI” is a popular concept in user experience design. It suggests that the best user interfaces are often invisible or unobtrusive. Instead of relying on traditional visual elements like buttons, menus and text fields, these interfaces anticipate user needs and perform actions automatically or through subtle cues, creating a more seamless and intuitive experience.

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AI’s Role in Construction and the Supply Chain

All Things Supply Chain

AI technology continues to take the world by storm with its innovative tools and revolutionary systems. Industries around the globe are reaping the benefits, including the construction supply chain.

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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Artificial intelligence is offering new and better ways of making supply chains more sustainable, by improving efficiency, enhancing decision-making, and increasing transparency in operations.

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DHL Supply Chain experiments with GenAI

Supply Chain Dive

Dive Brief:• DHL Supply Chain is deploying a pair of artificial intelligence applications in partnership with consulting agency Boston Consulting …

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Spend Matters Future 5 2024 – Introducing Halo Ai

Spend Matters

Spend Matters honors a vast array of procurement solution providers each year by selecting them for our ‘50 to Know,’ ‘50 to Watch,’ ‘Future 5’ and ‘Hall of Fame’ celebration lists. Discover everything you need to know about these accolades here, including who is on them. For the Future 5, Spend Matters analysts scour the market to find new specialist solution providers that can answer a burning need of procurement practitioners today.

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Alison Supply Chain Courses VS SCMDOJO: A Comprehensive Guide

SCMDOJO

Digging in to find an absolute top-notch website to level up your supply chain management can be a bit difficult where there is less awareness about it. However, it depends on the product offering of various websites from where students are eager to learn and grow. Alison Supply Chain Courses and SCMDOJO are among the most reliable sources on the internet when selecting an appropriate course.

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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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What is procurement’s inconvenient truth and why we must finally face it

Procurement Insights

In yesterday’s post, How do you eat an elephant one bite at a time if you don’t know it is an elephant? community thought-leader Claude Egli wrote the following: “ Great point, Jon W. Hansen. A few things coming to my mind – neither about tools nor about AI 1. A healthy company has at least two organisations: (1) according to the org chart – the budget holders, (2-n) the grey matter; shadow organisations that keep the company going across functions. 2.

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Mozambique Ports At Risk as Opposition Chief Urges More Protests

Supply Chain Brain

The demonstrations have also interrupted commercial activity in Maputo, and raised concerns about further delays to a $20 billion natural gas export project.

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Pitney Bowes cuts 2,300 jobs in continued cost-savings push

Supply Chain Dive

The company is planning further workforce reductions that it aims to complete next year.

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‘Return on Relationships’ – the ROI of building supplier relationships and how to measure it

Spend Matters

The annual State of Flux global supplier relationship (SRM) management study made its appearance in London last week at the 2024 Supplier Management Summit in its 16th rendition, this time themed ‘Return on Relationships (RoR). The report once again delivers data-backed findings of the state of SRM across the globe and gives best practice models, guidance and suggestions stemming from those findings.

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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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Enhancing Manufacturing Value Through Procurement

Jaggaer

In today’s dynamic market, procurement is far more than just a buying and purchasing center. Forward-thinking organizations have transformed the department into an untapped gold mine that creates value for the entire end-to-end manufacturing process—from design and sourcing to production and delivery. Our latest e-book, “ Is Manufacturing Missing Out On Procurement’s Value Add?

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The Ultimate “Would You” Questions

Procurement Insights

Would you take driving lessons from someone who doesn’t have a driver’s license? Would you deal with a financial/investment advisor who makes less money than you? Would you eat at a restaurant that orders takeout food for their staff? Would you take swimming lessons from someone who doesn’t know how to swim? Would you ask someone for career advice who has never had a job?

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How Warehouse Markings Can Enhance a Workplace

Supply Chain Brain

For warehouse management and operations to be effective, you need to look into how warehouse markings can enhance safety, drive efficiency, and keep you organized.

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Retail freight still outpacing industrial for LTL carriers

Supply Chain Dive

A continued slump in manufacturing demand is shifting the traditional customer mix for companies like Old Dominion, Saia and XPO.

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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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Key takeaways from SolutionMap: Supplier risk, TPRM and SCRM

Spend Matters

In today’s fast-evolving business landscape, procurement and supply chain professionals are confronted with a staggering complexity of risk management (link to complexity piece) that requires a nuanced understanding of various dimensions of risk. The prevailing VUCA environment underscores this challenge — marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity — which has become a defining characteristic of global markets.

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435: Leave Excel Behind, with Parabola

Let's Talk Supply Chain

  Today I’m joined by Parabola , an innovative software brand dedicated to creating solutions for the problems you’ve always wanted to solve. Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes. Pulling in data from any source, and building logic that replicates manual day-to-day work, Parabola helps businesses to transform data, and make workflows repeatable, shareable, and usable for the whole team.

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Boomer/GenX AI BattleBot Versus Millennials/Gen Z BattleBots

Procurement Insights

EDITOR’S NOTE: Given the continuing reliance on ChatGPT has an information source and trusted resource, I like to pose specific questions to this generative AI platform regarding procurement, supply, technology and solution providers. After giving ChatGPT its due, I then like to interject the human take on the same question – in this case mine.

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Boeing Strike Cutting Into 2025 Deliveries for Southwest Airlines

Supply Chain Brain

Southwest’s order book with Boeing had originally called for 86 aircraft deliveries in 2025, but the airline has since lowered that number to 73.

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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.

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Amazon launches same-day drone delivery in Arizona city

Supply Chain Dive

Customers near the company's Tolleson facility can get thousands of items delivered with the technology, but there are limitations.

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Risk management solution providers and what their customers really want – State of Flux

Spend Matters

As part of our Q4 research into supplier risk, third-party and supply-chain risk management (TPRM/SCRM) and the solutions that support it, we have not only conducted analyst- and market-led research in the shape of analyses, advisory, definitions and webinars. We have also taken the pulse of the practitioners who use that technology and who deal with risk on a daily basis (for example here and here ).

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Procurement News — November 13, 2024

CPO Rising

Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with… The post Procurement News — November 13, 2024 appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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MIT MicroMasters Program In Supply Chain VS SCMDOJO

SCMDOJO

Supply chain management has grown tremendously in recent economic times. It has evolved dramatically and has significantly impacted various experts and their professional experiences. However, the question arises: Which platform can provide the best supply chain courses? There’s tough competition between the MIT MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain and SCMDOJO.

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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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A Trucker Uses AI to Boost Efficiency for LTL Operations

Supply Chain Brain

PITT OHIO increases efficiency and reduces costs for its pickup, delivery and linehaul trucking business by replacing outdated legacy systems with an AI-powered platform.

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Canada’s western ports are on lockdown: What to know

Supply Chain Dive

Experts said shipments can be easily diverted to U.S. West Coast ports in the short term, but a lengthier stoppage could be costly.

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GenAI and chatbots — The fallacy of ‘No UI is the new UI’ — Part 2

Spend Matters

As we explained in part 1, the “no UI is the new UI” concept is making a comeback because of the rise of generative AI (GenAI). GenAI has opened up new possibilities for providers to enhance their applications with new AI capabilities, one of which is chatbots. Chatbots are a way to move from graphical user interfaces (GUI) to conversational user interfaces (CUX).

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Why is this ProcureTech Sales Rep calling me?

Procurement Insights

Firmographics, Technographics, Psychographics, Business Situation, Business and Operating Models, and Resources. My first thought was to ask if you are familiar with these terms. Then I realized it doesn’t matter because they are ultimately irrelevant to achieving successful ProcureTech implementation outcomes. I want to take you behind the scenes of a meeting with one of my Suite 6 solution providers to see what very few are willing to openly share—the strategy or, as I call it, the commo

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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.