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Bezos? Jeff Bezos? What does he have to do with anything related to procurement and supply chain?

Procurement Insights

Hansen’s early concepts—especially his 1998 frameworks involving agent-based modeling , the Metaprise , time-zone polling , and advanced self-learning algorithms —share fundamental DNA with the adaptive, decentralized, and data-rich supply chain models later refined and scaled by Jeff Bezos at Amazon. MODEL 2 Jon W.

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468: Make Intelligent Purchases Driven by Data, with ProcurementIQ

Let's Talk Supply Chain

Lyle will be sharing his journey as one of the co-founders of ProcurementIQ, and Anthony will be giving his perspective on why, after many years in the industry, he decided to go to school for supply chain. Its making it much harder to plan and strategize for de-risking supply chains.

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Reshoring vs Nearshoring: Key Differences and Business Benefits

Planergy

Download Free Copy Reshoring vs Nearshoring: Key Differences and Business Benefits Category Inventory Written by Lyle Del Vecchio 16 min read Tags Procurement Supply Chain Management Last edited March 12, 2025 Download PDF IN THIS ARTICLE What is Reshoring? Back in 2013, Whirlpool re-shored appliance production to Ohio.

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For What It’s Worth: Tackling the supply chain digital transformation shortage, optimizing your negotiations amidst all of the chaos, and COVID four years later”

Procurement Insights

MUSING #1 In the age of information, it’s surprising that supply chain digital transformation isn’t as readily available as one would expect. – [link] MUSING #2 How agile is your sourcing program? Are you optimizing your negotiations amidst all of the chaos? Have you ever wondered why?

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10 Outstanding Books for SCM Professionals

Supply Chain Opz

Are you a supply chain management professional who are looking for inspiring ideas to improve the operations of your supply chain? Background Early this year, I published one article named " 10 Greatest Supply Chain Management Books of All Time ".

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373: Going Beyond Visibility – Culture and Digitization

Let's Talk Supply Chain

 Last week on episode three of our WiseTech Global mini-series, we tackled one of supply chains most difficult, yet most important, topics – risk. One of the many lessons that the pandemic taught us was the importance of ensuring that robust risk management is incorporated into our supply chain strategies.

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2023 procurement and supply events round-up — A Spend Matters recap

Spend Matters

With another busy year of procurement and supply chain events tidily packed away behind us, Spend Matters is pleased to provide a round-up of the main events we attended in 2023, with a short recap of each and key takeaways. He then went on to discuss the huge impact of tech on the supply chain industry.