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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. Are you optimizing your negotiations amidst all of the chaos? So, I put the following search term into Google, “optimizing your negotiations amidst all of the chaos?

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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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Supply chain innovation through the Nexus of Forces

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In my last blog post, “ Will your supply chain lead in the next decade? ,” I talked about Gartner’s first-day focus at their Supply Chain Executive Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. This is an especially important message for manufacturers’ supply chain organizations.

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UPS Invests $300M in “Orion” Optimizer – SaaS Tools Far Less Costly

Supply Chain Collaborator

The Wall Street Journal reported recently on UPS’s project Orion, a ten year, $300 million technology build intended to optimize delivery routes for the tens of thousands of trucks the parcel giant has on roads across the globe daily. According to WSJ, each UPS driver makes an average of 120 stops per day representing a staggering 6.70

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The Difference Between Supplier Relationship Perception And Perspective – ADOPTION!

Procurement Insights

Companies invest in new technologies to solve a problem – optimize operations, reduce time or minimize costs. Note that the date of the above report is 2022, not 2005, 2007, or 2013. That’s right, while there have been some improvements, the use of advanced algorithms and AI in the procurement world is nothing new.

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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.

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UltraShipTMS Named as Finalist in 2015 American Business Awards

Supply Chain Collaborator

Supply Chain Logistics IT Solution Provider Earns ‘Best Interface Design’ Recognition for its Increasingly Popular Software. This year’s recognition follows a Gold Stevie in 2014 for Support Department of the Year and a Gold Stevie in 2013 for Transportation Product of the Year. .