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What does a 2015 article have to do with Hershey’s 2025 acquisition of LesserEvil for $750

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a reprint of the March 25th, 2015 article The Impact Of An M&A On The Procurement Department This morning I read a post by Roz Usheroff regarding the just announced merger between Kraft and Heinz, and how an employee can both survive and thrive when an M&A occurs.

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

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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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Which “Should Cost” ProcureTech Solution provider is the best in these three key areas?

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8 Keelvar 2012 Founded in 2012, a decade of experience in sourcing optimization. 9 Lytica 2015 Established in 2015, a newer player in supply chain analytics. 10 Archlet ~3050 employees Startup with a lean team, ProcureTech 100 honoree, but minimal scale. market share (Apps Run The World, 2023) lead.

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A Provider/Practitioner Request For A RAM 4-Model Assessment* Of Certa.ai (RESULTS)

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Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Saratoga, CA), Certa has quickly established itself as a digital backbone for managing supplier, customer, and partner relationships across all risk domains and lifecycle stages. I will share these results with you today. Everything about Certa.ai Summary Table: Certa.ai

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First, There Was The Ariba Interviews, Now There Is The Pierre Mitchell Interview (Sort Of*)

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Pierre Mitchells Profile: Leads procurement research at Spend Matters, with 30 years of experience in supply chain and digital transformation, per Spend Matters (2022). Advocates for clean data as critical for agility and resilience, per Tealbook (2021), and coined guided buying, focusing on tech-enabled processes, per LinkedIn.

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Canada Post contract vote: What’s at stake for delivery operations

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Skip to main content CONTINUE TO SITE ➞ Dont miss tomorrows supply chain industry news Let Supply Chain Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Most Popular UNFI consolidates distribution centers in optimization plan FedEx closes 100 stations through Network 2.0 Retrieved from Flickr.

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6 Logistics KPIs Attributes That are Essential

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Logistics is the central system that controls physical inventory flow in a supply chain. Experts wrote many articles emphasizing the importance of Logistics , Logistics optimization, Logistics planning, and Logistics space optimization. One of the articles on Logistics space optimization can be found here.

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