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Supply Chain Dive
JUNE 23, 2025
Skip to main content Dont miss tomorrows supply chain industry news Let Supply Chain Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. To remain competitive, organizations must fundamentally rethink their approach to supply chain management.
Spend Matters
DECEMBER 23, 2024
The need for resilient supply chains is also a key factor driving procurement digitalization. Customers want to quickly adjust sourcing strategies and build agility into their supply chains. Metrics around supplier consolidation and spend concentration are also common.
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Supply Chain Dive
JULY 21, 2025
Skip to main content Dont miss tomorrows supply chain industry news Let Supply Chain Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Tariffs have become one of the most disruptive variables in global supply chains. From the U.S.-China
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 31, 2025
Today’s OMS must be modular, intelligent and tightly woven into the fabric of a company’s operations — adapting to volatility, empowering agility and driving business outcomes. 2 Merging B2B & B2C Experiences Across Channels In today’s omnichannel economy, the buyer at a B2B company is also a consumer in their personal life.
Speaker: Kelly Barner - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point, LLC
Since 2020, procurement and supply chain professionals have faced an unprecedented set of challenges. The pandemic was just the start.
ivalua
AUGUST 6, 2025
While direct procurement is usually owned by supply chain or procurement teams and tightly managed, indirect procurement tends to span across functions – HR, marketing, IT, finance and others – each with its own vendors, contracts, and approval processes.
ivalua
JULY 3, 2025
Direct and indirect procurement are two fundamental approaches in supply chain management, each serving distinct functions within an organization. Indirect procurement supports organizational agility, requiring tailored controls and workflows to manage cross-functional spend. Find Out More What Is Procurement?
Supply Chain Game Changer
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Subscribe The Supply Chain Renaissance Has Begun! In the world where supply chain development is going meta, businesses nowadays have to stay abreast and adapt themselves constantly to these metamorphosing areas of operation as well as introduce innovative strategies as a way for survival and/or staying competitive in the game.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 11, 2025
With international commerce increasingly digitalized and customer requirements continuing to grow, the demands on supply chain professionals to create frictionless, responsive, and cost-effective operations have never been higher. Supercharge your supply chain career through the SCMDOJO Supply Chain Learning Track Certification!
Procurement Insights
JUNE 7, 2025
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. DND buyers) and external (e.g.,
Supply Chain Dive
JUNE 24, 2025
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. Sign up A valid email address is required. Please select at least one newsletter. By Max Garland • Feb. By Max Garland • Feb.
Supply Chain Dive
JULY 21, 2025
Skip to main content Dont miss tomorrows supply chain industry news Let Supply Chain Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. times higher than operational emissions, according to data from the U.S.
Spend Matters
APRIL 15, 2025
Manufacturing and industrials: Strengthening the supply chain backbone In the manufacturing world, procurement is about much more than just tracking spend its the heartbeat of supply chain management. Supply network modeling, now integrating large language models (LLMs), allows for precise tracking and material tracing.
Supply Chain Game Changer
JULY 24, 2025
This change in perspective has influenced how businesses portray their supply chain management and vendor relationships, making these functions pivot to spearhead competitive advantage. This turns conventional relationships between buyers and sellers into strategic partnerships where both parties work together to create value.
Spend Matters
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
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. Recent events have illustrated how interconnected and fragile supply chains can be.
Procurement Insights
JUNE 13, 2025
THREE QUESTIONS REGARDING PROCURETECH’S BIG BANG MOMENT Q1 – How would the integration of Simudyne’s equation-based and Hansen’s agent-based models benefit procurement and supply chain practices? commodity pricing, inflation) Micro-actor modeling (e.g., commodity pricing, inflation) Micro-actor modeling (e.g.,
SCMDOJO
MARCH 24, 2025
Market Fluctuations and Inflation : External factors such as inflation, rising raw material costs, and global supply chain disruptions have a significant impact on procurement costs. Inflation has always been a top concern for higher management, as it is beyond the control of both suppliers and buyers. References Garnder, S.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 8, 2025
MODEL #2 An agent-based model within a metaprise framework outperforms traditional equation-based intake and orchestration models in procurement because it better addresses the complexity, unpredictability, and multi-stakeholder nature of modern supply chains. office supply replenishment). Heres a detailed comparison: 1.
Jaggaer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
By selecting and developing the right suppliers and establishing streamlined, transparent communication with them, manufacturers gain the agility and resilience to respond to customer demands, rise to the top, and navigate disruptions more easily. That makes agility a foundational part of your manufacturing strategy.
Spend Matters
JANUARY 9, 2025
By integrating these technologies, organizations unlock efficiencies, enhance decision making and create more agile, connected supply chains, ultimately boosting their ROI. Consult TechMatch our tech selection tool that helps procurement and finance technology buyers quickly explore the market and identify best-fit solutions.
Spend Matters
JUNE 3, 2025
The US administrations announcement of reciprocal tariffs in early April sent a jolt through global supply chains. Building internal alignment across procurement, supply chain, legal and finance to tie sourcing decisions to tariff cost modeling and compliance. Remaining agile by embedding reassessment mechanisms.
Procurement Insights
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
“A 2023 survey by KPMG highlights this transition, revealing that procurement leaders are now focusing on supply chain resiliency (68%), introducing new products or expanding into new markets (65%), and improving margins through cost reduction (71%). Its less about control and more about agility.
Spend Matters
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. To potential buyers — Halo Ai’s founder has a background in procurement and has built the tool with procurement in mind and to replace current TPRM and GRC point solutions.
Jaggaer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Building Stronger Relationship s : Effective Approaches to Multi-Tier Supplier Collaboration A chain is only as strong as its weakest link—but what if you can’t evaluate the entire chain? Tier 1 suppliers and their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers—make up an organization’s multi-tier supply chain.
Supply Chain Dive
JUNE 23, 2025
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. Clorox expects productivity gains in its supply chain to start in fiscal 2027, Bellet said. Please let us know if you have feedback.
Supply Chain Dive
JULY 21, 2025
Skip to main content Dont miss tomorrows supply chain industry news Let Supply Chain Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. supply chains across nearly every industry—from industrial machinery and building materials to food and beverage, consumer goods and electronics.
Spend Matters
MARCH 12, 2025
In a world that feels like it is constantly teetering on the edge of chaos or permacrisis, procurement professionals must master uncertainty by building resilience and agility. And one way to do that is to rethink where organizations source from. Forestreet empowers such a capability with instant intelligence from ad-hoc scouting requests.
Barkers Procurement
MAY 7, 2025
When Covid-19 first hit five years ago, retailers experienced the need for supply chain resilience. Now, as they build the agility and strength needed to respond to potential unexpected events, we can look to this period for guidance. A key flaw to emerge was that supply chains were murky. Nothing moved.
Supply Chain Dive
JUNE 23, 2025
Skip to main content Dont miss tomorrows supply chain industry news Let Supply Chain Dives free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Add to this the pace of technological change in the supply chain space, and you have a perfect storm of challenges facing procurement departments across industries.
Supply Chain Dive
JUNE 24, 2025
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. By Edwin Lopez • Jan. By Kelly Stroh • Feb.
Spend Matters
APRIL 30, 2025
In a landscape shaped by inflation, supply chain fragility, regulatory pressure and digital transformation, orchestration is more than a buzzword. Externally, risk and compliance obligations mount, supply chains are stretched and stakeholder expectations broaden. It’s between the inside and the outside.
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. Assessment of the supply market (who offers what?) However, whats really missing hereneeds analysis. emergency purchases and b.)
Procurement Insights
APRIL 15, 2025
Key Features: Practitioner-Led: Agents (DND buyers) own workflows to teach self-learning algorithms. Hansens agent-based model pushes practitioner ownership to bridge this gap, reducing failures by empowering users, not just leaning on tech. Self-learning algorithms augment this by analyzing agent actions (e.g.,
TYA Suite
MAY 13, 2025
These are typically routine or recurring purchasessuch as office supplies, raw materials, tools, or maintenance servicesthat support the companys ongoing operations. This step often begins with employees or departments noticing a shortfall, whether its raw materials for production, office supplies, or maintenance equipment.
Procurement Insights
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
February 2025 – Liquid networksdynamic, decentralized, and highly adaptable systemsare reshaping procurement and ProcureTech by enhancing supplier collaboration, innovation, and agility. Supply chain risk management is proactive and data-driven. Procurement workflows are automated using AI & smart contracts.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 13, 2025
buyers, suppliers) interacting based on real-world commodity traits (e.g., Agents update their models to favor successful strategies, aligning with Hansens agility focus (2014 post,). cosmetics luxury inputs, coffees farm-gate prices). Department of Defense). Feedback Loop (Learning): Process: Outcomes are fed back to agents (e.g.,
Jaggaer
MARCH 6, 2025
These reforms and similar ones in other countries open up opportunities for public sector buyers. It is impossible to manage multiple suppliers, and to switch between them with agility, without digital processes and powerful workflows.Form Conclusion Procurement technology has become a cornerstone of modern public sector operations.
Procurement Software
JUNE 15, 2025
If this were a manufacturing process generating over 30% waste, it would be something that lean experts would be crawling all over. Ask yourself: why it is that startups are so lean and agile…? How many of these tasks could be done by an Admin Assistant, Data Analyst or a Junior Buyer? Adults should be treated as adults.
Procurement Insights
JUNE 16, 2025
specific suppliers, individual buyers, unique market conditions). Dynamic “What-If” Scenario Simulation with Real-Time Adaptability: Living Digital Twins: Enterprises will operate “living” digital twins of their entire supply chain, procurement ecosystem, or even broader market segments, powered by Hansen’s ABM.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 30, 2025
THE SHORT ANSWER Procurement Insights is not a replacement for analyst firms its a complementary and sometimes disruptive mirror , helping enterprise buyers and tech vendors see past sanitized reports into what actually matters to practitioners. – Challenges rigid quadrants with more agile, narrative-driven insights.
Procurement Insights
JULY 1, 2025
Report Link : The interview discusses “empowering procurement to be proactive and agile,” mirroring the agent-based architecture where multiple agents interact dynamically. Complex Workflows : Fragmented tech stacks and inefficient processes hinder agility and cost efficiency in large enterprises.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 9, 2025
Agent-Based Solution : Agents represent suppliers, buyers, and logistics providers, sharing data and negotiating terms autonomously. Predictive Risk Mitigation Challenge : Reactive risk management leads to costly supply chain failures. Impact : Lowers supply chain disruption risks by 3040% , ensuring smoother implementations.
Supply Chain Dive
JULY 22, 2025
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. By Edwin Lopez • Jan. By Philip Neuffer • Jan. Most Popular UPS driver buyout offers: Carrier eyes Aug. 31 start to separations US preps 93.5%
Procurement Insights
JUNE 12, 2025
Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 7) Are you chasing solutions or solving problems? Verdict : Rapidly aligning with Hansen’s model indirectly, especially in federated supply intelligence. 4C Associates: Known for supply chain and procurement consulting, 4C focuses on digital transformation and analytics.
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