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SCMDOJO
DECEMBER 29, 2024
In the vast sea of supply chain information, which SCMDOJO supply chain article truly stands out? Dive into our curated list of the top 12 blogs from 2024 that will elevate your supply chain knowledge and give you a competitive edge. Learn More About Evolution Of Supply Chain Management And Logistics 6.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 3, 2025
Global trade is complex, and supply chains are intertwined and interconnected. Supply chain leaders must adapt and use smart strategies to remain competitive. This article explains how to understand US tariffs and lessen their impact on supply chains. Review your products and find ways to improve them.
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SCMDOJO
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
From rule-based systems to predictive analytics and the generative AI boom, businesses have leveraged these technologies to optimize operations, forecast trends, and create data-driven strategies. This leap in AI capabilities is revolutionizing industries, and AI-driven supply chain management is no exception.
Jaggaer
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Opportunities for Procurement Technology As we look toward 2025, European businesses are reshaping their supply chains to navigate an increasingly complex global landscape. A recent report by Maersk and Reuters Events highlights that 68% of companies are making supply chain visibility and monitoring solutions a top priority.
ivalua
JULY 23, 2025
We will walk you through the full e-procurement lifecycle, so you can see how each step works together, and explain how leading procurement teams are leveraging AI and automation to improve efficiency and accuracy. E-sourcing accelerates supplier selection while ensuring that decisions are transparent and defensible.
ivalua
MAY 30, 2025
As supply chains become more interconnected and risks more dynamic, traditional procurement tools fall short. These technologies work in concert to enable AI-driven procurement, which, in turn, leads to faster, smarter, and more efficient operations. And they don’t require constant human intervention.
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ivalua
MAY 30, 2025
As supply chains become more interconnected and risks more dynamic, traditional procurement tools fall short. These technologies work in concert to enable AI-driven procurement, which, in turn, leads to faster, smarter, and more efficient operations. And they don’t require constant human intervention.
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Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 3, 2025
In a bid to sweeten its presence in the ever-evolving snack industry, J.M. Smucker has embarked on a series of strategic maneuvers that promise to redefine its sweet snacks business and supply chain.As Smucker can optimize its supply chain processes and meet the growing demand for premium snacks.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
In the heart of the bustling Midstate region, a once-thriving logistics supply chain company is facing a paradigm shift as it announces the closure of its second facility.
Spend Matters
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
This focus and track record however, was in some ways at the expense of fully optimizing and maximizing procurements total strategic value to the enterprise as a whole. The historical approach focused on reacting to operational elements, like a plant being short of potatoes, instead of demand driven supply management processes.
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Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
The process creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. Draw up selection criteria optimizing outcomes against risk. Request proposals based on your specifications (e.g.
Jaggaer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Tier 1 suppliers and their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers—make up an organization’s multi-tier supply chain. Multi-tier supplier collaboration involves building transparency with and beyond your first tier suppliers. The Role of Communication in Supply Chain Collaboration Communication puts collaboration in motion.
Arkestro
DECEMBER 26, 2024
While these advancements have led to improved efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced strategies, theyve also made procurement processes more complex than ever before. Here are five key trends that will shape procurement and supply chain management in the coming year. trillion , a 9.3% increase from 2024.
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
A successful approach requires careful assessment of supplier bids, followed by structured onboarding, continuous monitoring, and performance measurement. When assessing bids following an eAuction, the process typically involves a combination of automated tools and human decision-making, especially when evaluating factors beyond just price.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 5, 2025
In a bid to turn the tide on a recent sales slump, Advance Auto Parts is embarking on a bold initiative to revamp its supply chain. Revamping Supply Chain Strategies to Boost Sales Performance advance Auto Parts is making bold moves to rejuvenate its sales figures by overhauling its supply chain strategies.
TYA Suite
OCTOBER 27, 2024
is a comprehensive solution designed to automate and optimize the. It encompasses a range of features aimed at managing the acquisition of goods and services efficiently. This transparency helps businesses identify potential issues early and take corrective actions promptly.
Jaggaer
APRIL 9, 2025
How MES is Shaping the Future of Manufacturing and Boosting Production Efficiency What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)? An MES provides a functional layer between enterprise resource planning (ERP) and process control systems, giving decision-makers the data they need to make their production area more efficient.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 19, 2025
The warehouse, meanwhile, has been elevated from afterthought to a central player, as new demands and responsibilities are placed on supply chains — from small-batch wave picking and reverse logistics to deeper supplier collaboration, and tariff and sustainability compliance. Just be prepared for anything and keep going.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MAY 16, 2025
As global trade winds gust through the intricate web of supply chains, Clorox stands at a crossroads, poised to navigate the shifting currents in a bid to maintain stability and agility in the face of economic turbulence. These recommendations focus on enhancing efficiency and minimizing costs in the sourcing process.
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Arkestro
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Historically, the focus has been on optimizing portfolios of spend—prioritizing what to address, defer, or ignore—using well-known frameworks such as the Kraljic Matrix and the Pareto Principle. This allows procurement teams to set up events quickly and efficiently, pre-populating supplier bid sheets with suggested prices.
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Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Complete Source to Pay cycle and Strategic Sourcing Guide An optimized Source-to-Pay (S2P) process helps businesses enhance procurement efficiency, reduce costs, and improve supplier collaboration. Companies that excel in strategic sourcing achieve greater cost savings and procurement efficiency while ensuring supply chain resilience.
Spend Matters
MAY 14, 2025
The situation is further complicated for global supply chains, particularly when suppliers are located in regions with strict data regulations and infrastructure challenges, such as China. Yet many still rely on spreadsheets and email threads to manage this complexity.
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Procurement Insights
MARCH 16, 2025
MCP ensures that AI-driven procurement solutions retain, process, and apply relevant context to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency. Contextualized Spend Analysis & Cost Optimization AI models use MCP to remember previous spend categories, budget constraints, and organizational purchasing behavior.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
APRIL 18, 2025
In the heart of the bustling fintech landscape, a Pakistani supply chain innovator emerges as a trailblazer, setting its sights on the thriving market of Saudi Arabia. With vision and perseverance as its guiding stars, this fintech disruptor aims to establish a formidable presence in the kingdom within a mere 12 months.
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. But today this is largely executed electronically, for example by eSourcing events and with sourcing optimization software.
Jaggaer
DECEMBER 12, 2024
enables procurement, finance and supply chain to collectively boost cost savings, make better decisions, and accelerate digital innovation RESEARCH TRIANGLE, NC – JAGGAER , a global leader in enterprise procurement and supplier collaboration, today announces the 24.3 JAGGAER One 24.3 version of its JAGGAER One platform.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 5, 2025
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. Rank Provider Top Reason Reasoning 1 Zycus AI-driven cost transparency Merlin AI Suites autonomous negotiation and $28M savings potential stand out for should-cost.
Procurement Insights
JULY 1, 2025
Complex Workflows : Fragmented tech stacks and inefficient processes hinder agility and cost efficiency in large enterprises. For example, it identified SAP Ariba as optimal for Duke Energy due to low implementation risk, demonstrating its ability to match solutions to enterprise contexts.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 13, 2025
In contrast, SAPs Joule, an AI copilot in S/4HANA Cloud, uses explicit feedback loops, such as gradient descent for procurement analytics, to optimize tasks like supplier selection and spend management, leveraging structured AI methodologies. deviation from optimal spend), converging to better outcomes. select Vietnam for $0.22/unit
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Supply Chain Game Changer
JULY 18, 2025
Propelling businesses toward uncharted realms of efficiency and prosperity. We reveal the secrets to supercharged performance in fleet efficiency. Igniting the spark that will revolutionize your fleet efficiency forever. These data-driven decisions to harmonize efficiency can propel your fleets toward unrivaled success.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 15, 2025
The DPP “represents a significant advance in product transparency and sustainability,” according to an EU report published in September of 2024. “As Among the sticking points is the difficulty of obtaining information about products through multiple tiers of the manufacturing supply chain, including acquisition of raw materials.
Spend Matters
JANUARY 23, 2025
The momentum around this ‘best practice’ has been further accelerated by the marketing efforts of market intelligence companies selling data and even a few purpose-built software platforms to make these efforts more efficient and accurate.
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TYA Suite
JUNE 2, 2025
Whether it's a small company buying in bulk or a large enterprise managing hundreds of suppliers, an efficient purchase process can directly impact cash flow, compliance, and profitability. A well-defined purchasing process plays a crucial role in helping businesses operate smoothly and efficiently. What is the purchasing process?
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Procurement Insights
APRIL 13, 2025
cost efficiency, tariff resilience). supplier performance, tariff costs) to optimize decisions. supplier bids, tariff updates) without predefined labels, similar to unsupervised learning, adapting to market shifts like 60% China tariffs. Adaptation (Optimization): Process: Agents continuously adapt to new data (e.g.,
Planergy
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The Four Types of Procurement in Education Key Steps in the Education Procurement Process Who Benefits from Efficient Procurement? Educational leaders use strategic procurement to negotiate favorable contracts, explore innovative solutions, and drive institutional efficiency. Who Benefits from Efficient Procurement?
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Procurement Insights
MARCH 27, 2025
AdaptOne could provide significant value to Byrne Dairy , a food and beverage company, by optimizing and digitizing its procurement operations particularly in supplier management , compliance tracking , and procurement workflow visibility. Key message: Align with Byrnes mission of quality, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 17, 2025
ITS Logistics is one of North America’s fastest-growing, asset-based modern 3PLs, providing solutions for the industrys most complicated supply chain challenges. Using a holistic approach, he combines technology, supply chain expertise, and leadership skills to ensure sustained growth and profitability.
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Procurement Insights
MARCH 25, 2025
ANSWER #1 AdaptOne could provide significant value to Byrne Dairy , a food and beverage company, by optimizing and digitizing its procurement operations particularly in supplier management , compliance tracking , and procurement workflow visibility. Key message: Align with Byrnes mission of quality, compliance, and operational efficiency.
SCMDOJO
JUNE 3, 2025
Transparent Costs and Building Strong Supplier Relationships: Discover the valuable role transparency plays in building trust with customers and suppliers. Even simple automationlike using a Cost Breakdown Analysis Template can replace hours of manual calculations while boosting accuracy and transparency across categories.
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TYA Suite
MAY 3, 2025
Today, digital purchase order are part of a larger trend toward automation, integrating with accounting software, inventory systems, and analytics tools to create smarter, more efficient supply chains. This transparency allows for better planning and helps avoid delays, keeping everyone on the same page.
TYA Suite
JANUARY 27, 2025
The real estate industry, characterized by intricate processes and substantial investments, constantly seeks ways to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure timely project completion. This comprehensive solution streamlines procurement activities, improves and provides transparency across the entire supply chain.
Procurement Insights
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Hansen, identified as a Chief Procurement Officer (CPO), introduced the idea in the context of linking seemingly unrelated data streams or “strands” to optimize procurement outcomes. Instead, his contributions are more broadly tied to practical applications of algorithmic thinking in supply chain and procurement optimization.
Procurement Insights
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Hansens concept of “Velocity Procurement” is a modern evolution of his earlier work in supply chain and procurement optimization, reflecting his decades of experience streamlining processes for organizations like the Canadian Department of National Defence and the New York City Transit Authority.
Supply Chain Dive
JUNE 10, 2025
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