Procurement Software
JUNE 1, 2025
The market for procurement talent harbours a dangerous disconnect. Procurement Directors post openings demanding Excel wizardry and SAP expertise. Meanwhile, AI quietly renders these skills obsolete. This mismatch threatens entire procurement organizations. Teams recruit for yesterday’s challenges. Meanwhile, tomorrow’s demands remain unmet.
Procurement Insights
JUNE 1, 2025
HISTORICAL CONTEXT Gartner began discussing artificial intelligence (AI) as a mainstream business technology much later than Jon W. Hansen. Jon W. Hansen was publicly referencing and implementing AI concepts in the late 1990s , notably through “advanced self-learning algorithms” in procurement and supply chain applications. Gartner , by contrast, did not feature “artificial intelligence” as a major topic until 20162017.
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Procurement Freelancers
JUNE 1, 2025
Summary: Overview: The blog examines the hidden costs of opting for low-cost suppliers for SMEs,… The post The Hidden Costs of Cheap Suppliers: What Every SME Owner Should Watch For first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.
Procurement Insights
JUNE 1, 2025
Since May 2007, when the Procurement Insights blog published its first post, one post has consistently garnered attention. In fact, year after year, this one post continues to rank #1 among all posts in terms of reads: Managing Supply Chain Risk: The Nokia and Ericsson Case Study Case Study Recap Nearly a decade ago, lighting struck a Philips microchip plant in New Mexico, causing a fire that contaminated millions of mobile phone chips.
Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management
In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 1, 2025
Threats to supply chain security are everywhere these days. But the best weapon for dealing with them consists of data thats readily at hand.
Procurement Insights
JUNE 1, 2025
Hansens theory transforms “black swans” into foreseeable risks by connecting disparate data. Companies leveraging this approach gain 612 months lead time to mitigate disruptions, optimize supply chains, and capitalize on emerging opportunities. This isn’t retrospective theorycraftingit’s a real, operational decision framework that reframes procurement as a predictive function, not just a reactive one.
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Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 1, 2025
The FLA identified a troubling lack of supply chain transparency for farms, slaughterhouses and tanneries, with low visibility into working conditions and product traceability.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 1, 2025
Robyn Winner, head of demand generation with Loop, relates some of the misconceptions that surround the application of artificial intelligence to the supply chain.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 1, 2025
China is Australias biggest trading partner by far and previously expressed anger over pressure from the Trump administration concerning the Panama Canal.
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