SCMDOJO
APRIL 24, 2025
Excess inventory weighs down supply chains. It ties up capital, wastes storage space, and risks product obsolescence. Companies often overproduce to hedge against demand swings, yet end up with shelves of unused goods. These inefficiencies inflate costs and slow response times when customer needs change. This is where On-Demand Production comes in plat A smarter approach is taking shape.
Spend Matters
APRIL 24, 2025
The contract markup (also known as contract redlining) market has been in an unpredictable situation in recent years. These providers, which solely focus on automated or semi-automated contract markup, often sell to procurement and legal departments and promise greatly expedited contract review times. We have covered many of these providers: This content is for members only.
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Skill Dynamics
APRIL 24, 2025
When the tariff tide changes – like the recent Liberation Day measures – organizations either get swept away in the current or navigate forward with confidence. What makes the difference? Preparation. At Skill Dynamics, we know that preparation starts with people. Understanding regulations is critical – but what truly builds resilience is training agile, informed teams who can pivot fast, minimize risk, and protect performance when global trade gets turbulent.
Spend Matters
APRIL 24, 2025
This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters. In 2025, SaaS stacks are still expanding. But unlike previous years, this growth is not driven by just tool sprawl, but by intelligence. Buyers are now prioritizing tools that predict, automate and integrate over mere functionality, be it AI-native tools or traditional tools retrofitted with copilots.
Advertiser: GEP
“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.
Jaggaer
APRIL 24, 2025
By the time I have finished writing this article, and certainly before it is published, the situation will have changed. This year has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride, with changes to the global trading environment every day. One is reminded of the Chinese proverb, Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos. I recently hosted a webinar in which our star speaker was Lora Cecere, Founder at Supply Chain Insight.
Procurement Express
APRIL 24, 2025
Featuring Debbie Rosler, Fractional CFO at Burkland What happens when a startup CEO borrows $1.5 million from their own company – and no one notices until the money runs out? In this eye-opening post, we hear from Debbie Rosler, a seasoned fractional CFO at Burkland , as she walks us through one of the most defining – and alarming – experiences of her career: stepping into a company rocked by internal fraud and helping bring it back from the brink.
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Supply Chain Dive
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The logistics warehousing giant has seen businesses search for overflow space and short-term capacity options.
Procurement Insights
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Given the success of the 2010 Ariba For Dummies book, should there be a similar version for todays AI? April 16, 2025 How can the 2010 Ariba For Dummies book enable ProcureTech implementation success in the Agentic AI era? Has the ERP-world finally come down to this. An Ariba For Dummies?! November 16, 2010 Hows your businesss commerce health? Need some improving?
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 24, 2025
The 3,403.96% rate set on four exporters in Cambodia is “among the highest rates I’ve ever seen,” said American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee attorney Tim Brightbill.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 24, 2025
Facing challenges head-on requires time and budget, yet IT leaders are finding their wallets growing thin from rising licensing fees, vendor lock-ins, and bottlenecks on efficiency.
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 24, 2025
“Our customers are expressing more concern around cost impacts of tariffs and less concern regarding demand from their customers,” CEO Adam Miller said.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 24, 2025
How do you build a truly efficient and cost-effective final-mile network?
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 24, 2025
CEO Marty Freeman said the e-commerce giant’s new service presents an opportunity.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 24, 2025
What makes today's warehouse automation "intelligent"? And what are the key challenges around adopting it? Zaven Gabriel, product marketing manager with Locus Robotics, offers a perspective.
Advertiser: GEP
Tariffs are no longer just policy noise. They’re driving real, bottom-line impact. One policy shift and your sourcing strategy is upside down. This bulletin cuts straight to the point. How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 24, 2025
Companies are expanding their supplier bases and their tech stacks to maintain the efficient and cost-effective flow of goods.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 24, 2025
Experts have raised red flags over the veracity of the accounts and the products they're selling, noting that factories are contractually banned from selling directly to consumers.
Supply Chain Dive
APRIL 24, 2025
The company has agreed to buy Andlauer Healthcare Group for $1.6 billion, strengthening its cold chain capabilities in North America.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 24, 2025
Brazil's coffee sector has the country's highest number of workers rescued from debt bondage, excessive hours, lack of payment or degrading accommodations.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Spend Matters
APRIL 24, 2025
Digital transformation in procurement is no longer a question of if but how. Organizations invest heavily in (smart) workflow automation, analytics and AI-powered solutions to drive efficiency, enhance supplier relationships, improve decision-making and more. However, many procurement teams struggle with a critical challenge: how to quantify the return on investment (ROI) of these digital initiatives.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 24, 2025
Trade-offs between each of the four low-carbon fuels examined will need to be carefully considered.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 24, 2025
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is my reply to a new LinkedIn post by Everstreams’ David Shillingford. At the end of today’s Procurement Insights post, I will provide an advanced excerpt from my upcoming article in The Procurement Italia magazine. Great post again, David Shillingford ! Thank you for making us think or rethink what supply chain resilience really means: I wrote an article for The Procurement Italia magazine, which will be published on May 5th ( Micol Barba ).
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 24, 2025
The Trump administration's trade policies threaten to upend a U.S. spirits industry that lost more than $100 million worth of exports to EU tariffs between 2018 and 2021.
Advertiser: GEP
Procurement is in the middle of a tech tsunami. And if it feels like the old playbooks aren’t working anymore, that’s because they aren’t. Agentic AI. Autonomous procurement. Unified source-to-pay ecosystems. These innovations are converging and transforming how procurement teams operate. The GEP 2025 Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report breaks it all down.
Procurement Insights
APRIL 24, 2025
Before I share the SDI article, here is a little bit of homework that demonstrates why broadly applied rules, principles, and technology are a problem that perpetually locks us in the Doom Loop of ProcureTech initiative failures: Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 7) | Procurement Insights Kraft Buys Into the Mirage of Vendor Rationalization (REVISITED) What is Procter & Gamble Thinking?!
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 24, 2025
States assert that the White House's strategy to enact tariffs through social media posts and executive orders amounts to "a national trade policy that now hinges on the President's whims.
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