Supply Chain Dive

MARCH 20, 2024

Consulting experts, prioritizing data analytics and highlighting sustainability efforts can help ensure reliable operations in the face of global disruption.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 20, 2024

Including same-day delivery options is good for business, bringing long-term, strategic benefits that should counter the typical six-figure cost of setting it up.

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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

MARCH 20, 2024

The COVID pandemic accelerated the adoption of online supply chain education. Today, organizations and employees have their choice of online, in-person or hybrid learning environments, but there is no one-size-fits-all approach.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 20, 2024

The predicted surge in electric vehicle demand carries the potential to exacerbate sourcing challenges for key battery minerals, potentially disrupting automotive manufacturing.

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Advertiser: GEP

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 20, 2024

Procurement has not been immune to the latest evolution in technology. While initial automations initially increased process velocity by taking over more tactical, repetitive tasks, they gradually evolved to cover more complex ones. At first, these only required more analytical activities to augment human workers, but they eventually evolved from predictive and prescriptive analytics towards more embedded and autonomous analytics that directly help execute the workflows.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 20, 2024

The Biden Administration's FLOW initiative was first launched in March of 2022 as a response to supply chain disruptions brought on by the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 20, 2024

The company's Wingsail technology acts as a complement to a ship's existing fossil-fuel propulsion systems, designed to cut down on fuel use and emissions.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Each year we see the challenges that enterprises face become more complex as they strive to keep up with the latest technologies, such as generative AI, and increasing customer expectations. For highly regulated industries, these challenges take on an entirely new level of expectation as they navigate evolving regulatory landscape and manage requirements for privacy, resiliency, cybersecurity, data sovereignty and more.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 20, 2024

AI plays a prominent role in at least four of the eight supply chain tech trends highlighted by research firm Gartner.

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Una

MARCH 20, 2024

EPISODE 157 Telling a Compelling Procurement Story with Alex Ball By Kelly Barner | March 20, 2024 Marketing requires a combination of data and storytelling to motivate people to take a desired action, whether that is making a purchase, supporting a cause, or providing their email address. Procurement can leverage a marketing-esque combination of information and storytelling to build consensus, increase influence, and even control the narrative when plans go awry.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 20, 2024

In the fast-paced world of supply chain management, the ability to make timely and informed decisions can spell the difference between success and failure. One crucial aspect of this decision-making process occurs in the sales and operations execution horizon—a critical 13-week window where key stakeholders gather weekly to navigate the complexities of demand planning, supply management, inventory allocation, and more.

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Supply Chain Dive

MARCH 20, 2024

Published information now covers inland freight hubs like rail terminals and warehouses to help users mitigate logistics challenges.

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Positive Purchasing

MARCH 20, 2024

Can Digital Category Management Enhance Efficiency Without Sacrificing Human integrity? We are delighted to have formed a new tech partnership with Matchory ! Matchory is a Germany-based supplier discovery tool, enabling fast and easy searches for new vendors, from a database of millions of companies. This is a great complementary solution which can be used alongside tools like Capella , our guided category strategy creator®, and Ruby , our guided negotiation plan creator ®.

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Supply Chain Dive

MARCH 20, 2024

The aerospace company is pushing to lower instances of components being completed outside a production line's typical flow.

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Advertiser: GEP

Generative AI goes beyond just automating tasks and providing real-time answers. Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? In this whitepaper — Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes With the Power of Generative AI — experts reveal how the strategic application of generative AI within procurement processes is paving the way for groundbreaking improvements.

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Art of Procurement

MARCH 20, 2024

Services spend is becoming an increasingly important strategic category for procurement to manage as more and more businesses rely on. The post Analyzing the Global State of Services Procurement appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Supply Chain Dive

MARCH 20, 2024

The Boeing engine supplier’s spending will include new machines, equipment, building upgrades and improved safety measures.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 20, 2024

Katana's tool tracks what customers want and how much they need of specific offerings, and then forecasts when they might need those products.

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CPO Rising

MARCH 20, 2024

Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with your news story here.

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Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 20, 2024

Investor expectations have dimmed for what was supposed to be a crucial year in the manufacturer’s recovery from a half decade of turmoil.

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Una

MARCH 20, 2024

Wondering If You're Too Big for Group Purchasing? Wondering if you’re too big for group purchasing? Even the largest enterprises with well-resourced procurement teams can uncover excellent value by partnering with a GPO in certain categories. By Hugo Britt | March 21, 2024 Search Search There are some things a large business will never outgrow.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Integration is essential to every business. As businesses consider the core of their IT infrastructure, their focus might be on their data and applications. But without integration, the data would be locked into siloes; and the applications would be isolated and overloaded with complexity as fragile, tightly coupled connections were added to allow applications to work together and share information.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Public cloud adoption has soared since the launch of the first commercial cloud two decades ago. Most of us take for granted the countless ways public cloud-related services—social media sites (Instagram), video streaming services (Netflix), web-based email applications (Gmail), and more—permeate our lives. In the business sphere, both large enterprises and small startups depend on public cloud computing models to provide the flexibility, cost-effectiveness and scalability needed to

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Advertiser: GEP

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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