Wed.Mar 13, 2024

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Empowering Women in the Supply Chain: Bridging Gaps and Fostering a Supportive Community

Supply Chain Brain

The path to gender parity is about spanning bridges across persistent gaps, and cultivating a supportive community that empowers women to thrive.

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Target deepens bets on supply chain, inventory management

Supply Chain Dive

The retailer has 10 new facilities in the pipeline and is investing in AI and machine learning to sharpen demand planning as it grows its profits.

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Implement iPaaS to Become a Data-Driven Enterprise

Supply Chain Brain

As Integration Platform as a Service develops, artificial intelligence and machine learning will continue to play a major role in data integration and analysis.

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Better shipping contracts benefit BarkBox owner

Supply Chain Dive

Dog toys and treats brand Bark, which uses FedEx, the U.S. Postal Service and Pitney Bowes, joins other shippers that have trimmed their delivery costs.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

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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GenAI Could Make Up a Quarter of All Logistics KPI Reporting Within Next 4 Years

Supply Chain Brain

Half of supply chain leaders surveyed say they’re already working on plans to implement GenAI in the next 12 months.

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Why Walmart sees drone delivery taking flight

Supply Chain Dive

The retailer is increasingly using the technology for quick deliveries of items like meal solutions and over-the-counter medicines.

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Eli Lilly to Partner With Amazon Pharmacy in Latest Shift for Pharma Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

The pharmaceutical company will use Amazon Pharmacy to deliver a select range of medications.

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Where does food waste occur most in the supply chain?

Procurement Insights

The work started in 2020 by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) , WWF , Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic and ReFED created this movement. I’m very proud to join it as we seek to influence the legislative process federally, by state, and locally. If more families are fed because of this; it is worth doing! Flashfood hashtag#collectiveimpact – Nicholas Bertram , CEO Flashfood My parents, born in 1916 and 1918, lived through the Great Depression.

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USDOT Unveils Plan to Decarbonize Freight Transportation Across the Country

Supply Chain Brain

The USDOT plans to roll out a nationwide charging infrastructure for zero emission freight vehicles over the next two decades.

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Supply Chain Trends to Watch

The Network Effect

What the supply chain experts think we should expect in 2024 and the coming years.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Steelworkers Union Demands Investigate ‘Unfair’ Chinese Shipbuilding

Supply Chain Brain

U.S. steelworkers claim China has established a stranglehold on shipbuilding to dominate global trade.

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Technology Round-Up — March 13, 2024

CPO Rising

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider and you are continually innovating the way that procurement and supply chain leaders and practitioners drive value, we’d love to hear from you.

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AI will change the world—the terms are up to us

IBM Supply Chain Blog

IBM at the B7 We are living in a watershed moment for AI: the European Parliament has just voted on the EU AI Act, which will regulate and govern the use and implications of this technology. In turn, governments and enterprises are getting ready to set their own standards around AI. AI featured in the G7 Ministerial Meeting in Verona, Italy, and in conversations happening in parallel in the Business Federations gatherings, or B7.

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