Thu.Feb 22, 2024

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Walmart hits supplier emissions goal 6 years early

Supply Chain Dive

The retailer’s vendors have already reported enough projects to fulfill Project Gigaton’s target of cutting 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases from its supply chain.

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How Supply Chain Organizations are Leveraging Data Analytics to Improve Risk Management

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chain organizations that prioritize safety and risk management through data analytics, telematics, and newer equipment position themselves as competitive leaders.

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Case Dismissed: Byron Allen v. McDonald’s

Art of Procurement

In May of 2023, two of the companies owned by Byron Allen, a black businessman and producer, sued McDonald’s for. The post Case Dismissed: Byron Allen v. McDonald’s appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Five Steps to Improve Supplier Relationships and Reduce Operating Costs

Supply Chain Brain

The last few years have continued to reinforce the value of dependable supplier relationships, and timely payments are an important ingredient to the success of those relationships.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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Honeywell exec upbeat on warehouse automation trends

Supply Chain Dive

Rising e-commerce shipments and ongoing labor shortages are among macrotrends that are favorable to the market.

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Leveling up from tools to systems: A holistic approach to third-party management

Spend Matters

It feels like an understatement to say that the evolution of technology continues to reshape and revolutionize business, as it continues to transform industries, individual companies within them, workers at all levels and the work they carry out. With the advent of AI, and especially generative AI within that broader term, and the continued globalization of supply chains, the pace of change has sped up, forcing businesses and workers to adjust quickly.

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IBM Cloud delivers enterprise sovereign cloud capabilities

IBM Supply Chain Blog

As we see enterprises increasingly face geographic requirements around sovereignty, IBM Cloud® is committed to helping clients navigate beyond the complexity so they can drive true transformation with innovative hybrid cloud technologies. We believe this is particularly important with the rise of generative AI. While AI can undoubtedly offer a competitive edge to organizations that effectively leverage its capabilities, we have seen unique concerns from industry to industry and region to re

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Walmart deepens India sourcing after spending $30B in the country

Supply Chain Dive

The retailer recently hosted a supplier summit in New Delhi to hear pitches that could lead to sales through the retailer or its third-party marketplace.

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Watch: What Is Warehouse Orchestration?

Supply Chain Brain

What is warehouse orchestration, and how does it impact the supply chain industry? Sally Miller, chief information officer for North America with DHL Supply Chain, explains.

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TBC’s first chief supply chain officer will help company leverage tech, data

Supply Chain Dive

The automotive replacement tire company appointed Chris Stearman to manage its end-to-end operations, including manufacturing, distribution and procurement.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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Press Release: Skill Dynamics Acquire Content Enablers to Strengthen Position in Corporate eLearning

Skill Dynamics

Berkshire (UK) & New York (USA) 22 nd February 2024 – Skill Dynamics Moves to Strengthen its Position in Corporate eLearning with the Acquisition of Content Enablers Skill Dynamics, a provider of high-impact, role-based, specialized supply chain and procurement training has acquired Content Enablers, a company renowned for compliance training. This strategic move marks a significant milestone for both organizations, solidifying their commitment to offering their customers highly effective tr

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4 Nonmonetary Motivators to Drive Supplier Quality Improvements

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Supplier quality leaders can drive supplier improvements beyond compliance requirements through a series of steps that do not require additional financial resources.

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Empower your technical staff with hands-on technology training

IBM Supply Chain Blog

With a vast amount of technology training and education available today, it’s difficult to know what deserves your attention and what’s just a marketing ploy. Furthermore, most training and education in technology is only offered through text or video, meaning that the learner doesn’t have an opportunity to apply the theory that they are learning.

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Future-Proofing Your Operations Through WMS and Robotics

Supply Chain Brain

In the dynamic world of warehouse operations, adapting to rapid changes is crucial. While technology is essential for success, the array of options available can be overwhelming.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Expanding on ethical considerations of foundation models

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The rise of foundation models that power the growth of generative AI and other AI use cases offers exciting possibilities—yet it also raises new questions and concerns about their ethical design, development, deployment, and use. The IBM AI Ethics Board publication Foundation models: Opportunities, risks and mitigations addresses those concerns and explores the technology’s benefits, risks, guardrails, and mitigations.

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Bulk Carrier Banned from Australian Ports After Being Abandoned for Months

Supply Chain Brain

The Liberian-flagged KMAX Leader bulk carrier is being towed back to the Philippines after arriving at the Port of Gladstone in October 2023 and remaining there for five months.

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Orchestration vs. Choreography: Differences and Use Cases for IT

Pipefy

Microservice architecture structures applications as a collection of services, or processes, that are either independently deployable or loosely coupled. Typically, services are managed by a single team such as IT. This architecture helps companies deliver applications fast, often, and reliably, which is a must for remaining competitive and responsive to changing business needs.

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EU Countries Warn German Gas Levy May Boost Reliance on Russia

Supply Chain Brain

Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia said the levy — which is paid for by traders or utilities further down supply chains — undermines energy security in the wider region.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

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Procurement 6 – February 23rd, 2024

Art of Procurement

Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – February 23rd, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Managing Compliance Factors: A Maturity Model Approach

Supply Chain Brain

Regulatory compliance is a fact of life for most supply chains. A key enabler for a successful organization is to understand the complex regulatory environment and build compliance into their end-to-end supply chain operations.

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NEW FEATURE: Contract Categorization by Type

ContractSafe

AI that Really Helps 75% of legal teams are looking for ways to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve their everyday work. Companies across the legal tech space are rushing to get big splashy AI tools on their list of features. But often those features are built to check an AI box or for the press value, not to meet actual customer needs.

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Walmart Easing Delivery Requirements for Suppliers

Supply Chain Brain

Walmart said that it wants its suppliers to deliver shipments on-time 90% of the time and in-full 95% of the time.

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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Operationalizing responsible AI principles for defense

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming society, including the very character of national security. Recognizing this, the Department of Defense (DoD) launched the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in 2019, the predecessor to the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), to develop AI solutions that build competitive military advantage, conditions for human-centric AI adoption, and the agility of DoD operations.

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FMC Rules in Favor of ATA Conference’s Stance Against OCEMA

Supply Chain Brain

In March 2023, an FMC judge ruled in favor of charges filed against OCEMA and 11 international ocean carriers claiming they violated the Shipping Act of 1984.

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U.S. Providing $710M in Loans to EV Technology Projects

Supply Chain Brain

The larger of the two preliminary loan commitments announced went to a unit of the South Korean semiconductor company SK Siltron.

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Bobcat Launches Lineup of New-Look Products

Supply Chain Brain

Bobcat has rebranded its forklifts, industrial air compressors, turf renovation equipment and portable power products.

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How Hellenic Bank Transformed Its Indirect Procurement Operations With GEP Software

Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.

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USCENTCOM Says U.K.-Owned Ship Damaged in Houthi Missile Attack off Yemen

Supply Chain Brain

A Houthi spokesman confirmed they had targeted the Islander and said they had also launched drones at a U.S. warship.

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J.B. Hunt Buys Walmart’s Intermodal Assets

Supply Chain Brain

The two companies, which have been working together for decades, also signed a long-term intermodal agreement.

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Podcast | Connecting the Dots: The Role of the Modern-Day Warehouse Execution System

Supply Chain Brain

A typical warehouse consists of multiple information systems. How do they work together smoothly?

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