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Blue Yonder Announces Buys One Network Enterprises for $839M

Supply Chain Brain

The deal will mark around $1 billion of investments in acquisitions by Blue Yonder since Q4 2023 in its quest to provide a unified end-to-end supply chain management platform.

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Integrating AI into Asset Performance Management: It’s all about the data

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence (AI) seamlessly collaborates with existing supply chain solutions, redefining how organizations manage their assets. If you’re currently using traditional AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation, aren’t you already getting deep insights into asset performance? Undoubtedly. But what if you could optimize even further?

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Embracing An Agile Ecosystem Through Digital Transformation

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

At its core, the agile ecosystem embodies innovative thinking, enabling managers to adopt a systemic perspective wherein all stakeholders contribute to value propositions. Managers aspiring to embrace the agile ecosystem should prioritize investments in nurturing relational assets through digitization while actively engaging customers.

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How auto supply chain managers can navigate the Baltimore port stoppages

Supply Chain Dive

Alternative port assessments, along with contract and obligation reviews, are among the steps experts say shippers should consider.

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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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MSC to Buy Italian Shipping Newspaper Group

Supply Chain Brain

The move means the Gianluigi Aponte-founded company has followed in the footsteps of CMA CGM by getting into the media business.

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Walmart hikes return shipping rates for seller-fulfilled orders

Supply Chain Dive

The retailer didn't disclose the extent of the increase, which it attributed to "changing market conditions.

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General Mills uses AI, analytics to build a disruption-ready supply chain

Supply Chain Dive

The packaged food unit has digitized its end-to-end operations to gain visibility, ramp up productivity and make faster decisions.

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Mapping Your AI Success (2019 Versus 2023/24)

Procurement Insights

2019 – Dr. Elousie Epstein, A.T. Kearney 2023 Dr. Elouise Epstein, Partner at Kearney 2019 Versus 2023 (Dr. Elouise Epsein) So, what happened between 2019 and 2023? How many of these are new start-ups? How many have been around for more than a decade? How many have been around for many decades? How many from the 2019 map made it to the 2023 map?

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Port of Baltimore crisis: What supply chain managers need to know

Supply Chain Dive

Supply Chain Dive asked experts how rerouting by land and sea could work after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.

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Create a lasting customer retention strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Customer retention must be a top priority for leaders of any company wanting to remain competitive. An effective customer retention strategy should support the company to maintain a healthy stable of loyal customers and bring in new customers. Generating repeat business is critical: McKinsey’s report on customer acquisition states (link resides outside of ibm.com) that companies need to acquire three new customers to make up the business value of losing one existing customer.

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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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Kroger to close 3 e-commerce fulfillment facilities

Supply Chain Dive

The grocer said it will shutter one Ocado-powered spoke in South Florida and two others in Texas in late May.

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Empowering career growth amidst global challenges 

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Finding the right recipe for career growth can challenge global clients. At Conagra, a leading food manufacturer, prioritizing employee growth and career mobility became paramount, especially amidst the recent pandemic. The company recognized the need for a strong skills foundation, empowering its workforce to develop talents and explore new career opportunities within the organization.

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Navigating the Changing Payments Landscape: AP Trends To Know in 2024

Jaggaer

JAGGAER's latest news on procurement & sourcing. Read now: Navigating the Changing Payments Landscape: AP Trends To Know in 2024.

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OpenTelemetry vs. Prometheus: You can’t fix what you can’t see

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Monitoring and optimizing application performance is important for software developers and enterprises at large. The more applications that an enterprise deploys, the more data that exists for collecting and analyzing. Yet, this data isn’t worth much without the right tools for monitoring, optimizing, storing and—crucially—putting the data into context.

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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

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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Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Strongest Ever GHG Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Supply Chain Brain

Clean Freight Coalition (CFC) executive director Jim Mullen strongly criticized the standards, pointing to massively increased costs for truck operators.

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Holistic asset management for utility network companies

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Addressing challenges of the energy transition with grid asset management The energy transition is gearing up to full speed as renewable energy sources replace fossil-based systems of energy production. The grid itself must green to operate within the environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives and become carbon neutral by 2050. This shift requires energy utility companies to plan their grid asset management holistically as they find a new balance between strategic objectives.

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GraphQL vs. REST API: What’s the difference?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

As the conduits through which software components interact and data flows across the internet, APIs are the lifeblood of contemporary web services. API technologies like SOAP (a web services messaging protocol), REST (an architectural style) and GraphQL (a programming language and tool) simplify software development by enabling third-party data and services integration.

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