Procurement Tactics
MAY 23, 2023
18 Must-Have Negotiation Skills For Procurement Professionals Download Course Details → Or receive our famous weekly newsletter Bullwhip Effect — Everything About Supply Chain Bullwhip effect can disrupt your supply chain and you must consider yourself lucky if you still have not experienced this. However, what is it? In this article, we will define what the bullwhip effect is.
Una
MAY 23, 2023
Group Purchasing and Indirect Spend: A Fairy-tale Romance A unique take on the relationship between group purchasing and indirect spend and how the two work together to drive cost savings and value. By Hugo Britt | May 23, 2023 Search Welcome to Story Time with Una , a not-so-regular series that offers a fresh, fun take on various topics impacting procurement.
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Supply Chain Dive
MAY 23, 2023
The restaurant chain is expanding its use of the technology to track ingredients from suppliers in real-time.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 23, 2023
The new 93,646-square-foot facility located in Tuas, Singapore will be able to store healthcare products in temperatures ranging from -176 degrees to 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
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.
Supply Chain Dive
MAY 23, 2023
The pandemic showed that forecasting is more important — and difficult — than ever.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
MAY 23, 2023
IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that runs your containerized workloads, including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions or batch jobs. Code Engine even builds container images for you from your source code. All these workloads can seamlessly work together because they are all hosted within the same Kubernetes infrastructure.
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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
MAY 23, 2023
Supply chains are designed to move goods from point A to point B, and that is certainly true for those that move health care goods through the supply chain.
Supply Chain Dive
MAY 23, 2023
The deal will allow the activewear brand to scale its circular efforts through textile-to-textile recycling.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 23, 2023
Digital capabilities are creating smarter and better-informed customers, both in the B2B and B2C spaces.
Supply Chain Dive
MAY 23, 2023
Receiving activity at the new center began in April, with outbound activity expected to occur this month.
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?
IBM Supply Chain Blog
MAY 23, 2023
Every day, people encounter multiple obstacles while traveling to their intended destinations. Sitting in traffic, waiting for the bus to arrive 15 minutes later than scheduled, driving around for 30 minutes to find a parking spot—the modern world is full of inconveniences due to underlying inefficiencies in our transportation systems. However, stalled cars and harried people waiting for public transportation aren’t just an individual nuisance.
Supply Chain Dive
MAY 23, 2023
The facility will help the retailer boost order throughput via a proprietary storage and retrieval system.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
MAY 23, 2023
A Boston Consulting Group survey finds CEOs generally optimistic, but focused on executing strategic cost-cutting that leaves their businesses poised for success.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
MAY 23, 2023
IBM Cloud completed its 2023 independent review of IBM Cloud services and processes. The review report demonstrates to its clients, partners and other interested parties that IBM Cloud services have implemented and adhere to the technical, administrative and physical control requirements of IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services. What is the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services?
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
Supply Chain Dive
MAY 23, 2023
The pandemic showed that forecasting is more important — and difficult — than ever.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 23, 2023
PPG, LyondellBasell, Fluence Energy and Viatris were some of the first companies to disclose their supply chain financing data under the FASB's new rule.
HICX
MAY 23, 2023
Today, environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are a mainstay on the corporate agenda. And, as everything is connected in a supply chain, ESG progress at your organization is directly linked to progress for your partners. To effectively gather and analyze ESG data from all parts of your network, you need direct support from two key stakeholders: your tier-one suppliers and your internal team.
Una
MAY 23, 2023
Group Purchasing and Indirect Spend: A Fairy-tale Romance A unique take on the relationship between group purchasing and indirect spend and how the two work together to drive cost savings and value. By Hugo Britt | May 23, 2023 Search Search Welcome to Story Time with Una , a not-so-regular series that offers a fresh, fun take on various topics impacting procurement.
Advertiser: GEP
Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.
Finale Inventory
MAY 23, 2023
If you’re affected by the sunsetting of QuickBooks Commerce, Finale Inventory’s cost-effective software offers advanced inventory management, robust reporting, and excellent customer support. If you’re one of the many businesses affected by the sunsetting of QuickBooks Commerce, which was initially TradeGecko but renamed after it was acquired in 2020, don’t worry – there’s a reliable alternative.
Pipefy
MAY 23, 2023
In its long history , procurement has evolved from self-contained purchasing entities to an essential business partner handling processes involving several departments and many subprocesses. Because of this, carrying out its operations manually is time-consuming and incredibly expensive for businesses. Savvy leaders are quickly adopting e-procurement solutions to lower the time, costs, silos, and strained supplier relationships that plague manual operations.
Arkestro
MAY 23, 2023
Resources / Blog / Overcoming Construction Struggles With Predictive Procurement Overcoming Construction Struggles With Predictive Procurement In years past, the construction industry lagged behind the pack when it came to predictive procurement and digital transformation. After all, procurement in construction faces many unique challenges and requirements, making it a historically difficult industry to manage effectively.
Art of Procurement
MAY 23, 2023
Cybersecurity tops the list of risks that keep c-suite leaders and procurement practitioners up at night. Organizations face repeated and. The post From Cybersecurity Threats to Revenue Loss: How to Manage (and Minimize) Risk with Procurement appeared first on Art of Procurement.
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When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 23, 2023
With more capacity from shipbuilders on the way, shipping companies have limited leverage in what’s become a buyers’ container market.
The Procuretech Podcast
MAY 23, 2023
Today on The Procuretech Podcast, we welcome Sarah Scudder, Chief Marketing Officer of SourceDay. They're a Texas-based supply chain software company. Sarah previously appeared on the show way back in Series 1. SourceDay's mission is to ensure that manufacturing companies always get their parts on time. I can relate to this mission, having been a direct materials buyer in the automotive industry before the 2008-09 recession.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 23, 2023
The deal will see the company develop 5G RF and wireless connectivity components for Apple while Broadcom will be able to invest in more automation projects.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
MAY 23, 2023
As more enterprises move to hybrid cloud environments, hybrid cloud security has become imperative to business growth. According to a 2021 study by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), 80% of executives expected their organizations to operate more than 10 distinct clouds by 2023, up from eight in 2020. “The scale of most enterprise hybrid cloud deployments is so vast and penetrates so deeply that the need for an all-in security culture is absolute,” says Shue-Jane Thompson, ma
Advertiser: GEP
Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 23, 2023
Less than 50% of life science companies currently have access to real-time data while less than a third use this data to make real-time business decisions.
Procurement Software
MAY 23, 2023
Procurement excellence is a hot topic these days. If Procurement is to deliver more with less, it’s essential that we get the most out of the resources we do have. Part of this is ensuring that we operate effectively through our optimised stakeholder and supplier relationships. If we’re to deliver the increasingly challenging expectations of managing the supply base, we need to have executive level sponsors and world class management of our strategic suppliers.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 23, 2023
A case study about how Takt helped CarParts.com achieved visibility into its activities on the warehouse floor, and improve its operations in the process.
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