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How to issue an RFP for banking services with examples

RPF360

Discover tips, advice, and tools that will help you evaluate and select the perfect banking services for your organization. The post How to issue an RFP for banking services with examples appeared first on RFP360.

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Leader of FedEx Ground contractor alliance slams CEO’s ‘tone-deaf’ response

Supply Chain Dive

The contractor group has also formed an association to voice concerns and, if necessary, "participate in legal challenges against FedEx Ground.

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5 Steps to Strategic Spend Management

ProcurePort

• An organization’s long-term growth and sustainability are hinged on strategic management of organizational expenditures. • An organization’s spending determines how much money goes to suppliers and how much remains to pursue other strategic growth objectives. • Strategic spend management is a renewed outlook on spending management entailing careful planning of your expenditure – overheads, […].

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Latest data reveals more is needed to attract candidates to the pharma sector

Procurement Heads

Broadbean’s statistics also reveal a 25% decline in the number of applicants year-on-year between June 2021 and June 2022. This drop in qualified resources has been a concern for some time, with specialist pharmaceutical roles being added to the Home Office’s shortage occupation list in March 2021, making it easier for international experts to apply for a skilled worker visa through the UK’s immigration system.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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What If You Treated Your Data Supply Chain Like the Physical Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Brain

While the task and responsibility for managing the data supply chain is primarily the responsibility of information technology professionals, the concepts and tools we use every day directly apply to the data supply chain as well as the physical supply chain. .

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Small candy makers rethink operations as supply chain issues bite

Supply Chain Dive

Sweets manufacturers are doing away with long-time traditions to weather labor shortages, high costs and unreliable ingredient deliveries.

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Sense & Respond

Let's Talk Supply Chain

In 2005 I came across a book, Sense & Respond (The Journey to Customer Purpose) Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations. I was sitting on the train, on my way to a client site in Switzerland at the time (leading a global project working in Deloitte & Touch) and I came across this paragraph: “A sense-and-respond organization does not attempt to predict future demand for its offerings.

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For Inventory Management Agility, Plug Into a Supplier Ecosystem

Supply Chain Brain

It is by now painfully clear that the vast majority of small and medium-sized businesses need to adopt a new approach to supplier networks and inventory management if they are to stay sufficiently agile to be competitive.

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GM secures 3 more supply agreements to boost EV production

Supply Chain Dive

The automaker’s sourcing agreements were announced as the industry scrambles to secure battery materials amid tight supply.

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Watch: Turning Supply Chain Transparency Into Action

Supply Chain Brain

Achieving supply chain visibility isn't a matter of spending years to acquire a fixed view of suppliers, says Jack Dobson, commercial account lead with Palantir. It's about managing relationships that are in constant flux.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Dick’s Sporting Goods offers accelerated payments to boost supplier diversity

Supply Chain Dive

Dick’s Sporting Goods is expanding its partnership with platform C2FO to provide more working capital opportunities for businesses.

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IT Procurement | Stranger Things Keeping IT Buyers Up at Night

Una

IT Procurement | 'Stranger Things' Keeping IT Buyers Awake at Night. By Hugo Britt | August 4, 2022. *This post may contain Stranger Things spoilers. Proceed at your own risk. There are a whole bunch of terrifying creatures stalking the night in Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things. Even for seasoned audiences inured to horror tropes, the writers still manage to inspire fear.

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Apollo-Led Group to Buy Cargo-Hauler Atlas Air for $2.9 Billion

Supply Chain Brain

An investor group led by Apollo Global Management Inc. is acquiring Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. for about $2.9 billion, expanding its foray into aircraft leasing and charter flying as demand for air cargo cools from pandemic-era highs.

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Strategic sourcing solutions: Wildfire mitigation

Spend Matters

Categories: Sourcing , Sponsored Article , Supply Management Tags: Sponsored Article When it comes to wildfire risk, sourcing can play a key role in mitigating potential disasters. In recent years, the number of wildfires in California have increased significantly, with many igniting on days that don’t have red flag warnings. This is an immediate concern to be addressed by utility companies considering that 2022 has been the driest year the area has experienced in the past 127 years.

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How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform

Tariffs are no longer just policy noise. They’re driving real, bottom-line impact. One policy shift and your sourcing strategy is upside down. This bulletin cuts straight to the point. How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.

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Five Supply-Chain Challenges and How Process, People and Technology Can Help Overcome Them

Supply Chain Brain

Here are five challenges facing supply chain managers today, with guidance on how a partnership approach that combines process, people and technology can help.

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AOP’s Philip Ideson Featured in HBR Paper on Strategic Workforce Planning

Art of Procurement

Procurement has to focus on driving business outcomes, and this is just as true in the case of talent as. The post AOP’s Philip Ideson Featured in HBR Paper on Strategic Workforce Planning appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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California under pressure to permit autonomous truck testing

Strategic Sourceror

Autonomous vehicles will be part of the long-haul trucking industry's future, but a group of leading manufacturers and developers have asked Californian lawmakers to relax regulations that relate to testing self-driving trucks on public roads now. In an open letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom, the companies said that their attempts to both harness innovation and provide a solution to the skills gap within the trucking industry were being "explicitly prohibited" by the state

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5 ways to improve your procurement processes

Skill Dynamics

Ensuring efficiency in your procurement process has a positive chain reaction within your entire organization. The objectives of a world-class procurement organization are far beyond the traditional belief that procurement’s primary role is to obtain goods and services in response to internal needs. In fact, a successful procurement process aims to optimize the whole process to create significant business value.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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What Is DeFi? How Will Decentralized Finance Impact Your Industry

Planergy

Clients and results. More Customers. We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with PLANERGY. Cristian Maradiaga. King Ocean. Book a Live Demo. Download a free copy of "Preparing Your AP Department For The Future", to learn: How to transition from paper and excel to eInvoicing.

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Why Is Supplier Experience Now Such a Key Priority?

HICX

The era of Supplier Experience is here. Accelerated by recent global events and propelled by today’s need to fundamentally change the way in which organizations interact with their suppliers, there is a realization in the industry that the enterprise-supplier relationship cannot be treated as a zero-sum game. Suppliers as an extension of the organization.

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Human Rights and Modern Slavery Violations in the Leicester Textile Supply Chains

Value Match

Categories. Best Practice Guides. Bid Management. Business. Case Study. Circular Economy. Community Story. Contract for Change. Environment and Climate. Equality and Inclusion. Government Buying Standards. House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts. Human Rights and Modern Slavery. Legislation. National Audit Office Reports. News. Procurement Best Practice.

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Accounting cybersecurity: how to keep your financial data safe

Spendesk

Cybercrime continues to grow with each passing year, costing businesses enormous sums. Forbes recently noted that ransomware cybercrime costs are expected to rise to $265 billion by 2031 worldwide.

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Procurement Is Navigating a Tech Tsunami (and It’s Upending How You Work)

Procurement is in the middle of a tech tsunami. And if it feels like the old playbooks aren’t working anymore, that’s because they aren’t. Agentic AI. Autonomous procurement. Unified source-to-pay ecosystems. These innovations are converging and transforming how procurement teams operate. The GEP 2025 Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report breaks it all down.

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U.S. Bid to Cap Russian Oil Prices Draws Skepticism Over Enforcement

Supply Chain Brain

The Biden administration’s push to form an international buyers’ cartel to cap the price of Russian oil is facing resistance from maritime insurers that it cannot be reliably enforced.

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