All Things Supply Chain

MAY 15, 2023

The ongoing warehouse labor shortage is one of the biggest challenges facing the logistics industry today.

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Procurement Tactics

MAY 15, 2023

18 Must-Have Negotiation Skills For Procurement Professionals Download Course Details →  Or receive our famous weekly newsletter Sri Lanka Import and Export Statistics Sri Lanka’s import and export activities decline steeply after its worst economic crisis in decades. This left the country with unsustainable debt and a severe balance of payments which will further stunt its economic growth in years.

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ProcurePort

MAY 15, 2023

How to Automate Quoting Process: Benefits of RFQ Software: IntroductionIn today’s fast-paced business environment, efficiency and speed are crucial for staying competitive. One area where companies often struggle to streamline operations is the quote request process. Manual handling of requests, communication with suppliers, and tracking responses can be time-consuming and prone to errors.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence, along with augmented and virtual reality tools, promises to help ease the strain on supply chains.

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Advertiser: GEP

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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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 15, 2023

To respond to ongoing disruptions while meeting increasingly exacting customer demands, organizations should look to cloud-based supply chain orchestration platforms, with data-driven orchestration that enables agility and resilience.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2023

The pharmaceutical sector has come under ever-greater scrutiny in recent years, as more and more counterfeit products infiltrate legitimate supply chains.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2023

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the recall on May 11, alerting owners to injury risks associated with bike model number PL-01.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 15, 2023

Summary: Together with IBM, Deltares is working to enhance and expand the reach of its Aquality app, formerly called the Nitrate app. The tool can help farmers improve water quality, protect biodiversity, save on fertilizer costs and make farming practices more sustainable. The Aquality app leverages technologies such as machine learning to help communities detect nitrate pollution and other quality characteristics in water and is experimenting with artificial intelligence to provide feedback an

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2023

Oliver Hedgepeth, supply chain logistics professor at American Public University System, discusses how consumer tastes and purchasing patterns have changed, and how food suppliers must respond.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 15, 2023

AI and automation are driving business transformation by empowering individuals to do work without expert knowledge of business processes and applications. Whether it’s an employee who knows what they need but doesn’t know how to do it, a knowledge worker who knows how to do the task but needs help doing it more efficiently, or a customer who wants to resolve an issue but struggles with self-help tools, artificial intelligence (AI) unlocks new levels of productivity by empowering ind

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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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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 15, 2023

Manage your network with confidence, with a clear view of how your freight costs compare to the market.

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Spend Matters

MAY 15, 2023

Categories: Accounts Payable , Invoicing Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Xelix and its solution for AP audit and invoice intelligence. Large organizations looking to address AP audit pain points, such as overpayments due to duplicates and wasted time caused by manual AP processes, use Xelix to automate processes while serving as an ‘AP control center’ that tackles payment risk and audit, vendor statement reconciliation and self-serve analytics.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 15, 2023

When suppliers are squeezed on price, workers feel the greatest pain, writes a program manager at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 15, 2023

​Welcome IBM Tech Now, our video web series featuring the latest and greatest news and announcements in the world of technology. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified every time a new IBM Tech Now video is published. IBM Tech Now: Episode 76 We’re covering all the exciting watsonx news coming out of Think 2023 this week: Introducing watsonx: The future of AI for business Introducing the technology behind watsonx.ai, IBM’s AI and data platform for enterpr

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Advertiser: GEP

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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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 15, 2023

The online furniture retailer has sharpened its process for determining whether items should be delivered in-house or via third parties.

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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

MAY 15, 2023

Procurement professionals say the process remains manual, and billions of dollars in cost savings are being left behind as a result.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 15, 2023

The company is packing away a portion of its excess inventory to sell in the future.

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Skill Dynamics

MAY 15, 2023

Lack of core technical skills is stifling procurement and supply chain teams in the race to Industry 4.0 While nearly all supply chain and procurement leaders are making major investments in digital technologies to drive efficiency, one in four are yet to see any improvements London, 15.05.23: As digital transformation continues to reshape industries, supply chain, and procurement teams are feeling the pressure to compete in the race to Industry 4.0.

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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

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 15, 2023

The telecommunications firm said its new operation will support customer demand in the country and across the globe.

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Negotiations Ninja

MAY 15, 2023

Romina Muhametaj is a marketing, sales, and negotiation expert who firmly believes in the power of building relationships to propel one’s career forward. Negotiating without a relationship will only get you so far. She emphasizes that there are three types of sales: Apples, oranges, and coconuts. Which do you prefer? Apples, oranges, or coconuts?

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Empowering CPO

MAY 15, 2023

Introduction Welcome to a journey into the heart of successful businesses – the procurement function. Procurement is not just a corporate department; it is a critical business function that has the potential to influence an organization’s profitability, operational efficiency, and strategic success. At its core, procurement is about acquiring the goods and services a company needs to fulfill its business model.

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Supply Chain Dive

MAY 15, 2023

There’s no one-size-fits-all software solution for logistics devices. Here’s why.

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Logistics 73

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?

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2023

Denim’s freight payment tools will be integrated into Turvo’s TMS, making it easier for logistics companies to process factored and non-factored payments.

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The Network Effect

MAY 15, 2023

The post How Laser Marking Can Streamline and Help Secure the Robotics Industry appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2023

Rizon will offer three model variants of its Class 4 and Class 5 trucks in the United States starting during the third quarter of 2023.

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CPO Rising

MAY 15, 2023

The Ardent Partners analyst team descended on Nashville on May 3rd and 4th for the ivalua NOW 2023: Americas conference. This event was well attended and came on the heels of the company’s slightly larger EMEA conference which was held in Paris at the end of March.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2023

Construction on the battery plant will begin during the second half of 2024 with operations set to commence sometime in 2026.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2023

The semiconductor chip development facility will be located in Yokohama and will begin operations in 2025.

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