Procurement Bulletin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Amazon Launches Supply Chain Solution In its continued race to dominate e-commerce, Amazon announced a new automated supply chain service for sellers aptly named, Supply Chain by Amazon. The solution offers an end-to-end automated solution to help sellers bring product from manufacturing directly to their customers. (Is it me or did this sound like an ad for Amazon’s Supply Chain service?

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Procurement Freelancers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A procurement agent is the linchpin of an entire supply chain. They make sure that… The post Navigating the World of Procurement: Tips for New Agents first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Wojciech Matusik, MIT professor and co-founder of Inkbit, describes a new computational method of packing a container in the most efficient way possible.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

According to a Deloitte Survey , 91% of people don’t read the fine print in contracts. Does this surprise you? For people 18 to 34, 97% don’t read the terms and fine print in a contract.

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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.

Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It’s time for the convergence of supply chain and manufacturing.

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Barkers Procurement

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Contract lifecycle management, often abbreviated to ‘CLM’ in procurement, is the management of contracts from the initiation right through to the termination or renewal of the contract. Whereas standard contract management can be a more manual process that entails the use of spreadsheets, emails and a file storage system to manage the contracts, contract lifecycle management is more comprehensive.

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Art of Procurement

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

“If you look at the strategic sourcing process, I think it was made for complex categories. That’s one of the. The post [Pod] Adopting a Challenger Attitude in Complex Spend Categories appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

In the manufacturing of medical devices, there’s no margin of error. Does it make sense, then, to outsource production of those vital yet sensitive instruments?

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The mechanism will consist of a direct ban on purchases, which would take effect on January 1, as well as an indirect ban, which would kick in more gradually.

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