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How to issue an IT RFP: Tips, templates and examples

RPF360

IT purchasing is crucial to your business's strategic goals, so there's a lot of pressure to get it right. Explore how an IT RFP can help you select the perfect vendor. In addition, explore steps for writing your RFP for information technology, key terminology and templates to get you started. The post How to issue an IT RFP: Tips, templates and examples appeared first on RFP360.

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CPO Spotlight: Sebastien Bals 

Procurement Heads

For Procurement Heads ‘ latest CPO Spotlight, Sebastien spoke with Rupert Gaster about his career, how CPOs can influence an organisation’s sustainability agenda and what key achievements he’s most proud of. How did it feel to be recognised once again in the CIPS Power List? It always gives a double feeling in my opinion. I don’t think that the recognition is a personal one because I would not be in a position to be on that list and be at the forefront of thinking if it were no

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New Suppliers on Thomasnet.com for February 2023

The Thomas Blog

Exciting new B2B companies are being established across the U.S. and Canada every day, and every month, hundreds of them are joining Thomasnet.com ®. We're highlighting ten of the most notable and innovative companies below to bring some of the unique services and products they provide to the forefront. 1. OptiPro Systems OptiPro Systems is located in Ontario, NY, where it focuses on the manufacture of CNC machines and metrology systems for making precision optics and advanced ceramics.

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Tesla Recalls More Than 362,000 Cars Due to Self-Driving Crash Risk

Supply Chain Brain

Tesla Inc. is recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles after U.S. authorities said its automated-driving technology could increase the risk of a crash.

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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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How the end of Maersk and MSC’s 2M alliance will shake up ocean shipping

Supply Chain Dive

Experts say that the split could prompt capacity shifts and lower rates as competition for customers heats up.

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Maintaining Efficiency in the Order-Picking Process

Supply Chain Brain

The growing dominance of the omnichannel supply chain requires a more flexible and efficient approach to order picking.

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Five Strategies for Improving Warehouse Worker Retention

Supply Chain Brain

Warehouse worker retention is an area that’s become increasingly fractious in recent years, as the COVID-19 pandemic threw the entire supply chain into a state of gridlock and upheaval, and factors including a labor shortage and bogged-down channels in the Suez Canal and elsewhere have made everyone familiar with the concept of shortages of products that were once thought to be in unlimited supply.

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Understand 'Friction-less' when Integrating Tax and Procurement Technology

Procurement Foundry

The irony of so-called “friction-less” procurement transactions is that creating a convenient, user-friendly customer experience requires difficult work behind the scenes.

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Gartner announces supply chain award winners

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Microsoft wins top award for supply chain breakthrough of the year.

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Columbia Sportswear’s Q4 performance hampered by delivery delays

Supply Chain Dive

To avoid late deliveries, the retailer is making adjustments in people, processes and systems.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

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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Talking Supply Chain: Could a tunnel across Colombia compete with the Panama Canal?

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

That's the question that Byron Bennett and the team from Zergratran plan to answer, with new technology to speed containers underground from the Pacific to the Atlantic in record time.

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Shopify to expand program offering better delivery date visibility

Supply Chain Dive

Shop Promise has drawn comparisons to Amazon's “Buy with Prime” offering.

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[Update] Exciting features to come and other useful changes in ProcurementExpress.com

Procurement Express

Software updates are essential to keeping devices and applications running at their best. In 2023, we’ve already made significant updates, including new features, bug fixes, and security improvements. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the most notable updates of the year so far, and how they can enhance your experience in ProcurementExpress.com.

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Are the recent devastating earthquakes a result of climate change? The Connection Explained and how those communities are further impacted by the risk of modern slavery?

Value Match

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

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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6 Silver Linings From An Era of Unpredictability

Art of Procurement

Art of Procurement recently welcomed Rujul Zaparde and Colin Glazier from Zip on an AOP Live session focused on Forecasting. The post 6 Silver Linings From An Era of Unpredictability appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Economic Uncertainty Calls for Output-Based Staffing

Supply Chain Brain

There’s a way to prepare for employment fluctuations that many businesses might not be taking advantage of: switching to an output-based staffing partner.

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A Segmented Sourcing Strategy for Business Services

The Good Spending

Modern trends in the procurement of business services Long ago, I wrote a post about XaaS – Everything-as-a-Service, where I tried to cover general tendencies in the outsourcing market and hailed the service-minded approach of modern business. This fantastic article, “ From products to services and back again ,” went miles beyond my observations and studied two important trends – servitization and objectification.

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Six innovation strategies for Life Science organizations in 2023

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Last year, as life sciences organizations were consumed by the recovery from COVID-19, their focus had to shift rapidly to mitigating supply chain constraints, labor and skill shortages, and by the end of the year, inflationary pressures—all of which were exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war. Along with these challenges, the ongoing drive to reduce costs, improve efficiency and productivity, drive better decision-making and reduce risk will continue to drive pharma investment in cloud, AI

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

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.

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Responsible cobalt sourcing ‘will take a coalition to solve,’ Microsoft says

Supply Chain Dive

A representative from the computing giant joined a group visiting an artisanal mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo that briefly saw the benefits of a formalization pilot.