Tue.Oct 24, 2023

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Retail inventories are under control ahead of holidays: NRF CEO

Supply Chain Dive

Matthew Shay said inventory-to-sales ratios' return to pre-pandemic levels and his conversations with retail executives suggest the period of inflated stock levels are over.

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How GEP Solutions Company Can Optimise Your Business Processes

Procurement Freelancers

Are you struggling to streamline your business processes and maximise productivity? Look no further than… The post How GEP Solutions Company Can Optimise Your Business Processes first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Sugar shortage isn’t causing spike in Halloween candy prices: Wells Fargo analyst

Supply Chain Dive

Despite a constrained global supply of the crop, experts don't believe it will affect sweets makers in the U.S. ahead of the holidays.

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An EV Talent Gap Will Weaken the U.S. Battery Supply

Supply Chain Brain

America’s battery supply chain is still in development, but to ensure its resilience and reliability will call for best-in-class professionals.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

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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Union Pacific boosts connectivity between Mexico and Southeastern US

Supply Chain Dive

The new rail service will better connect Mexico's industrial markets with destinations in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.

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A Guide to Selecting the Best WMS for Your Business from the WMS Experts

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Logistics White Paper, A warehouse management system (WMS) can improve efficiency and service levels, but choosing the right one can be difficult. enVista offers a proprietary RFP based on their expertise and experience, with an updated version for 2023. The RFP template includes key requirements such as location management, receiving, replenishment, and inventory control.

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ZEUS Supply Chain Analytics Guidebook

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Get the ZEUS Supply Chain Analytics Guidebook for free and learn how to improve your supply chain performance with data-driven insights, including tracking metrics, applying predictive analytics, optimizing inventory, achieving visibility, and developing a data-driven culture.

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General Mills and Walmart team up to accelerate regenerative agriculture

Supply Chain Dive

The companies look to advance sustainable farming practices on 600,000 acres of land – the amount the CPG giant relies on to source key ingredients for products sold at the retailer's stores.

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Top metrics to measure your warehouse performance in 2023

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Successful warehouses regularly measure and improve their performance by relying on popular metrics and implementing proven lift truck strategies to increase efficiency and reduce cycle times.

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Pitney Bowes taps new Ambi Robotics system for middle-mile sortation

Supply Chain Dive

The AmbiSort B-Series systems have sorted more than 3 million parcels in the four months they have been deployed.

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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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Drive Greater Supply Chain Resilience by Bringing Data to your Fingertips

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

In this webinar, we’ll dive into real-world examples of how manufacturers are leveraging real-world data, a unified data cloud, and industry-leading AI & ML to reimagine the way they manage their supply chains.

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Port of Los Angeles cargo volumes rise 5% YoY in September

Supply Chain Dive

Despite the increase, warehouse inventories remain elevated as the holiday season approaches.

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Fast Tracking ROI: Agile Logistics through Automation, AI, and Optimization

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Join for a deep dive into the critical relationship between 3PLs and their customers and the impact technology, such as AI, process and robotics automation, and optimization, play in their success.

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IBM Consulting accelerates the future of FinOps collaboration with Apptio

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Making the right technology investment decisions today is critical to building competitive advantage, fueling innovation and driving ROI. However, dispersed, unreliable data and time-consuming, error prone processes can lead to bloated budgets, ineffective planning and missed opportunities. Organizations need simplified, integrated and automated solutions to help optimize IT spend, improve operations and drive greater financial returns.

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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

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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Transform Your Supply Chain to Meet Consumer Demand

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Supply Chain White Paper, Manufacturers in 2023 need to adapt to uncertainty and resource limitations by implementing Unified Logistics, which optimizes manufacturing logistics networks, increases collaboration, and provides inbound and outbound visibility and control, ultimately giving them a competitive advantage in winning customers.

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New York Awards Contracts for Three Offshore Wind Projects

Supply Chain Brain

The contracts are part of a sweeping set of awards that will lead to the installation of as much as 6.4 gigawatts of clean energy.

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Generative AI and resilient hybrid cloud systems

IBM Supply Chain Blog

As enterprises invest their time and money into digitally transforming their business operations, and move more of their workloads to cloud platforms, their overall systems organically become largely hybrid by design. A hybrid cloud architecture also means too many moving parts and multiple service providers, therefore posing a much bigger challenge when it comes to maintaining highly resilient hybrid cloud systems.

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Port of Virginia cargo volumes drop 13% in September

Supply Chain Dive

Despite lower container volumes, the East Coast port saw its total TEUs for the month rise by 12% compared to 2019 levels.

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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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Enterprise-managed IAM: An SRE team case study

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Enterprise-managed identity and access management (IAM) enables cloud administrators to centrally configure access and security settings for the entire organization. To learn about the basics, see “ How enterprise-managed IAM works.” The case study in this blog post shows how to easily and securely implement and manage a site reliability engineering (SRE) team’s access across an enterprise.

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Robots to the Rescue: Creating a Flexible Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Robots offer a perfect solution to market changes, as they can be added or taken away as needs require.

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TealBook’s Stephany Lapierre Asks A Hopeful, But Hard Question Regarding Your Data

Procurement Insights

EDITOR’S NOTE: Tealbook’s Stephany Lapierre reached out to me, indicating that she wanted to hear my perspective on her most recent post , which I was glad to do. I also encourage you to check out her post and offer your thoughts on the question of the gap between data promise and data realization. I get from where Michael Lamoureux is coming.

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The Imperative of Preparedness: Weather-Proofing the Supply Chain through Talent

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

All supply chains and businesses benefit from investing in specialists that know how to mitigate weather risk – but for locations that are especially vulnerable to extreme weather, hiring the right individual is a must.

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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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Watch: Tapping the Power of Integrated Business Planning

Supply Chain Brain

Andrea Montecchi and Ben Sellers, business advisors with Oliver Wight, explain the basics of integrated business planning (IBP), and why it’s such an important process for companies today.

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Leveraging Logistics to Drive Performance

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

This guidebook highlights the top 10 supply chain key performance indicators (KPIs) and provides strategies for optimizing fulfillment operations, whether managed in-house or outsourced.

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Developing Supply Chain Resilience Capabilities with AI

Procurement Foundry

Data lies at the centre of AI. But ‘having data’ in itself is not enough to build a resilient supply chain. AI needs massive amounts of data and even bringing data together from different sources poses challenges because of a lack of standardization and governance structures like policies, procedures and protocol.

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Navigating the Top 7 Direct Procurement Challenges

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Join this webcast to discover unique strategies to overcome these procurement challenges.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

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.

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Microconf Reflections: Bootstrapping Beyond the Hype

Procurement Express

James Kennedy, the CEO of ProcurementExpress.com, shares a candid look into his annual tradition of attending Microconf, the unique challenges and rewards of bootstrapping, and the transformative insights he gained from this year’s event. Dive into James’s personal reflections below: My co-founder, Rich and I have developed somewhat of a ritual attendance of Microconf.

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Siemens Integrating BlueBox Systems Data into AX4 Platform

Supply Chain Brain

This collaboration will provide over 500,000 AX4 users with access to data from over 130 airlines, giving BlueBox and AX4 members access to real-time figures and information.

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JAGGAER & Prewave Announce Partnership

Jaggaer

JAGGAER's latest news on procurement & sourcing. Read now: JAGGAER & Prewave Announce Partnership.

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CSCMP Report Addresses Vulnerabilities of the U.S. Semiconductor Market

Supply Chain Brain

The report suggests the U.S. is in for an extended period of perhaps a decade or more of change regarding how supply chains for semiconductors are designed and executed.

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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.