Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The state of the economy and the mounting push to digitize supply chain processes are driving a creative approach to maintaining the integrity of your company's item master.
Spend Matters
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
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Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
With all the focus on warehouse management systems, facilities might be neglecting the importance of managing the yard as well, says Colin Mansfield, vice president of Yard Management Solutions.
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
A new book, Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations, from the consultants at Kearney offers real-world examples and insight on how to build resilient supply chain operations.
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
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The package-handling giant plans to fill the $79 million facility with more than 3,000 robots by 2024 to handle tasks like lifting, reducing the need for manual labor.
Spend Matters
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
On November 8, Zip hosted its first annual Zip Forward User Conference in San Francisco, California. At the event, the provider revealed several new solution features, including a relatively robust sourcing module. Zip also hosted panels and facilitated keynotes and Q&A sessions with various procurement and finance leaders from notable customers, such as Snowflake, OpenAI, Discover and Northwestern Mutual.
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Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
A fulfillment center in San Antonio is the first to use the technology in its operations to carry larger and bulkier items.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
IBM watsonx is changing the game for enterprises of all shapes and sizes, making it easy for them to embed generative AI into their operations. This week, the CEO of WellnessWits, an IBM Business Partner, announced they embed watsonx in their app to help patients ask questions about chronic disease and more easily schedule appointments with physicians.
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The offering allows customers to access previously standalone data from the company's different services in one place.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The DOE is looking to strengthen the U.S.’s battery supply chain because the estimated demand for lithium is expected to increase tenfold by 2030.
Advertiser: GEP
Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Growth in stock levels has shrunk considerably as the sportswear brand sells through pack-and-hold products and funnels excess stock to its outlet stores.
Procurement Insights
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Based on my research – including feedback from practitioners, here are the three main challenges manufacturers face today : Data Accuracy regarding evolving PO information and final reconciliation, including the negative impact on supplier relationships, e.g., DPOs/DSOs. Overcoming Supplier Resistance to Adoption – forcing the supplier to adopt a different system, e.g., focusing on “supplier adoptability” versus “supplier adaptability.” Strategic Provider Partnering
Supply Chain Dive
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The Phillipsburg site adds to the company’s existing large-scale warehouse operations in Atlanta and Los Angeles.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Transfix said that this new feature will allow companies to manage an RFP in just minutes rather than in hours.
Speaker: Paul Heller
Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro
Vested Way
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Since its inception in 1908 the bp story has always been about transitions. bp’s purpose is reimagining energy with a big hairy audacious goal to help the world reach net zero emissions by 2050 and improve people’s lives. bp plans to get there by dramatically reducing carbon in bp’s operations and production facilities and by growing new low-carbon businesses, products and services.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
While economic sanctions aim to pressure targeted countries, it's critical to scrutinize their reciprocal impact on the enforcing countries' economies.
Barkers Procurement
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
There are several different reasons why you might wish to optimise your procurement department. Your business or organisation could be entering a new growth phase or a growth strategy phase. You might be developing a new product or breaking into a new market. Then there are more straightforward business reasons such as the need to control costs and increase profitability.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Two-thirds of the 30 retailers analyzed had inventory turnover rates below their peers, which indicates excess stock and/or slow sales.
Advertiser: GEP
AI isn’t the future. It’s here, now. 30% of businesses have invested in AI. Another 57% will do it in the next 12 months*. From demand forecasting to inventory optimization, risk mitigation to sustainability — AI is set to transform everything. But here’s the secret: success will only come from strong human-AI collaboration, reveals this new new Economist Impact report.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Welcome back to Blended! It’s episode 38, we are once again joined by a fresh new panel of inspirational professionals, and today, we’re talking about microaggression. It’s a term you’re sure to have heard. First used around 1970 by Harvard psychiatrist, Dr. Chester Pierce, it initially described the regular insults and dismissals he witnessed, from non-black people towards the black community.
Art of Procurement
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
In this four-part special series, host Philip Ideson speaks with members of the LavenirAI team about the current and future. The post AI-Empowered Procurement – Part 3: Solving Procurement’s Data Problems with Automation appeared first on Art of Procurement.
CPO Rising
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up Series returns today with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider and you are continually innovating the way that procurement and supply chain leaders and practitioners drive value, we’d love to hear from you.
Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Walgreens said that its new initiative will make the management of online orders more efficient by creating a single system for handling goods.
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Supply Chain Brain
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
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