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What to Do When Supply Chains Break Your Heart

Una

What to Do When Supply Chains Break Your Heart Six helpful tips for what to do – and what NOT to do – when supply chains and supplier partners end up breaking your heart. By Anthony Clervi | February 14, 2023 Search We all know that supply chains can be fragile entities.

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When should I engage a procurement recruitment agency?

Procurement Heads

Whether you’re a small business owner or the HR manager of a large organisation, there are several situations when it makes sense to work with a recruitment agency.

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How Businesses Can Mitigate Risk During a Supply Chain Crisis

Supply Chain Brain

It's vitally important for companies to understand every touchpoint in their supply chains and third-party relationships, to ensure they don’t link to transnational criminal organizations trafficking in war materials or money laundering

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When are ESG initiatives bad for the supply chain?

Procurement Insights

Are ESG demands another threat to efforts to “unclog” port supply chains? This past summer, the biggest threat to the free and timely flow of goods through our ports was the possibility of a port workers’ strike.

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Supply Chain Balancing Act: Meeting Customer Needs in the Era of Constrained Supply and Volatile Demand

Speaker: Tony Darnell, Shipping Manager at Lippert Components

Join this webinar to learn about the evolution of supply chain management in the Post pandemic era of constrained supply and volatile demand. Like a candle burning at both ends, businesses are struggling to manage supply alongside rapidly changing customer demands.

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10 Key Criteria for Selecting Procurement Software

Procurement Software

I wanted to bring you the key criteria that you should consider when sourcing or considering a digital procurement solution. A lot of the best of lists and a lot of the white papers out there don’t really seem to consider these in their analysis.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 02/10/2023-02/16/2023

All Things Supply Chain

Germany looks to partner with Japan to Secure Raw Materials The German government wants to increase cooperation with Japan to help secure supplies of raw materials.

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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.

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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?

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Episode 102: Insuring Against Cyber Liability and Exposure with Shawn Edgington

Una

EPISODE 102 Insuring Against Cyber Liability and Exposure with Shawn Edgington By Kelly Barner | February 15, 2023 ‘Digital’ must be one of the most commonly used words in business conversations today. Its usage extends far beyond IT to include nearly every internal and external effort.

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Falling truck rates give supply chains chance to cut costs

Supply Chain Dive

Lower demand in the spot market means “there’s no better time for a shipper to find efficiencies," a C.H. Robinson executive said

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Sustainable Procurement: The Ultimate Guide to Going Green

Speaker: Sarah O'Brien, CEO of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council

This session will help you become oriented with sustainable procurement by providing an easy-to-understand framework, describing the potential benefits of sustainable procurement, and identifying key drivers for integrating sustainability into procurement.

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Navigating Emotional Expressions in Negotiation

Negotiations Ninja

Is emotional expressiveness important in negotiation? And if it is, what kind of emotions should you express? And can—or should—you control spontaneous emotional expressions? Spontaneous expressions and deliberate expressions come from separate motor neuron pathways.

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How To Manage Supply Chain Risk in the Age of Unpredictability

Supply Chain Brain

Supplier diversification is among the most essential actions a business can take to survive a black swan event, but it requires prior planning

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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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Bombardier works with suppliers to combat supply chain headwinds

Supply Chain Dive

The aircraft manufacturer has also increased material supply inventories and implemented a monitoring solution to mitigate potential disruptions

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The 4 Keys to Demand Planning in 2023 and Beyond

Speaker: Eva Dawkins - Senior Consultant, Supply Chain

Demand planning and forecasting processes are critical to the resilience and profitability of any supply chain, maybe now more than ever. Join Eva Dawkins for this exclusive webinar where she will cover everything you need to implement for success!

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Intelligent IBP – key principles for a new paradigm in planning

Supply Chain Trend

The IBP paradigm has hardly changed for 30 years, the decision needle has not moved enough. Intelligent IBP can change this. In this blog I will introduce 27 Intelligent IBP principles I’ve highlighted the last four years in blogs and articles.

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Podcast | Supply Chain Finance Today: It’s a Whole New Conversation

Supply Chain Brain

The conversation we’re having today about supply chain finance is a lot different than that of just a few years ago

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Reshoring is on the rise; how smart is your factory?

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Sustained labor cost advantages in Asia complicates the reshoring equation, but a smart factory that offers worker productivity improvements of three-to-five times that of foreign workers makes it financially viable

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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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TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency

In the aftermath of the pandemic, supply chain inadequacies have been revealed in a new light. In order to thrive, companies need to take a more synchronized approach. Learn why a holistic “TMS+” approach is integral to success in the new normal and beyond.

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How to Save on Food Costs

Una

How to Save on Food Costs Learn how to save on food costs and how businesses can save money while preserving product quality and reducing administrative burdens.

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What to Expect in Network Connectivity for the Supply Chain in 2023

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chains need to look at technologies that can impact efficiency and productivity across multiple functions and tasks. One often-overlooked technology is wireless network connectivity

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First, Biden talked about global supply chains

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Then he talked about Made in America and transportation infrastructure in his State of the Union. That’s when I tuned in fully

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FedEx preps revamp of operations, networks for long-term savings

Supply Chain Dive

As demand plummets, the delivery giant seeks to save billions of dollars through its DRIVE program and Network 2.0.

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Case Study: DSV Implements a Single-Instance Control Tower with a Global Footprint

This case study illustrates how DVS implemented a Single-Instance Control Tower with a Global Footprint to deal with the challenge of connecting people, systems, and processes.

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Chinese Manufacturing Moving to Mexico

Procurement Bulletin

Chinese Manufacturing Moving to Mexico In a move that makes sense, many Chinese manufacturers are setting up shop in Mexico.

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Connected Data: The Foundation of a Resilient Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

In a highly connected and digital world, fragmented supply chains simply don’t work. Organizations today require end-to-end visibility, to compete and navigate the challenges that have recently plagued global businesses

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MIT’s CLT looking for supply chain professionals for sustainability survey

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation & Logistics is once looking to identify the current status of sustainability inside the supply chain and is asking global professionals to participate in its 4th annual survey

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Convoy to cut jobs, close Atlanta office

Supply Chain Dive

The layoffs come as the digital load board provider adjusts its customer service model and pushes profitability

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Digital Transformation: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait

This playbook offers manufacturers a realistic and viable guide to balancing immediate needs with future-focused strategy.

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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 ®.

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How Manufacturers Can Realize the Full Value of Industry 4.0 Technology

Supply Chain Brain

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, is rapidly impacting how global manufacturers operate

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Top trends in robotics in 2023

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

The International Federation of Robotics says those trends range from improved energy efficiency to further adoption of artificial intelligence

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US Foods rolls out first wave of EV trucks

Supply Chain Dive

The food distributor plans to deploy 30 electric trucks at its La Mirada, California, distribution center by the end of 2023

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Enabling Assurance of Supply in the Global Marketplace

Speaker: Adrian Gonzalez, Tom Nightingale, and Martin Verwijmeren

Watch this insightful conversation about enabling assurance of supply in the global marketplace to better balance inventory and control costs.