All Things Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Like everything else in 2020, we can expect the holiday shopping season to come with unique challenges. Not only are pandemic shutdowns ongoing, but some parts of the U.S.
ProcurePort
DECEMBER 10, 2020
No matter who is playing, a chess match is played one move at a time. However, the greats, the grandmasters and prodigy’s, they all play these matches far, far more quickly than that. See, in the mental landscape of a chess grandmaster, they are likely playing the game 10 or 15, or even 20 moves […]. The post Category Management Tactics and Execution appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.
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ivalua
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
Supply Chain Strategies: What the Pandemic Has Taught Us So Far? In a blog at the very start of the COVID-19 outbreak when confirmed cases had just exceeded 40,000, we discussed the considerations for organizations facing the outbreak. Now nearly 10 months later as many industrialized nations are facing a new peak in infections, it is a good time to review these recommendations, take stock of what we have learned, and discuss how organizations can prepare for this new spike.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 1, 2020
American companies across the board are striving to reduce their dependence on China as a source of manufacturing, but one industry sector is especially keen to bring production back to the U.S.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Supply Chain Game Changer
MAY 27, 2020
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic! Post-pandemic article and permission to publish here provided by Joe Carson, CEO of Spend Strategies, LLC. Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic the talk of a settled “new normal” gives us hope for stability and a return to what was before.
Jaggaer
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
JAGGAER understands the traditional roadblocks to spend management and how important it is to gain insight into operational ineffectiveness in order to improve your sourcing success. A spend analysis allows you to do just that. Here, we’ve outlined the seven steps necessary to conducting a proper spend analysis. Step One: Identify. Identify all the sources available for your spend data, from all of your departments, plants and business units.
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All Things Supply Chain
OCTOBER 19, 2020
The island country of Madagascar is currently feeling the impact of the pandemic on its top export: Vanilla. While consumer demand is high, vanilla prices are experiencing a downward spiral.
All Things Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
In supply chain management, data and its targeted analytics are necessary to make statements about important influences on the supply chain: Which deliveries are often uncertain?
All Things Supply Chain
MAY 19, 2020
Smaller than a car, bigger than a cargo bike and several of them at once – the new vehicle concept Ducktrain has the potential to change urban delivery and industrial…
All Things Supply Chain
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Ripping open wrapping paper on Christmas morning is without a doubt one of the most exciting things children and adults alike look forward to.
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Direct Store Delivery, or DSD, is a common practice among global suppliers and retailers – like PepsiCo, Frito Lay, CVS, and Dollar General – and its popularity is growing, with the global DSD market expected to reach $1.19 trillion by 2027. Download this eBook for exclusive insights into direct store deliveries, challenges, benefits, and future trends.
All Things Supply Chain
AUGUST 24, 2020
On August 4th, 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate – equivalent to approximately 6 million pounds – that were being stored in a facility at Beirut’s port caught fire and exploded.
All Things Supply Chain
JULY 27, 2020
Since risk is a reality in business, and ‘certainty’ is an extremely expensive proposition, an enterprise’s appetite for risk has always been measured on a sliding scale.
All Things Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a chaotic spike in the demand for deliveries of goods. Businesses have started to focus on re-evaluating their business models and getting closer to customers.
ProcurePort
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
The best businesspeople manage to find additional value where others cannot. This means mining through data, staying updated on the latest technology being used within the organization for strategic sourcing, and staying on top of current market trends as well. However, taking this sentiment one step further, strategic businesspeople conduct continuous internal evaluations on their […].
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For global manufacturers, managing direct and indirect material spend can get very complicated very quickly. Multiple legacy systems prevent procurement from standardizing processes and tracking what they’re spending with each supplier. In response to these challenges, a leading heavy equipment manufacturer selected GEP to redesign its source-to-contract processes and implement a convergent data model to help manage procurement data across its multiple locations.
All Things Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Some countries around the world have created vast manufacturing empires that combined produce over a quarter of the world’s goods.
All Things Supply Chain
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
The year 2020 marked not just the start of a new year, but also a new decade.
All Things Supply Chain
DECEMBER 21, 2020
I know this has been said and written before, but 2020 surely was a very crazy year with a lot of downs and a few ups.
All Things Supply Chain
DECEMBER 16, 2020
It may not seem like it, but the first job in your supply chain management career could actually be one of the most important.
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CEVA Logistics, a global leader in third-party logistics, was contracted to help a technology company manage its complex supply chain, supporting B2B, B2C, and reverse flows across multi-leg transport. CEVA leveraged Kinaxis to eliminate blind spots across supply chain activities, centralize order and logistics management, and drive cost-effective plans for order execution.
All Things Supply Chain
AUGUST 19, 2020
In the last few months, Covid-19 has introduced many new challenges into people’s everyday lives.
All Things Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
In terms of conducting business regularly, 2020 has been a transformative year for numerous industries.
All Things Supply Chain
APRIL 14, 2020
As a result of the coronavirus outbreak, people have become like squirrels.
All Things Supply Chain
JUNE 29, 2020
So called “Supply chain fails” happen regularly.
Speaker: Len Pannett - Supply Chain and Operations Transformation Expert | Board Advisor - UK Ministry of Defence | Mentor | Author | Keynote Speaker
With the dark clouds of inflation and uncertainty looming overhead while the pressures of ESG and geopolitical tensions increase, today’s supply chain professionals are facing challenges we have never seen before. What were once traditional supply chains have now transformed to multidimensional networks met with new extremes in customer demands. Supply chain professionals often face the dilemma of balancing cost, resilience, and sustainability.
All Things Supply Chain
MARCH 23, 2020
To start off with this is not a commercial blog article.
Supply Chain Brain
AUGUST 10, 2020
Many companies today are guilty of “greenwashing” or “green sheen” — marketing themselves as green while merely going through the motions.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 29, 2020
When it comes to protecting computers and information systems from cyber attack, artificial intelligence and machine learning can help — but they’re no cure-all for a growing problem.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Early forms of wearable devices have been popular in warehouses and distribution centers for a number of years. But the technology is growing rapidly in sophistication and application.
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Supply Chain Brain
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The artificial intelligence of things is already forming the backbone of many of today’s commercial transportation systems, especially in fleet safety.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 21, 2020
Out of the coronavirus pandemic will emerge a new digital society status quo — one that will accelerate major technological advances that are already underway.
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 18, 2020
At a time when ports are suffering from severe congestion and scarcity of land, one designer of cargo-handling equipment is proposing a radical new way of moving ocean containers between ship and shore.
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 13, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has brought chaos to supplier-buyer relations the world round, resulting in widescale invoking of the contract-breaking clause known as force majeure.
Speaker: Helen Mackenzie - Head of Community Outreach at Art of Procurement
It feels like procurement and supply chain has been on a transformation journey for decades, a marathon with no finish line in sight. But the end of the pandemic has meant the goal of full digital enablement has become much clearer, and the challenge now is to pick up the pace. The emerging technology landscape has the potential to take us out of the race altogether.
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