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Sustainable Manufacturing — Everything You Should Know

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Sustainable Manufacturing — Everything You Should Know. Sustainable manufacturing is gaining popularity as a growing number of manufacturers are realizing its substantial financial and environmental benefits. However, what is sustainable manufacturing? . This article will tackle what sustainable manufacturing is.

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Revolutionizing Manufacturing Contracts: The AI Advantage

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To stay competitive in manufacturing, you need advanced technology on the production floor and clever strategies behind the scenes. Contract management is a critical aspect of manufacturing operations, impacting everything from procurement to supplier relationships. In the manufacturing industry, efficiency and precision are paramount.

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4 ways generative AI addresses manufacturing challenges

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The manufacturing industry is in an unenviable position. Manufacturers are being called to reduce their carbon footprint, adopt circular economy practices and become more eco-friendly in general. And manufacturers face pressure to constantly innovate while ensuring stability and safety.

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Five Essentials Manufacturers Need to Weather the Freight Cycle

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As shippers and dedicated truckload truck operators head into the contract bid season, here are five essential tactics manufacturers can use to reduce transportation spend.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount.

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Procurement Rising: The Silent Inflation Tax on Manufacturers

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Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Procurement Rising: The Silent Inflation Tax on Manufacturers February 27, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley Last year, the Consumer Price Index was the highest it has been in four decades, making inflation one of the most concerning macroeconomic factors facing the business world today.

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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions: U.S., U.K. Manufacturers Accelerate Procurement

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Redwood City, CA, July 12, 2022 – Manufacturers are working to accelerate digitization initiatives to manage supply chain disruptions in 2022 and beyond, according to an original survey commissioned by Ivalua , a leading global spend management cloud provider. Manufacturers Accelerate Procurement appeared first on Ivalua.

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How One Manufacturer Used GEP SOFTWARE To Save $45M in Direct Material Sourcing

For global manufacturers, managing direct and indirect material spend can get very complicated very quickly. 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.

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How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Contract Management in Telecom & High-Tech

Continual technological changes necessitate adjustments to manufacturing and supply chain processes, leading to a heavy volume of contracts that outpaces most industries. The high-tech and telecom sectors face a contract management crisis if the process isn’t managed properly. What can CPOs do to ease the contract management burden?

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. But what do these really mean today? Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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Your Triple-Threat Solution for Resilient Planning and Execution

Speaker: Len Pannett - Supply Chain and Operations Transformation Expert | Board Advisor - UK Ministry of Defence | Mentor | Author | Keynote Speaker

Join our webinar to explore how additive manufacturing bridges the planning-execution gap, providing a cost-effective and resilience-enhancing approach for supply chain optimization. But what happens when compromise causes one of the many balls we juggle to drop?

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Digital Transformation: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait

Even global manufacturers –– companies across industrial, automotive, chemical, and energy industries –– are scrambling to mitigate the impacts of labor, material and energy shortages, delays, inflation, and unexpected events. It’s not just small and medium-size businesses that are caught off guard.

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Path to Becoming a CFO

Speaker: Rodrigo Brumana, CFO at Poshmark, and Jeff Epstein, Veteran Tech CFO

We’ll ask him about serving in FP&A and divisional CFO roles in publicly traded companies, and how exposure to eCommerce, internet, digital media, software, services, manufacturing, and investment banking has shaped his approach to his role. We’ll hear about his experience as a public CFO and as CFO of a VC-backed unicorn.

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Hot Off the Grill: Optimizing Summer Supply Chains for Seasonal Staples

Speaker: Glenn Koepke and Steve Rotter

Topics covered include: The impact of seasonal demand on supply chain operations Unleashing innovative strategies that will help bring seasonal products to the market faster than ever Delivering frosty delights while maintaining cold chain compliance Case studies of companies that have successfully implemented supply chain visibility solutions for (..)

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S&OP Reimagined: Overcoming the New Normal with a Revamped S&OP Process

Speaker: Fernando Penteado, CPSM - Supply Chain and Logistics Executive, Global Markets Expert, and International Speaker

Now, as a variety of disruptive events cause supply chain challenges, companies are contemplating bold moves to keep business moving, including moving sourcing and manufacturing closer to home markets and maintaining a larger reserve stock to help manage the fluctuations in supply and demand.