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Sourcing Supply Chain Visibility Sustainability 
Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Visibility – An Overcomplicated Challenge! A recent Deloitte survey estimated only 15% of CPO’s have visibility beyond their tier one suppliers. I found this striking that there is so little multi-tier Supply Chain visibility.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MAY 16, 2025
In a strategic dance of adaptation, household giant Clorox is contemplating a delicate tango of sourcing shifts to counterbalance the looming impact of a hefty $100 million tariff blow. This strategic evaluation involves meticulously analyzing sourcing alternatives and potential partnerships to navigate the evolving trade landscape.
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SCMDOJO
MAY 7, 2024
Enhancing supply chain resilience as well as supply chain visibility is crucial in today’s interconnected world. Supply Chain Resilience refers to a supply chain’s ability to withstand and recover from unexpected events.
ivalua
MAY 10, 2025
This guide breaks down the key procurement technologies in use today and the trends reshaping the future, such as AI-driven sourcing, predictive risk management, and deeper integration across the supply chain. What Is Procurement Technology?
ivalua
MAY 29, 2025
Discover how Ivalua’s Supply Chain Collaboration solution empowers you to work more closely with suppliers, reduce risk, and build a more agile, connected supply chain. Procurement vs. Supply Chain Management: What’s the Difference?
ivalua
JULY 22, 2015
In last week’s blog , I began discussing telltale signs that you have entered the new age of strategic sourcing. Leading manufacturers have proven that best-in-class strategic sourcing can create measurable and sustainable shareholder value by contributing to top line growth and bottom line profitability. alternatives.
Spend Matters
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Overall, customers want tech that integrates diverse data sources, speeds up risk analysis and offers clear guidance on potential mitigation steps. Our customers’ top concerns include expanding risk types, gaps in technology and a lack of full supply chain visibility. Supply chain risk is also more complex now.
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Spend Matters
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Primarily, our customers are prioritising supply chain visibility, adopting proactive risk management strategies and staying compliant with evolving regulations. A unified platform providing a single source of truth enables better collaboration, regular oversight and audit readiness.
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Spend Matters
JUNE 3, 2025
The more sustainable path lies in structured action planning. Supplier diversification across geographies to reduce dependency on high-risk sources. Building internal alignment across procurement, supply chain, legal and finance to tie sourcing decisions to tariff cost modeling and compliance.
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Amid economic uncertainties and geopolitical shifts, procurement leaders face mounting pressure to drive sustained growth. However, simply cutting costs isnt a sustainable strategy CPOs must move beyond tactical price reductions and embrace strategic cost management.
ivalua
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
For example, a single-stack approach can lead to low user adoption, because the incumbent sourcing solution, for example, fails to meet the needs of various business units. . Sustainable master data management and governance: As much as 55% of projects fail due to data management issues. Demand planning capabilities.
ivalua
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
“The impact of all of that is that organizations are actively creating geographical supplier diversity within their supply chains, to strike a better balance between cost reduction and agility,” he said. Corporate Sustainability: Sawschcuk said that sustainability is an area in which Procurement can make a big impact.
Skill Dynamics
JANUARY 7, 2025
The Role of Supply Chain Resilience in Operational Success A truly resilient supply chain is deeply interconnected with other business faculties, such as procurement and logistics, which are essential for consistent sourcing and delivery of goods.
Procurement Insights
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Collaborative efforts between buyers and suppliers, along with better tools, education, and incentives, can help overcome these barriers and foster a more sustainable supply chain. Now it’s dropped back to 2019 levels.” ( Source – The Wall Street Journal, Sept.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 2, 2025
Additionally, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) news highlighted the growing focus on sustainability and ethical sourcing within supply chains. Embracing environmentally friendly practices and promoting ethical sourcing are becoming essential components of a modern supply chain strategy.
Procurement Tactics
JUNE 5, 2023
First Name Email Download 51 Prompts → Or receive our famous weekly newsletter Global Supply Chain — Everything About Supply Chain Global supply chain has become a popular way for businesses to source unique materials and products from other countries as they are unavailable domestically.
Jaggaer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Enhancing collaboration pays off, both by increasing transparency with suppliers and improving the bottom line through multi-tier supply chain visibility. Analytics also help you better evaluate potential suppliers, pinpoint cost-saving opportunities, and strengthen future sourcing strategies.
Spend Matters
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Categories: Procurement Systems & Architecture , Supply Chain Visibility Tags: PRO In this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, we give an overview of Circularise, a blockchain-based traceability solution that helps companies trace products and materials to verify their origins, certificates, CO2 footprints and other material data.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 7, 2025
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Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 10, 2025
For smaller fashion brands, as highlighted by Glossy , the financial burden of tariffs can be especially acute, often forcing them to absorb higher costs or shift their sourcing strategies entirely. China tariffs continues to evolve, impacting industries from tech to fashion. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.
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Spend Matters
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Bertrand agrees the rationale for supply management has become even more obvious, but he thinks that despite this not enough attention has been paid to it yet: “One could argue procurement has been heavily focused on supplier management, on ensuring they work with the most appropriate suppliers.
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Spend Matters
JANUARY 17, 2024
From planning a product, design and simulation, to optimizing a specific process across the supply chain, customer expectations for AI integration continue to evolve as new applications for supply chain automation are discovered.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 11, 2025
Implementing tracking technologies such as barcodes, RFID, and blockchain provides granular data that enhances both forecasting capabilities and overall supply chain visibility. Nearshoring and establishing regional supply centers can reduce dependency on distant sources and enhance responsiveness.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 10, 2025
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Let's Talk Supply Chain
AUGUST 12, 2024
Altana is the world’s first Value Chain Management System – a unified, comprehensive approach that goes far beyond supply chain risk management, with unprecedented visibility, contextualized netrt across business areas, and a collaborative network with end-to-end workflows to get jobs done.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 9, 2025
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SCMDOJO
JANUARY 30, 2023
During her tenure as a supply chain professional, Barra has been credited with implementing a new global purchasing and supply chain system, which helped GM reduce costs and improve its supply chain operations. In 1998, he joined Apple as Senior Vice President for Worldwide Operations.
Procurement Software
MARCH 7, 2023
Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Source-to-Pay (S2P) are not just fancy acronyms used by consultants, procurement and finance professionals. Behind these terms are whole concepts of processes that manage how goods and services in your business are requested, sourced, received and paid. What steps are involved in Source-to-Pay?
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SupplyShift
APRIL 13, 2021
SupplyShift takes a look at three ways that supply chain professionals can drive sustainability through procurement practices. The researchers found that 50% of consumer-packaged goods (CPG) growth came from products marketed as sustainable. times faster than those without a sustainability focus in their marketing.
SupplyShift
APRIL 13, 2021
SupplyShift takes a look at three ways that supply chain professionals can drive sustainability through procurement practices. The researchers found that 50% of consumer-packaged goods (CPG) growth came from products marketed as sustainable. times faster than those without a sustainability focus in their marketing.
TYA Suite
MAY 23, 2025
This could include co-developing new products, sharing market insights, or aligning on sustainability goals. By collaborating on risk management, both businesses and suppliers can build a more resilient supply chain and avoid costly disruptions caused by unforeseen events.
ivalua
JANUARY 24, 2022
During this session, the panel answered questions surrounding data as a driver of sustainable value, continuity, and transparency and how data can fuel digital transformation. . Dramatic supply and demand shifts during the pandemic prioritized the need for data accuracy to solve short and long term supply chain challenges.
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ivalua
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
In August 2020 Gartner published this report “4 Tactics Procurement Can Use to Sustain Influence as Economic Conditions Improve” This blog summarizes the key points of the report which you can read in full, here. When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt. Procurement Teams Step-up.
SCMDOJO
JUNE 17, 2024
Building Resilience in the Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Mitigation To build resilience, start with comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities. Develop contingency plans to address these risks, and diversify your supplier network to reduce dependency on any single source.
Procurement Software
JANUARY 26, 2025
Or, maybe youre suffering from Cinderella complex: not bold enough to demand an upgrade to the outdated, clunky, legacy Source-to-Pay suite interfaces that suppliers and stakeholders havent really adopted. But then you blow this by futzing around trying to be a cheapskate and running procurement ops in ERP.
Procurement Software
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Source-to-Pay (S2P) are not just fancy acronyms used by consultants, procurement and finance professionals. Behind these terms are whole concepts of processes that manage how goods and services in your business are requested, sourced, received and paid. What steps are involved in Source-to-Pay?
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Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 9, 2025
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SupplyShift
JUNE 19, 2019
Does the vast potential of this promising technology mean that companies of all sizes and stages should be rebuilding their responsible sourcing systems from the ground up to include it? At SupplyShift, we’re excited about a future where fully transparent and sustainable supply chains are a reality for every global business.
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SupplyShift
JUNE 19, 2019
Does the vast potential of this promising technology mean that companies of all sizes and stages should be rebuilding their responsible sourcing systems from the ground up to include it? At SupplyShift, we’re excited about a future where fully transparent and sustainable supply chains are a reality for every global business.
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Procurement Insights
AUGUST 14, 2024
Supporting the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) during a rail strike requires a procuretech provider that offers strong supply chain visibility, risk management, and flexibility in sourcing and logistics. Supply Chain Visibility and Risk Management 3. Here’s why: 1.
Strategic Sourceror
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Some of the key advantages that visibility solutions bring include: Less risk According to McKinsey, organizations that have implemented digital dashboards for their supply chain visibility needs were twice as likely to have avoided the supply chain issues that plagued the industry in the early months of 2022.
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Supply Chain Opz
NOVEMBER 9, 2014
In this article, we will show you tips from worldwide experts that you can use to streamline your global supply chain operations. Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 29, 2024
Sign Up for SCMDOJO Pro Membership Importance of Effective Supply Chain Management Supply chain management is not just about moving products from point A to point B – it’s a strategic approach that encompasses the entire network of processes involved in delivering goods and services to customers.
Procurement Insights
OCTOBER 8, 2024
As the procurement landscape continues to evolve, Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) in 2025 will face a wide range of challenges and concerns shaped by technological advancements, geopolitical shifts, sustainability demands, and more. What are the Top 3 concerns for Chief Procurement Officers in 2012?
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