All Things Supply Chain
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Imagine a bustling port, filled with cargo containers waiting to be loaded and shipped across the world. But instead of swift, efficient movement, operations have slowed to a crawl. Why?
Procurement Leaders
OCTOBER 21, 2024
There are many ways that procurement brings financial value to an organisation – from the consistent delivery of year-on-year savings and cost avoidance to the strengthening of working capital positions and cash flow. But perhaps the most progressive of impacts that CPOs can pursue is to drive revenue generation – using procurement’s powers and relationships to deliver top-line impact.
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Art of Procurement
OCTOBER 17, 2024
In 1932, Aldous Huxley published the book Brave New World. At the time, the actual world was perched between World. The post Tips for Surviving in a Brave New World appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Most manufacturers believe they're prepared for supply chain disruptions because they have contingency plans in place. In reality, those plans are often fragmented and short-term in focus.
Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski
Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea
Supply Chain Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2024
The automaker is partnering with Lithium Americas to develop the Thacker Pass Mine in Nevada, where GM agreed to buy up to 100% of lithium produced for 20 years.
Supply Chain Trend
OCTOBER 4, 2024
AI is infiltrating our personal lives and the workplace, and soon will be everywhere and irreplaceable in everything you do. At home and in the workplace. Developing and cultivating an AI Mindset will become a must for the modern knowledge worker. In a series of short blogs, I will explore three elements of an AI mindset. In this blog, Trust. Granting Trust to AI Within seconds of meeting someone new, we unconsciously identify if we can trust this person.
Purchasing & Procurement Zone brings together the best content for professionals in the purchasing and procurement field from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Procurement Leaders
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Challenge Pharmaceutical company Gilead has a well-established supplier emissions-reduction programme and science-based targets, but aims to increase its use of primary data – especially among suppliers it considers most critically important. While some of those vendors already have programmes in place, others need more support and encouragement. The Foster City, California-headquartered business has devised a segmentation model to ensure that engagement is focused where it will have the greates
Art of Procurement
OCTOBER 10, 2024
“Let me be clear: we don’t want any form of semi-automation or full automation. We want our jobs—the jobs we. The post East and Gulf Coast Port Strike – Part 1 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Even if the dispute between the ILA and USMX is resolved quickly, the battle over automation at U.S. ports is set to rage on for a good long while to come.
Supply Chain Dive
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The agreement, which extends the parties’ master agreement, comes three days after a strike commenced at East and Gulf Coast ports.
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.
Spend Matters
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Spend Matters is delighted to announce the 2024 roster for our ‘Future 5’ list. For the sixth year in a row, our analysts have highlighted five start-ups that excited them the most. This year, the five companies that have proven themselves as potential future trend setters are BlueBean, Covalyze, HaloAi, Ivoflow and True Value Hub. Today we are sharing the reasoning behind our selection of BlueBean.
All Things Supply Chain
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Imagine walking into your local supermarket and picking up a bar of chocolate or a new smartphone without a second thought.
SCMDOJO
OCTOBER 15, 2024
What do you often think about business growth? What is the heck behind lean productivity, profitability, and good relations with suppliers and customers? This is how Cost and value are distributed throughout the Supply Chain. Business Growth, Profitability, and internal and external customer relationships solely depend on Cost. Even so, the game-changer in the fast-paced business world is how well you manage the Cash Conversion Cycle throughout the Supply Chain.
Art of Procurement
OCTOBER 3, 2024
We know supply chains are complex, but to truly understand how complex they are, and how they reached this point, The post Supply Chains as Business in Action appeared first on Art of Procurement.
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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 Brain
OCTOBER 8, 2024
DPW predicts that 2025 will see a concerted drive towards a digital revolution in procurement, signaling a shift from operational technologies to more strategic, relationship-driven solutions.
Supply Chain Dive
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Jurisdiction, healthcare and container royalty are also pending further negotiations, the union’s President Harold Daggett said in a Friday letter.
Spend Matters
OCTOBER 21, 2024
This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Spendscape by McKinsey and its solution for spend and CO2 analytics. Analytics are vital to the success of a procurement team, as data-driven decision making, improving efficiency and productivity, risk management, cost reduction and much more all depend on solid analytics. While many tools include analytics in the loosest sense, it takes an expertly designed analytics-focused tool to deliver the full value possible.
Procurement Insights
OCTOBER 13, 2024
“ Jon W. Hansen – We at least agree on the problem (~80% transformation project failure rate)… But clearly, we don’t agree on the way forward. I am for the carrot. You are for the stick. It’s as simple as that… Sticks have a way of leaving splinters.” – Joel Collin-Demers, LinkedIn Comment (October 12th, 2024) The above admonishment I received from a young procurement colleague for my review of the Globality demo suggesting that I had somehow subje
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SCMDOJO
OCTOBER 8, 2024
As someone deeply invested in the field of supply chain management, I’ve had the opportunity to explore and interact with various learning platforms throughout my career. Two of the most prominent platforms for learning in this domain are the CSCP Supply Chain Certification (Certified Supply Chain Professional), offered by the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) , and SCMDOJO , a platform I’ve personally developed to address the gaps I identified in other learning environments.
Art of Procurement
OCTOBER 20, 2024
There are two weeks to go until the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Interest, speculation, and tension have been building all. The post 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Special Series appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 20, 2024
The LA and Long Beach ports, which together account for roughly a third of all U.S. container imports, each had their busiest ever peak season.
Supply Chain Dive
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The agency submitted a proposal to eliminate the practice as it transforms its relationships with shipping partners like UPS and DHL.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Spend Matters
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Continuing our series on third-party/supply chain risk management (TPRM/SCRM), here we illustrate the breadth and complexity of risk that organizations today must navigate and manage. We look at how risks and incidents comprise a multitude of types which have origins both inside and outside of the organization and provide a detailed view of different risks and their sources.
Procurement Insights
OCTOBER 2, 2024
What would be your first thought if this were the opening screen for a demo you were invited to see? How would it set the tone for the rest of the presentation? In the meantime, Michael Lamoureux sent me the following post by Reza Shah Mohammadi with the corresponding video of Steve Jobs. Be sure to watch the Jobs video: Reza Shah Mohammad Post Stop thinking that you can succeed by starting with technology and then figuring out how to market it.
SCMDOJO
OCTOBER 8, 2024
As someone deeply invested in the field of supply chain management, I’ve had the opportunity to explore and interact with various learning platforms throughout my career. Two of the most prominent platforms for learning in this domain are the CSCP Supply Chain Certification (Certified Supply Chain Professional), offered by the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) , and SCMDOJO , a platform I’ve personally developed to address the gaps I identified in other learning environments.
Art of Procurement
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – October 4th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller
As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 15, 2024
While many recognize the need to upskill and reskill supply chain planners, most aren't placing enough emphasis on building planners’ confidence and giving them the space to innovate.
Supply Chain Dive
OCTOBER 1, 2024
The presidential election, an East Coast port strike and the impact of Hurricane Helene are creating a flurry of challenges for manufacturers this fall.
Spend Matters
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Continuing our third-party/supply chain risk management (TPRM/SCRM) series, today let’s address the question of ‘who owns risk?’ In the past, risk ownership has been addressed in a straightforward operational manner: IT owned cyber risk, finance guarded financial risk and so on. While this functional silo approach is simple, it is inadequate in today’s interconnected business… This content is for members only.
Procurement Insights
OCTOBER 4, 2024
“Jon, I sometimes get ostracized by my own Procurement community when I make a statement that a lot of the new age procurement tech is still trying to make the “horses run faster”… they are still very much centered around a source to contract and a procure to pay tool. and you can only add enough juice to make the legacy processes run faster, more efficiently.” – “SK” Sanjeev Kumar Roy (October 4th, 2024) The above comment to one of my posts stopped me cold in my tr
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