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Key Takeaways from SAP Spend Connect Live

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When a procurement contract is negotiated, the buyer has planned to achieve a certain level of savings. I have been to other vendors’ procurement conferences and cannot recall seeing similar functionality. For example, a buyer might say, “You only shipped me 800 of the 1000 products I ordered.”

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SAP Goes All-In on Artificial Intelligence

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Christian Klein, SAP’s CEO, Speaking at Sapphire SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, ran from June 3 rd through the 5 th in Orlando. I might tell Alexa, for example, “Play the station Smooth Jazz!” Most of the new in-context GenAI solutions have been pre-trained on 200,000 pages of SAP’s training and technical documents.

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Overcoming the Skills Gap in Automotive Engineering

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How can existing automotive manufacturers bridge the skills gap in automotive engineering between their current manufacturing techniques and these new invaluable skills? A Lack of Skilled Hands. This new technology-heavy world is lacking only one thing — the skilled hands that are needed to keep the technology running.

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Embracing a Growth Mindset: The Key to Freight Agent Succes

Trinity Logistics

Examples of this can include access to industry research, subscriptions to relevant publications, or budgeting for educational conferences. Be the example and show them how you take on that initiative, and they will likely follow suit. This way, growth will be fostered organically.

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Supply Chain Talent Matters More than Ever

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Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We It is not just about training people in their current role, but it’s also about developing people to the maximum of their potential. A skills assessment survey was done to measure potential gaps against a pre-determined skills matrix.

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Coupa Leverages Community Intelligence to Power AI

Logistics Viewpoints

“Scale drives profitability,” Turner told a group of industry analysts on April 22 nd , the day before the Coupa Inspire user conference began. Coupa’s BSM platform is based on a public cloud that connects 3500 buyers to ~10 million suppliers. It is a bad sign if an AI solution is being trained on public web data,” Turner explained. “A

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Supply Chain Career Changes – How to Get In, Get On, and Get What You Want

Logistics Bureau

and leverage their supply chain skills and know-how to help them move to employment in that sector. One person’s supply chain career might be focused on the specific area of freight forwarding, for example, whereas another person’s might encompass end-to-end operational management from raw materials management to customer invoicing.