Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Earlier this year, in a presentation at the Manhattan Momentum Connect conference, Dr. Chris Caplice from MIT argued that “the dominant design in transportation procurement is now outdated and it’s time to transform the process.” Read more Time to Transform Transportation Procurement?

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

Committed to environmental and social responsibility, ALOM manages the physical supply chain from procurement, inventory management, contract assembly, digital media and print, to omni-channel fulfillment and returns.

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 18, 2023

More than 100 supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, and procurement professionals gathered in Houston to discuss the challenges and opportunities in today’s post-pandemic landscape.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Earlier this week I attended the first day of MercuryGate’s annual user conference at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV. The conference’s theme was “Smarter. Since last year’s conference, there have been […].

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Talking Logistics

MAY 25, 2017

Addressing this problem is at the heart of Manhattan Associates’ Active Solutions, which the company introduced a couple of weeks ago at its Momentum 2017 conference. As the press release explains: Today’s commercial enterprises are facing unprecedented market pressures. Empty miles reduced by 8 percent. Total miles down 7.7 million.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The discipline has done a good job of driving collaboration between sales and marketing and manufacturing, procurement, and logistics. I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2016

A Supply Chain Conference with a difference! In fact many differences… Who know how when you go to a traditional Supply Chain Conference , you can sometimes be left wanting? Now that would be a Supply Chain Conference with a difference wouldn’t it? Now that really is a Supply Chain Conference with as difference.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 6, 2024

ProcureCon IT Sourcing invites leading IT sourcing executives to attend the premier peer-led conference for senior-level procurement professionals in the IT sourcing community.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. The elevation journey actually began the day before the conference officially started. Streamline, automate, and compress Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 31, 2023

More than 50 sessions in the conference programme, new exhibitor events daily and, for the first time, a Campus Plaza for innovation and career. A first-class conference program pools knowledge from over 250 speakers in more than 50 sessions. From live demonstrations to stand parties and mini-conferences, it’s all on the agenda.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2024

“Scale drives profitability,” Turner told a group of industry analysts on April 22 nd , the day before the Coupa Inspire user conference began. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, sourcing, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The conference programme will officially kick off at noon on January 31st 2023 with three half-day tracks running between 13.00 The post Manifest Vegas boasts full conference programme appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. and 17.00: Intelligent Infrastructure, Maritime & Ports, and Sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. And at last week’s FourKites Visibility user conference, the tech pioneer reported investment in a different form of artificial intelligence, Generative AI. I attended my first Visibility conference in 2020.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 3, 2020

[og_img] Logistics Manager meets Jim Gallagher, supply chain, procurement and logistics director at BSH Home Appliance UK and Ireland, speaker at the Supply Chain Conference 2020.… … The post Supply Chain Conference 2020: Meet the speaker – Jim Gallagher, BSH Home Appliance appeared first on 24/7 Customs Broker News.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. This intermediate step is more related to Procurement and supply chain transparency. This is our “supplier board”. Soon we will do more training.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. The use cases just keep expanding.

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Morai Logistics

MARCH 23, 2018

The Conference Board of Canada describes these programs as the added value small and medium-sized businesses owned by women and minorities give to organizations and the economy. According to the Conference Board of Canada , supplier diversity programs are currently implemented into 39% of organizations throughout the country.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

The announcement came on May 15th at the company’s annual user conference, Momentum. The BOM transformation creates a feasible plan for procurement. Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ: MANH) announced the release of Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning. This puts their SCP on the same microservices platform as their other solutions.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Talking Logistics episodes and posts related to transportation procurement and shipper-carrier relationships: Time to Squeeze Carriers for Better Rates? Leading Practices in Transportation Procurement. Transportation Procurement: Advice to Effectively Plan, Execute, and Deliver the Best Results. What Are Other Shippers Doing?

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Editor's Note: As of late you may have noticed we have written a lot about procurement and the future of procurement. A large part of procurement is finalizing the contract and then the follow through of the determined deliverables in that agreement. How do you know you are getting what you paid for?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Before going to the very well attended Coupa Inspire user conference, I was not exactly sure what a business spend management solution was. The solution helps companies find suppliers they might want to work with, run procurement events, create a contract, have contract terms reflected in purchase orders (PO), invoice, and pay.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

Visibility Enables Faster Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes : for example, you can leverage Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) and geofencing to initiate invoicing and payment process. . The further out you book freight, the less expensive it is,” explained Cicerchi in a video interview I conducted with him at the user conference.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 5, 2022

Members of the media can register for the conference by contacting sarah.hippold@gartner.com or barbara.ruane@gartner.com. Audience and Topics: The conference will feature 35+ Gartner experts and 100+ research-driven sessions. For complete conference details, please visit the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo website.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More Resources Home Two Modes, Split Roads Zvi Schreiber November 7, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement Book a Demo At FreighTech 2023, the annual conference we hold each year to spark innovation and efficiency in the freight industry, I focused my opening remarks on digitalization, specifically (..)

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 8, 2018

My personal theme for this year’s conference is Why procurement matters! It was the headline on our annual procurement issue, which we published in March, and I hope by the exclamation point, rather than a question mark, you get the sense that I really believe procurement matters, and more than ever. About the Author.

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Penske Move Ahead

JUNE 6, 2022

Penske Logistics will take part later this month in a brand-new event being hosted by the National Retail Federation, the Supply Chain 360 conference and expo , taking place June 20-21 in Cleveland. Penske will be an exhibitor and speak on a panel. Rosa will discuss the company’s electric truck fleet.

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10xLogistics

MARCH 8, 2013

The market is soft and continues to bounce around the bottom which is holding rates flat for the data bases procurement experts. The market continues to predict a 2% price increase at recent investor conferences this is what the transportation companies are planning for. I am far more in the camp of a 2% GDP number with 2.5%

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We Bob Herzog, the global planning digitization leader for supply chain, and Pedro Noriega, planning director, North American product supply, both of Procter & Gamble (P&G), spoke on this at Kinaxis’ Kinexions 2019 user conference. We need people that are adaptable.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

On the first day of the conference, Tracci Schultz, FedEx senior vice president for strategic planning, is scheduled to give an IoT keynote on technology and innovation’s ability to transform traditional industries. The second day includes a fire chat conversation with Louis DiCesari, Levi Strauss & Co.’s

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

Germany’s Volkswagen Truck & Bus and Hino Motors of Japan, the Toyota division that makes trucks, buses and light commercial vehicles, have signed an agreement to cooperate in a range of fields including procurement, technology, logistics and transport. At the same time, we are also seeing an aging of drivers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

With two conferences at this year’s IMHX – The Logistics Conference 2022 and The Logistics Solutions Conference – sessions will be expert-led. This dynamic new feature will provide visitors to IMHX with insights into what is now a core competency for most businesses.”.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 8, 2018

My personal theme for this year’s conference is Why procurement matters! It was the headline on our annual procurement issue, which we published in March, and I hope by the exclamation point, rather than a question mark, you get the sense that I really believe procurement matters, and more than ever. www.supplychain247.com.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Its topics include upcoming supply chain conferences, warehouse technology innovation, logistics insights, and transportation cost control. The blog reports on recent changes to policies, best practices in supply chain management, whitepapers detailing procurement through reverse logistics and much more. Logistics Management.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

Supplier viability is a major concern of supply chain leaders and procurement professionals today when committing their direct materials to specific trading partners,” said David Cahn, Director of Product Marketing at Elemica , in a recent episode of Talking Logistics. What are some of the biggest supply chain risks companies face today?

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Penske Move Ahead

APRIL 14, 2025

Penske Transportation Solutions will once again serve as a conference Presenting Sponsor and as a State of Sustainable Fleets Market Brief Title Sponsor (the 2025 publication debuts on April 28 at no cost). Penske Transportation Solutions will be exhibiting in booth 5620 and Penske Energy will be on display right next door in booth 5833.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

But we’ve always been building out this technology with the thought of being able to do other things around procurement, finance, and revenue management.” If it is the same consumer goods company that I think it is, I saw their vice president of supply chain speak at a planning conference. I believe this claim.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Schneider Electric and EcoVadis Christophe Quiquempoix, VP of Sustainable Procurement at Schneider Electric shared his insights during a panel discussion at EcoVadis Sustain Conference 2023. Christophe was asked, “How did Schneider Electric get started on their net zero journey and what was the role of the suppliers?”.

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