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7 Tips: A Guide to Mastering Procurement

Material Handling and Logistics

With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. However, it is fundamental to empowering procurement success in the modern age.

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Business Spend Management Solutions are Networked .

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5 Supply Chain Collaboration Essentials to Mitigate Disruptions

Logistics Viewpoints

Experts from North Carolina State University and GEP conducted a survey on supply chain, procurement and IT leaders to determine their challenges and priorities, focusing on examining gaps in the supply chain. Such a gap is problematic, as it could lead to higher costs, longer cycle times and less resilience.

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Celanese Leads the Pack When it Comes to Agentic AI

Logistics Viewpoints

Knowledge Graphs are emerging as an important tool for building advanced AI capabilities. According to a survey by ARC Advisory Group, only 10% of industrial companies are ready to apply artificial intelligence/machine learning. We needed to model the data in a way that we can do simple searching. Data does not move.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

These standards define how IoT devices will communicate, and how data will be collected, processed, handled, stored, and summarized. Strong players in the market will emerge as platform providers to aggregate the IoT data and provide key insights into that data that drive better business decisions in 2018.

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Effective Supplier Collaboration Is Critical

Logistics Viewpoints

In one McKinsey survey of more than 100 large organizations in multiple sectors, companies that regularly collaborated with suppliers demonstrated higher growth, lower operating costs, and greater profitability than their industry peers. SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain.

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Analytics in Supply Chain Management Becomes Central As Coronavirus Escalates

IoT World Today

Bouncing back more quickly, said experts, will require supply chain managers to turn to new ways of managing the supply chain, including using Internet of Things (IoT) data, analytics and machine learning (ML). And “it’s a great tool,” but there are more sophisticated, more accurate tools to do sourcing.