Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

In a previous post , I made a case for how the Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) are smarter together. Accordingly Supply Chain and Procurement will need continuous collaboration. Such sourcing events can be in the context of direct materials or logistics capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Each presentation was exceptional, and the event viewed ESG from a holistic but pragmatic perspective. The law mandates the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to develop strategies for enforcement and requires importers to provide clear evidence that their supply chains are free from forced labor.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

In today’s dynamic and unpredictable business environment, companies face various challenges such as changing consumer demands, global uncertainty, and the impact of natural and man-made events. All the products and services purchased by procurement and supply chain organizations can be categorized into this two-by-two matrix.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

Just as your body needs multiple defense mechanisms to fight off illness, your supply chain needs various strategies to handle disruptions, whether they’re local supplier issues or global crises. Let’s look at five proven strategies that can help you create a more resilient supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Amul, a household name in India, owes its success to several key factors: strict hygiene standards, high-quality products, product diversification, effective marketing strategies, and efficient supply chain management. Direct Procurement : Milk is collected directly from farmers at the village level.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

However, following these 10 practices can help you learn how to reduce spend in the procurement supply chain. Cloud-based systems offer many benefits throughout the procurement supply chain, reports Procurious HQ. Consider Cyber Security Concerns in the Procurement Supply Chain. Use External Benchmarking Tools.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Weather events might also be factors. Therefore, produce ready for shipping may be stalled due to a limited supply of equipment and trucks (hindering capacity procurement ), fewer drivers, and the pressure everywhere to move things faster, save money, and get it done without impacting the customer experience.

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Shipsta

AUGUST 6, 2021

Climate change and sustainability are massive topics in freight procurement right now. But if you were procuring freight just ten years ago, sustainability would barely be on your radar. impact your freight procurement strategy? So, what’s driving this focus on reducing CO2 emissions? And how will sustainability.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 15, 2021

Supply chain professionals responsible for transportation procurement at Fortune 500 companies focus on three things – budget forecast accuracy, service scores and primary tender acceptance. harder to procure capacity at the benchmark rate per mile ) in both the outbound and inbound directions.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Automotive distributors play a vital role in the automotive supply chain by procuring parts, warehousing them, and then supplying them to OEMs (original equipment manufacturer), retailers or end consumers. There are several business processes that an ERP must have to support automotive distribution. What is automotive distribution?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. Multinationals knew that events could occur that could cost them tens, or hundreds of millions of dollars. But these events were not predictable – they might happen, they might not.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA. I was also able to interview Brent after his session to get a little more insight on how Qualcomm dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic, what it means for the semiconductor chip shortage, and where the company is going with its digital transformation strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2014

By Ben Cubitt, Senior Vice President of Consulting and Engineering and Cindy Bosecker, Director of Procurement, Transplace There are three critical phases or elements of a truckload bid event – the upfront development of bid strategy, the execution of the bid, and the use of scenario management tools to drive final bid assignments.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is the second part of Chuck Intrieri's series on how procurement and suppliers can avoid issues with their contracts. Procurement and suppliers often assume that small print is highly complicated legal jargon that is both boring and largely irrelevant. How to Begin Your Terms.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

Wondering where to find the leading events in your local area? EazyStock has complied a new list of the top 2019 Supply Chain events that you can’t afford to miss. These events will inspire you with valuable ideas and will introduce you to interesting business networks. Live Americas 2019 by SCM World. Feb 3-7, 2019.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2023

Over the past few years, supply chain and procurement pros have faced the challenge of navigating their enterprises through one disruption after another. Despite their best efforts, current events and market dynamics caught up with them, leading to issues managing their suppliers and sourcing the materials needed for their products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In a recent survey by Procurement Leaders , 54% of the CPOs reported that they have regular touchpoints with the CEO and are considered a key stakeholder. Let us examine these: Implementing a ‘China Plus One’ strategy: Part of the resiliency comes from having alternate sources of supply.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But by implementing data driven maintenance strategies these cost, performance, and environmental impacts can be greatly reduced. This may appear to reduce unnecessary downtime and cost, but is a high-risk strategy. Equipment that is well maintained so as to stay within its designed operational envelope is inherently safer.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 7, 2020

Lessons can come from extrapolating what we witness every day; from events that capture tangible and intangible aspects of sustaining normal life. If production or availability cannot increase, an inefficient transfer of resources from one area of the battlefield to the other can upend strategy. Australian consumers are fearful.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2022

This strategy begins much earlier in the supply chain process for optimal results. A vast majority of shippers still use spreadsheets and emails to conduct Request for Proposal (RFP) or bid events. This practice is labor-intensive for shippers and carriers, and it can take months to complete a bid event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2024

Meanwhile, customers’ procurement operations were seeing a new generation of talent come of age who were pushing for better value-added services and shipment visibility. Simplification and standardization were key to the strategy. KRONOS Worldwide implemented SAP’s ERP to gain more central control and streamline operations.

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CLX Logistics

JULY 26, 2021

Let’s look at the facts – the percentage of supply chain managers using new analytics tools and services to develop better bidding strategies has increased from 17% in 2017 to more than 30% in 2020. Procurement Event Strategies. Get Started with Next-Gen Bidding, Benchmarking, & Procurement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This year will feature over 900 events with impactful speakers from a range of sectors, countries, and levels of government. I am looking forward to attending the Climate Group 2-day conference and countless other events throughout the week. If you are planning on also attending some events please reach out or say hello!

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Technology will bridge the digital divide between Procurement and Supply Chain: The need to build optionality and the increased regulatory and ESG mandates will result in a more dynamic supplier mix. This is creating the need to shrink the time between identification of a sourcing need and executing on a sourcing event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. Professionals from procurement, compliance, logistics, sustainability, information-security and several other internal stakeholder all use the solution for different reasons. This intermediate step is more related to Procurement and supply chain transparency. Any final thoughts?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2021

Promotion Management is defined as optimizing the utilization of tools, strategies, and resources to promote a product that will generate additional demand. During promotional management, especially for big events around special days and holidays, inventory levels need to be adjusted to meet the peaks in demand.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Thought-leaders from across the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem are set for one of the largest in-person events of the year in Silicon Valley next week. Attendees at IoT World Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, California, on November 3 and 4 can also expect to conduct peer-to-peer business and visit the major exhibit area at the event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Leading organizations are deploying cloud based technologies to launch sourcing events, invite bids, and employ sophisticated combinatorial optimization techniques to evaluate bids, and down select suppliers. Traditional sourcing practices tend to be highly manual and are fraught with latencies and inefficiencies. Digitalizing sourcing (i.e.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

You will need to engage your procurement, sourcing, and finance teams as part of such an effort. Be dynamic in creating and executing sourcing events: As traditional routes and sources of supply fail, companies need to be far more nimble in creating sourcing events and lock in alternate sources of supply and modes of transportation.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Technology Will Reshape Procurement Practices. Better procurement practices translate into better overall sales, but the role of procurement in driving sales’ statistics will change throughout 2017. For example, Johnson & Johnson procurement professionals actively review market trends before making purchases.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Coupa’s strategy is make it easy for companies to comply with continually changing regulations while making business spend more sustainable and more inclusive. Before going to the very well attended Coupa Inspire user conference, I was not exactly sure what a business spend management solution was.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. The impact?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 21, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. News & Events. |. IT strategies need to ensure that the processes are completely adhered to. How sure am I that the requirements tractability would always lead me to a correct requirement-IT strategy mapping?

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Described as “the world’s most important gathering of chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) and supply chain executives” and going under the banner of “Harness Complexity, Power Your Supply Chain”, the symposium aims to explore big ideas and deliver actionable insights to help supply chain leaders: Develop agile and resilient supply chain strategies.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

Businesses cannot unlock the full potential of digital without reinventing their supply chain strategy. For digital technology to create significant improvement in business outcomes, businesses need to: Reinvent their supply chain strategy. Develop digital strategies that allow you to proactively evolve ahead of the competition.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 2, 2023

ERP analytics streamline the non-conformance process, facilitating the management of corrective actions and generating workflows linked to the original non-conformance event. ERP analytics also facilitate the management of the purchasing process through the requisition approval workflow, streamlining procurement activities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Procurement and Supply Chain are Smarter Together – Practical Use Cases ; Dr. Madhav Durbha ( Coupa ). In a previous post , I made a case for how the Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) are smarter together. Accordingly Supply Chain and Procurement will need continuous collaboration.

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