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Procurement Technology: An Update from Spend Matters in Baltimore

NC State SCRC

Today I travelled to Baltimore to attend the ISM/Spend matters Global Procurement Tech Summit. I will be speaking on procurement analytics tomorrow, but got to attend a set of great sessions over the first half of the day. The first speaker was Anne Rung, Administrator from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.

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The Backorder, April 10 2024

Unleashed

The Guardian reports that the Victoria Unboxed project will hope to eliminate invisible waste from supply chains by replacing cardboard produce boxes with reusable plastic crates. The latest ISM Manufacturing PMI report registered an unexpectedly high 50.3% The latest ISM Manufacturing PMI report registered an unexpectedly high 50.3%

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. The market shift is towards analytics, but this new market is confusing. Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. Hard Work.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining Tools offer promise, but the typical social listening tools used in digital marketing like Coremetrics and Radian6 are grossly inadequate. These tools only answer the questions that we know to ask. The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Colombian drug smugglers are disguising cocaine as “fake coal” within major bulk consignments to try to dupe port surveillance operations, according to a new report. For several years now, the e-commerce giant has been developing what it describes as a “multimodal AI model” called the Package Decision Engine.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 14-18, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In other news… Descartes Launches Updated Advanced Home Delivery Solution. HighJump Software, TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Group Announces Strategic Partnership with Unisun Software. BMW to Mazda Imports Slowed as Strike Shuts Baltimore Port ( Bloomberg ). Here are some excerpts from the press release: 16.3

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This Week in Logistics News (September 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Earlier this week, the company warned officials in Maryland that it plans to close two delivery stations next month in Hanover and Essex, near Baltimore, that employ more than 300 people. Instacart says the new technology will give more retailers access to tools and technologies that can lead to business growth. As of Sept.