ivalua

APRIL 23, 2020

Next month, on May 5 th and 6 th , I’m looking forward to what looks like an interesting and worthwhile virtual Procurement conference – Ivalua NOW 2020 Virtual Edition. . That includes ideas which turn “Procurement” into a source of revenue and competitive advantage rather than just being the spend manager.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 17, 2022

In fact, pool construction jumped by approximately 20% from 2019 to 2020 – resulting in the need for a whole lot of chlorine tablets. Image source: Cape Analytics. Back in 2020, the world’s chlorine market was valued at around 99 million tons. Image Source: Nola. Image Source: USA Today. Image source: CNBC.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

By ensuring stored data records are tamper-free and come from a verifiable and immutable source, participants will be able to trust that data on the network is the single source of truth. A single source of truth, with fair, trusted and a tamper-proof information flow. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – October/November 2020.

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Demand Solutions

MARCH 27, 2020

This past March, Tim Carroll, Product Availability Team Captain at AutomationDirect, was presented the 2020 World-Class Culture Award at the Atlanta Supply Chain Awards (ASCA). They're the teams responsible for forecasting inventory requirements, managing inventory replenishment functions and sourcing inventory from suppliers.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They write, “This includes tackling bigger issues such as compliance, supplier relationship management, risk and disruption, responsible sourcing, and transparency. “AI allows you to integrate real-time data from various sources, helping you devise more efficient delivery routes and schedules.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The fall ritual precedes the dropping of the ball on Times Square to ring in 2020. Popular techniques included business process outsourcing, contract manufacturing to reduce the cost of labor, low-cost country sourcing, tax efficiency projects, and the elongation of payables to improve cash-to-cash. It is all consuming. The Preamble.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 25, 2024

This data source synchronizes corporate reporting across global markets while tracking restatements, name changes, and currency shifts.) The Company drove a pattern of improvement year over-year surpassing the industry in the 2019-2020 period. The first step was to find a reliable data set and establish the peer groups. but declining.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2025

While lower than previous maximums, the 10% rate remains above pre-2020 levels and applies broadly, unless otherwise specified by sectoral exemptions. Companies should incorporate these provisions into their sourcing, pricing, and compliance strategies. including those from the UK. Automotive Sector The U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. million in 2020 , with compromised employee accounts the most common cause.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

February 17, 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced another record year in 2020. In 2020, Ivalua continued to be recognized as a leader by top analyst firms and industry organizations. Many other innovations spanning the Source-to-Pay process. Redwood City, CA.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2021

Source: US DoD. Although Pfizer does not state the source of this capability, I assume the technology is provided by FedEx, UPS, and McKesson. Covid-19 vaccine distribution is headline news across the country. The post Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution – Possibly the Most Important Supply Chain appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2021

My colleague Steve Banker published an informative article in 2020 about this extensive initiative Ahold Delhaize’s Supply Chain Transformation (forbes.com). Sources of Efficiency. In the first three quarters of 2020, Ahold Delhaize USA reported a 115 percent increase in online sales.

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QAD

MAY 1, 2025

In todays complex and often volatile global environment, procurement leaders face mounting pressure to cut sourcing costs while navigating geopolitical instability, inflation, tariffs and talent shortages. The truth is, sourcing smarter isnt just about softwareits about strategy, support, and best practices. His takeaway?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

When the pandemic started in 2020, no one could foresee the impacts of the global supply chain disturbances would last this long. As most of the common pain points and challenges from 2020 continued to be still relevant in 2021, many retailers accelerated their search for next-generation planning capabilities.

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AIMMS

AUGUST 3, 2020

However, one-third of SCP leaders cite “the lack of effective decision making in the S&OP meeting process as the most critical problem to solve for their function’s overall performance” (source: Gartner, Improve S&OP Decision Making Through Scenario Planning , Supply Chain Research Team, 4 May 2020).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 15, 2021

Those who made investments in the underlying technology and have seen their businesses thrive during 2020. Source: IDC 2021—Digital Analysis: Manufacturing. One of the key messages to come out of 2020 was reducing risk and improving resiliency; ranked the number one business priority with 61.9% Driving for Digitalisation.

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3GTMS

MARCH 17, 2021

Of the many things 2020 taught us, one key takeaway was understanding the global supply chain’s volatility. To make up for the higher costs of in-country sourcing, businesses search for ways […].

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Media sources are filled with prognostication. The chart below shows that the index decreased to a value below zero earlier this year, for the first time since 2020. The Freightos Baltic Index: Global Container Freight Index shows that rates over the last six months are in-line with the historic average between 2016 and 2020.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. 2020 Was A Year Of Supply Chain Disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2021

Although Pfizer does not state the source of this capability, I assume the technology is provided by FedEx, UPS, and McKesson. This data represents “cumulative counts of COVID-19 vaccine doses recorded as shipped in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Tracking System (VTrckS) since December 13, 2020.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

For the first time since 2020, I was back in New York City for the NRF Big Show. In September 2022, Macy’s rolled out its first-ever wood-sourcing policy for its furniture sales after more than 150 years in business. It requires the use of responsibly sourced wood or recycled or reclaimed materials.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 13, 2021

Just when things couldn’t possibly get any crazier, 2020 finally came to a close. We’ve found our customers are urgently seeking ways to better plan around supply chain demand volatility and improve how they source materials and products from suppliers. Published 10 November 2020 – ID G00735109.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Prior to 2020, every supply chain in the world was challenged by increasing levels of demand unpredictability and market volatility. In fact, IT spend as a percent of business capex crossed over the prior ~10 year average in 2019 and we see that trend extending in early 2020.”. Natural disasters. Geopolitical events.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fewer organizations achieved their business goals in 2023 than in any recent year, aside from 2020. Sourcing and procurement comes in close second at 88 percent, followed by innovation at 87 percent. With the continued challenges facing supply chains, that is no surprise.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Nearing the end of 2020, Maersk has remained true to that goal. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. Efficiency by unifying entities. It’s worked.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Source: J.P. The first pattern I noticed was an extreme decrease followed by an extreme increase in 2020. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI compiles data from S&P Global and other sources from countries across the globe and weighs the countries based on annual manufacturing value added. I see that as a positive.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 30, 2021

With the added pressure for speed, service and timeliness, paired with a tight economy and produce season coming at full speed, it’s a problematic situation that will continue the 2020 capacity crunch through early summer 2021. What Can Shippers Do About the Safety Blitz.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Including Bomi, UPS Healthcare has doubled its global footprint since 2020. It covers 37 states and parts of Canada through a fleet of more than 150,000 crowd-sourced drivers, it says. By June 2020, it had ballooned to a $3.4 billion on grocery delivery, down 26 percent from 2020. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Prior to 2020, they were paying around ten cents a mask. During 2020, Cooper was paying up to a $1.50 2020 it was just a scramble for PPE,” Dr. Runkle explained. “We Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source.

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ivalua

APRIL 15, 2020

April 15, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that its marquee annual event, Ivalua NOW 2020 , will transition from a physical event in Washington D.C. to a virtual event, taking place on May 5 and 6, 2020. Redwood City, CA.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Here are some different sources and their very different numbers: The first question is why the Department of Energy has these kinds of statistics. According to JLL , the CAGR between 2010 and 2020 was 1.3% But without good baseline numbers, no one can say if that is true. Why not the Department of Commerce? Then there is Statista.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

In Fortune 500 earnings calls for Q3 of 2021, “supply chain” mentions were up 412% from Q3 in 2020. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. higher than 2020. Consultancy UK).

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2021

percent increase from July of 2020. These sources, and others, indicate acute supply constraints in certain areas, such as automotive, and other factors that appear to be more widespread, such as labor constraints. Census Bureau announced the advance monthly sales for retail and food services sales for July. The estimate of $617.7

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

Without a doubt 2020 will be etched in our memories as the year of multiple disasters, with the Covid-19 pandemic, trade issues between the US and China, wildfires in Australia, social unrest in Hong Kong, drastic declines in oil prices, turbulent financial markets and other politically dominated issues in emerging markets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Lidl also shared that it had identified 11 critical raw materials and committed to setting responsible sourcing targets for each group of items. And, after piloting a pair of prototypes back in 2020, Yusen Terminals has picked up the first five production units and put them to work at the Port of Los Angeles.

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ivalua

MARCH 16, 2020

Optimization of the entire source-to-pay process for nearly all Körber locations worldwide. In order to establish a unified and consistent source-to-pay process throughout the entire Group, Körber was looking for a fully integrated e-procurement solution. The goal was to increase efficiency across the Group’s Business Areas.

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