Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 24, 2025

As of 2023, 67% of all American households have an Amazon Prime subscription, and Amazon owns 38% of the e-commerce market in the US. As preposterous as this thought experiment seems, it is the reality of procurement departments in manufacturing firms across the United States. Are you an Amazon addict? If so, you are far from alone.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

Aptean is orchestrating the Blue Yonder/E2open/Infor playbook of buying undervalued assets and milking the maintenance and Software-as-a-Service contracts with existing customers. In contrast, Blue Yonder is investing $1 billion over three years in the platform for their solutions. following the reporting of fourth-quarter results.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This notice of the Rodanthe house purchase by the National Park Service was listed in my news feed above an article that Elliott Management Partners announced a confirmed 13.8% Software Survival in Battered Seas? On August 31, 2023, E2open reported fiscal second-quarter reporting. The stock fell 60% year-to-date.

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2023

Ivalua’s new Environmental Impact Center empowers Procurement and Supply Chain teams with reliable and actionable insight to reduce Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. This data is accessible across Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay solution to facilitate more sustainable procurement decisions within daily operations.

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Precoro

JULY 29, 2024

Procurement operations are no exception. In fact, 43% of GPOs that took part in the 2023 Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey cited overall procurement risk had increased significantly as compared to 20% in the 2021 study. Keep reading to learn: What is an online procurement system?

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Freight Waves

JUNE 27, 2025

Global market researcher Interact Analysis released a report in January predicting growth in the mobile robotics market would dip by 18% over the next two years. The MHI report predicts robotics and automation will jump from 41% of supply chain leaders using it today to 83% adopting it over the next five years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Unlike the folks projecting election results these days, I was a little more accurate and the 2022 projections have set the stage for what will happen in 2023. Let’s take a look at what happened with the major themes, as well as the research and analysis we conducted in 2022 to help determine what those themes will look like in 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

End-to-end supply chain visibility, planning, and execution support software are critical in agile supply chain performance. CPG companies that utilize an autonomous supply chain technology see a reduction in their inventory and cost and an increase in revenue.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

CAGR , the global supply chain management software market is expected to touch USD 50 billion by 2032. This one figure speaks volumes about how organizations worldwide want access to the best supply chain management tools to boost efficiency and value in their distribution and logistics network. Growing at an overwhelming rate of 11.1%

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Precoro

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, only 30% of CPOs claim they have achieved their cost-saving targets in 2023. One of the ways that procurement teams improve this figure is by tracking and improving the purchase price variance (PPV) metric. Why Is Purchase Price Variance Important?

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 14, 2024

in 2022, costing retailers $101.91 billion in 2023 alone. ” The scheme organizer and his staff encouraged co-conspirators to purchase items from retailers and then impersonated the purchasers to secure refunds while allowing the original buyers to keep the merchandise for a cut of the return fees. Last year, 13.7%

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ivalua Blog [ivory-search] Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience February 8, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley In the face of an unprecedented global crisis, Procurement stepped up to become a crucial driving force for business continuity. Work to achieve 100% supply chain visibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. However, each user has their own instance of the software.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Billion Acquisition of e2open Australia based logistics software provider WiseTech, developer of logistics execution software CargoWise , announced an agreement to acquire U.S. listed B2B logistics platform provider e2open Parent Holdings for a reported $2.1 WiseTech Announces $2.1 million in total revenues, a decline of 4.8

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

A digital workforce weaves together disconnected automation tools – Robotic Process Automation (RPA), AI, and machine learning – to think, act and analyse the way a human worker would, and work alongside humans. Procurement. Purchase Order Management.

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Logility

AUGUST 24, 2022

Solid Start to Fiscal 2023 Highlighted by Continued Strong Growth in Subscription Fees of 23% and Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 15%. ATLANTA (August 24, 2022) American Software, Inc. NASDAQ: AMSWA) today reported preliminary financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. million compared to $0.5 Logility, Inc.

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Precoro

AUGUST 14, 2023

More and more companies are acknowledging the importance of centralizing and optimizing their procurement operations. One of the ways to accomplish this is to establish a procurement team to streamline ordering by centralizing purchases and improving supplier relations. What are the duties of a procurement manager?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2022

In January 2023, the Germany Supply Chain Due Diligence Act will come into effect, requiring businesses to monitor supply chains for human rights violations and compliance with environmental standards. 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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Kinaxis

MAY 16, 2025

Shoppers coping with inflation have shifted buying habits , purchasing fewer goods and cutting back on big name brands in favor of cheaper alternatives. Behind the scenes, CPG brands are strategically balancing cost cutting measures with supply chain investments to ensure preparedness for continuing market shifts.

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QAD

APRIL 27, 2023

Earlier this year, QAD hosted a live webinar to explore and analyze the trends that are likely to dominate the procurement world over the coming months. It’s no secret that procurement teams have an amplified role within their businesses and that many are left with questions — our goal was to offer answers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

ARC considers real-time visibility solutions, like the one from FourKites, one type of SCCN solution. The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. The solution has also grown in the breadth of their modal coverage. The solutions reduce fines.

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QAD

MARCH 11, 2025

Insights from a Former Procurement Manager People often ask me why I left FORVIA, a French global automotive supplier, to join QAD. In todays fast-paced business environment, digitalization has become a cornerstone of operational success, particularly in the realm of purchasing.

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned procurement professional or just stepping into the world of sourcing and acquisitions, understanding the nuances of procurement synonyms can make all the difference. So, get ready to elevate your communication skills and gain a deeper understanding of the procurement domain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Suppliers are facing increasing pressure from the buyers of their goods and services to report their environmental, social, and governance data. Increasingly, companies will take sustainability criteria into account in their purchasing decisions. The data, which is reported on the EcoVadis platform, highlights the supplier’s emissions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even worse, I work for a company who makes solutions to help companies solve these kinds of problems, which I listen, speak and write about for a living! Supply chain leaders from planning to procurement to logistics face labor shortages and cost concerns, so they want to reduce workforce time spent on manual activities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

Knowledge Graphs are emerging as an important tool for building advanced AI capabilities. He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well. We needed to model the data in a way that we can do simple searching. Then, another application would be purchased, and another, and another.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

These clothing companies have revolutionized how consumers purchase, wear, and dispose of their clothing. First, in the early 2000s, advancements in data analytics, RFID, and localized supply chains fueled the rise of “fast fashion.” Ulula utilizes analytics to improve the working conditions for workers across global supply chains.

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Precoro

JANUARY 29, 2024

The inflation rate can vary greatly by location — for instance, in 2023 it was 3.4% As the department overseeing an organization's external expenditure, procurement is responsible for softening the impact of inflation. It also serves as a roadmap for how the organization will conduct its purchasing activities.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 11, 2025

That was one of the primary conclusions of the annual logistics report released last week by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) at a media briefing in New York. This year’s report was entitled “Navigating Through the Fog.” The CSCMP report puts an estimate on what it calls total U.S. of nominal GDP.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 9, 2023

Jocz noted, “Purchases depend on consumers’ having disposable income, feeling confident about their future, trusting in business and the economy, and embracing lifestyles and values that encourage consumption. 2023 Retail Trends. This is the conundrum faced by retailers as they enter the new year. ”[1]. ” Trend 3.

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Exiger Perspectives

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Mineral Uses Tungsten Artillery shells, armor plating, cutting tools, engine parts, airplane balancing weights. In July 2023, China announced export restrictions on certain gallium and germanium products , metals essential in chip manufacturing, citing national security concerns.

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Exiger Perspectives

MARCH 25, 2025

25, 2025 – Exiger , the market-leading supply chain and third-party risk AI company, is a top-ranked vendor in Spend Matters 2025 SolutionMap and TechMatchSM procurement technology rankings, which include over 100 procurement technology vendors. About SolutionMap SolutionMap launched in 2017 and is published twice annually.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Almost two decades of reporting. To support this assertion, I share the results in Table 2, which contrast the Gartner Top 25 2023 winners to the results of their industry sector for the ten-year period of 2023-2022. Today’s risk management solutions focus largely on supply sensing and early alerting.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Economics reporter Ann Saphir explains, “Americans borrowed more than ever on their credit cards in the [second quarter of 2023], with balances surpassing $1 trillion for the first time even as overall household debt loads were largely unchanged. Most economists credit strong consumer spending for this soft landing.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 26, 2025

A Simple growth marketing example If customers only purchase one or two items, your e-commerce company may need to be more profitable. The profit doesn’t cover the acquisition costs because the order value is minimal. With the second or third sale, you won’t have any acquisition costs to pay for.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 2, 2023

FeaturedCustomers is the leading customer success content marketing platform for B2B business software and services, helping potential B2B buyers make informed purchasing decisions through vendor-validated content. The full report, along with ToolsGroup’s profile, is available for you to download here.

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