Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Home Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses.

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ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

Enterprise procurement leaders are under more pressure than ever—juggling cost control, compliance, supplier risk, and internal complexity, all while trying to modernize outdated systems. AI, automation, and generative tools are redefining efficiency, allowing procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive decision-making.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Enterprise procurement teams face growing pressure to deliver strategic value – managing supplier risk, ensuring compliance, and supporting sustainability – all without sacrificing speed or control. This blog explores the most common challenges in digital procurement and the capabilities that matter most.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Home Meet Freightos Procure: The Next Evolution of SHIPSTA Freightos Procure rebrands SHIPSTA, enhancing procurement with market intelligence and seamless booking within the Freightos Enterprise suite, empowering shippers to manage the entire freight lifecycle efficiently. Were raising the bar.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

AI as a Predictive Tool AI-driven supply chain planning integrates machine learning, real-time data analytics, and external risk monitoring to anticipate disruptions before they materialize. This enables companies to adjust sourcing, production, and logistics well in advance of potential disruptions.

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ivalua

JUNE 17, 2025

In a world of ever-growing economic uncertainty, procurement is at the heart of organizations’ aim to drive efficiency and cost savings. As more and more companies invest in S2P technology, Ivalua has commissioned a survey and report on “The State of Source-to-Pay Digitization 2025” from trusted research and advisory firm Ardent Partners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing geopolitical shifts demonstrated the risks of relying on single-source suppliers and minimal inventory buffers. AI-driven analytics, machine learning, and robotics are improving procurement, inventory management, logistics, and supplier negotiations. Resilience is now taking precedence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 7, 2025

To build an outside-in model, and use new forms of analytics, we must start the discussion with the question of, “what drives value?” For example, if I improve the cost structure in transportation, procurement, manufacturing and sales independently, what decision support framework decides the right trade-offs?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

They offer software systems and technology for complex integration, rapid application development, and advanced analytics and sell those solutions to companies that need to accelerate optimized business outcomes. They use this foundation to provide historical, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.

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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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Precoro

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Traditionally, procurement has been a process weighed down by manual tasks, fragmented systems, and endless paperwork. Today, procurement is undergoing a transformation. While procurement teams have long worked to add strategic value, Artificial Intelligence (AI) amplifies their impact.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Home Meet Freightos Procure: The Next Evolution of SHIPSTA Freightos Procure rebrands SHIPSTA, enhancing procurement with market intelligence and seamless booking within the Freightos Enterprise suite, empowering shippers to manage the entire freight lifecycle efficiently. Were raising the bar.

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

If you’re evaluating procurement technology or exploring ways to drive more value from existing systems, chances are you’re looking beyond tactical fixes – you want a smarter, scalable strategy. Misaligned priorities across finance, legal, and procurement create friction that delays decision-making and reduces impact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The key to this lies with sourcing. Before diving further, let us define what sourcing is. Sourcing is the practice of finding and selecting suppliers for a range of services (e.g., Traditional sourcing practices tend to be highly manual and are fraught with latencies and inefficiencies. Digitalizing sourcing (i.e.,

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ivalua

JUNE 3, 2025

As Procurement teams are tasked to do more with less in an increasingly complex and uncertain market, digitization has become a must. Procurement leaders have increasingly turned to Spend and Supplier Management platforms to improve decision-making, efficiency and collaboration.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] 3 Powerful Ways Procurement will Drive the 2030 Saudi Vision Transformation May 30, 2023 | | Procurement Strategy by Sara Omer What is the Saudi Vision 2030 Program? Procurement and supply chain teams will play a crucial role in making this vision a reality.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Is Strategic Sourcing? A Complete Guide Strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. It is called strategic because it replaces traditional ad hoc approaches to sourcing, which were almost entirely focused on cost savings, item by item.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Industry-specific content is available for processes like Source to Settle, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and more. The platform leverages AI and Digital Technologies like RFID at Source (reducing receiving and packing time and chargebacks) and 2D barcodes/Digital Links to drive transparency and capture data for product circularity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2025

But now, it’s being activated through AI agents designed to automate sourcing, manage risk in real time, and reduce the friction thats long plagued procurement and finance functions. This move positions Coupa as the full-stack provider for planning, execution, and optimization in global sourcing. One standout moment?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

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. Alex Zhong, Director Product Marketing at GEP.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Complete Source to Pay cycle and Strategic Sourcing Guide An optimized Source-to-Pay (S2P) process helps businesses enhance procurement efficiency, reduce costs, and improve supplier collaboration. What is Source-to-Pay? A well-executed S2P strategy reduces costs, increases visibility, and ensures compliance.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

Login Home About us The Enchange way of working Clients & Results Industries we’ve worked in Testimonials Services Route to Market & Distribution Supply Chain Transformation Supply Chain Analytics Supply Chain Talent Hub Case Studies Career Blog 20 Steps to RtM Excellence Posts Supply Chain Excellence Posts Our Bloggers Contact Us Route to (..)

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QAD

APRIL 3, 2025

Supplier Management solutions have garnered significant recognition in the procurement industry for their innovative approach and substantial business benefits. This recognition underscores QADs growing influence and effectiveness in addressing the complex needs of todays procurement professionals.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 23, 2025

By embedding analytics across logistics, sourcing, and fulfillment, businesses gain the visibility and foresight needed to stay competitive.Analytics-driven leadership is no longer a luxury; it’s the foundation of operational survival in todays volatile business environment. Prescriptive analytics tells them what to do about it.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Why Your Procurement Strategy is More Critical Now Than Ever Before In an era of global supply chain disruptions, a robust procurement strategy is no longer optionalits essential. The right procurement strategy ensures that organizations: Mitigate risks before they escalate. Want to future-proof your procurement function?

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ryan is the Co-founder and CEO of GoodShip , an all-in-one platform for supply chain analytics, carrier management, and transportation procurement About Ryan Soskin Ryan Soskin is a 13 year logistics veteran and three time startup unicorn alum with a long history in freight tech. Ryan Soskin and Joe Lynch discuss insight to action.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 3, 2025

Before digital tools entered the scene, thats almost exactly what procurement used to feel like. AI in Procurement Estimates: Explore the ways in which predictive analytics provide tailored insights for better decision-making. Thats the whole new level of precision you can enjoy in procurement, with the assistance of AI.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. Who Should Prioritize an S2P Digital Transformation?

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Analytics provides visibility into your transportation network and operations. Analytics and market intelligence that enables businesses to make data-driven decisions is especially valuable for an industry marred with the effects of? Harvard Business Review Analytic Services study?report Forecast Demand?with?Analytics.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 3, 2025

Below are the individual web links and prime takeaway messages from each of our prior postings: Part One : Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in legacy software design.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 29, 2025

In Part One of the series , Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle in efforts to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in the software design and why. Much of this has to do with needs for deep integration and two way flow of data streams.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2024

One of the most powerful tools in modern supply chain management is the Control Tower, which offers a comprehensive, real-time view of the entire supply chain and is the single source of truth for the latest developments on the demand and supply side. What is a Control Tower?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

In the face of variability, this is two-to-six weeks too long to make allocation or procurement decisions. Order cycles–the requested time from order to delivery–decreased while supply cycles –the time to procure materials– increased. Build in-market sourcing. Shift in cycles. The reason?

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Home Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses.

Optimal Sourcing 156

Optimal Sourcing Benchmarking Manufacturing Procurement Procurement 156

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In our recent survey on analytics, today 74% of companies are attempting to improve supply chain visibility (as shown in Figure 1). Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. As I read today’s news, I often think of the sessions with Greg and laugh. What Is Visibility?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 31, 2024

What is the role of make, source, and deliver? Define a proactive approach and the value/economies of scale of planning manufacturing/transportation and sourcing together. Define the roles of the regions/divisions and global organization by division, and align the manufacturing, distribution and procurement functions.

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