Conference Location: Austin, TX. Event Overview: The largest educational conference exclusively for public procurement in North America where peers share ideas, engage and inspire one another, develop strong connections and gain a better understanding of how to tackle challenges they face along the way. Conference Name: NIGP Forum. Booth: #506. Website: [link] nigp.org/ 2019annualforumandproductsexpo /home. Dates: August 25-28. Hashtag: #NIGPForum2019. MORE

AUSTIN, Texas, November 27, 2018 – E2open today announced the completion of the acquisition of INTTRA following regulatory approval. More efficient ocean shipping with the integration of procurement, manufacturing and distribution. The One Place in the Cloud to Run Your Supply Chain is Now the One Place in the Cloud to Manage Your Global Logistics. MORE

iconic places, such as the Route 128 tech corridor around Boston, Massachusetts; Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and, of course, California’s white-hot Silicon Valley. MORE

For industry insights, product training, and networking opportunities, attend DATCON19, October 9 -11 in Austin, TX. – David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions. What can shippers do to make their freight attractive to carriers? MORE

Large enterprises are consolidating the formerly independent functions of procurement and logistics and creating broader supply chain executive functions and responsibility. Austin State University. Recently it seems that more and more organizations are recognizing that their supply chains are a key component to the organization’s success. MORE

Keep in touch with cross-functional colleagues. “Whether you’re in procurement, supplier quality, production control or logistics, supply chain is only one ingredient in the pie of successfully bringing a product to market. MORE

This year was no exception, and we have a cadre of bright MBA, industrial engineering, and manufacturing system engineering students lined up to work on the following projects: American Red Cross – Procurement Card Analysis – Reviewing spend analytics through p-card buying channels, and identifying key trends and consolidation opportunities. Every fall, Betty Minton and Bill Collins (my trusted and capable student project advisors) and I play a game of musical chairs. MORE

With 40 percent of GSK’s carbon footprint coming from the procurement of raw materials, the company recognised that tackling its own emissions wouldn’t be enough to reduce its carbon footprint – it would need to support suppliers to do the same. MORE

For industry insights, product training, and networking opportunities, attend DATCON19, October 9 -11 in Austin, TX. – David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions. What can shippers do to make their freight attractive to carriers? MORE

” Digitization affects the entire business from procurement to operations to sales to customer service. As Austin Gresham, a senior consultant for IT transformation at RoundTower consulting, states, “Transformation should not be an IT project. Twenty-five hundred years ago the philosopher Heraclitus, wrote, “The only thing that is constant is change.” ” It’s a lesson the business world constantly learns even as some sectors resist change. MORE

AUSTIN, TX – October 1, 2018 – E2open , the one place in the cloud to run your supply chain, today announced the acquisition of Cloud Logistics, a leading innovator of transportation management systems (TMS) for the global supply chain market. The combination of E2open’s transportation forecasting with Cloud Logistics’ transportation management also creates a unique opportunity to better assess, procure, and manage transportation capacity. MONDAY 01 OCTOBER 2018. MORE