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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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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, would Toyota have thought to ask the question, “Are my brakes failing?” The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile. They would ask how social can impact their supply chain source, make and deliver processes. Charlene wrote the report [link]. Absolutely!

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. For example, Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) has very little to do with Transportation Planning (TMS). There is no true end-to-end solution that enables bi-directional orchestration across deliver, make, and source processes.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon has a long way to go, as the company says its operations emitted about 71 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2022, up by almost 40 percent since Jeff Bezos’s 2019 vow that his company would eventually stop contributing to the emissions warming the planet. Logistics companies tell CNBC that U.S.