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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. 22,000 sourcing events. $50 An example was provided to show how a requisition can be generated in 90 seconds and drive locked in savings through a preferred source, and avoids over-specifying the requirement. 740,000 purchase orders.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. Demand in the demand-driven network is about much, much more than forecasting. Cloud-based analytics for sourcing and the management of supplier networks are evolving and should be embraced.

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What are Block Chains? – Jason Busch on the Future of Money, Trust and Transparency

NC State SCRC

Jason Busch provided a great view on Block Chains, and their impact on the future of funds in the supply chain, at the Global Procurement Tech Summit in Baltimore. Jason started out by discussing the fact that a company ledger is just a source of truth. Over 76% of business report problems forecasting short-term cash flow.

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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. There is no true end-to-end solution that enables bi-directional orchestration across deliver, make, and source processes. The optimization routines single thread through functions not enabling trade-offs across source, make, and deliver.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

But Amazon is on track to purchase by next year as much electricity produced by solar, wind and other carbon-free sources as it uses to power its operations. Baltimore is not included in Global Port Tracker’s national totals because its data is reported later than other ports. Logistics companies tell CNBC that U.S.