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The Future of Food Security

Enterra Insights

She stated, “We must use big data and digital tools to protect food security and increase climate resilience. New technologies and data generation can transform business practices across the agricultural value chain and address bottlenecks in, productivity, harvesting, market access, finance, and supply chain management.”[1]

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Freight Market Intelligence: Data is crucial, but context is king

Freightos

Here are some interesting highlights: Justification Is Key Interestingly enough, one of the most important drivers for market intelligence is justifying procurement decisions or operational decisions to internal stakeholders, like executive teams, or to customers. While this isn’t news to me, the importance it took on was.

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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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Human-machine tradeoffs in supply chain decisions (and the LA Port)

NC State SCRC

However, not every supply chain and procurement decision fits neatly into this category. There is a real benefit to the social interaction of procurement, which leads to improved collaboration on difficult and complex problems. The point of this is that human context and decision-making has to be weighed off against one another.

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3rd Annual State of Supply Chain Data Quality and Governance Report Released

NC State SCRC

This included the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), the Institute for Supply Management (ISM ), the International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM) , and Supply Chain Canada (SCMA). However, few of these reports provide tangible pathways for dealing with the issue of poor data quality.

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Learning to Work with Machines That Learn What the Experts Know

NC State SCRC

These studios will benefit by having “super-users” interact with them, forming “playbooks” that provide guidelines on decision-making in the face of uncertainty. If an individual is working from a different role, whether in shipping, logistics, or procurement, they will be coming at the system from a very different frame of reference.

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Supply Chain Management:Maintenance Practice- A standard to be.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Sourcing & Procurement. Cloud & Big Data. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Word of caution to follow is not to get terrorized by the quantum of guidelines, methodologies etc. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38).