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.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

Jones Act regulations, limited carrier options, capacity constraints, inter-island transfers and price rigidity all make Hawaii a challenging edge case for shippers that requires bespoke strategies and careful thinking. A second layer of pricing. Negotiating the final mile. Drayage is another complication.

Hawaii

ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

Misaligned priorities, siloed systems, and unclear ownership can directly impact key performance indicators like cost savings percentage and procurement cycle time. When decisions for either procurement or SCM are made in isolation, organizations can miss out on cost savings, end up with excess inventory, or experience delayed deliveries.

Procurement Solutions

Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

billion rate data points monthly to provide the most comprehensive view of the market, helping you identify savings opportunities and make data-driven decisions. It handles everything from rating and booking to shipment management, invoice auditing, and beyond. Ready to Transform Your Freight Operations?

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2025

Think of volume leverage like having a stronger negotiating position when you’re dealing with larger quantities. Here’s where it gets interesting – volume leverage isn’t just about getting better prices (though that’s certainly part of it).

Negotiating Skills

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Simplified: Best Practices for Maximizing Value Strategic sourcing goes beyond cost savings its about making informed decisions that drive long-term value. Since reverse auctions focus heavily on price competitiveness, this can be easily done with sourcing software tools.

Sourcing Strategies

Freight Waves

JULY 3, 2025

Businesses can gain a clearer understanding of current market conditions, such as whether rates on a lane like Chicago to Dallas are spiking due to tight capacity or dropping due to oversupply. This visibility supports better negotiation with carriers and helps avoid overpaying.

Negotiating Skills

BlueYonder

APRIL 17, 2025

Companies importing and exporting goods, be it finished retail products, manufacturing components or materials, now face substantial cost and price pressures that squeeze margins and force difficult pricing, sourcing, operations and distribution decisions. The result?

Supply Chain Planning Software

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 2, 2025

We welcome Shippers to join Emily Stausbll, Xeneta Senior Shipping Analyst, for a roundtable discussion to unpack: Global market insights and trends for Ocean Freight Impact of the new alliances on capacity, schedule reliability and freight Geopolitics and other on-going global events and their impact on supply chain including how new U.S.

Price Reduction

Precoro

JULY 1, 2025

Definition: Vendor relations is a strategic practice of cultivating productive, long-term relationships with suppliers. When done right, it’s beneficial for both sides: vendors get a reliable client, while companies benefit from a stable supply chain, consistent product quality, better pricing, and room to grow and collaborate.

Negotiating Skills

Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Simplify, Synchronize, Succeed Gain consolidated visibility into rates, capacity, and market shifts. Our data showed that over 90% of enterprise shippers had to reroute shipments during this period, with an average cost increase of 35% per container. Rate sheets become obsolete almost as soon as they’re negotiated.

Supply Chain Design Software

Freight Waves

JULY 3, 2025

For now, most country-specific import tariffs are paused while long-term deals are being negotiated, with deadlines coming up in July and August. West Coast ports have fallen sharply in recent weeks on weaker demand following an initial surge as liner operators rushed to restore vessel capacity during the tariff pause. in June, 2021.

Negotiating Skills

Precoro

JULY 4, 2025

It means that the sole-source supplier controls the price and terms, which is often called a monopolistic supplier.   At its core, single sourcing is about nurturing a close partnership that delivers benefits such as better pricing, steady quality, and improved communication flow. What is sole sourcing?

Purchasing Skills

RFgen

JULY 18, 2025

Midwest, driven by geopolitical friction, rising overseas costs and the need for supply-chain resilience. imposed tariffs of up to 25 percent on select imports from Canada and Mexico, illustrating how political shifts can instantly affect supply-chain costs. Advances in automation further narrow the labor-cost gap.

North America

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

They can proactively identify risks, optimize processes in real time, and even negotiate supplier contracts without human oversight. These AI agents leverage real-time data, predictive analytics, and generative AI to enhance resilience, reduce costs, and improve overall efficiency in AI-driven supply chain resilience.

Optimal Sourcing

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. This evolution reflects procurement’s growing role as a strategic business partner.

Procurement Solutions

Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2025

From cost fluctuations to sustainability requirements, understanding and addressing these hurdles is essential for smooth logistics. Fluctuating Raw Material Costs The costs of key materials like resin for plastics or pulp for paper are subject to market volatility.

Material Savings

Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides perspectives relative to despite having a tentative back-to-work wage negotiation, the outstanding issue of port automation provides added concerns for global industry supply chain teams. ILA President Harold Daggett’s emphatic “ no automation ” line in the sand reportedly points to a tough negotiation.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 22, 2025

Effective supply chain management aims to minimize costs, reduce delays, and enhance overall project performance by streamlining communication and collaboration among suppliers, contractors, and project managers. Strategic partnerships and co-investments lead to evident efficiency enhancements and risk diminishment.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Freight Waves

JULY 7, 2025

Join us at OTM Sig The enhanced SONAR and OTM integration, transforms benchmarking from a backward-looking report into a proactive strategic tool. Currently, 14 shippers have joined SCORE , representing $9B in transportation insights, with 34 more in legal reviewing totaling over $100B in potential contributions.

Benchmarking

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Collaboration across Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and beyond requires visibility and communication regarding capacity, cost, risk, order quantities, inventory levels, quality , timelines, logistics, and more. Tier 1 suppliers and their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers—make up an organization’s multi-tier supply chain.

Negotiate Pricing

Freight Waves

JULY 2, 2025

Closing this deal positions SkyWater to expand its production capacity to meet the increasing demand for domestically produced semiconductors in the United States, which has become a critical area of focus for the U.S. The acquisition of the Austin facility represents a strategic inflection point for SkyWater Technology.

Austin

QAD

JANUARY 16, 2025

Time-Consuming Sourcing Events: The manual creation of Request for Quotes (RFQs) was labor-intensive, detracting from strategic procurement activities like negotiation. Performance and Capacity Tracking: Evaluating supplier capacity and performance lacked the streamlined infrastructure to ensure consistency and effectiveness.

Optimal Sourcing

Precoro

JUNE 3, 2025

With today’s growing cost pressures and increasingly complex supply chains , quick fixes no longer cut it. Category Management (CM) is a strategic procurement approach that groups related purchases into categories to manage each as a strategic unit. High-cost drivers , such as low-volume purchases or overspecified items.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 27, 2025

More output with lower costs—that is the promise of optimization. When approached strategically and holistically, optimization efforts compound over time to yield a formidable competitive edge. Look for patterns indicating bottlenecks, waste, and areas falling short of capacity.

Resource Reduction

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Their responsibilities focus on going beyond cost reduction and achieving broader business goals such as growth, innovation, and customer satisfaction. As procurement and supply chain leaders seek to optimize performance, collaboration with suppliers becomes a strategic tool for creating value for the business.

Optimal Sourcing

Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By understanding what it means to become a preferred partner to transportation providers, shippers can optimize their supply chain and gain a strategic advantage. Better Rates and Cost Savings When capacity is tight, carriers naturally prioritize their most desirable customers. What Is a Shipper of Choice?

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Outsourcing logistics allows companies to leverage these advanced systems and data analytics capabilities without the high costs of ownership. However, building excess capacity or maintaining resources internally to handle spikes in volume or rapid shifts in customer requirements is usually not feasible.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Freightera

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For freight shippers, this increased demand may mean higher rates and tighter capacity. Many courier companies are seeing increased demand, which could mean longer processing times and probably higher costs. You should book your shipments early to make sure you don’t encounter any capacity issues from carriers.

Canada

Jaggaer

MAY 16, 2025

From Order Fulfillment to Strategic Value Creation Partner This realization is relatively new and comes with a fundamental shift in how the role of procurement is understood. Procurement professionals are increasingly evolving into strategic value creation partners. Yet its still not commonly perceived as a true driver of value.

Optimal Sourcing

Exiger Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Brandon Daniels: One of the things that generative AI is doing is it’s making it so procurement and supply chain people are able to bridge a skills gap. Artificial intelligence is making it so that we can bridge that skills gap. And that’s where this 10x of capability and capacity really comes out and provides results. “We’re

Supply Chain Risk Management

Procurement Academy

JANUARY 14, 2025

Considering its importance, it makes sense that modern procurement teams have a structured approach to developing essential skills and capabilities. A procurement competency framework defines the skills and capabilities needed for procurement professionals within a specific organization.

Negotiating Skills

QAD

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Despite that, customers expect low cost — ideally free — shipping and rapid delivery. As a result, many are leveraging multi carrier shipping software to reduce costs without reducing customer service. AUTOMATED ROUTING You can increase logistics cost effectiveness with automated routing.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2024

After Boeing and its machinist labor union negotiating team came to a second tentative agreement on proposed wages and benefits, labor union members voted yesterday to once again reject the company’s latest mediated contract offer. The ongoing strike is costing the company upwards of $1 billion per month according to multiple reporting.

Negotiating Skills

Turvo

APRIL 24, 2025

These tools turn raw logistics data into actionable insights that drive efficiency, reduce costs, and improve performance across the entire supply chain. Turvo’s platform, for example, offers real-time insights into carrier performance, cost per lane, and shipment status. This is where logistics data analytics tools come in.

Analytics Software

o9 Solutions

MAY 19, 2025

How o9 Supports Integrated Supplier Risk Management and Collaboration The o9 platform enables both these use cases by leveraging the power of a supply chain digital twin, or Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG). For immediate disruptions, Capacity Collaboration and Inventory Collaboration make the extent of the issue visible.

Risk Management

Precoro

JULY 9, 2025

Definition: Procurement transformation is the strategic overhaul of how a business buys goods and services. It aims to make the entire process more efficient and effective but also more valuable as a strategic asset that helps the company achieve its goals. Procurement used to be mainly about reducing costs and handling purchases.

Procurement Solutions