ThroughPut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

CAGR , the global supply chain management software market is expected to touch USD 50 billion by 2032. This one figure speaks volumes about how organizations worldwide want access to the best supply chain management tools to boost efficiency and value in their distribution and logistics network. The real challenge?

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Eight proven optimization strategies, combining technology, best practices, and sustainable solutions. Essential technology solutions, including Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Inventory Management Systems (IMS), and the transformative power of IoT and automation.

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Arena Solutions

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A digital thread integrates different tools and data systems (CAD, CAM, ERP, PLM etc.) This creates a continuous flow of information between design tools, simulation environments, and manufacturing systems allowing all stakeholders to access a single source of truth.

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 18, 2025

What Contractors Need to Streamline Procurement in 2025 By Ian Summers (pictured) Content Writer 111 Views You’re on-site before dawn, the framing crew’s ready, but the steel shipment’s stuck in limbo, the invoice isn’t approved, and your project management app just pinged you for the fourth time.

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QAD

MARCH 11, 2025

Insights from a Former Procurement Manager People often ask me why I left FORVIA, a French global automotive supplier, to join QAD. In todays fast-paced business environment, digitalization has become a cornerstone of operational success, particularly in the realm of purchasing.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

The major challenge faced by customers of real-time visibility data had always been how to operationalize what could quickly become overwhelming quantities of fast-changing information. A key differentiator is Movement’s approach to data quality. This extensive connectivity has resulted in impressive metrics: 1.2

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ThroughPut

APRIL 4, 2025

Supply chain disruptions create uncertainty in procurement. Leverage Data and Technology Using AI-powered tools and data analytics helps in: Identifying slow-moving and obsolete inventory. Forecasting demand based on historical data. Use AI tools to identify duplicate SKUs. Inefficient tracking of parts.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 17, 2025

Top 10 Data Extraction Tools in 2025 By Rob Jackson (pictured) Content Writer 101 Views Let’s be real: in 2025, the phrase “data is the new oil” is about as fresh as a three-day-old cup of office coffee. The right data extraction tool. Manual data entry is slow, error-prone, and expensive. The difference?

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 8, 2025

That means vendors, software providers, cloud platforms, even IT contractors. One example came from a small software company that provided IT tools to hospitals. Every hospital that downloaded the next software update also got infected. They went through the software vendor. But breaking into one of their vendors?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 13, 2025

Real-time data With technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) , data creation is happening at an exponential rate, meaning that manufacturing in the 21st Century isnt so much based on gut-driven decisions anymore but rather on data. It eliminates duplicate work and ensures everyone works from the same accurate data.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. Initially, he says, regulators will likely begin requiring origin data “from the first couple of layers down.” It’s all about the data,” he adds.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2025

AI, at its heart, is a tool to help solve problems — like a hammer, or pair of scissors. Data privacy and employee resistance are two running-with-scissors risks. Sometimes The B2B buyer report revealed that 65% of buyers found AI-powered chatbots to be moderately or extremely helpful when it came to purchases.

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QAD

MAY 1, 2025

In todays complex and often volatile global environment, procurement leaders face mounting pressure to cut sourcing costs while navigating geopolitical instability, inflation, tariffs and talent shortages. When I started working with KION five years ago, they faced fragmented procurement processes across regions. His takeaway?

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crisp

MARCH 18, 2025

When real-time retail data meets incrementality testing, CPG brands can finally measure whats working and optimize ad spend with confidence. If your brand is seeing significant revenue from retail, its important to understand what your marketing is doing to retail, explains Reggie Panaligan, Enterprise General Manager at Haus.

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crisp

JANUARY 13, 2025

Retailers today need proactive partners suppliers who initiate strategic conversations backed by solid, indisputable data. It’s one example of collaborative commerce, made possible by shared data insights that enhance analytical purview. Here are five ways a collaborative, data-driven strategy can set you apart: 1.

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crisp

MAY 21, 2025

Modern challenges require modern solutions ones that are not only effective today but adaptable for the future. In a Deloitte survey of retail professionals , 60% reported that AI tools improved their ability to forecast demand and manage inventory in 2024.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Choosing the right inventory management software , often referred to as an inventory control system, can be the difference between a well-oiled, profit-generating operation and one plagued by costly mistakes and inefficiencies. Modern inventory management solutions have evolved far beyond basic stock counting.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

In a world where tariff and shipping uncertainty can compress margins and flexibility overnight, the companies that can trust their inventory data and make fast, confident decisions will survive. We now have the tools to track inventory more accurately, while spending less money on tracking. Inventory is capital sitting on the floor.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

The key to navigating these issues lies not in reacting impulsively but in taking a strategic, data-driven approach. To avoid compromising growth potential, an effective strategy is to integrate artificial intelligence-driven inventory management systems. Ajoy Krishnamoorthy is chief executive officer of Cin7.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 11, 2025

They should be able to make decisions, purchase items as needed, and avoid necessary paperwork, red tape and delays. This is very helpful to know, since employees can often waste time just to make themselves seem valuable and useful, but that behavior can be a money sink for the business.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

What is Product (or Master) Data Management? Collecting and organizing data in an appropriate manner is not an easy task. That is where the B2B database management system comes into play. It helps collect and organize a wide range of data. Updating the data becomes easy. Data management becomes efficient.

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 19, 2025

Around 47% of consumers state they are likely to purchase from a brand that includes diversity in its advertising. That is, why certain colors might be problematic, how family structures influence purchasing decisions, or what social media platforms matter in different regions. You need people who understand cultural nuances.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 9, 2025

Machine learning algorithms are able to detect subtle but important and unusual patterns and behaviors in a customer’s account, such as unusual purchases or withdrawals. By analyzing large amounts of data , these algorithms can quickly identify potential fraud and alert the bank’s security team.

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 6, 2025

Managing money can be tough, especially with bills, subscriptions, and savings to think about. In this blog post, you’ll discover how apps, smart tools, and even artificial intelligence are making personal finance simpler and smarter. These tools are helpful because they show your progress clearly. So, if you spend $3.60

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The traditional focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) does not bridge the gap. As a result, to fulfill customer-centric and demand-driven strategies, companies need to build outside-in processes using market and channel data to sense, shape and drive a more intelligent response.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2025

In this article, we’ll explore one of the most popular solutions, RDP Wrapper , and explain why it’s not the best option for Windows Home users. RDP Wrapper: Not the Best Option for Remote Access One of the most widely discussed solutions for enabling Remote Desktop on Windows 10/11 Home is RDP Wrapper.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. So, with darts in hand, here are my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2016: The Transportation Management System (TMS) market will become more barbell-shaped as Software-as-a-Self-Service solutions emerge.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. The systems–based on shipment and order data–were out of step with the market. Also, the solutions lacked flexibility. The reason? The output was just not helpful.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

As a result, DPPs are emerging as a straightforward, common sense solution for meeting these needs efficiently. Data Collection Accurate data is critical to the success of any DPP. Consistent, trusted data ensures the DPP reflects the true lifecycle of the product. What Components Comprise a Digital Product Passport?

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? What are the pros and cons, and what supply chain strategy will pave the way to higher margins, improved supply chain risk management in healthcare and improved patient care? What Makes a Supply Chain Solution Best-in-Class?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. Why have we not improved our use of channel data in supply chain processes?” My question is, “Why?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

Key Last-mile Delivery Technology Solutions How can technology directly impact last-mile operations and improve the customer experience? To Build or To Buy Companies looking to implement new or improve existing delivery technology face a crucial decision: should they build an in-house platform or buy an existing solution from a vendor?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

While many technology companies have co-opted the network of networks message, today there is no interoperability between network solutions. The SAP acquisition of Ariba slowed innovation and the purchase, and then the failed promise of investment in Crossgate was disappointing to SAP supply chain business users. Definitional Image.

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ivalua

JANUARY 24, 2022

How do Chief Procurement Officers and their teams leverage digital transformation to take control of their data and better deliver against their strategic objectives? . Johan, can you give us a bit of background on the digital transformation journey at Booz Allen and the role of data? Worth a watch: Webinar replay here.

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Precoro

JULY 1, 2024

Small companies may also lack the resources to create a dedicated procurement team for proper sourcing and supplier vetting. Group purchasing organizations can be the perfect way for these companies to increase cost savings. Learn how they work, their benefits and limitations, and how they fit in with procurement software.

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3rdwave

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Product and Account data are foundations on which all organizational activity operate. In most organizations, the ERP is meant to be the repository of the organizations’ master data. That is, ‘important’ data is housed there. However, Master Data Management is seen as a challenge in most organizations.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. However, it is fundamental to empowering procurement success in the modern age.

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