Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Tesco and Walmart have announced procurement policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability throughout their extended supply chains. AI can integrate with procurement platforms, utility meters, logistics trackers and internet of things sensors to gather real-time data. Retailers are following suit.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Home Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. ” Through this series of reports, we now can see that consumer electronics has pulled ahead of the pack. When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 16, 2015

, at Cerasis, we know a thing or two about the nuances of LTL procurement. LTL procurement is something we do very well. So we thought we would impart upon all the shippers out there some tips on how to reduce overall costs for effective LTL Procurement. 10 LTL Procurement Cost Cutting Tips.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Webinars Watch: An Alternative to Traditional Battery-Making Technology for EVs Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Watch: Getting Ahead of Customs Compliance Violations Regulation & Compliance Five Ways AI-Enabled Digital Twins Will Shape the Future of Supply Chains Technology Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 2, 2022

To deal with the new challenges in managing and planning the supply chain , the procurement department is one of the functions that should look at changing. It is no longer sufficient for procurement to focus just on supplier costs, placing orders and ensuring goods are received. The situation changes with a larger number of suppliers.

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Precoro

MARCH 27, 2025

According to McKinsey & Company, procurement accounts for 50% to 80% of a company’s cost base. That’s why organizations zero in on strategies to achieve procurement cost reduction.    The key thing to remember is that cost reduction in procurement isn’t just about slashing expenses.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

Webinars Container Ship Explodes, Catches Fire Off Coast of India Global Gateways Europe’s Steel Industry in Jeopardy, Says ThyssenKrupp Exec Global Trade & Economics Watch: An Alternative to Traditional Battery-Making Technology for EVs Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Electronic communication between suppliers and customers (zero latency preferred). Demand analytics around EDI transaction sets 830, 862, 866, as well as any web-based electronic communication. From a measurement perspective the key trending metrics at a high level include: Supplier on time delivery.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

We are trying to understand how supply chain leaders have raised the bar at the intersection of these four sets of metrics on the supply chain effective frontier. I also believe that it is because the organization is not incented to manage cash-to-cash metrics. The results have been eye-opening. Other industry groups did not.

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EcoVadis

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The complexity of the electronics supply chain leads to a variety of sustainability issues, including unfair labor practices, presence of harmful chemicals and conflict minerals. Sustainable procurement offers benefits for all parties – it delivers customers safe, ethically sourced products, and reduces overall supply chain risk.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Supply Chain Visibility Quality & Metrics Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Supply Chain Security & Risk Mgmt RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! To keep them moving, we can’t afford to ignore what the data is telling us.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Lawyer for 737 Crash Victim Families Slams DOJ Deal with Boeing Quality & Metrics U.S. Featured Product Popular Stories Watch: Why Choose FTZs to Mitigate Tariffs?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

This transfer of ownership reduced the effectiveness of procurement. Stalled progress on metrics: 90% of companies find themselves stuck on key supply chain metrics (cost, inventory, growth, ROIC). We need to challenge the fundamentals of the past and redefine the atoms and electrons of the processes of the future.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 7, 2025

Products Before Talks Photo: iStock/Rat0007 June 7, 2025 Bloomberg RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Global Trade & Economics Regulation & Compliance Apparel High-Tech/Electronics Related Articles CP Rail Agrees to Buy Kansas City Southern for $25 Billion Sartorius to Buy French Biotech Polyplus for $2.6

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Lawyer for 737 Crash Victim Families Slams DOJ Deal with Boeing Quality & Metrics DHL Express Canada Workers on Strike Following Lockout Last Mile Delivery U.S. Featured Product Popular Stories Watch: Why Choose FTZs to Mitigate Tariffs?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For instance, electronic data interchange (EDI) enables seamless communication between your company and your partners using electronic forms. This tool allows you to exchange electronic documents like orders, invoices, and shipping notices via an electronic data network (EDN). Procurement Management.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 18, 2025

Time to Start Preparing for the Digital Product Passport Supply Chain Visibility Five Ways AI-Enabled Digital Twins Will Shape the Future of Supply Chains Technology Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 13, 2021

How do we design work systems to align organizations and ensure that there is the right balance of reward systems with metrics? Is there a need to redesign metrics to move from a functional and traditional function to drive goal alignment? My goal in redefining electrons focuses on planning/insights, networks and the use of analytics.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 13, 2025

Webinars Container Ship Explodes, Catches Fire Off Coast of India Global Gateways Europe’s Steel Industry in Jeopardy, Says ThyssenKrupp Exec Global Trade & Economics Watch: Supply Chain Planning in Times of Disruption Artificial Intelligence Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2025

Within the report, each risk is assigned a risk score metric to help global supply chain leaders prioritize planning and mitigation efforts this year. The report outlines the most critical supply chain cybersecurity risks, particularly for the manufacturing and electronics industries. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Global Trade & Economics Automotive High-Tech/Electronics Industrial Manufacturing Related Articles U.S., trade negotiations with China. trade negotiations with China. The revived brand is expected to offer the Traveler SUV and Terra pickup starting in 2027. “We

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Taulia

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The procurement process is a critical business function, but how do you measure how effectively the process is managed in your business? Setting KPIs for your procurement department can help to demystify their performance and deliver insights into where improvements can be made. So which procurement metrics and KPIs should you measure?

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 8, 2015

In one high-tech medical electronics firm, an executive decision was made to penetrate a new market with products no other company offered. If the procurement function is focused on low-price instead of agility, then there’s no chance for success. Create the right metrics and monitor them.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Webinars Watch: An Alternative to Traditional Battery-Making Technology for EVs Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Watch: Getting Ahead of Customs Compliance Violations Regulation & Compliance Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When it comes to electronic ordering, real-time order visibility, and the use of mobile apps and technology, Domino’s Pizza is much further up the supply chain maturity curve (see video demonstrating Domino’s Tracker app ). Streamline, automate, and compress Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. We would not have succeeded without a team effort across R&D, the business leaders, and SC disciplines of engineering, procurement, and manufacturing.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 17, 2011

The IT and telecommunications sectors have long been at the forefront of sustainable procurement, yet the pressure to successfully actualize sustainable practices along each stage of the supply chain (raw materials, manufacturing and end-of-life recycling) is intensifying.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. We’ve read through some of the best analyst reports and surveys to bring you this procurement fact file containing some of the most interesting findings, statistics and quotes. Click here to download a printable pdf version of the procurement fact file. Procurement.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 5, 2021

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Purchase Price Variance, or PPV, is a common term in the realm of Purchasing/Procurement and Finance. For some, PPV is a mechanical metric only, measured and reported on but without any further attention paid to it. Get OUR EBOOKS HERE. What is Purchase Price Variance (PPV)?

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SupplyOn

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A scientific survey details the positive effects of electronic invoicing for the invoice’s issuer and the recipient Despite all the buzz over catchwords like Industry 4.0, automation and digital transformation, when it comes to invoicing, we still live in a mainly analogue, non-electronic, non-automated world.

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Unleashed

JUNE 8, 2023

Behind every successful product business is a thoughtful procurement strategy designed to optimise the supplier management and purchasing process. This guide answers exactly what is procurement, how procurement works in a business , and which tools and strategies lead to supply chain success. What does a procurement manager do?

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Elementum

MARCH 27, 2018

million metric tons (or 60% of the world’s supply). million metric tons. Apple: Electronics Makers Risk Being Nudged out by Automakers. About a quarter of global cobalt demand comes from companies that make smartphones and other electronic devices. Where Do Companies Get Their Cobalt? Conclusion.

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IQMS

JUNE 9, 2023

To bring new products to market quickly and profitably, new ideas must be analyzed and budgeted (finance); components must be sourced (procurement and supply chain); and goods must be quoted and sold (marketing and sales) made (manufacturing), and shipped (distribution). Product development can’t function on its own.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 23, 2023

List of Top 10 Supply Chain Analytics Books 1) Supply Chain Metrics that Matter (Wiley Corporate F&A) 1st Edition This book offers an in-depth guide to understanding the link between corporate financials and supply chain maturity, evaluating the progress of over a hundred companies from 2006-2013.

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