Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Most of the business networks were hollowed out by venture capitalists or purchased by opportunists. ” My problem is that we move through these hype cycles with little accountability for spending and with a major opportunity cost to not redefine work. Or that a focus on cost reduction can actually undermine value creation?)

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Automotive distributors play a vital role in the automotive supply chain by procuring parts, warehousing them, and then supplying them to OEMs (original equipment manufacturer), retailers or end consumers. The data can be used to identify inefficiencies in the supply chain, improve inventory management, and streamline operations.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

Supply chain management typically does not fit very well with procurement, which is a challenge at the best of times, and can be a disaster in difficult times. It is now a matter of planning the procurement system and the supply management system outside-in and then look at the true demand to minimize the latency.

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Managing inventory effectively and carefully is necessary for pharmacy. By enhancing inventory management , a Pharmacy can reduce costs and improve overall operational efficiency. Pharmaceutical Inventory software is valuable for pharmaceuticals. What is pharmacy inventory management software? and wholesalers.

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Precoro

JUNE 3, 2025

Businesses often use it in retail and purchasing. Category management isn’t just another procurement trend. It’s a way for companies to group similar goods or services (like IT infrastructure, facilities, or raw materials) and manage them holistically instead of handling every purchase in isolation.

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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.

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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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SCMDOJO

JULY 4, 2025

Much of the process of operating inventory and delivery coordination is being transformed by AI and automation. Invoice processing AI will integrate with procurement, logistics, and payment systems. Now, how is automation improving auditing and reporting of billing data?

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 27, 2025

Mastercard , which utilizes tracking data related to all forms of payment transactions, excluding automotive sales, reported that retail sales increased 3.8 Mastercard reported that shopping for gift items was higher in 2024 with apparel sales increasing 3.6 Retail sales for the full 2024 year were reportedly grew 3.6

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

As a leading vendor of procurement technology and solutions to manufacturing companies around the world, JAGGAER is witness to these changes as they happen, and even before they happen. Next came AI assistance, whereby AI supported humans with advanced AI applications on top of industrial IoT analytics.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 1, 2025

It is not just Procurement, Warehouse Management and Shipping. It started to show up in job titles, functional names, metrics, and processes. Supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption”.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

Bowman, SupplyChainBrain The European Union is on the verge of rolling out a reporting regulation that promises to have a huge impact on businesses selling into the region. The DPP “represents a significant advance in product transparency and sustainability,” according to an EU report published in September of 2024. “As

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QAD

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Unexpected weather, impending tariffs, geopolitical events, or sudden supply chain breakdowns can force manufacturers to make game-time decisions just like an unexpected injury to a critical player just before gametime. That takes a data-driven approach to forecasting, procurement and distribution.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 30, 2025

By applying technologies like Generative AI, organizations will be able to drive efficiencies in the way we work that will create trillions of dollars in economic value, by reducing working capital, increasing agility, and reducing waste, while making better decisions based on data and analytics, not on gut feel.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 11, 2025

The sheer volume of “unprecedented” events over the past five years has underscored the absolute necessity for real-time information and proactive risk management, particularly within Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems.

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 7, 2025

By sharing information such as demand forecasts, inventory levels, production plans, and lead times, you can minimize uncertainty and variability in the supply chain, allowing for more accurate and timely decision-making. To enhance collaboration, consider: Enhancing communication through automated alerts and updates.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2025

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides observations and additional information perspectives related to the 2025 State of Logistics report. The report points to an upcoming period of high uncertainties along with the need to fundamentally rethink supply chain resilience as a strategic imperative. Costs in all of 2024 rose a reported 5.4

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Ware2Go

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Yet even the most successful brands face inventory challenges, and sometimes stockouts are unavoidable. With supply chain issues becoming more frequent due to labor strikes, geopolitical tensions, and climate events, businesses need sophisticated approaches to maintain revenue flow during stockouts. They reduce overstocking.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 28, 2025

In the past, brands could predict customer demands a little bit more easily – based on seasonal patterns, sales projections, and routine reports. With unpredictable events like the Black Friday sales prompting all-time transaction records , eCommerce retailers must react quickly to consumer trends.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

The topic/report will be on the logistics M&A so far this year. The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles.

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o9 Solutions

JULY 14, 2025

Today’s top retailers are shifting from reactive planning to integrated, data-driven strategies that align finance, demand, and inventory from day one. Full-price sell-through represents more than a performance metric for retailers; it’s also a test of how well the business is aligned from plan to shelf.

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Precoro

JUNE 2, 2025

The past few years have blindsided businesses with geopolitical events, market crashes, inflation spikes, and, most recently, tariffs. Financial forecasting has gone from a 'nice-to-have' to a must-have for procurement and financial planning teams. Financial teams often wonder how to do budget forecasting effectively.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 25, 2025

However, today, the term “artificial intelligence” is frequently used as a catch-all for technologies ranging from predictive text and chatbots to deep neural networks and autonomous agents, many of which are only loosely connected to the original notion of “intelligence”. What is Predictive AI?

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ShipBob

JUNE 20, 2025

Trade shows While trade show attendance has been on the decline in recent years, these events remain a viable and important source for new product research and acquisition for buyers. Wholesalers Wholesalers purchase large quantities of products from manufacturers and then resell them to retailers. What are their concerns in surveys?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in supply chain management focuses on using customer data and segmentation strategies to optimize delivery networks and inventory management. A cost-to-serve analysis can assess the profitability of a customer account based on the supply chain resources consumed in serving that customer.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 7, 2025

Long lead times clash with short customer delivery expectations, and part revision cycles make inventory planning difficult. The result is inflated inventory, missed promise dates, and high freight costs. Labor shortages, unavailable tooling, and missed dependencies frequently lead to stoppages, overtime costs, and reduced OEE.

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 9, 2025

At the same time, McKinsey reports that nearly 70% of executives expect AI to materially reshape their operating models within three years. That question shaped the conversations at aim10x Europe, o9 Solutions’ flagship event in Amsterdam. A pricing shift alters forecasts, which affect procurement and ultimately shape capacity.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 20, 2025

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of factors that impact the worlds automotive supply chains from tariffs and other trade policies to increasing extreme weather events , interest rates, inflation, sustainability pressures and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). And they want free or low-cost shipping.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

adults expect to pay more for food this summer compared to last summer due to inflation, and nearly half (47%) expect to pay the same, suggesting 80% report feeling no relief from high grocery prices. consumers, conducted for QR code company, GS1 US , found that 33% of U.S. The survey, released June 23, also found that U.S.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 18, 2024

They want to know what your policy is and how it applies to their specific purchase. 86% of shoppers say they check returns policies before purchasing. Empower Store Associates Some retailers operating marketplaces have found it hard to manage an influx of marketplace purchases being returned to their stores.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 1, 2025

The topic/report will finally be on the logistics M&A through the end of May. The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Click here to send us your comments Just recently, Gartner itself did an interesting look at what supply chain execs were saying at the Orlando conference as well as a similar event in Europe. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Supply Chain Digest Says.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 3, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Where is a firm's earnings over a period of time determined by sales less product costs and general/adminsitrative costs?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

These disruptions highlight the fragility of global supply chains, wherein a single policy can trigger a domino effect across continents, affecting inventory management, logistics and customer satisfaction. With 2025 tariffs increasing component costs, Apple has accelerated efforts to diversify its supply chain. Agriculture U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 6, 2025

Driven by purchases of machinery from the U.S. Logistics firms in Córdoba, Rosario, and Buenos Aires report a spike in inquiries from companies exploring operations, warehousing, or regional distribution outposts. Its not just a local rebound.

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EFT

JUNE 16, 2025

which will cause some tough questions over pricing and inventory strategies, decisions that now seem certain to bleed into wider U.S. Simultaneously, trans-Pacific cargo space is quickly running out, as businesses rush to bring inventories to the US before the tariff pause deadline in mid-August. Publish as a report: inflation.

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