Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) and the European Unions Forced Labor Regulation (FLR) are prime examples of this tightening framework. Businesses will need to ensure accurate data reporting across core operations such as sourcing, procurement, and transactions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when an adverse event has occurred or may be about to occur. That information comes from inside the platform applications and increasingly from outside sources, like Interos.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

SCB Feature Report From DPW: What’s Next for AI in Supply Chain? Koganti gave the example of the Greeks’ response to the news that the Persians were on their way to invade in the fifth century BCE: Athenian politician and general Themistocles’ response was to urge the building of a navy (which turned out to be devastatingly effective ).

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shippers’ end-to-end supply chain predictions are based on applying AI to OpenWeb searches, import/export records, data from sourcing platforms like ThomasNet, federal logistics records, and other data. These predictions accelerate a company’s ability to verify how its extended supply chain is constructed.

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

This blog offers a clear, practical overview of what spend analysis is, how it supports strategic sourcing, and why it matters for both direct and indirect procurement. When done right, spend analysis enables cost savings, supplier optimization, risk reduction, and more strategic sourcing decisions. The culprit?

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Optimizing fulfillment requires a series of steps to get a shipment from its source to the end customer. These steps include sourcing and receiving inventory, storing inventory, order processing, picking and packing an order, shipping the order, and returns management. Read the full report here.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Industry-specific content is available for processes like Source to Settle, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and more. Examples of automatable processes include Invoice Processing, Sales Order Entry, and Customer Account Creation. Smart Import is also being leveraged to accelerate data integration from various sources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

In a recent study, almost three-quarters (74%) of shippers reported they would switch to 3PL providers based on their AI capabilities. Whether supply chain and logistics teams are looking for new sources of inventory, transportation or warehousing, a full-service logistics software partner can seamlessly connect them with the right partners.

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Logility

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This eliminates the need for lengthy back-and-forth communications and manual data entry by delivering a single source of truth. For example, budgeting becomes less of a guessing game when AI can instantly calculate and simulate different scenarios. The result?

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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.

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Precoro

MAY 19, 2025

Examples of non-compliant procurement Types of procurement compliance Procurement compliance KPIs Purchasing compliance roadblocks Procurement compliance: Best practices checklist Frequently asked questions about procurement compliance What is procurement compliance? Unsustainable sourcing.

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Precoro

JUNE 3, 2025

How to establish a category management system Examples of categories and strategies Why category management in procurement matters How Precoro can help you establish a category management system Frequently asked questions about category management services What is category management? Read on to learn: What is category management?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 25, 2024

Wikipedia In 2014, I was exploring methods to publish what is now the Supply Chains To Admire report. This data source synchronizes corporate reporting across global markets while tracking restatements, name changes, and currency shifts.) We have archived corporate reporting from Y charts for 1982-2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For example, most people expect free next-day delivery for online purchases as a result of Amazon Prime. On top of that, some retailers are developing sustainability scorecards for items, allowing consumers to see hoe sustainably sourced and delivered their order is. Supply chain sustainability increases profitability.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 8, 2025

The Importance of Global Manufacturing Ecosystems Example: The iPhone. Batteries are sourced from South Korea and China. 1] Example: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Canada contributes significant components, with Peace Brigades International-Canada reporting that each jet contains $2.3 Computer chips are made in Taiwan.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Digital procurement streamlines workflows and unifies data, enabling faster sourcing, better collaboration, and improved accuracy. Digital procurement is the use of digital technologies to enhance, automate, and optimize procurement processes across the entire source-to-pay (S2P) lifecycle.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

Edge Hardware: The battle for edge hardware also intensified in 2024, as companies sought to deploy AI capabilities closer to the source of data. ChatGPT Search : This feature gives users a way to get answers from relevant web sources. For example, OpenAI has received $11.3 billion in funding, and Anthropic has raised $7.7

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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. Now well dive into best practices in these critical areas to ensure a more effective and resilient sourcing strategy. Automation can also play a role here.

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Precoro

MAY 13, 2025

  In this guide, we’ll explore what cost efficiency is, examples, and best practices on how cost efficiency can make your company more competitive and profitable in today's fast-paced economy. Example of cost efficiency A TechRepair Company operates two service plans: Plan A costs $6,000 monthly and services 1,200 devices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

In December of 2023 it was reported that $1.2 Mr. Daniels reports they have 870 employees, so based on a market study recently completed by ARC, this claim is credible. Daniels reports they have 870 employees, so based on a market study recently completed by ARC, this claim is credible. Lately, Exiger has been in the news.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. Who Should Prioritize an S2P Digital Transformation?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2022

For example, the rapid increase in the price of oil to over $100 a barrel for WTI is sure to result in additional inflation in our current inflationary environment. For example, Volkswagen is halting production at two electric vehicle plants in Germany as a result of interruptions of components sourced from Ukraine.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 3, 2025

In fact, Gartner also found that only 10% of CEOs say their business uses AI strategically, and just 9% of technology leaders report having a clearly defined AI vision statement. ToolsGroups machine learning engine, for example, uses deep learning to analyze historical data and accurately identify future demand trends.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 23, 2025

To strengthen resiliency, companies invested in AI and machine learning, made strides to reduce dependency on single sourcing, and prioritized nearshoring and reshoring efforts. Read more in our special report. Learn more about the latest bans in our special report. Reach out to learn more about our Hurricane Simulator.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

We’re talking about solving for the entirety of the procurement lifecycle from strategic sourcing through execution and analysis. Market conditions change faster than traditional reporting cycles can capture, and the complexity of global supply chains means that important signals are often lost in the noise.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

Of the professionals surveyed, 59% saw the gap between procurement/sourcing and supply chain to be a major disconnect, and the most pressing pain point. For example, one of the key decisions that a manufacturer needs to make is should they continue to buy goods from one of their suppliers. Networks and Sourcing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Let me give you example. for more on this topic, check out the report on Customer-Centric Supply Chains.). For more on cost-to-serve analysis check out our recent report on supply chain finance. For more on S&OP and building a resilient process check out our report, Why is S&OP So Hard? Cost-to-Serve Analysis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Self-driving supply chains are an example. There is no magic ball on design: the organization’s reporting structures vary by culture and size. As shown in Figure 1, the reporting relationships vary. Supply Chain Reporting Structures. For example, are you using actual lead-time data? The facts are clear.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Transportation is, of course, a major source of green house emissions. For example, Oracle is using average emission from a 5-ton truck, or a bulk tanker. For example, if they buy a component for their hardware products in Thailand, they have an estimate for the logistics emissions associated with the component.

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Taulia

APRIL 10, 2025

7 insights from The Rise of AI in the Finance Function report and debate Brady Cale, CTO, considers the findings of Taulias research into AI with peers The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the finance function is not a future state; it is here and now. So, they are spending more time on understanding the data.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The CNW Group reports, “Three quarters of businesses worldwide are overhauling their supply chains by working with more rather than fewer suppliers to mitigate risks in an increasingly fragmented global environment. The most recent examples are European tariffs on Chinese autos and the U.S. Supply Chain Restrictions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Discover capability gaps and create sourcing events Seek and discover what capabilities the organization may be lacking, such as vulnerabilities or inefficiencies in transportation or supplier capacity. By identifying these gaps, you can create sourcing events to close them. <br>- Organize sourcing events to address gaps.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 25, 2021

One of our customers sources materials from a global network with long lead times. Predicted stock-outs can be seen in the example in Figure 1 below. The report detailing the start and end dates of each projected stock-out along with the associated lost sales projection. Evaluating stock-out versus long lead times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations look for reducing dependencies on concentrated sources of supply, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South Asian countries will start providing viable alternatives to the current manufacturing powerhouse countries. American Supply Chain Resilience Act and the German Supply Chain Act are just two examples of this.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2023

My next step was to write a report, an overview of the market. I wrote this report three times over the last decade. New players have a low response rate, but the data is promising (examples are Board and Garvis). I find LinkedIn to be a great source to get data. Industry Analysis. It did little to help.

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