Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In the end-to-end source-to-pay (S2P) process , strategic sourcing is the link between spend analytics, category management and contracts management, and is supported by supplier intelligence. Which Suppliers Are Truly Strategic? Even the largest organizations have limited time and resources.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2025

This week, the organization reported that net sales decreased 2 percent to $19.5 The essence of General Mill’s problem is that consumers are turning away from processed food. It does not fit into traditional supply chain models. In response, the organization became more marketing-driven. The result? Operating profit of $3.3

Material Savings

RFgen

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This article will examine the causes of these phenomena, provide real-world examples from different industries, and offer strategies to mitigate their effects. This artificial demand spike makes it challenging for suppliers to differentiate between true demand increases and temporary fluctuations due to pricing strategies.

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2025

According to our 2024 report, Generative AI in the B2B Marketplace , 81% of B2B businesses are already investing in AI, with 79% anticipating increasing their AI budgets within the next year. 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.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 14, 2025

Artificial intelligence enhances decision-making through predictive analytics. For industries such as food and pharmaceuticals, this level of transparency is crucial for ensuring quality and safety. Furthermore, businesses that embrace green practices often see cost savings from energy efficiency and waste reduction.

Waste Reduction

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.

Manufacturing Procurement

Bristlecone

JANUARY 8, 2025

Supply chain digitalization enables companies to improve operational efficiency, speed up processes, provide better insights, and reduce total acquisition costs. Further, organizations can reduce their environmental impact due to digitalization and thus contribute towards sustainability and CSR strategies.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth. 2) According to a 2012 report into corporate insolvencies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, 44% of businesses in Australia failed because of poor strategic management.

Inventory Reduction

crisp

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Retailers’ investments in AI to realize this value have led to two key developments: consumer technology that personalizes shopping experiences and drives purchase behavior; and new, more robust data infrastructure and reporting solutions to drive supplier success.

Procurement Analytics

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

Manufacturing Procurement

RFgen

JANUARY 16, 2025

We’re talking real-time tracking, automated purchasing, and a whole lot less stress. Automated Purchase Order Generation: Maintain optimal stock levels by automatically generating purchase orders when supplies run low. It’s not just a nice-to-have; it’s the key to staying competitive.

Inventory Management Software

crisp

MAY 21, 2025

In a Deloitte survey of retail professionals , 60% reported that AI tools improved their ability to forecast demand and manage inventory in 2024. Large language model (LLM) analytics solutions allow users to query historical and real-time data using natural language (NLP), delivering instant insights down to the SKU and store level.

Inventory Reduction

Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

For this reason, KPIs are essential for any business improvement strategy. Unlike most of the KPIs we recommend, perfect order is a composite of several elementary metrics. Perfect order results can help you assess performance and diagnose issues impacting service, costs, and overall supply chain effectiveness. What about DIFOT?

KPI

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

The large language models that make up search engines will no longer need keyword searches, instead delivering well-articulated answers by using the semantic context of a query. For example, a dispatcher is responsible for purchasing components for pre-production and stocking of two new products.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 27, 2025

The science has proved useful in achieving traceability across numerous types of products, including food, pharmaceuticals and cotton. Jones says consumers are indeed becoming more aware of product origin today, even if the information provided to them at point of purchase remains extremely limited. And is that changing?

Manufacturing Procurement

QAD

JULY 22, 2025

Why Leading Food Manufacturers Choose QAD to Power End-to-End Operational Agility Competing on Margin and Agility: Why Manufacturers Must Rethink Their Systems The food industry is fiercely competitive. Growth via acquisition becomes a strain instead of a strategy. It happens when strategy, execution, and systems align.

Eliminating Excel in Purchasing

Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A year ago, journalist Christopher Wolf reported, “Spooky season is here, and it’s back in a big way. Or is it simply because of genius marketing strategies taking a once child targeted holiday and making it equally celebrated by adults?” Now, this statistic has jumped to 6 in 10 costumes purchased for adults.

North America

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 15, 2025

Weighing initial outlays against long-term reliability defines effective investment strategies. Evaluating total cost of ownership beyond the price tag Focusing solely on the upfront cost of industrial equipment can mask the true financial commitment required over its lifetime.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 31, 2025

This becomes especially critical when servicing hybrid customer models, where B2B buyers might expect the conveniences of a B2C purchase. Customers expect inventory insights, delivery options and fulfillment transparency to be instantly accessible. OMS must evolve alongside these expectations.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 24, 2024

With the new year on the horizon, we’re finalizing 2025 supply chain strategies for our most important customers. Know exactly what retail buyers expect from you and how to avoid damaging your relationships by reading our Retail Buyer Report. learn more Shipping to KeHE KeHE is a wholesale food distributor.

Retail

Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Organic Growth Versus Acquisition Through the late nineties and early 2000s, the two ERP giants slugged it out through different strategies. In 2006, Oracle strengthened its customer relationship management (CRM) portfolio by acquiring Siebel Systems, and in 2007, it boosted its financial planning and analytics capabilities with Hyperion.

Manufacturing Procurement

Locus

JUNE 24, 2025

With increasingly complex delivery models, shorter delivery windows, and rising operational costs, businesses can no longer afford inefficient routing strategies. This makes them especially valuable for businesses operating in fast-paced environments like e-commerce, food delivery, and last mile delivery operations.

Optimization Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

With unpredictable shifts in consumer behavior, seasonal spikes, and mixed fulfillment models like omnichannel, adaptability is no longer a nice-to-have; it’s a requirement. If you want to set a fulfillment strategy for the next five to 10 years, you need flexibility without downtime.

Vendor Strategies

Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Those of us fortunate enough to live in peace and safety with easy access to food outlets seldom think about the domestic food supply chain — let alone the global food supply chain. We believe such food items will always be available. Yet food is more than an enjoyable good — it is a necessity for survival.

Material Savings

ShipBob

APRIL 9, 2025

Core functions of warehousing every brand should know Security and risk mitigation strategies in warehousing functions How technology powers each warehousing function How ShipBob optimizes warehouse functions for ecommerce brands Get started with ShipBob Warehouse functions FAQs Many dismiss warehousing simply as storage.

Warehousing

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 12, 2025

Additionally, a well-designed eCommerce supply chain management strategy can improve delivery times, order tracking, and overall customer satisfaction. Addressing the Challenges through Supply Chain Excellence To address eCommerce supply chain management challenges, businesses should consider the following strategies: 1.

Supply Chain Design Software

Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Benefits can be multiple, including a boost to the bottom line as IT vendor Dell showed in reducing operational costs by US $1.5 billion by using CRM and SCM in a new multichannel market strategy. US supermarket Walmart and Target both use CRM to run sales promotions aimed at specific customer groups, using these business analytics.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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 are paying closer attention to food labels, and seeking smarter ways to shop.

Purchasing Skills

Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

These predictions mostly seem obvious. I got a pitch from the PR firm representing Everstream Analytics that was different. Everstream Analytics is sitting on a vast trove of risk data. The company applies AI and other analytics to this data to provide supply chain risk analytics and insights to its clients.

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 26, 2025

Such purchases are famous for good results in terms of promotion. Hashtags are Of Key Importance Whether a hashtag challenge is part of your TikTok influencer marketing strategy or not, you should surely produce a memorable hashtag to use alongside your patronized posts. Yes, it comes from comments, likes, and other things.

How To

Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Unexpectedly, however, Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 agonists, like Ozempic, Trulicity, and Victoza, are significantly affecting consumers, food suppliers, and food retailers. Lifestyle journalist Stacey Leasca reports, “One in eight. ”[6] And, as Leasca notes, “Food brands are taking notice.”

Price Reduction

IT Supply Chain

JULY 29, 2025

Traditional implementations require substantial capital investments and lengthy deployment timelines, which cloud ERP eliminates through scalable, subscription-based models that deliver immediate value. Its service offerings menu includes ERP strategy, integration, implementation and support across multiple platforms.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Second is the broader strategic importance: As the macroeconomic environment tightens, and tariffs start to bite harder, it will be crucial to both lower operating costs and also protect against increased volatility. Inventory is capital sitting on the floor. A WMS is only as good as the data you feed it.

Negotiating Skills

SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

They improve demand prediction accuracy, helplessly align production, and procure 14 forecasting methods that can be applied to a business for growth and future improvements. The MOQ strategy helps free up capital; however, it also helps minimize loss by reducing the amount of inventory they need to purchase at once.

Inventory Reduction

EFT

JULY 22, 2025

Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it will now review all imports of the products it regulates regardless of their quantity or value, after a federal law enforcement agency recently rescinded an exemption for small shipments. Article Type: Reports & Analysis Embedded video for The need to know Publish as a report:

Manufacturing Procurement

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.

Purchasing Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

With 2025 tariffs increasing component costs, Apple has accelerated efforts to diversify its supply chain. While this mitigates tariff costs, it requires rigorous supplier vetting and coordination, increasing operational complexity. Walmart reported a 5% rise in logistics costs due to longer shipping routes. A 2025 U.S.

Price Reduction