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2023 Ivalua NOW Nashville: Recap + Photos!

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Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] 2023 Ivalua NOW Nashville: Recap + Photos! We can’t recreate Ivalua NOW 2023 Nashville–but we’ll always have the memories! Recognizing Leading Voices in Procurement This year, we recognized customers who made significant strides in their procurement journey over the past year.

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Ferguson’s Commitment to Supply Chain Excellence Drives Customer Satisfaction

Logistics Viewpoints

The company sources goods from 36,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. Michael Jacobs “Well, the last time we spoke, we had just begun our journey with our market distribution center (MDC) strategy. We also opened one in Toronto and we have one opening up in the next several months in Nashville. Tell me what you have been up to!”

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. I find senior executives love to throw around superlatives like customer-centric, agile, efficient and responsive but lack the understanding of how the words translate to supply chain strategy in the real world. Background.

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RLA Inaugural Startup Pitch Contest

Cathy Roberson

Carolina Sisters – Since 2018, Carolina Sisters has been sourcing from retailers and selling pallets of wholesale products to the general public. Pollen Returns - Pollen provides data-driven insights that can help retailers to identify trends and optimize their return strategy. Previously he was with Geodis, Kanga, and Lovesac.

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Singing the inventory blues

Cathy Roberson

Consumers have not necessarily put the brakes on buying stuff, and it's just that some consumers are being more mindful of what to purchase thanks to inflation. The adoption of just-in-case inventory strategies by many retailers due to supply chain disruptions also didn't help much.

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Reverse Logistics emerging from the "dark side" and into earnings calls

Cathy Roberson

I spent time at the conference listening to members’ research needs and, best of all, their willingness to share data so that we can size the total, global, and regional returns market, figure out the average returns volume by type of business (retailer, manufacturer, etc.), by industry and lots more. collecting more than 2.5