Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Businesses are recognising the need to become good corporate citizens, as well as prepare for regulatory schemes that may require them to reduce carbon emissions. How to Reduce Carbon Emissions in Your Supply Chain 1. Transportation Networks and Modal Shifts A good transportation strategy is one of the best ways to reduce emissions.

Material Savings

RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By maximizing space utilization, improving inventory control , and boosting workflow efficiency, you can unlock significant cost savings and elevate your customer service game. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the key elements of warehouse optimization and provide actionable strategies you can implement today.

Optimal Sourcing

GlobalTranz

JULY 21, 2025

It lays out the who, what, where and how of your freight, making it vital for both transport and dispute resolution. Here's a breakdown of what you'll typically see: BOL Field Purpose Reference/Purchase Order # Identifies the shipment and ties it to business transactions. It's also important to note that a BOL is not optional.

Freight

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Decoding the Procurement Department: A Comprehensive Guide to Roles and Responsibilities This supply chain article provides a comprehensive overview of the procurement department within an organization. Read In Detail About Procurement Department Here 2.

Negotiating Skills

ThroughPut

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As businesses globally focus on reducing lost productivity, costly downtime, and rising inventory expenses, effective spare parts management has become a top priority—especially for asset-intensive industries. Poor spare parts management and planning can significantly impact the bottom line, leading to inventory failures. Let’s get started.

Inventory Reduction

Descartes

JUNE 4, 2025

We continue to see strong interest in our domain expertise and our solutions to help companies navigate the complex trade landscape. Acquisition of 3GTMS On March 24, 2025, Descartes acquired all of the shares of 3GTMS, a leading provider of transportation management solutions. Additions to property and equipment (1.9)

Expense Reduction

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.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 28, 2025

From material shortages to logistical bottlenecks, custom home builders are facing a range of obstacles that threaten project timelines, budgets, and client satisfaction. Factors such as disruptions in production, transportation issues, and increased global demand have led to scarcities in lumber, steel, and other crucial components.

Sourcing Strategies

RFgen

APRIL 18, 2025

Tariffs are reshaping sourcing strategies, forcing tech upgrades, and making inventory planning a lot more complicated. Import tariffs raise the cost of raw materials, components, and finished goods. This strategy, while niche, shows how adaptive companies can be when incentives are clear. How Do Tariffs Affect Supply Chains?

Inventory Reduction

ThroughPut

JUNE 2, 2025

To stay ahead of the curve, industry leaders are turning to data-driven strategies and artificial intelligence (AI) to transform how they manage inventory, forecast demand, and optimize the entire spare parts lifecycle. This lack of transparency hampers accurate demand forecasting, procurement efficiency, and inventory optimization.

Sourcing Strategies

Precoro

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Within this setup, an ERP procurement module helps companies make purchases and manage suppliers. Numbers speak louder: According to Procurement Tactics’ top procurement trends in 2025 , 83% of CPOs prioritize digitization.   Keep reading to learn: What Is ERP in Procurement?

Procurement Solutions

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 11, 2025

Retailers can control branding on their websites and marketing materials, but they lose this control after an order is placed. How White-Label Shipping Helps Retailers Thrive White-label shipping solutions deliver several benefits that can transform a retailer’s operations and customer relationships. What is White-Label Shipping?

Logistics Network Optimization Software

QAD

MAY 22, 2025

While there are no short-term fixes, enterprises should prioritize areas where they can make the quickest gains to reduce costs. Depending on the nature of your business, your trading partners or your location, this could include procurement strategies, demand planning, logistics, and global trade management among others.

Cost Reduction Strategies

SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Economic downturns can disrupt the flow of goods, increase operational costs, and reduce profit margins. In this blog post, well explore the importance of robust supply chains, the key risks they face during economic downturns, and practical strategies. Supply chains are particularly vulnerable during recessions.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If you want to know how these factors influence daily operations or redefine long-term strategies, read on for an insightful look at the future of supply chain management. Automation remains key, improving speed while reducing errors. This isn’t about predicting trends but recognizing changes already unfolding.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Clear Spider

OCTOBER 21, 2024

From raw materials to shipping and storage, businesses across the U.S. Spoiler: Effective inventory management strategies are key to navigating price hikes without passing excessive costs onto consumers. As prices continued to rise, purchasing power plummeted. Spooked by rising inflation and shrinking profit margins?

Inventory Management Software

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

Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Oracle has announced new role-based agents that are being embedded into the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM and Manufacturing software applications suite. Margin and risk resilience Procurement policy advisor : Helps procurement professionals increase the speed and accuracy of creating, processing, and fulfilling purchase requisitions.

Supply Chain Planning Software

ThroughPut

JUNE 2, 2025

To stay ahead of the curve, industry leaders are turning to data-driven strategies and artificial intelligence (AI) to transform how they manage inventory, forecast demand, and optimize the entire spare parts lifecycle. This lack of transparency hampers accurate demand forecasting, procurement efficiency, and inventory optimization.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Billion Acquisition of e2open Australia based logistics software provider WiseTech, developer of logistics execution software CargoWise , announced an agreement to acquire U.S. Risk is assessed for both indirect or direct materials procurement teams and their supply networks. WiseTech Announces $2.1

Supply Chain Planning Software

Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

A manufacturing execution system (MES) is a comprehensive, dynamic software system that monitors, tracks, documents, and controls the process of manufacturing goodsfrom raw materials to finished products. This reduces waste, scrap, overruns and rework.

Manufacturing Procurement

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.

Optimal Sourcing

ThroughPut

JUNE 4, 2025

The ThroughPut Catalyst Program directly addresses the common hurdles organizations face when attempting to digitalize their supply chain processes, such as financial constraints and tool fatigue. Are you a COO, maintenance head, or supply chain director looking to reduce downtime and boost efficiency? About ThroughPut.AI

Supply Chain Design Software

IQMS

JANUARY 27, 2023

The past couple of years’ supply chain delays and uncertainty have led many manufacturers to rethink their long-term supply chain strategies. And increasingly, they are exploring cost-effective nearshoring strategies as a way to gain greater control, shrink transportation times and costs, and improve their competitive position.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As supply chains become more complex and globalized, many companies find it beneficial to rely on third-party logistics (3PL) providers to handle some or all of their transportation, warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment needs. This expertise is invaluable for businesses that need their goods transported efficiently and safely.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Arena Solutions

MAY 13, 2025

European organizations are managing multiple prioritiessustainability, digital infrastructure, circularity, reducing reliance on lithium and fossil fuels, expanding green technology, and meeting the European Unions (EU) 2026 recent regulation, digital product passport (DPP). Who’s Behind the Digital Battery Passports?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 20, 2025

Nonetheless, a smooth and effective post-purchase experience is essential to the success of any e-commerce venture, and domestic shipping is a vital component of this procedure. Shipping affects a customer’s opinion of your brand and level of happiness from the minute they click “purchase” until they receive their goods.

Shipping

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 29, 2024

SCMDOJO Academy elevates your procurement and supply chain skills through its extensive course library. Mastering Procurement – Essentials Skills and Competencies Mastering Procurement by Maryna Trepova is the ultimate Procurement and Purchase Management course for Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Students.

Optimal Sourcing

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Various strategic steps and procurement procedures are incurred to make informed decisions about inventory production. The 7 Stages of the Inventory Life Cycle Procurement Acquiring necessary goods and materials before starting a business is essential. This step involves donation and charity programs.

Inventory Reduction

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. Should We ?

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

JANUARY 15, 2025

Food, apparel, textiles, packaging materials and other consumer products not only cause environmental impacts as theyre produced and transported, but they often end up in landfills. There are a number of practical actions fashion retailers are already taking to reduce returns. Another is profitability.

Retail

QAD

MAY 20, 2025

These include holding back on purchase orders in the hopes that tariffs will be removed or reduced after further trade talks, moving production facilities, or applying for tariff remedy programs. In many companies, including industry giants, strategies that have been in place for a long time often go unexamined.

Global

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

QAD

APRIL 9, 2025

This is compounded by the fact that many raw materials are sourced from a limited number of suppliers and regions. Beyond the well-documented API sourcing problems, shortages in excipients, packaging materials (including vials and syringes), and electronic components for medical devices also contribute to delays.

Supply Chain Disruption

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 27, 2025

The technique is based on the presence of various chemicals that are found in raw materials all over the world, but vary in concentration due to minute differences in climate and environmental conditions. Today, Oritain claims to cover more than 96% of the world’s cotton-growing areas with its tracing tools. And is that changing?

Manufacturing Procurement

ShipBob

JUNE 20, 2025

Cost management challenges Negotiating a reasonable price with suppliers can be tough, as you still have to strike the right balance between product quality and cost savings. Moreover, prices are susceptible to change with fluctuations in tariffs, raw material costs, transportation costs, and exchange rates.

Purchasing Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. The DPP “represents a significant advance in product transparency and sustainability,” according to an EU report published in September of 2024. “As

Manufacturing Procurement