Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2025

Shipping packaging materials comes with its own set of challenges that can disrupt operations and impact profitability. These price changes can ripple through supply chains, affecting freight budgets and delivery schedules. Negotiate Carrier Contracts : Lock in stable shipping rates with carriers to mitigate unexpected cost spikes.

Material Savings

SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2025

They can raise consumer prices, reduce imports, change trade patterns, and cause other countries to retaliate. Can you increase prices for customers? Negotiate better prices with suppliers, use alternative materials, or implement lean manufacturing. Economic Effects : Tariffs have widespread economic effects.

Negotiating Skills

My Office Apps

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) helps businesses manage supplier interactions, track performance, and ensure smooth procurement processes. Let’s explore why these features are crucial for optimizing supplier relationships and driving business growth. Why is Vendor Relationship Management Important?

Vendor Strategies

ShipBob

JUNE 20, 2025

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from? This makes it essential that buyers understand where they are sourcing their products from and how that ultimately affects their brand. What is product sourcing?

Purchasing Skills

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Improve collaboration between suppliers, manufacturers, and logistics partners. Businesses need to identify vulnerabilities in their networks, from supplier dependencies to transportation delays. These include alternative sourcing strategies, backup transportation routes, and emergency inventory reserves.

Supply Chain Planning Software

SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2025

Perhaps a critical supplier goes out of business, a natural disaster halts shipments, or new regulations are introduced that throw a wrench in your entire process. Geopolitical issues: Trade wars, tariffs , political instability, or regulatory changes that affect sourcing. Evaluating these risks is essential. Vet thoroughly.

Vendor Strategies

SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

A scorecard acts as your dashboard, providing crucial visibility that helps you: Make Data-Driven Decisions: Replace guesswork with facts when evaluating suppliers, processes, and inventory levels. Control Costs: Track value beyond just the purchase price and manage inventory effectively. Supplier lateness? Logistics issues?

Pricing Training

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

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

indicates cost inefficiency, signaling a need for supplier negotiations or alternative sourcing strategies. Logistics and Freight Cost Optimization CPI can help measure transportation cost efficiency, ensuring that freight and shipping expenses remain within the planned budget. A CPI of 0.83

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 3, 2025

Operating a beach gear store in Florida demands careful planning and strategic sourcing to ensure that customers find exactly what they need for their seaside adventures. As an entrepreneur, securing a reliable network of suppliers is pivotal to maintaining a diverse and appealing inventory.

Florida

SCMDOJO

JUNE 3, 2025

Picture yourself at your local hardware store comparing two paint cans that appear completely identical, yet they have completely different price tags. Transparent Costs and Building Strong Supplier Relationships: Discover the valuable role transparency plays in building trust with customers and suppliers. Today though?

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RFgen

APRIL 18, 2025

China, and the EU, trade barriers are driving more than price changes. Tariffs are reshaping sourcing strategies, forcing tech upgrades, and making inventory planning a lot more complicated. Immediate Cost Surges and Planning Chaos The most obvious tariff impact on supply chains is pricing.

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 24, 2025

Improving Forecast Accuracy and Supplier Relationships Inventory planning often relies on historical sales trends. This minimizes strain on suppliers and builds trust. Using Data to Improve Supplier and Cost Decisions Beyond efficiency, MIS training emphasizes strategic data use. This complexity makes visibility essential.

Vendor Strategies

Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Factory Gate Pricing (FGP) and Primary Freight (PF) strategies, as adopted by major grocery retailers, are causing a shudder up the spine of many retail suppliers. What are Factory Gate Pricing and Primary Freight strategies? Otherwise known in shipping terms as FIS (Free Into Store). Now, the issue.

Price Reduction

Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

Reported May 20 Let me take a moment to comment on our global sourcing strategy. Today, more than 50% of our purchases are sourced in the United States. During that period, the vast majority of our supplier partners developed diversified sourcing strategies across several countries, including the United States.

Purchasing Skills

Precoro

JULY 1, 2025

Definition: Vendor relations is a strategic practice of cultivating productive, long-term relationships with suppliers. When done right, it’s beneficial for both sides: vendors get a reliable client, while companies benefit from a stable supply chain, consistent product quality, better pricing, and room to grow and collaborate.

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QAD

MAY 22, 2025

Strategic management in this area can yield substantial savings and build stronger supplier relationships. Procurement teams should build long-term, collaborative relationships with key direct suppliers. When costs rise, companies particularly larger ones may try and pass the total cost increase onto suppliers.

Cost Reduction Strategies

IT Supply Chain

JUNE 18, 2025

The smartest contractors are switching to integrated platforms that unify purchasing, payments, and supplier coordination all in one place. Top-performing firms are using project management software that connects the dots between site needs, supplier availability, and accounting. When suppliers don’t get paid promptly, orders stall.

Manufacturing Procurement

Precoro

MAY 19, 2025

Its purpose is to avoid unethical and harmful behavior that can lead to fines, supplier issues, and reputational damage. Recent policies cover sustainable and ethical efforts, such as sustainable sourcing , diversity initiatives, and environmental impact. Unsustainable sourcing. Expired supplier certifications.

Procurement Analytics

Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2025

According to its web site, Clarium is a healthcare technology company that is transforming how the hospital supply chain is managed by providers and suppliers. As Flocks network scales with every new shipment, the increased density creates more STL opportunities and more data, further improving AI -powered pooling and pricing capabilities.

Supply Chain Planning Software

ThroughPut

MAY 15, 2025

Inefficient procurement results in reactive buying at premium prices and missed opportunities for savings. Delays in sourcing critical components can result in cascading downtime, missed service windows, and lost revenue opportunities. Excess inventory ties up capital, increases storage costs, and leads to waste.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

These tariffs will raise costs, disrupt supply chains, and force companies to rethink sourcing and logistics strategies. or shift sourcing to Mexico and Canada under USMCA. Investing in local suppliers and manufacturers strengthens regional trade networks, reducing exposure to geopolitical trade disputes.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 30, 2025

Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Suppliers will respond when they are made part of the team, and they have a lot to bring to the game. Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Warehousing

EFT

JULY 15, 2025

Trump intensifies trade war with threat of 30% tariffs on EU, Mexico President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose a 30% tariff on imports from Mexico and the European Union starting on August 1, after weeks of negotiations with the major U.S. trading partners failed to reach a comprehensive trade deal.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 23, 2025

The introduction of Gen AI into demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, and supplier selection has allowed the industry to enhance operations by analyzing vast datasets in real time, improving accuracy and reducing operational costs. Nearshoring also supports sustainability by minimizing carbon emissions from long-distance shipping.”

Supply Chain Planning Software

EFT

JUNE 23, 2025

European truckmakers tackle rare-earths bottleneck with stockpiling, supply chain shifts European truckmaker Volvo Group has been seeking alternative sources of rare earths and Daimler Trucks has been building inventories to deal with supply issues linked to Chinese export curbs, saying lessons had been learned from the chip crisis.

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EFT

MAY 26, 2025

tariffs by raising prices across markets to avoid big hikes in the United States that could hurt sales. GM to stop exporting vehicles from US to China, company says General Motors late last week informed employees and dealers for its China export business it would stop shipping vehicles to China from the United States, the company said.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Suppliers will respond when they are made part of the team, and they have a lot to bring to the game. Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services. costs are 20 to 40% higher.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Exiger Perspectives

MARCH 11, 2025

largest supplier of softwood lumber, heightened tariffs could leave industries reliant on lumber, including construction and logistics, vulnerable to increased costs and supply constraints. softwood lumber imports are sourced from Canada. Canada trade tensions may introduce further complexities in procurement and contract negotiations.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 24, 2025

Source: ISM So mixed signals on the economy, with weak but and barely positive Q1 GDP, then likely a somewhat better Q2, but the PMI indicating a prolonged manufacturing slump, with weak forecasts for full year growth. It was a slight down six months for oil prices in the first half of the year. In fact, at index level of 100.2,

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Digest

AUGUST 6, 2025

A: Growth in technology has resulted in a proliferation of new data sources and metrics. Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Suppliers will respond when they are made part of the team, and they have a lot to bring to the game.

Supply Chain Planning Software

GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These trade barriers, imposed by governments to control the flow of goods, can drastically affect everything from pricing to supply chains to overall business strategy. Revenue generation: Tariffs are a source of government income, funding public infrastructure and other national initiatives. What is the definition of tariffs?

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 22, 2025

“This approach can work,” Aronow says, “but only after the CFO and business leaders agree to invest in additional and flexible sources of supply. In the spirit of not letting a good crisis go to waste, a silver lining to this year’s uncertain trade environment is that it has at least unlocked new sourcing options.”

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? Suppliers will respond when they are made part of the team, and they have a lot to bring to the game. Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Gartner

NC State SCRC

MAY 20, 2025

Contract Enforcement : How might companies need to restructure force majeure clauses to accommodate future tariff-induced price fluctuations, and what litigation patterns could emerge if these clauses are tested? For that reason, it is almost irrelevant when it comes to contractual negotiations after a disruption occurs.

Supply Chain Planning Software

EFT

MAY 12, 2025

As trade talks begin, Chinese exporters prepare to get goods moving to US again China-based shipping agents have resumed buying container space for goods headed for the United States after a series of U.S. tariffs to spark price hikes that will drive American consumer demand down. President Donald Trump's tariff increases.

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EFT

JULY 1, 2025

US demand for China-made goods ebbs on tariff worries; ocean shipping rates drop Rates for shipping cargo containers from China to the U.S. Target explores factory-direct shipping model, Bloomberg News reports Target (TGT.N) Target explores factory-direct shipping model, Bloomberg News reports Target (TGT.N) T) advantage.

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