BlueYonder

APRIL 17, 2025

Companies importing and exporting goods, be it finished retail products, manufacturing components or materials, now face substantial cost and price pressures that squeeze margins and force difficult pricing, sourcing, operations and distribution decisions. The result?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Kinaxis

AUGUST 11, 2025

But here's the critical difference between LSPs and the rest of the supply chain: while manufacturers and retailers have invested in AI-driven systems that can automatically identify affected products, calculate new landed costs, and adjust sourcing strategies in real-time, most LSPs are still operating with manual processes. Ready to act?

Optimal Sourcing

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

Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2025

These price changes can ripple through supply chains, affecting freight budgets and delivery schedules. How to Tackle It Monitor Market Trends : Stay informed about industry pricing trends and adjust your logistics strategies. Negotiate Carrier Contracts : Lock in stable shipping rates with carriers to mitigate unexpected cost spikes.

Material Savings

Precoro

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These benefits aren’t just about lower prices; they’re also about reducing transportation and inventory costs, which can really add up over time. After the approval stage, the team reaches out to trusted suppliers in their catalog who can deliver the goods. They also continuously track supplier performance.

Pricing Training

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. Typical supply chain risks include: Natural disasters: Earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and pandemics that halt production or transport. Vet thoroughly. Leverage data.

Vendor Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 29, 2025

Will prices rise, and for whom? It demands a deep dive into complex calculations and multi-faceted considerations that impact everything from sourcing and production strategies to long-term investment and risk management. This means that it qualifies and quantifies the value of alternative suppliers in alternative countries.

Cost Reduction Strategies

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Build strong supplier partnerships for long-term stability. Supplier Financial Instability: Bankruptcy or operational shutdowns of key vendors. Logistics & Transportation Failures: Port congestion, rising freight costs, and fuel shortages. Increased costs due to emergency sourcing.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 28, 2025

Factors such as disruptions in production, transportation issues, and increased global demand have led to scarcities in lumber, steel, and other crucial components. To address this challenge, builders can adopt proactive measures such as diversifying suppliers, exploring alternative materials, and placing orders well in advance.

Sourcing Strategies

Clear Spider

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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. Higher Production Costs: Raw material prices have surged, increasing the overall cost of production. Is Your Supply Chain Inflation-Proof?

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

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 24, 2025

Improving Forecast Accuracy and Supplier Relationships Inventory planning often relies on historical sales trends. With MIS training, supply professionals can layer external variables such as seasonal behavior, economic data, or transportation metrics into predictive models. This minimizes strain on suppliers and builds trust.

Vendor Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Strong supplier agreements and pricing structures depend on consistent leadership. When management shifts frequently, relationships with vendors and service providers become unstable, leading to potential renegotiation delays, lost bulk pricing, and inconsistent service levels. Impact on vendor relationships.

Negotiating Skills

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

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? Under the FGP and PF models, the retailers collect the products from the suppliers factory gate.

Price Reduction

Precoro

MARCH 27, 2025

Negotiate better contract terms. For example, companies can negotiate a contract that reduces the per-unit price from $5 to $4.50 Achieved through strategies like bulk purchasing, supplier consolidation, and procurement process automation. Both contribute to overall sourcing cost savings.

Cost Reduction Strategies

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

Precoro

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Within this setup, an ERP procurement module helps companies make purchases and manage suppliers. It helps manage purchasing, supplier relationships, and order processing while integrating procurement with finance, inventory, and other core business functions. Frequently Asked Questions What Is ERP in Procurement?

Procurement Solutions

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

NC State SCRC

JANUARY 3, 2025

The structure used in this approach was intended to not just conduct labor arbitrage, but to also develop core skills in the P2P space through a captive approach: Our sourcing COE is responsible for the low- and medium-complexity deals where the key outcomes desired include quicker turnaround time, throughput, and extracting any value you can.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 10, 2025

Food prices have soared over the recent year or so, and while it affects every consumer, it also affected every farmer first. Agricultural inflation refers to the increase in the prices of agricultural goods and services over time. One of the most notable sectors has been the cost of food.

Waste Reduction

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

Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Tariffs hit hard on the bottom line by hiking up costs across supply chains, thereby affecting sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution decisions. Strategy: Diversification of raw materials sources, exploration of alternative materials, or investment in domestic production are some of the ways to limit exposure to the tariff.

Optimal Sourcing

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. Moving operations closer reduces transportation costs, shortens lead times, and improves supply chain resilience against geopolitical risks.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 30, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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.

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.

Negotiating Skills

Enterra Insights

JANUARY 23, 2025

Jonathan Starks , CEO of FTR Transportation Intelligence, observes, “A trade war would be bad for growth, bad for supply chains, [and] bad for consumers.[2] A related strategy to supply chain diversification is relocating manufacturing facilities to reduce transportation costs and shorten supply lines.

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.

Negotiating Skills

EFT

MAY 26, 2025

tariffs by raising prices across markets to avoid big hikes in the United States that could hurt sales. Tariff crossfire hits Toyota, Nissan, Ford suppliers in Japan Four decades ago, Hiroko Suzuki's father threaded the needle of a U.S. Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1.5 billion in India unit Apple supplier Foxconn (2317.TW)

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

As an example, Gartner cites the 94% of supply chain logistics leaders that either currently have a supply chain management transportation system or plan to deploy one in the next one or two years. ( link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

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. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Where is the metric for determining the sources and uses of cash from three perspectives - operational, investment and financial? We have to keep this in mind.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! 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.

Gartner

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

Freightos

JUNE 12, 2025

With massive datasets behind decisions and external factors like volatility, benchmarking trends, supplier performance, and more, the procurement profession now requires a different skill set—more analytical, with deeper interactions with a limited number of trusted suppliers.

Negotiating Skills

EFT

JUNE 16, 2025

EU prepared to accept flat 10% US tariff with conditions, Handelsblatt reports Brussels negotiators hope that offering to accept U.S. trade negotiations have transitioned from their opening act, with its many twists and turns, into a new, protracted chapter: the Slow Grind. Explainer: What's behind the surge in Japan's rice prices?

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