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.

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QAD

APRIL 9, 2025

Can You Prevent Supply Chain Disruptions in Life Sciences? Supply chain disruptions in the life sciences industry can have serious consequences. While its impossible to eliminate all risks, companies and the industry at large can take proactive steps to minimize disruptions and improve supply chain resilience.

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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. The need to innovate, automate and contain costs calls for optimum performance across the manufacturing value chain.

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Precoro

MARCH 31, 2025

Think back to the last time your business hit a procurement roadblock. Perhaps it was a mixed-up purchase order or an inaccurate sales order—pricey yet worthwhile lessons. In this guide, we walk you through basic procurement concepts (e.g., What Is a Purchase Order? Purchase Order Function Together?

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Locus

JUNE 24, 2025

It is a cornerstone of modern logistics, supported by fleet management tools designed to determine the most efficient route, minimize travel time, reduce fuel consumption, consider vehicle capacity and ensure timely deliveries. They analyze millions of permutations in seconds to find the best routing solution.

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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. Time to Start Preparing for the Digital Product Passport SCB FEATURE Selling Into the EU?

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 17, 2025

Top 10 Data Extraction Tools in 2025 By Rob Jackson (pictured) Content Writer 101 Views Let’s be real: in 2025, the phrase “data is the new oil” is about as fresh as a three-day-old cup of office coffee. The right data extraction tool. Automated data extraction tools have gone from “nice-to-have” to “must-have.” The difference?

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Exiger Perspectives

JUNE 11, 2025

Why Supply Chain Visibility is Critical Hope King, Axios Events Host & Moderator I do want to start big picture because Exiger’s AI is built to provide transparency into supply chains. We’re completely fragile to the supply chains that support us. You need to be able to map those supply chains.

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ShipBob

APRIL 9, 2025

From receiving and storing inventory to picking, packing, and shipping orders, there are critical functions that occur within the warehouse that keep your supply chain running smoothly. Warehouse functions are the essential activities performed within a warehouse that ensure products move efficiently through the supply chain.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 25, 2025

The use cases cover the entire lifecycle of manufactured goods, from product design through supply chain optimization to digital twins and predictive maintenance. AI-driven topology optimization tools such as Autodesk Fusion 360 or PTC Creo Generative Design use AI to generate multiple design alternatives based on constraints (e.g.,

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 22, 2025

The Importance of Software Development for the Pharmaceutical Market! It offers wide options of pharmaceutical and beauty supplies. This guide will help you shop for pharmacy and beauty supplies online as easily as 1,2,3! This makes sure that there is equal access to essential pharmaceutical and beauty products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

The pitches share a sneak peek of the predictions that a CEO at a solutions company is making and then asks the journalist if they want to interview the CEO. The company applies AI and other analytics to this data to provide supply chain risk analytics and insights to its clients. These predictions mostly seem obvious.

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IQMS

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI training systems running in the cloud, less expensive 3D printed end-of-arm tooling, and robotics as a service from companies like Rapid Robotics are pushing the return on investment (ROI) for pick-and-place and assembly automation to new levels of short-run practicality.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A look at how Trump’s proposed tariffs impact trade and supply chain including supply chain projections and actionable steps businesses can take to prepare now. Numerous industries like automotive, appliances, industrial, defense, pharmaceuticals, and high-tech electronics would likely be affected.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Having a clear and current view of inventory becomes the foundation for intelligent procurement, better vendor negotiations and smart reallocation of inventory across nodes. We now have the tools to track inventory more accurately, while spending less money on tracking. Inventory is capital sitting on the floor.

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QAD

MAY 15, 2025

A company that uses advanced, connected software will yield more valuable information to work with, since their system will provide real-time data and a thorough look into operations across the company. Purchasing additional equipment may also be needed if the demand will be consistent. Additional shifts or overtime may be required.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 11, 2025

They should be able to make decisions, purchase items as needed, and avoid necessary paperwork, red tape and delays. This is very helpful to know, since employees can often waste time just to make themselves seem valuable and useful, but that behavior can be a money sink for the business. © 2025 All Rights Reserved.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 26, 2025

In “Supply Chain Reset: Overcoming Pharma & Healthcare Supply Chain Challenges”, Joe Lynch and Michael Needham , a Principal at Efficio, discuss how to build resilient supply chains using data-driven strategies and a hands-on consulting approach to achieve both cost savings and operational resilience in the complex pharma and healthcare sectors.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

For many, higher costs, supply chain delays, and unpredictable inventory flows are creating significant hurdles. While navigating tariffs requires short-term tactics such as pricing adjustments and inventory management, it’s also important to think about the following long-term strategies: Diversify supply chains.

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EFT

MAY 19, 2025

bookings for container transport from China to the United States spiked almost 300% in the wake of the United States and China pausing punishing tit-for-tat tariffs, container-tracking software provider Vizion said on Wednesday. President Donald Trump's tariffs put pressure on supply-chain costs for companies.

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 19, 2025

Around 47% of consumers state they are likely to purchase from a brand that includes diversity in its advertising. That is, why certain colors might be problematic, how family structures influence purchasing decisions, or what social media platforms matter in different regions. expect from online brands today has completely changed.

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IT Supply Chain

JUNE 6, 2025

In this blog post, you’ll discover how apps, smart tools, and even artificial intelligence are making personal finance simpler and smarter. These tools are helpful because they show your progress clearly. This means the more you use these tools, the better they get at helping you. Some apps even let you set goals.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 3, 2016

by Bill DuBois I recently attended the LogiPharma conference in Princeton, NJ to hear a number of speakers give their thoughts on the state of the pharmaceutical supply chain. He talked about the 5 C’s for a CMO relationship in pharma. For the pharma CMO relationship it was worth calling out compliance.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2025

In this article, we’ll explore one of the most popular solutions, RDP Wrapper , and explain why it’s not the best option for Windows Home users. RDP Wrapper: Not the Best Option for Remote Access One of the most widely discussed solutions for enabling Remote Desktop on Windows 10/11 Home is RDP Wrapper.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

For businesses, DPPs are becoming essential to comply with best practice guidance as well as coming statutory regulations that demand transparency in supply chains. As a result, DPPs are emerging as a straightforward, common sense solution for meeting these needs efficiently. What Components Comprise a Digital Product Passport?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Over the years, cost and efficiency ruled the supply chain agenda. The Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) has gained prominence as organizations tackle the disruption and prepare for a post-COVID world. The CPO and CSCO have stepped up to the challenges brought forth by COVID-19.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Wikipedia Unleashing the Contrarian Here are my thoughts this morning over coffee: Gartner Top 25: Really A Celebration of Supply Chain Leadership? Designed to lift the profession and celebrate supply chain results, I struggle to find that the methodology supports either objective. A Focus On Risk.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supply chain is a complex system with increasing complexity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. When companies want to digitally transform their supply chain capabilities, moving to an integrated business planning process (IBP) is often at the heart of the transformation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

. <Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supply chain planning market is a mess. Most have purchased software, but are dependent on Excel spreadsheets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2022

Much has been written about what it takes to run a successful supply chain in the era of “get it to me fast and get it to me cheap.” Supply chain professionals are looking for ways to store goods closer to customers by investing in micro fulfillment centers and to optimize their facilities so orders can be processed faster.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Disruption in supply chain planning is happening. We are on a path to reinvent decision-support technologies like supply chain planning. They were very proud of their work in planning with a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers. They are often supply chain superheroes. The third act is starting.

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Precoro

JULY 1, 2024

Small companies may also lack the resources to create a dedicated procurement team for proper sourcing and supplier vetting. Group purchasing organizations can be the perfect way for these companies to increase cost savings. Learn how they work, their benefits and limitations, and how they fit in with procurement software.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Hottest Growth Sectors in Supply Chain Management. Over the last several months, I have had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of CEOs, vice presidents, directors of operations and various management personnel within the supply chain management (SCM) industry. Pharmaceutical. Conclusion. About the Author.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series on Supplier Quality Management processes and how to evaluate your suppliers from Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chain. Therefore, it is paramount for you as a logistics and supply chain professional to have a keen sense of how to properly evaluate a supplier.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In supply chain management, it is widely accepted that holding enough finished goods inventory to fulfill every order is just too costly. Ipsen , a global bio-pharmaceutical company with $3 billion in annual revenues, disproves that. Ipsen , a global bio-pharmaceutical company with $3 billion in annual revenues, disproves that.

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