Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Source: mainebiz.biz In today’s rapidly evolving logistics and supply chain sector, warehouses are increasingly turning to innovative technologies to gain a competitive edge. This presents a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking warehouse owner/operators to create a competitive advantage. According to JLL, the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Together, they presented the vision for the future and innovation priorities. Industry-specific content is available for processes like Source to Settle, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, and more. Concepts like GenAI Assistants and Agents were presented, offering conversational interfaces and on-demand analysis.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Thinking back on the many presentations, panel discussions and conversations over the course of the conference, a few unifying themes come to mind. As the logistics technology sector continues to mature, the number of tools, solutions and platforms that supply chain stakeholders are using (juggling?)

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As a result, hospital chains largely lacked competence in sourcing. In this model, you are presenting the surgeons with all the options. In many healthcare systems, the costs of these supplies and services were not closely examined. The costs were passed down the line to patients and insurers. We built strategic supplier partnerships.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2025

With deep-tier mapping of supply chains, companies can manage upstream supplier risk and downstream buyer exposure while optimizing alternative supplier sourcing and ensuring trade compliance. digital twins) to visualize and assess the outcomes of different planned responses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Companies find it difficult to fully trust the data from suppliers, complicating efforts to ensure product authenticity, safety, and ethical sourcing. This will enable diamond jewelry consumers at scale to engage with the unique journeys their diamonds have taken from source.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shippers’ end-to-end supply chain predictions are based on applying AI to OpenWeb searches, import/export records, data from sourcing platforms like ThomasNet, federal logistics records, and other data. The computer is then presented with those images. The humans label the pictures as dog, not dog, or unclear.

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Resilinc

JUNE 9, 2025

Both scenarios carry hidden dependencies, but overreliance on single or sole sourcing is increasingly a hidden challenge. Tariffs & Trade: The Clock Is Ticking One of the most urgent themes of the presentation was tariff risk escalation. This is especially relevant in light of proposed 2025 U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Bob Gill, General Manager of ARC Advisory Group (right), presented the award to Dave Ching, Head of Sales for Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand (left). Kole AMR integrated with a robotic picking arm in action Kole Robotics, another new participant, presented its range of AMR solutions for retrieval of totes at elevated height.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Companies must harness a wide variety of data structures and formats, spanning internal and external sources. Planners need the right information at the right time, presented with the proper context, to make meaningful decisions. While the abundance of data is seen as an asset, the real question is: What do you do with it?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

This enables companies to adjust sourcing, production, and logistics well in advance of potential disruptions. AI integrates external data sources such as weather forecasts, geopolitical events, and social media trends to refine demand projections. Challenges and Constraints AI adoption presents several challenges.

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Logility

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This eliminates the need for lengthy back-and-forth communications and manual data entry by delivering a single source of truth. Joe Slater and Jonathan Doller at NASCES 2024. Instead of relying on slow-moving processes and outdated information, AI provides real-time insights to stakeholders across all departments.

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ivalua

JUNE 3, 2025

Ivalua commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study , offering key insights into how companies can unlock substantial financial benefits and operational improvements by adopting Ivalua’s unified Source-to-Pay (S2P) platform. 393% ROI from process automation, better visibility, and replacing old systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Facilities sourcing and construction contracting were centralized in the procurement department. At a quarterly meeting of the Institute of Supply Management, Kevin Frechette, the founder and CEO of Fair Market, gave a presentation on tail spend management. There was also a realignment. The machine does all that comparison for you.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Is Strategic Sourcing? A Complete Guide Strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. It is called strategic because it replaces traditional ad hoc approaches to sourcing, which were almost entirely focused on cost savings, item by item.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Click here if you would like to download our presentation on winning the supply chain wars By embracing digital transformation and strategic planning, businesses can turn their supply chains into powerful tools for success. ToolsGroups AI-powered solutions are helping companies navigate uncertainty and stay ahead of the curve.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. The audience assumes that the presenting company is outperforming. Watching the presentations, I wonder how we became so laser-focused on such a limited view of risk.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 7, 2023

Author’s Note: At the ProMat conference earlier this year, I delivered a presentation at the Locus Robotics booth titled “Warehouse Robots: What We’ve Learned So Far” based on research results from our Indago supply chain research community and other sources. Below are some excerpts from the presentation and research.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While AI is readily accessible to just about every business today, in my opinion Samara’s presentation was an important reminder that it needs to be applied thoughtfully and strategically. One of those inspiring stories was presented by HEINEKEN.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now more than ever, organizations must prepare their supply chain for the present and the unknown challenges and opportunities in the future. Doing so helps organizations detect market shifts and makes supply chain decisions more forward-looking than an analysis of the past, present, and at best, a tactical view of the future.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 9, 2023

The panel group is sourced from my group of LinkedIn followers. Summary So, if you are at a conference hearing a presentation on S&OP imagine where the presenting company is on maturity and ask for feedback on this research. My goal is to help. I openly conduct and share research in front of the firewall.) The reason?

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What is Source to Pay (S2P)? Yet in the case of source to pay, it is wholly justified. That said, many organizations, including large enterprises, may not think in terms of source to pay as an end-to-end process, if they think about it at all. Yet there are good reasons to do so.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well. trillion records from 47 data sources in the Cognite platform. It accesses, transforms, and harmonizes data from multiple sources to make it usable and actionable for various business use cases. Industrial data is voluminous.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In our monthly webinar last Wednesday, I presented these results. During the webinar, a respondent asked me to not present just the facts but to give advice. Recently, I was presenting to a supply chain team in Europe. Successful network design strategies are holistic crossing the boundaries of source, make and deliver.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2021

Marisa Brown, Senior Principal Research Lead, Supply Chain Management at APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center) recently gave a presentation at ARC Advisory Group’s Supply Chain Forum. In her presentation, Ms. Because of the pandemic, risk management surrounding sourcing has become top of mind in supply chain organizations.

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ivalua

JANUARY 8, 2023

For procurement organizations, the German Supply Chain Act presents both challenges and opportunities. The Act also presents an opportunity for procurement organizations to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability and ethical conduct. BAFA can impose penalties on businesses that don’t comply with regulations, including: .

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 20, 2022

Source: Fortune. #3: Source: Fortune. Give individual contributors stretch assignments and present these to leadership. Find out what employees value as part of their professional development, work/life balance, and benefits, and go from there. 3: Overcome the Staff Shortage by Supporting a Remote Workforce.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 31, 2024

What is the role of make, source, and deliver? For additional insights check out our presentation at Informs. Define a proactive approach and the value/economies of scale of planning manufacturing/transportation and sourcing together. In small, regional distributors, the goal may be better replenishment.

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ivalua

MAY 28, 2025

Each session, discussion, and presentation showcased the power of teamwork in shaping possibilities that truly matter. Presenters delivered their pitches infused with humor, engaging the audience and making their ideas stand out from the crowd. Brent Griffith Day 2: More Keynotes, Sessions, and Silent Demos!

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 3, 2025

This disconnect between AIs potential and real-world adoption presents a significant opportunity for companies to gain a competitive edge, especially in supply chain management where uncertainty is the norm.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2025

Peter is a widely published author in numerous trade press and frequent presenter at utility industry conferences. His expertise spans across generation, transmission, distribution, and smart grid and renewables-related technologies, with a strong focus on ROI- and strategic marketing- driven concerns.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

Edge computing processing data locally, near the source has emerged as a method to address these challenges by reducing latency and improving resiliency. Data security at the edge also presents risks. Environmental factors present additional challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. Brent pointed out that Covid created small interruptions for many companies in terms of sourcing semiconductor chip materials. In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA.

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Resilinc

APRIL 17, 2024

Avoid the pitfalls of single sourcing and learn strategies to build a more resilient supply chain. Yet, within the pursuit of efficiency lies a lurking peril: single sourcing. The pandemic was a wake-up call to the dangers of single sourcing. What is single sourcing and sole sourcing?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The main take aways from the presentation earlier this year were the following: The auto industry has made supply chain risk management a priority since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. They wanted these diverse sources of information pulled together in one central, user-friendly location they call their “garage.”

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