Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

The company has faced sourcing constraints as a result of the war in Ukraine, causing the company to rely on second sourcing capabilities for its mustard procurement. Thankfully, for McCormick, no one raw material makes up more than 5 percent of its total cost of goods sold.

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Locus Robotics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As companies look for more warehouse facility space, demand for industrial real estate could reach an additional one billion square feet by 2025, according to commercial real estate services firm JLL. Integrators need longer lead times for installations at a time when demand is rapidly rising.

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Proxima

JULY 29, 2020

For those in procurement and supply chain, we wanted to offer our thoughts on some of the most critical supply chain challenges the sector will face in the coming months including key insights on margin/ratio maintenance, managing long term remote work, and learnings from the Wirecard financial services scandal. Wall Street. Canary Wharf.

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

Procurement has remained an afterthought at most organizations when the topic shifts to growing revenue. Innovative procurement leaders are positioning the function to be a driver of growth and thereby further elevating the function’s status. Procurement is notoriously bad at marketing itself, to its own disservice.

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ivalua

JUNE 7, 2021

With businesses’ focus shifting from damage control to restoring growth, innovative CPOs are encouraging their procurement teams to prioritise supplier innovation and revenue growth opportunities. . Procurement’s role and status have been on an upward trajectory for many years, accelerating during the Covid-19 crisis.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Impact: This is resulting in procurement teams scrambling to find new supply sources, while engineers are looking for substitutions alternatives, and other company leaders are figuring out how to bring more in-house for a vertical integrated approach. Change is imminent, “ready or not.”.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

master of ceremonies”) for the Procurement Leaders Forum in the heart of Boston at Sixty State Street. Joanna Martinez from Cushman and Wakefield, a large real estate and facilities management person, discussed the challenges of working with HR as a procurement person. I am on the road this week, acting as Chair (e.g.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

This week, global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield released its Q2-2023 industrial real estate report which was headlined with industrial vacancy rates increasing by 60 basis points to 4.1 Surge or seasonal capacity is usually pegged to spot rates based on available capacity.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Redwood City, CA August, 2021 – Ivalua, a leading global spend management cloud provider, and Stretch Consulting, a leading Nordic digital procurement transformation provider, today announced that Ahlsell has successfully deployed Ivalua’s platform to digitize management of its tail suppliers.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 18, 2019

Chao Cheng-Shorland ( @ChaoShorland ), Co-Founder and CEO of ShelterZoom, writes, “There are many impactful blockchain business use cases for industries like real estate, legal, government and financial services. Cheng-Shorland explains, “Supply chain is driven in large part by the procurement process. ”[2].

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Arkieva

JULY 25, 2016

According to commercial real estate firm CBRE, there was 220 million square feet of net absorption of industrial/logistics real estate space in the U.S. These findings offer guidance to online retailers when allocating their limited resources to procurement-related and fulfillment-related investments.

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Jaggaer

JULY 21, 2020

Many tasks in procurement are repetitive, tedious, time-consuming and, when performed by humans, highly error prone. They absorb precious time – time that could be spent on more important strategic tasks that add value to the organization and make work more satisfying and rewarding for a procurement professional. Download it now.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Starboard now has over 1400 users across 70 customers representing Auto, Consumer Goods, Retail, Industrial Products, Consulting, and Real Estate. Noted customers include Porsche , Deloitte , CBRE , Flexe, Geodis, Miele, One Network , and Topco , among others. Reportedly, three customer are currently shared with Logility. .

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Asian based business media reports hint that China ’s economy is showing some signs of recovery, but concerns remain relative to this country’s real estate sector.

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AFFLINK

MAY 10, 2019

For the past few years, blockchain technology has been hitting the news regularly, being implemented in everything from real estate transactions to the financial sector. Through the technology provided by blockchain technology, it is now easier for companies and individuals alike to implement ethical procurement practices.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2018

For example, the Mei Moses Art Indices is an index for fine art, Rapaport has offered a private diamond index since 1978 and the number of real estate indexes has taken off. Nearly every industry has created on-demand metrics to gauge market performance, hedge risks, and make decisions accordingly. The driver?

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2023

Industrial real estate prices in areas within reasonable driving distances to U.S. The report cites data indicating that total Mexican exports in May rose by 5.8 percent on a year-over-year basis to $52.9 billion, the second highest reading on record. destinations are on the rise.

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ivalua

JANUARY 15, 2021

He has 13 years of sourcing/procurement experience within the financial industry. Taid spent the last 3 years as Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) in Danske Bank, headquartered in Copenhagen (Denmark). In addition to his CPO role, Taid was recently appointed to also head Danske Bank’s Group Real Estate and Facility Management.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

front that retailers and certain businesses may have procured too much inventory , and now that these inventories have arrived, the challenge will be not to exposed to a decline in consumer buying activity in the months to come. This month, the Economist Intelligence Unit revised its forecast of the overall U.S. inflation rate to be 9.2

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In his current role, he is accountable for several strategic functions, including corporate engineering; capital and infrastructure strategy; corporate real estate; risk management; operations research and global procurement. Procurement, when embedded into the operating fabric of ESG can add tremendous value.

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SupplyOn

OCTOBER 2, 2018

SBB relies on RailSupply to significantly improve efficiency in purchasing and procurement logistics. The goal of this changeover was to significantly streamline the SBB’s purchasing and procurement logistics. Suppliers supplying several SBB divisions will benefit in particular.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In China, the key provinces for the procurement of mechanical components, and electronics and electrical components/services in China include Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Beijing, Hunan, Jiangxi, etc.

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

Real Estate companies Compass and Redfin cut 10% and 8% of their workforces, respectively. Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory. Javier Echevarria has joined Ingredion as their Chief Procurement Officer. Corporate layoffs are starting to make headlines.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 30, 2018

The same issue must be considered regarding raw material procurement and delivery, proximity to your markets, labor availability, supply chain infrastructure, and logistics. Real estate costs such as property tax also enter into the equation. How far will your vendors need to transport materials? Business Costs.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Procurement sourcing and tail spend solutions provider Fairmarkit announced the completion of a $35.6 This provider describes itself as an AI- enabled procurement Cloud platform built for the sourcing of lower-dollar, non-strategic purchases, commonly referred to as “ tail spend.” Expands C-Suite Amid Increased Technology Demand.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2020

JLL is a long-established global real estate services provider and manager, with revenues approaching $20 billion. This, he said, was an example of using procurement to drive competitive advantage and revenue. He asked stakeholders and procurement staff where they thought the firm was in terms of procurement maturity.

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Complicating M&A negotiations are commodity prices – like metals, oil, food, and real estate – which are trading far outside of typical ranges. Emerging Trends New Ideas News & Info PaulMartyn Procurement Professional Communications' Weighing over all negotiations, though, is the economy. The first is leveraging.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 10, 2023

The trade data from China coupled with eroding services and real estate economy trending is further raising the concern levels of global economists as to whether the country’s economy is headed towards a hard landing rather than post Covid expansion. Many eyes will now be focused on forecasts for 2024 and beyond.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 23, 2015

Editor’s Note: This post is a continuation of an ongoing collaborative blog series with Spendrix, a company who was made for procurement teams of all sizes and we currently serve customers in Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Construction, Logistics, and the Food & Beverage industries. Ben is a graduate of the University of Virginia.

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ivalua

MAY 14, 2019

Throughout his career, he has worked with clients across multiple industries including Real Estate, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Retail and Distribution, Oil, Manufacturing, CPG and Government industries within Australia , New Zealand , Europe and USA. Ivalua is the Procurement empowerment platform.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

There remains increasing concerns indicating that the country’s economy is under stress related to declining consumer confidence levels, rather fragile financial conditions involving the country’s real estate sector and rising unemployment levels among the country’s working youth.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In March 2020, Real Estate Investor/Tax Analyst Carlos Colon (a Philadelphia native, raised in Puerto Rico) decided to bring an idea of his to life; one which was building in his heart for a long period of time. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Last Mile Delivery! What is your Strategy?

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ivalua

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As Senior Vice-President, Corporate services for BCE, André Beaulieu is responsible for an $8B procurement portfolio, one of the largest in Canada, and the Value Creation team who leads all major restructuring initiatives as well as the integration of all BCE acquisitions.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Jones Lang Lasalle is one of the largest commercial real estate and wealth management companies in the world. Specialties: Jon specializes in Cloud Technologies, Supply Chain Strategy, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, and electronic payments. Jon Stevens. Jon is the President of the JLL Digital Businesses.

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Supply Chains Rock

JUNE 28, 2011

Honoring excellence and innovation within the supply chain profession, the CHaINA Awards offer organisations across all industries and sectors the opportunity to showcase the best in supply chain, sourcing, procurement and logistics projects, products, applications, services and initiatives in Asia. Best Logistics Real Estate Development NEW!

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Jessica , Real Estate, 11-50 employees "Overall, I was very pleased with my experience and would recommend Precoro to anyone looking for a streamlined purchasing and tracking solution. The ability to purchase and track items in one place was extremely handy, and the interface was very user-friendly."

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 30, 2018

“Procurement departments are poised to benefit from many of the advantages blockchain technology brings, such as cost savings, greater data transparency and shorter lead times. ”[1] Among the economic sectors he believes will be disrupted are financial services, supply chain, and real estate.

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