The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

IDC also forecasts that by 2023, 30 percent of Asian enterprises will ship freight using a SaaS-enabled platform, resulting in improved efficiencies in load matching and reduced shipping costs. Synopsis: GeTS Webinar 9th Sept 2021. This provides customers, partners and suppliers alike, access to information in real-time.

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course. Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Technology Will Reshape Procurement Practices. Better procurement practices translate into better overall sales, but the role of procurement in driving sales’ statistics will change throughout 2017. For example, Johnson & Johnson procurement professionals actively review market trends before making purchases.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

Across our many blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and other shared content, you’ll find a wealth of information about various aspects of outsourcing in the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 14, 2018

Full truckload shipping is generally less expensive than other over the road transportation modes. Instead of throwing in the towel, shippers can leverage full truckload shipping to ship LTL shipments in the back of a full-size van or trailer. Access our complete Full Truckload Shipping White Paper Series. Download Here.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

It combines decisions across sell, deliver, make and source processes to drive value based outcomes. More advanced supply chain leaders model the role of complexity (product and customer), the impact of risk, and opportunity of innovation as well as product shipping and manufacturing locations, and inventory policies.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 25, 2017

They are in charge of making sure that any inventory shipping in and out of the department is handled with care and delivered in a timely fashion without unforeseen budgetary expenditures. These executives oversee procurement of supplies and provide inventory control. Acts in a supervisory or managing capacity to a team of analysts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. During the year, I go to a lot of conferences. In fact, the teams ignore the forecast.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

Everything from sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, to the sales channels which feed supply for a finished product are essential factors. This requires a new broad look at the business of transportation supply chain, including supply chain management, logistics, & procurement.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Define your procurement response strategy. Catch the on-demand webinar on building business continuity plans and business strategies for the short, mid and long-term. It makes more sense to source from several suppliers with some spare capacity rather than just the one or two who are most cost-efficient. Here’s another positive.

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 18, 2020

From early on in the Covid-19 pandemic , and for pretty obvious reasons , procurement in healthcare and pharmaceuticals has been in the spotlight like never before. Some 48 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) vital to the pharma supply chain are sourced from the central province of Hubei.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 22, 2015

Efficient logistics is an important determinant of a country’s competitiveness and source of employment. It is also defined as the procurement, maintenance, distribution, and replacement of personnel and material. This infographic comes to us from freightXtension who are experts in cross-border shipping.

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Xeeva

APRIL 10, 2019

We recently held a webinar in which our Chief Strategy Officer, Steve Griffiths, and Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Managing Director of Global Operations, Lane Burkitt, discussed the impact technology is having on maverick spend. Watch this clip or read the transcript below – and be sure to check out the full webinar !

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another part of the solution that has been missing until recently is the tight integration with upstream processes, such as strategic sourcing and supplier risk management, which have been siloed and operating in their own domains. AI Assistants can also help make managing the process of supply chain design easier.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Expertise: Sourcing, Supply Chain Analysis, Logistics & Transportation, Logistics Management Consulting, Freight (Maritime, Land, or Air), Logistics Technology Solutions. He can lead your company through the complex procuretech industry because of his specialization on procurement technology. Connect Now!

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

As I picked it up , I saw a twitter alert welcoming people to the APICS webinar with @lcecere on Agility that afternoon. As we went live with the webinar, I laughed. In this blog post, I publically answer the questions from the webinar. In the supply chain, variability and volatility come from many sources.

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Arena Solutions

MAY 5, 2022

If you are running pop-up blocking software, you will need to disable that to view the webinar. This webinar technology allows you to resize the presentation by clicking the maximize icon in the upper right corner to enlarge the window. We had to scramble and find additional exact matching sources. Let’s be honest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2017

I believe we need to move to Open Source tech. It could be unloading a container from a ship, receipt of a shipment, transfer of ownership, a return, or a change in status. One dinner participant laughed as he said, “The more efficient we try to make procurement, the more we screw it up!” What do I mean? The reason?

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Shipchain

JUNE 27, 2019

perhaps “25 SHIP per Shipment Tracked” or “5 SHIP per pallet”) because we don’t want the cost of supporting the network to simply become a race-to-the-bottom in a fee market for computing power; if a large amount of “real world value” is transacting on the sidechain, we believe that the fees the network charges should fairly reflect it.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

To adapt to these disruptions, OEMs and retail chains are seeking to procure holiday goods earlier than usual—which is contributing to the shipping congestion. There simply aren’t any near-term solutions to re-balance supply and demand in the semiconductor supply chains and markets,” said Vakil in a recent Resilinc webinar.

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HICX Solutions

MARCH 3, 2022

In our latest webinar, in association with Procurement Leaders and featuring Costas Xyloyiannis (CEO, HICX) and Jerry Grable (Director eBusiness, BAE Systems ), we discuss a range of use cases that illustrate specifically how supplier data drives resilience, visibility and value. Single source of truth & data compliance.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 15, 2017

This sustainability effort has carried innovation and implementation costs which have been gradually offset with procurement and operational savings. And the effort has certainly reduced the volume of primary and secondary packaging which enters the waste stream. From shareholders to consumers, sustainability has created broad value. .

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This sustainability effort has carried innovation and implementation costs which have been gradually offset with procurement and operational savings. And the effort has certainly reduced the volume of primary and secondary packaging which enters the waste stream. From shareholders to consumers, sustainable logistics has created broad value.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Where is your picking operation located with respect to shipping and product storage? Products with tight shipping deadlines or time constraints should also be stacked in this manner, thereby streamlining movement and overall travel time even more.” Design a floor plan that meets your needs now and also allows for growth.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 26, 2020

“They have multi-sourced key commodities or strategic components to reduce their reliance on any one supplier, and they had considered inventory strategy to buffer against supply chain disruption.” Also, globalization presents another hydra-headed challenge for your procurement network.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

As time passed, procurement gradually gained a larger role in the scope of manufacturing and order fulfillment. By the mid-1950s , procurement had become a commonplace aspect of minor business, and procurement was almost comparable to secretarial work. Why Is Technology Driving Procurement Trends and the Role of Procurement?

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Exiger Perspectives

JUNE 2, 2023

WEBINAR | Mission Critical: Is China’s Modern Slavery Risk Hiding in Your Supply Chain? ] The presumption also applies to goods made in, or shipped through, the PRC and other countries that include inputs made in Xinjiang. This type of software replaces manual review of volumes of disparate data sources.

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Resilinc

MAY 4, 2021

political leaders and geopolitical analysts advocate procuring more goods from other democratic countries. There is an enormous opportunity to make America’s supply chains less overseas dependent by sourcing more parts, materials, and products from America’s neighbors. corporations.

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Resilinc

APRIL 27, 2021

While the pandemic has given procurement managers fresh ammunition to advocate for greater resiliency within their corporate supply chains, geopolitical experts and a bipartisan coalition of legislators argue that the U.S. From ships to drones. This is alarming.”. said Marchese. “If said Marchese.

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