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Sourcing & Procurement
Financial Management Software
BILL to Unify Procure-to-Pay Workflows
This solution unifies procure-to-pay workflows with AP, AR, spend and expense and insights and forecasting in a single, intuitive platform.
Consulting
Navigating Economic Headwinds: Tariffs and Business Uncertainty in 2025
Reverse Logistics
Why Reverse Logistics Needs to Be a Priority in 2025
Procurement Software
Zilliant Unveils Precision Pricing Platform
3PL/4PL
Uncertainties in Global Supply Chains Could Derail Freight Market Recovery in 2025
Manufacturing
Manufacturers Must Remain Agile to Achieve Growth in Rapidly Shifting Global Landscape: Aprio Study
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Reverse Logistics
A Reflection on Peak Returns Season
As the industry moves into 2025, businesses must refine their reverse logistics strategies to balance customer experience, fraud prevention, and environmental responsibility, ensuring a more efficient and sustainable future for returns management.
Automation
State of Warehousing: Most Agile Warehouses Will be Most Successful
The current and future state of warehousing encompasses the impact of AI and automation, taking consideration of cybersecurity risks, balancing human and tech-driven solutions, and adopting sustainable practices.
Procurement Software
Pros to Know Award: Supply Chain Leaders Over-Deliver in All Facets of Logistics
Every year, Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Pros to Know award celebrates the true supply chain professionals to know. Let's meet the winners.
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COLD CHAIN
SpotSee Acquires Telatemp, Expands Pharmaceutical Cold Chain Portfolio
A key addition from the acquisition is ColdSnap, Telatemp’s field-armable descending time-over-temperature indicator, widely used in pharmaceutical and laboratory applications.
Emerging Technologies
Critical Manufacturing, Twinzo Partner to Deliver Real-Time Digital Twin Visualization for Smart Factories
The new connector enables manufacturers to integrate Twinzo’s digital twin platform directly with Critical Manufacturing MES, providing live visualization of manufacturing operations.
AI/AR
Pros to Know: Apple's Ruchi Dholakia Talks SFTP-Based End-to-End Planning
We talked exclusively with Dholakia about applying machine learning models and advanced analytics and what it takes to implement secure file transfer protocol services.
Sourcing Solutions
Supply Chain Leaders Should Implement Cost-to-Serve Model: Gartner
To clarify true supply chain costs and profitability, chief supply chain officers should adopt a six-step cost-to-serve model, according to Gartner, Inc.
AI/AR
AI in Procurement: Turning Potential into Profit
AI-driven procurement cuts headcount to 70%, freeing workers and requiring AI skills.
AI/AR
Pros to Know: Deloitte Consulting's Umesh Kumar Sharma Details Importance of AI-Driven Solutions for Supply Chain Planning
We talked exclusively with Sharma about his journey, his goals and AI’s role in building smarter, more resilient supply chains.
Procurement Software
Pros to Know: Intelligent Audit's Andrew Simcox to Identify Significant Cost-Saving Opportunities
Over the next 12 months, Simcox aims to create 25 new partnerships to help shippers in reducing their transportation costs and improving operational efficiencies through tailored, data-driven solutions.
3PL/4PL
Women in Supply Chain Award 2025: Nominations Open
This award recognizes female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network. Deadline for submissions extended to Friday, May 30.
Reverse Logistics
Mining Business Opportunities in Reverse Logistics
Here's how reverse logistics can grow out of existing logistics relationships and achieve more complex and more profitable business relationships.
Regulations
Tariffs Threaten to Cancel Halloween and Cripple Christmas
Costumes that used to retail for $19.99 will jump to $39.99. Even simple masks, once priced at $4.99, could now cost $9.99, or more.
Reverse Logistics
Integrating AI and Cross-Sector Collaboration for Seamless Returns Management
An integrated global trade solution, underpinned by AI-driven insights and cross-sector collaboration, is paramount to addressing the complex challenges of international returns. Here's why.
Software Solutions
Supply Chain Visibility Helps Companies Pivot in Rapidly Changing Environment
Industries that import the most and least from tariffed countries include agriculture, manufacturing and retail, and utilities, financial and insurance industries, respectively.
AI/AR
Pros to Know: Tecsys' Kishore Balasubramanya Talks AI-Powered Demand Planning
We talked exclusively with Balasubramanya about AI-powered inventory optimization and demand planning and what supply chain automation looks like in the healthcare supply chain space.
Regulations
Impacts of U.S.-China Trade War
Several industries will be significantly impacted by the recent tariff changes due to reliance on either Chinese or U.S. manufacturing, the uniqueness of their products, and the profit margins within the sectors.
Reverse Logistics
A Reflection on Peak Returns Season
As the industry moves into 2025, businesses must refine their reverse logistics strategies to balance customer experience, fraud prevention, and environmental responsibility, ensuring a more efficient and sustainable future for returns management.
Supply Chain Visibility
Cleo’s Corporate Earnings Report Details Enterprise Value of Investing in Supply Chain Strategies
Companies that prioritized technology integration, real-time visibility, and operational resilience drove higher investor confidence and saw their stock prices more quickly return to pre-disruption levels.
Procurement Software
Synertrade Unveils New Version of Source-to-Pay Solution
The new version of Synertrade V5 aims at tackling common challenges impacting modern procurement, such as fragmented data and stakeholder disengagement.
Consulting
Pros to Know: GAINSystems’ Jeff Metersky Talks About Reducing Unnecessary Interventions
We talked exclusively with Metersky about stochastic optimization, executing supply chain strategies and what it takes to reduce unnecessary disruptions.
Procurement Software
No-Code, Low-Code Adoption on the Rise: Study
What's more, 52% of respondents said that business priorities shape their annual professional development plans, highlighting the data science field’s strong connection to real-world applications.
Sourcing & Procurement
SourceDay Debuts Supplier Reliability and Supply Volatility Indexes to Mitigate Procurement Risk
The Supplier Reliability and Supply Volatility Indexes are two quarterly benchmarking tools designed to help manufacturers and distributors better evaluate and even predict supplier performance and future risk across industries with greater accuracy.
Training/Onboarding
Trucking, Warehousing Sectors Experience Uptick in Q1 Wage Growth: Study
Trucking and warehousing experienced a 16% and 15% wage growth in Q1, respectively, hitting new heights not seen since 2022.
Procurement Software
Centralize Direct Procurement for Best Results
Organizations with centralized direct procurement are faster, more efficient, and more productive than those with decentralized direct procurement. Here's why.
Reverse Logistics
How RFID Helps Retailers Streamline Reverse Supply Chains
How can RFID help to alleviate the knock-on effects that returns can have upon a business's overall operation? Here's how.
Mentorship Programs
Women in Supply Chain: Nulogy's Christine Barnhart Talks Changing DEI Narratives on Women’s Progress
Christine Barnhart, chief industry and ecosystem officer for Nulogy, explores the impact of bias and changing DEI narratives on women’s progress.
Manufacturing
44% of U.S. Businesses Plan to Pass Tariff Costs to Customers
Nearly 90% of business leaders report macroeconomic factors have impacted their pricing levels over the past 12 months, with 44% describing the impact as “significant” or “severe.”
Sourcing Solutions
Emerging Regions May Offer Opportunities for Global Trade: QIMA Study
For the first time since the pandemic, China’s relative share in the sourcing portfolios of Western buyers has diminished. This suggests that North American and European supply chains are intensifying efforts to reduce dependency on China.
Financial Management Software
Pros to Know: EY Consulting's Sheri Hinish Details Why Sustainability Matters to Supply Chain Transformations
We talked exclusively with Hinish about the importance of sustainability and championing transformative strategies.
Regulations
Global Business Optimism Continues to Decline: Dun & Bradstreet
While financial confidence dropped 8.6% amid challenging business conditions, optimism levels for supply chain continuity were flat.
AI/AR
Spot AI Introduces Universal AI Agent Builder for Security Cameras
Iris is said to be world's first universal video AI agent builder for enterprise cameras and conversational interface for video data in manufacturing, logistics, retail, construction, healthcare and more.
Manufacturing
North American Manufacturers Report Sharp Pullback Amid Tariff War: GEP Study
Overall, manufacturers’ stockpiling was the lowest in nine years, highlighting caution among procurement leaders worldwide about future demand.
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