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Sustainability
Climate Change Is Causing Supply Chain Disruptions: How Businesses Can Prepare
The U.S. and the rest of the world will witness record-breaking weather this year. Domestically, this will be the hottest summer on record, and forecasters have also predicted extreme weather for regions like India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, among others.
Warehousing
Supply Chain Network Launches Women in Supply Chain Forum
Warehousing
How to Guide Your Supply Chain Through Peak Season in Economic Uncertainty
Sourcing & Procurement
Sourcing in a Geo-Political Market
Sourcing & Procurement
Partner Roundtable: Procurement Trends
August 18, 2022
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Financial Management Software
How B2B Payments’ Digital Transformation Has Evolved Since the Onset of the Pandemic
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Transportation
L.I.N.K. | Why Fleet Safety Needs To Be the Core of Logistics
Hear from Leonard's Express on how the logistics business is able to drive safety and employee satisfaction by making safety a core of its strategy.
Transportation
The Current State of Logistics
In two years, the logistics industry has transformed. Find out where the industry is at today and what shippers are doing to combat the constant disruption.
Project Management Software
Top Supply Chain Projects: How Project Management Keeps Supply Chains Afloat Despite Disruptions
Let's meet the winners of this year's Top Supply Chain Projects award.
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Manufacturing
Electronic Components Experience Shortened Lead Times, Stabilized Prices, Lower Demand
Less than half of all electronic component pricing dimensions for direct commodities in the third quarter will increase, down from 74% in the second quarter.
Financial Management Software
Tackling Inflation and Rising Supply Chain Costs With Supply Chain Finance
Hand in hand with inflation rates, many supply chains are plagued with instability and availability issues related to goods and employees. These are primary contributing factors driving inflation of prices for raw materials and labor.
Project Management Software
Top Supply Chain Projects: The Power of Project Management
Supply & Demand Chain Executive editors detail how this year's Top Supply Chain Project winners partner with customers and clients to streamline processes, implement emerging technologies and deliver results that improve bottom lines.
Sourcing & Procurement
Why Supplier Diversity Must Be a Companywide Priority
Supplier diversity is a critical component of DEIB leadership, and that is why it should be more than a dedicated program within procurement, it should also be a companywide priority.
Clean Energy
As California Plans To Ban Propane and Diesel Forklifts, Expect a Faster Shift to Electric
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is planning to ban sales of all new forklifts that aren’t zero-emission by 2026. Its recent proposal to phase out non-zero-emission forklifts is still in development, and the legislation is not yet in effect.
Warehousing
Santander, SAP Partner To Optimize Corporate Banking in Supply Chains
Santander CIB and SAP make an agreement to develop solutions to help companies navigate supply chain disruptions from a financial standpoint.
Retail
Businesses Can Counter Inflation
It isn’t all bad news, according to Caravan's CEO in this expert column.
Procurement Software
Supply Chain Services Merger Creates Leading Systems Integrator
The combination provides a one-stop shop for all solutions, including life cycle from design, deployment, management and on-site and break fix services.
AI/AR
How 3D-Based AR/VR Drives Today’s Automation, Robotics Technologies
The evolving business climate in 2022 resulting from the continued pandemic, as well as spinoff issues such as supply chain, labor and inflationary challenges is forcing many businesses and manufacturing executives to implement automation and robotics.
Transportation
Why a Multimodal Modal Strategy Delivers More When Capacity Is King
A multimodal logistics approach expands capacity, which is why the strategy becomes more important as those demands increase.
Packaging
Appropriate Documentation and Labeling: The Golden Ticket to Global Trade Efficiency
The global supply chain has never been easy to navigate. Unfortunately, the complexities continue to loom thanks to difficulties experienced around the world over the last 18 months.
Warehousing
Identifying Critical Manufacturing Assets
How manufacturers can assess and identify their assets’ relative criticality to improve equipment reliability and minimize wasted capital.
Warehousing
Don’t Let Your Supply Chain Problems Ruin a Couple’s ‘Big Day’
As celebrations for couples who’ve been engaged anywhere from three days to three years collide with supply chain backlogs, labor shortages and inflation pressures, businesses that service wedding vendors are left in a very difficult situation.
Procurement Software
Top 1,000 Companies Have Nearly $1.7T in Excess Working Capital
Top performers by industry now convert cash more than three times faster than typical companies.
Risk/Compliance
Enterprise-Wide Materials Intelligence Platform to Overcome Data Disparity, Reduce Risk Across the Supply Chain
The platform provides inventory visibility and actionable insights across the entire global enterprise in less than 90 days.
Sourcing & Procurement
5 Key Factor To Consider for Best-of-Breed
To be successful, organizations need an agreed plan as to how new software is identified, selected, and implemented.
Sourcing & Procurement
How to Optimize the Buyer’s Journey in B2B E-Commerce
It’s more critical than ever for manufacturers to assess each step along the buyers’ journeys to ensure that customers have a clean, straightforward, enjoyable digital experience.
Software & Technology
Winning the Supply Chain Disruption Battle with Technology
As stakeholders found ways to overcome challenges, they learned that solutions had one thing in common: Technology is the key to greater efficiency and collaboration.
Safety & Security
Overcoming Logistics Woes: Lessons for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
Around the world, e-commerce companies and their logistics providers face three uniquely challenging problems.
Supply Chain Visibility
Top 5 Supply Chain Disruptions in 2022
Factory fires ranked as the No. 1 disruption for the first half of the year with the number of fires up 131% YoY. This year is on track to have the most factory fires ever reported, a trend driven by gaps in regulatory and process execution.
Automation
Australia’s E-Commerce Boom: Is Agile Automation the Answer?
Today’s customer wants hyper convenience, flexibility and faster delivery times, putting unprecedented pressure on retailers. Read about the increasing role of agile automation in responding to the changing needs of the consumer.
Warehousing
Reinvigorate Lean Practices to Combat Supply Chain, Labor Shortage Challenges
Over the past few decades, lean practices increasingly have gained a foothold in American manufacturing. As lean thinking builds momentum within a facility, managers and employees tend to recognize the potential.
Risk/Compliance
The Impact of Russia Sanctions on Oil, Gas and Energy
As expected, bans on Russian oil and gas exports are affecting the global economy in significant ways.
ERP
Success Begins With Integration For Postmodern ERP
It’s an IT modernization version of the age-old chicken and the egg dilemma. Companies looking to implement or modernize Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are asking themselves the question of which comes first: the ERP or the Integration?
Sourcing & Procurement
How Procurement Drives Strategic Agendas
Nearly 60-70% of procurement teams’ focus is now on strategic pursuits such as strategic sourcing, demand management, value engineering, supplier segmentation, stakeholder management and supply risk management, according to a Kearney report.
Software & Technology
Order Visibility as a Key Part of the Order-to-Cash Process
Today’s customers expect the same visibility and transparency in their business-to-business (B2B) transactions as they experience in their personal transactions.
Financial Management Software
Top Supply Chain Projects: Fine Tune Saves Client $100,000 After Auditing Deep Dive
Fine Tune discusses how it was able to save one of its clients significant funds in less than one year after a deep dive into their expenses in this interview. The project was selected as one of SDCE's Top Supply Chain Projects of 2022.
Sourcing & Procurement
How To Assess if Your Supplier Diversity Program Is Effective
To help you strengthen your supplier diversity program and drive meaningful results for your company, communities, and society at large, explore the elements of an effective plan.
Software & Technology
How Can You Combat Rising Freight Costs?
The global market is continuing to grapple with rising freight costs due to the impact of the pandemic, and now the challenge of the Russian-Ukraine war. So, what can you do?
Trucking
Tire Pressure Key to Reducing National Supply Chain Costs, Record-Breaking Gas Prices
Fuel takes up 21% of the yearly $210,000 price tag needed to operate a single truck, equating to more than $44,000. Given that $44,000, tire pressure and the rolling resistance of tires can add an additional 25% to that cost, or $11,000.
