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How to Scale Supplier Finance Program in an Inflationary Environment
Ensuring your supplier finance program is set up for success is just one way to put yourself in the best possible position for whatever is in the year ahead.
Sourcing & Procurement
4 Trends to Increase Procurement’s Impact in 2023
Financial Management Software
Balancing Safety Stock to Maximize Cash Flow
Sourcing & Procurement
CFOs Prioritize Supply Chain Resilience in an Inflationary Environment
Software & Technology
How Fintech Solutions Can Combat Inflation
Financial Management Software
Taking a Portfolio Approach to Trade Financing
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Software & Technology
Top Tech Startup Award: AI-Powered Automation Takes Over
From AI and robotics to fulfillment execution and real-time visibility, many of today's tech startups are poised to disrupt the supply chain space in a big way.
Mentorship Programs
Supply Chain Network to Moderate Discussion on Humanitarian Logistics at Manifest
This panel will talk about the state of procurement, how to support humanitarian logistical needs and more.
Automation
Warehouse Automation: What to Expect in 2023
Industry experts expect to see an increase in adoption over the next 5 years, driven by several trends, including an ongoing labor shortage, a more integrated warehouse and the introduction of better and more affordable solutions.
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Professional Development
Aligning Customer Service with Leadership Priorities
One of the most effective ways to ensure that KPIs align with strategic priorities from leaders is to ask them directly. These responses are helpful for getting a sense of broader goals for your customer service team.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
Managing the Dual Risks Facing International Trade
Though global trade volumes have recovered, the pre-COVID trade war and post-COVID supply chain issues continue to create challenges for importers and exporters.
Expert Columnists
How to Find Stability in an Inflationary Environment
It seems pretty likely that both abrupt shifts in supply and demand and ongoing price increases are here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Sourcing & Procurement
WNS Acquisitions to Enhance Digital Analytics and Procurement Capabilities
WNS acquired The Smart Cube and OptiBuy to complement its existing offerings and strengthen the capabilities in both high-end procurement and advanced analytics.
Packaging
Protecting Against Climate Risks During Peak Season
As the weather becomes more unpredictable and disasters become more frequent as the result of climate change, such events are likely to have a greater impact on the supply chain.
ERP
What to do About Disparate ERP Systems?
ERP systems are the backbone of many manufacturing organizations and are used to handle accounting, project management, compliance and many other mission-critical processes. Here's how to handle disparate ERP systems.
Sourcing & Procurement
Cut Jobs or Cut Costs? How CFOs Can Better Navigate an Uncertain Economic Environment
For more efficient and sustainable outcomes, building a high-performing indirect procurement team should be a priority for organizations.
Supply Chain Visibility
Winter is Coming. Is Your Supply Chain Ready?
Those that lean into real-time supply chain data and analytics will be the ones who will celebrate being in the black this holiday season.
Emerging Technologies
FinTech for the Future: Thinking Beyond the Pandemic
If you're a business that didn’t invest in fintech in the last two years, here are three questions you should ask to determine how fintech can fit into your operations and support revenue goals.
Sourcing Solutions
Inventory Management Issues Impact Working Capital
After a slowdown of growth in days payables outstanding over the last two quarters, DPO fell by 1.1% in Q2. This indicates a shift of leverage toward sellers, driven by supply chain bottlenecks, inflation pressures and geopolitical risks.
Sourcing & Procurement
Reviewing New Source-to-Pay Processes Against Your Business Case, Part 6
Assessing source-to-pay technology solutions against these functional capabilities, then mapping them against your future processes will ensure that you are selecting the right technology solution for your business.
Financial Management Software
5 Tips to Recession-Proof Your Cash Conversion Cycle
One of the keys to not only surviving but thriving during this upcoming recession is to gain control of your cash conversion cycle. Here's how you can do that.
Procurement Software
Robotic Process Automations Needs the Right Foundations for Success in Supply Chain
Effective governance structures, roles and deployment approaches all help to ensure that RPA projects are carried out in a systematic way.
Sourcing & Procurement
Solving Supply Chain Woes Through Technical Debt
For industry professionals, agility is key to navigating cost pressures and heightened consumer expectations, and accruing technical debt can enable fast onboarding and integration of the necessary digital solutions to provide that agility.
Sourcing & Procurement
Catching the Wave of Procurement’s Second Revolution
Organizations that can shift themselves slightly forward in their digital transformation, adopting a more modern and data-driven approach to procurement, could find themselves with an exploitable advantage over the competition.
Financial Management Software
Payment Efficiency Makes for an Efficient Supply Chain
The pandemic accomplished in a year what might have taken a decade of sales and marketing effort to get companies to adopt digital payments. That’s a major evolution that reduces a big source of friction from the supply chain.
Supply Chain Visibility
Invoice Fraud Causes Major Loss for U.S. Businesses
U.S. companies are losing an average of $300,000 per business annually and 25% of finance professionals are unaware or unable to estimate the cost of invoice fraud to their business.
Sourcing & Procurement
How to Build Bottom-Up, Value-Driven Business Case for Automating Source-to-Pay Processes, Part 5
This article looks at the process of building the business case from a financial point of view.
Emerging Technologies
Data-Savvy Organizations More Profitable, Resilient, Innovative
With an average increase of 9.5% in gross profits, data leaders report launching nine new products per year that wouldn’t be possible without their data innovation capabilities.
Sourcing & Procurement
Business Leaders Expect Low-Code to Surpass Traditional Coding by 2024
About 70% of survey respondents consider low-code a core part of their business.
Automation
Smart Workflow Solution Automates Procurement Process
ORO's new Smart Procurement Workflows solution makes procurement easy and efficient for all employees.
Sourcing & Procurement
Build a Bottom-Up, Value Driven Business Case for Automating Source-to-Pay Processes, Part 4
This article will look at the process of building your business case from a non financial point of view.
Sourcing & Procurement
Accelerated B2B Commerce Growth Will Impact Your Business: Here’s How
As online buying and selling becomes the norm, B2B eCommerce is critical to gaining new business and maintaining current customers. Companies must be ready and able to adapt to an increasingly digital B2B commerce experience.
Software & Technology
How Freight Brokers and Carriers Can Establish Trust Through Technology
Establishing trust in the transportation industry is critical to long-term success for freight brokers, mainly since they act as a bridge between shippers and carriers.
Financial Management Software
How B2B Payments’ Digital Transformation Has Evolved Since the Onset of the Pandemic
In the B2B space, the need to adapt to remote work and other external challenges like the mail delays and an uncertain economy required suppliers and buyers to accelerate the digital transformation of their payments processes.
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.
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.
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.
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
5 Themes To Help Procurement Shape Recovery in Coming Years
In the two years since the COVID-19 health crisis began, business leaders around the world have been in crisis-management mode to protect their people, their customers, and their enterprises. Procurement leaders have been no exception.
