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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.

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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.

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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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Supplier.io’s New Supplier Dashboard Gains Real-Time Visibility into Buyer Search Behavior

Buyer Search Insights is a new dashboard feature that gives suppliers real-time visibility into how buyers are discovering and engaging with their profiles.

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Cost Unpredictability Cited as Top Threat: Galorath Reports

The report also highlights a widening gap between strategic priorities and on-the-ground execution.

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Source-to-Pay Inefficiencies Put Pressure on Energy Operators

For companies in such a capital-intensive industry, reducing waste and improving the ROI on every dollar deployed, by even a few percentage points, is a win.

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Export Genius Dashboard to Unlock Smarter Trade Decisions

The newly upgraded dashboard is designed to help exporters, importers, analysts, and business owners make smarter trade decisions.

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Pros to Know: Blue Yonder's Tiffany Brewer Talks Importance of Life Sciences Supply Chains

We talked exclusively with Brewer about operational excellence and the importance of life sciences supply chains.

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Pros to Know: Coupa's Paul Webb Details Integrated Scenario Planning Framework

We talked exclusively with Webb about driving forward-thinking throughout the company, launching margin multipliers and what it takes to implement an integrated scenario planning framework.

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The Expanding Role of AI as a Proactive Supply Chain Risk Strategy

Relying on outdated management methods to prepare for the unpredictable is folly. Modern supply chain management leveraging AI tools and predictive analytics puts any organization in a position to take control of the unknown.

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5 Practical Procurement Solutions for Harnessing AI

The key to successful AI implementation lies in a pragmatic approach that combines technological prowess with human expertise. Here's why.

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Navigating Economic Headwinds: Tariffs and Business Uncertainty in 2025

If the administration ultimately moves forward with the reciprocal tariff rates, they will weigh heavily on the economy’s growth prospects this year.

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Zilliant Unveils Precision Pricing Platform

Zilliant's approach is designed for manufacturing and distribution businesses at all pricing maturity levels, from those starting to formalize their pricing processes to sophisticated enterprises optimizing advanced pricing strategies.

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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.

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AI in Procurement: Turning Potential into Profit

AI-driven procurement cuts headcount to 70%, freeing workers and requiring AI skills.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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How Innovation is Widening the Gap Between Business and IT

Using Gen AI solutions will help streamline the existing procurement process, steps to automate data health checks and master data correction would be worked in parallel.

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How AI Helps Procurement Teams Solve Everyday Challenges

The best procurement teams will be the ones that embrace the use of AI to enhance their role as strategic business advisors.

Pros to Know: B-Stock's Joe Dube Talks Sales Price Optimization

We talked exclusively with Dube about applying AI and machine learning to data, sales price optimization and the benefits of partnering with 3PLs.

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Zip Unveils Risk Orchestration Tools

Zip for Risk Orchestration enables global enterprises to streamline supplier risk assessments, financial verification, and regulatory compliance to mitigate risks.

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Pros to Know: ALOM's Brandon Hulse Talks Hazmat Compliance Programs

We talked exclusively with Hulse about the importance of negotiated contracts, what it takes to implement a Hazmat certification and compliance program and why gathering freight data is crucial to the future of supply chains.

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SpendHQ, RapidRatings Launch Supplier Risk Solution for Procurement Teams

SpendHQ in partnership with RapidRatings launched its supplier risk management solution that proactively monitors supplier risks across financial, geopolitical, and operational factors.

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Pros to Know: RapidRatings' James Gellert Talks Drivers of Stress and Distress in Middle Market

We talked exclusively with Gellert about rating private companies for clients, the drivers of stress and distress in middle market and why young professionals shouldn't assume everything's been done already.