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Sourcing & Procurement
How CPOs Can Empower Organizations to Rethink Digital Transformation
Armed with the courage to change the status quo and a strategy that steers trusty master data and friction removal, CPOs who are willing to take deliberate action can build a healthy foundation and deliver true digital transformation.
Retail
Consumers Less Tolerant for Delivery Delays, Inaccurate Order Fulfillment: Study
Manufacturing
Supply Chain Delays, Inflation Biggest Concerns for SMEs
Sourcing & Procurement
Cut Jobs or Cut Costs? How CFOs Can Better Navigate an Uncertain Economic Environment
Emerging Technologies
4 Ways UHF RFID Can Accelerate Supply Chains and Logistics
Sourcing Solutions
Navigating Market and Consumer Shifts During Peak Season
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Webinars
SCN Summit: Future of Supply Chains
December 5, 2022
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Let's talk future! Sit down with industry experts and thought leaders to talk about what’s in store for the supply chain space and more. Register now for the Dec. 5-8 virtual event!
Warehousing
Here's What I Learned at the Women in Supply Chain Forum
The 2022 Women in Supply Chain Forum sparked conversations about women in the supply chain and offered a workshop on collaborative problem solving through self-advocacy, communication and collaboration.
Sourcing & Procurement
Nominations Open for Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2023 Pros to Know Award
Are you or someone in your organization an outstanding leader, reinventing what it means to be a supply chain professional? Get them nominated by Dec. 30.
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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.
Sourcing Solutions
9% of Suppliers Worldwide are Fully Automated Across B2B Commerce: Study
73% of suppliers say that shortages are having a major or severe impact on their business. Other top challenges include inflation (69%), workforce shortages (62%), strained production capacity (53%) and geopolitical risks (50%).
Sourcing & Procurement
How to Cure Purchasing Headaches with Procurement Automation
The pandemic may have been a gamechanger, but the technological innovations it has fostered, especially those for procurement and purchasing, promise to make businesses healthier than ever.
Material Handling Equipment
Hy-Tek Rebrands as Hy-Tek Intralogistics
Hy-Tek Material Handling reintroduces itself with a new brand identity, positioning and brand promise as Hy-Tek Intralogistics.
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 Solutions
Digital E-Commerce Marketplace for Excess Part Management
This tool provide users with a white glove experience that moves inventory fast and with price transparency.
Supply Chain Visibility
Data-as-a-Service Solution Enhances Supplier Collaboration
The new self-serve analytics tool that enable clients to build analytics capabilities to explore complex data at scale and have complete control over the end analytics output for data-driven decision making.
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.
Sourcing & Procurement
Close the Product Design, Procurement Gap to Manage Lifecycle Risk
Companies can no longer afford to leave procurement professionals out of the product design phase. Only by prioritizing internal collaboration can companies ensure that external product lifecycle problems will be minimized.
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.
ERP
Automated Low-Code Workflows Key to Supply Chain Resilience
In times of speedy changes that are forcing companies to find new ways of working, low-code workflows enable more responsiveness through constant process improvement.
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.
Procurement Software
How Automation Solves Back-Office Delivery Delays
By reducing variability in documentation and clearance paperwork, those in the industry can better handle ever-changing macro trends.
Sourcing & Procurement
Procure-to-Pay Suffers from Disconnected Governance
To focus on productively managing the end-to-end process, organizations need to shift from thinking of procurement and AP as separate processes and implement governance that enables them to become an integrated, seamless end-to-end process.
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.
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Risk/Compliance
Navigating the New Globalized World in an Era of Volatility
Better information, on suppliers and the regulations around them, is the key to navigating a volatile global world that doesn’t appear to be settling back into “business as usual” anytime soon.
Automation
Smart Workflow Solution Automates Procurement Process
ORO's new Smart Procurement Workflows solution makes procurement easy and efficient for all employees.
Sourcing & Procurement
Women in Supply Chain: Why High Level of Integrity Matters
Bernie Henderson, director of procurement for Protolabs and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, explains why what you say is what you do, and why accountability, collaboration and empowerment are key to a successful supply chain.
Sourcing & Procurement
An Inside Look at Procurement Trends with Amazon Business
Supply and Demand Chain Executive interviews Todd Heimes, global director of Amazon Business worldwide, to learn about procurement technology today and the e-commerce giant’s strategy in digital sourcing.
Visibility Software
US Formula Shortage: A Lesson in Market Concentration, Supply Chain Visibility
While many businesses and industries alike have realized the critical need for greater supply chain resilience, the recent baby formula shortage underscores how fragile our supply chain ecosystem still is.
Sourcing & Procurement
Building Next Generation Procurement Through B2B Marketplaces
In a period of extreme change, procurement teams using 20th century models and technologies have often struggled to deliver the ingredients businesses need to remain agile.
Sourcing & Procurement
Finding the Right Hospital Supply Partner for Tornado Season
To best prepare their facilities for the threat of tornadoes, hospital administrators should work with a supply chain partner with the data and experience to handle any adverse situation.
Sustainability
How Procurement Teams Can Operationalize ESG Criteria—and Become Drivers of Change
Most of a company’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact can be traced to its supply chain. With access to the data they need, procurement teams can partner with their suppliers to reach their companies’ ESG goals.
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.
Sourcing & Procurement
Managing the Supply Chain – More Accurate Information Is the Key
Customers are evaluating their suppliers and determining which are a “favorite vendor.” If the supplier cannot provide the delivery information in advance, the customer may look for a replacement supplier.
Sustainability
We Need To Rethink Supplier Segmentation To Boost Sustainability
Encouragingly, sustainability is now a topic for many boards. But to be truly protect our planet, it needs to be established on the corporate agenda for good. To make this happen, we need to rethink the way in which we work with suppliers.
