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Balancing Safety Stock to Maximize Cash Flow
By maintaining adequate safety stock, businesses can ensure that the supply chain runs smoothly despite stocking delays and temporary outages.
Professional Development
How Automating Procurement Data Functions Can Save Supply Chains
Carbon Footprint
The Next Step in Sustainability and ESG
AI/AR
How Bad Supplier Data Can Cost You
Sourcing Solutions
Overcoming Modern Inventory Management Challenges
Sourcing & Procurement
CFOs Prioritize Supply Chain Resilience in an Inflationary Environment
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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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Sourcing & Procurement
5 Ways CPOs Can Future-Proof Their Tech Stack
CPOs should look at the sunset as an opportunity to assess, evaluate and implement future-proof technologies into their company’s tech stack.
Procurement Software
Just-in-Time Supply Chains Have to Evolve to Manage Ongoing Disruptions
While companies and countries alike have taken several steps to shore up their supply chains over the past two years, more can and should be done to better address risk and uncertainty.
Sourcing & Procurement
How the Smartest Companies Navigate Market Volatility
Here are three shifts supply chain leaders must be prepared to navigate in the New Year.
Sourcing & Procurement
Finding the Right Partner for Procurement Innovation
Being able to identify and pursue partnerships that will allow you and your team to innovate on current and upcoming needs is essential – as is making sure that you’re equipped to pursue creative solutions outside of procurement.
Procurement Software
External Economic Indicators Help Overcome Supply Chain Disruption
By utilizing external economic data as indicators for planning and forecasting, business leaders can navigate market changes and make more strategic business decisions using a mix of their company’s historic internal data and real-time economic data.
Financial Management Software
Taking a Portfolio Approach to Trade Financing
Payment automation allows companies to capture more financial data, an essential benefit for businesses looking to perform analysis and improve their efficiency, processes and payment strategy.
Manufacturing
Need for Job Shops to Modernize U.S. Supply Chains
Results from a Paperless Parts survey indicates a need for job shops and contract manufacturers to modernize.
Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing: Key to Unlocking Supply Chain Resiliency
The understanding and overall acceptance of additive manufacturing is one of the struggles, and the time for AM is now.
Manufacturing
Manufacturers’ Optimism Declines as Potential Economic Recession Looms
Only 49% of manufacturers rated their optimism about business prospects over the next six months at a seven or higher on a scale of 1-10. This marks a consistent trend downward over the past year.
Project Management Software
Optimize Business with Product Lifecycle Management Software
When you have multiple parts from different countries, it is crucial to have a central repository to track and manage these pieces. Modern PLM software is becoming a foundational pillar of successful businesses.
Sourcing Solutions
What is a “Data-First” Approach and Why is it Key to Procurement’s Digital Transformation?
While the industry understands why data – particularly supplier data- is essential, it doesn’t understand how to bridge the gap between this recognition and the tangible realization of data’s benefits on a real-world, real-time basis.
Risk/Compliance
Open Source Software Impacts Supply Chain Security
When upgrading to the latest version of a package, there’s still a 32% chance it will have known vulnerabilities.
Retention
Women in Supply Chain: More Gender-Diverse Workplace Produces Higher Performance
Susan Estes, Senior Supply Chain Consultant, Client Services for Open Sky Group and one of this year's Women in Supply Chain award winners, details how a more gender-diverse workplace environment produces higher performance.
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
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.
Software & Technology
CPG Industry Use of Data Acquisition for Demand Planning
The CPG industry is under constant pressure to adapt and operate on thinner margins than any other industry. Effective and accurate demand planning is not just an option anymore but an unavoidable norm.
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.
3PL/4PL
Third-Party Storefronts for Retailers: The Hidden Costs
With e-commerce increasingly dominating consumer preferences, third-party storefronts may no longer be a retailer’s best option.
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
Women in Supply Chain: Be Nimble and Problem Solve Along the Way
Tracy Black, Partner at NewRoad Capital Partners and one of this year’s Women in Supply Chain award winners, talks about what it means to be nimble, flexible and a problem solver.
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.
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.
WMS/TMS
TMS Connects Shippers and Carriers for Parcel Management
Honeybee TMS partners with ShipEngine to streamline parcel management as part of the CTSI-Global logistics ecosystem.
Sourcing & Procurement
6-Step Framework for Procurement to Drive Sustainability
Assuming that corporate sustainability goals and materiality assessment are already in place, here are 6 steps that procurement teams should take to drive sustainability.
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.
E-Commerce Solutions
Linnworks Acquires SkuVault, Expands Omnichannel Presence
The combination of the two companies will provide a number of key product capabilities in order management, inventory management, analytics and forecasting, warehouse management and 3PL support.
Sourcing & Procurement
Synovos Consolidation Creates Single MRO Supply Chain Solutions Business
RS Integrated Supply provides outsourced storeroom management and procurement services for MRO supply chains.
