Sourcing & Procurement

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CoreTrust Launches Intelligent Spend Analysis

The new CXP analytics framework lays the foundation for future integrations that help commercial, private equity, and public sector organizations identify savings opportunities.

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Reverse Logistics: The Hidden Profit in Product Returns

October 31, 2026

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Pactum's Intake Agent Automates Indirect Procurement End-to-End

October 31, 2026

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Rockwell Automation Launches FactoryTalk Conductor for Intelligent Industrial Workflows

October 30, 2026

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Building Procurement Contracts That Respond to Changing Market Conditions

October 30, 2026

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Ungoverned Agentic AI Exposure is Compounding Inside Enterprises

October 30, 2026

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How DRIVE Program Transforms Frontline Manufacturing Teams

FreightSmith Launches Express and Pay for Streamlined Warehouse Operations

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The Procurement Skills Crisis: Why AI Fluency Dominates 2030 Priorities

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Asset Managers Ramp Up Stress Testing to Combat Hidden Portfolio Risks

Zero100 Launches Supply Chain Practitioner Communities

The output of the collaboration is a playbook for technology, process, and people based on the collective experience of the group and their extended networks.

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Supply Chain Visibility

Why Hospital Purchased Services Remain a Supply Chain Blind Spot

For hospital procurement and supply chain executives, indirect and purchased services can expose a persistent weakness in supply chain visibility.

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Risk/Compliance

Authentication Issues Cost Frontline Organizations Thousands of Working Hours Each Year

34% (rising to 40% in healthcare) report authentication difficulties delaying patient care, production, delivery and/or other frontline work.

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Supply Chain Visibility

The 13-Week Gap: Where Supply Chain Plans Actually Break

CFOs and COOs always ask supply chain leaders: “What do you see?” The better question for the next planning cycle is what they can do with what they see.

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Procurement Professionals Adopt General AI Tools But Struggle to Scale

While most are using general AI tools for procurement, procurement-specific tools often deliver more value.

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Reverse Logistics

Supply Chain Execution Failures Drive $849.9B in Retail Returns

Details from the report show that retailers typically treat the three pressures -- returns, freight cost, and peak-season readiness -- as separate conversations split across separate departments.

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Financial Management Software

How Business Intelligence Connects Procurement to End-to-End Supply Chain Performance

Ventagium Data Consulting

Spend analytics tells you where the money went. It doesn't tell you what a purchasing decision costs once you follow it into inventory, production and logistics.

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ABB Robotics Introduces High-Performance Robots for Precision Manufacturing

ABB Robotics launched two new compact, high-performance robots that deliver up to 20% shorter cycle times.

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Electrification

6 Supply Chain Priorities for Utility Leaders

ProcureAbility, a Jabil company

To keep pace with surging demand and mitigate supply-side risk, utility executives must adopt advanced supply chain playbooks.

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Procurement Software

The $1.5M Price Tag of Delaying AI Procurement Automation

Procurement teams spend almost one-fifth (18%) of their time on manual tasks.

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Carbon Footprint

Supply Chain Resilience: When Supplier Diversification Isn’t Enough

Esco Global Strategies

Supplier diversification remains an important resilience strategy. But supplier count alone cannot show whether the underlying means of production have actually been diversified.

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ParkourSC Acquires Quartic, Launches First Unified AI Platform for End-to-End Life Sciences Value Chain

PSC (ParkourSC)

Deviation, verification, release, excursion, disposition, and regulatory documentation are all managed in one place, within pre-defined guardrails.

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