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Sourcing Solutions

Optimistic Business Outlook for Global SMEs: Research

According to Alibaba, SMEs' positive outlook for Q4 2024 and beyond is hampered by certain challenges. Inflationary pressures top the list at 38% of the vote, followed by challenges in marketing and customer acquisition (31%).

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Workplace Injury Trends in Manufacturing: Alexis Asks

The Travelers Companies, Inc.

In the manufacturing industry, one accident or incident can lead to long lasting injury impacting not only the worker, but the business as a whole.

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How OEMs Can Optimize Payments to Succeed in D2C

By better optimizing the payments' function, manufacturers can improve their selling relationships and reduce many manual, time-consuming processes.

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71% of Procurement Leaders Believe MRO Should be a Strategic Initiative: Survey

The survey by Verusen, WBR Insights and ProcureCon MRO, focuses on the current state and future evolution of MRO materials and spare parts management, highlighting its strategic importance, existing challenges and opportunities.

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Global Purchasing Activity Contracting at Strongest Pace Since December: GEP Index

The GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index fell to -0.37 in August. This is its lowest level year-to-date (vs. -0.22 in July), signaling the highest level of spare capacity at global suppliers in 2024.

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Only 11% of U.S. Manufacturers Have a Positive Economic Outlook: Research

While nearly half (49%) of U.S. manufacturers expect a recession to hit in 2025, most are overlooking straight-forward opportunities to lower their costs and drive profitability ahead of a down market, according to Caddi.

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E-Commerce Solutions

Loop Launches Order Tracking for a Post-Purchase Experience

The solution allows merchants to create custom tracking pages for their customers that best reflect their brand, further building consumer trust and transparency.

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Fleet Management

Uber Freight Advances End-to-End Logistics

Uber Freight unveils an evolution to its end-to-end enterprise logistics platform designed to meet the complex and evolving needs of the industry.

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Software Solutions

IBM's Accelalpha Acquisition to Expand Oracle Consulting

This acquisition expands IBM's Oracle consulting expertise in supply chain and logistics, finance, enterprise performance management (EPM) and customer transformation.

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Supply Chain Visibility

81% of Industrial Companies Say SaaS Will Become Standard for PLM

Aras releases latest findings from its report, “Spotlight on the Future 2024,” revealing that cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) is fast becoming the dominant deployment model for enterprise PLM.

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Risk/Compliance

Secureframe Introduces Free Gap Assessment

The Gap Assessment helps service partners including MSPs, MSSPs, vCISOs and IT Security Consultants identify gaps in security posture or compliance status, offering clear insights into improvement areas.

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Reverse Logistics

Pros to Know: goTRG's Sender Shamiss Talks Reverse Logistics

ReturnPro (formerly known as goTRG)

Sender Shamiss, co-founder and CEO for goTRG, was named one of our Lifetime Achievement award winners from this year’s Pros to Know award.

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