Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While SAP has had procurement analytics solutions, last year at Spend Connect Live, SAP announced the Spend Control Tower. Daniel Chapman, the senior director of process transformation for procure to pay at Warner Music, was a keynote speaker. This solution provides insights in a much easier way to digest.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I smiled on the week following the conference as the accolades piled up in my inbox. Attending the conference was Alexia Howard, Senior Research Analyst – US Foods for Sanford C. Following the conference, Alexia asked for me to share the methodology with over 150 financial analysts. 110 supply chain leaders attended.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Procurement Operates On An Island. Business process outsourcing and procurement automation evolved to make the procurement organization more efficient and less effective. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the supply chain of the future. The conference is in Franklin, TN on September 7th-10th, 2021.

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ivalua

APRIL 15, 2020

Premier event for procurement & supply chain practitioners will showcase latest technological innovations and extensive line-up of industry leaders. Registration is free for procurement, finance and supply chain practitioners and can be done online at Ivalua’s website. Redwood City, CA.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 25, 2017

Addressing this problem is at the heart of Manhattan Associates’ Active Solutions, which the company introduced a couple of weeks ago at its Momentum 2017 conference. As the press release explains: Today’s commercial enterprises are facing unprecedented market pressures. Empty miles reduced by 8 percent. Total miles down 7.7 million.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2024

“Scale drives profitability,” Turner told a group of industry analysts on April 22 nd , the day before the Coupa Inspire user conference began. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, sourcing, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting.

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All Things Supply Chain

MAY 4, 2022

On 27th-28th April 2022 I had the opportunity to attend Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE, an event hosted by BizClick Media Group. I attended the 2-day conference online, watching the…

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 9, 2024

Kelly shares details of the upcoming Trimble Insight Tech Conference , the challenges and advancements in transportation tech, and Kelly’s own career journey from Schneider to Trimble, highlighting her focus on improving the industry for truck drivers.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2015

Nonetheless, my takeaways below from the recent GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference provides some insight about the company, it’s success to date, and where it’s heading (assuming Infor doesn’t make any significant changes). I was driven by a challenge offered by GT Nexus: the person who tweets the most from the conference will win a drone.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2022

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Procurement operations are the backbone of every company’s supply chain. Fundamental to procurement is the acquisition of goods and services from a party that’s further up the supply chain. This document is the first legal contract in the operational procurement process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The interview occurred during athe FourKites Visibility 2023 user conference on September 7th in Chicago. And at last week’s FourKites Visibility user conference, the tech pioneer reported investment in a different form of artificial intelligence, Generative AI. I attended my first Visibility conference in 2020.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. The use cases just keep expanding.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. The elevation journey actually began the day before the conference officially started. Streamline, automate, and compress Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

As an old gal attending multiple conferences (more than I would like at times), I have listened to speakers waft eloquently about the value of concepts like networks, big data, industry 4.0, The current taxonomy does not include a tactical planning tool for procurement (above MRP) which is an opportunity.) and digital supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. This intermediate step is more related to Procurement and supply chain transparency. This is our “supplier board”. Soon we will do more training.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I speak at many industry conferences throughout the year, where the majority of the audience are shippers — that is, supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing and retail companies. Today, I want to focus on what I learned at the conference, from the other side of the table, the carrier side. “If

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Synovos

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Donald Shoemaker, Vice President Engineering & Consulting Services for Synovos, the leading pure integrated supply chain management company in the world, has been selected to present a paper at the upcoming Reliable Plant 2020 conference in Louisville, KY. To register for the conference, visit Reliable Plant.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. The rebirth of marketplace offerings is not on the back of e-procurement or ERP. The debates were heated.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Seemingly, most supply chain leaders that are reading the press, or going to industry conferences, would believe that all four statements are true. Over the course of the last decade, I have carefully recorded and reported presentation after presentation from conference after conference and interview after interview with supply chain leaders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

” (The use of the term “basics” is usually code for the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.). End-to-End Definition Implementation of enterprise data architectures to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. Background. Investment in control towers.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 27, 2015

That’s how JDA Software’s CEO, Baljit Dail, summarized the feedback he was getting from customers and partners at FOCUS 2015 , the company’s user conference held last month in Orlando, FL, which had more than 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. “It feels like a new JDA.”. The value of IT is in how you use it. Stay tuned.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

The announcement came on May 15th at the company’s annual user conference, Momentum. The BOM transformation creates a feasible plan for procurement. Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ: MANH) announced the release of Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning. This puts their SCP on the same microservices platform as their other solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Before going to the very well attended Coupa Inspire user conference, I was not exactly sure what a business spend management solution was. The solution helps companies find suppliers they might want to work with, run procurement events, create a contract, have contract terms reflected in purchase orders (PO), invoice, and pay.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A recent survey that Ivalua did in the UK, “ Gaining the green view, How smart procurement can kick-start sustainability initiatives ” showed that 87% of UK businesses see “greener” supply chains as a competitive advantage. What are Green Supply Chain Strategies?

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Supply Chain Brain

DECEMBER 18, 2023

More than 100 supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, and procurement professionals gathered in Houston to discuss the challenges and opportunities in today’s post-pandemic landscape.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

Today, we have an additional factor with inflation to add to the mix of issues, that changes the requirements for the “buy plan in procurement.” The focus of the conference is on Supply Chain 2030. The conference is designed for extreme networking. I encourage all to sign up.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2023

Expertise in operations, LTL pricing and procurement, flatbed operations, dry van, tracking and tracing, reality tv shows and how to turn a stranger into your new best friend. FreightWaves also hosts conferences under Transparency and MarketWaves branding and is a co-developer of the first futures contracts dedicated to trucking spot rates.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Jeff Tucker and Joe Lynch discuss the Breakbulk Americas conference. In the podcast interview, Joe and Jeff discuss Tucker Company Worldwide and the Breakbulk Americas conference, the region’s largest trade event for the project cargo and breakbulk industry professionals. Conference Registration. About Jeff Tucker.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Fatigue during home video conference meeting call. Today, many of us are on conference call after conference call in an endless loop of meetings with little time to question the effectiveness. In my recent work with clients, I have been thinking a lot about S&OP and how we screwed it up. I want to break this cycle.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

Coincidentally, at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference yesterday, I attended a presentation by Justin Dillon, Founder and CEO of Made in a Free World , a nonprofit group that is “building a coalition of consumers, businesses, and governments to disrupt the system of slavery.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2020

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. As I squeezed into the middle seat of a crowded conference room, I got the stare. As a result, there are too many conferences (most of them bad) with the same leaders sharing their stories. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2023

With the rise of logistics and procurement constraints, an analysis of only manufacturing does not yield a feasible plan. MRP Alone Is Not Sufficient for Procurement. Procurement planning inside of lead time is not sufficient. Procurement planning inside of lead time is not sufficient.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We Bob Herzog, the global planning digitization leader for supply chain, and Pedro Noriega, planning director, North American product supply, both of Procter & Gamble (P&G), spoke on this at Kinaxis’ Kinexions 2019 user conference. We need people that are adaptable.

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All Things Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Chief Procurement Officer Summit is… We are excited to announce that the CPO Summit returns on November 2-4th of November at the JW Marriott Marquis Miami, Miami, FL USA!

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Procurement Operates On An Island. Business process outsourcing and procurement automation evolved to make the procurement organization more efficient and less effective. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the supply chain of the future. The conference is in Franklin, TN on September 7th-10th, 2021.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

I think almost everyone was astounded to see that something as basic as a face mask could not be procured at adequate levels in the US during the initial stages of the pandemic. COVID quickly took away some popular and very effective marketing tactics including conferences, tradeshows and direct mail.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I am looking forward to attending the Climate Group 2-day conference and countless other events throughout the week. Department of Energy’s request, this contract aims to streamline and standardize procurement of distribution services, reducing uncertainties and negotiation costs. Developed at the U.S.

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