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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

ivalua

One way of doing this is by leveraging Source-to-Pay (S2P) solutions, which can provide procurement with the tools needed to manage their supplier relationships and identify opportunities for cost savings. S2P: Where to Start Ivalua provides a comprehensive set of integrated solutions that span the entire Source-to-Pay lifecycle.

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TradeBeyond's Retail Sourcing Report: 2025 Supply Chain Trends

Supply Chain Brain

TradeBeyond’s Retail Sourcing Report: 2025 Supply Chain Trends provides a comprehensive analysis of the critical developments that will continue to reshape global retail supply chains in 2025 and beyond.

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The 2022 Chlorine Shortage: Another Year of Poolmageddon

ToolsGroup

Image source: Cape Analytics. Image Source: Nola. Image Source: USA Today. Image source: CNBC. Image source: Meme Generator. Image source: Cheezburger. For those with the luxury, that meant diving right into a chlorine-filled pool. It’s projected to register a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 3.5%

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Resilience by Design: The Power of Simulation in Supply Chain Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

Optimal sourcing plant is different for different periods A baseline optimization model shows that depending on the period (month), the optimal sourcing location varies. While this sourcing strategy is the most cost-effective one, the business might not want to operate like that. In scenario #1 the horizon is 12 months.

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3 Challenges of Building Complex Dashboards with Open Source Components

Speaker: Ryan MacCarrigan, Founding Principal, LeanStudio

Many product teams use charting components and open source code libraries to get dashboards and reporting functionality quickly. But what happens when you have a growing user base and additional feature requests?

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Is China’s Role in Your Supply Chain Increasing or Decreasing?

Talking Logistics

As reported by Paul Wiseman on February 7th, “For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico [in 2023] surpassed China as the leading source of goods imported by the United States.” This news prompted us to ask members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics.

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IBP Scenario Modeling for Recovery, Restructuring and Resilience

AIMMS

We explore, for instance, how you can use network design scenarios to: Explore strategic supply chain design choices, such as reshoring or sourcing closer to home Optimize the supply chain footprint for new demand profiles and risk appetite Build resilience and agility into your decision factors, as well as pure cost optimization.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualization Will Never Be Enough

Turning embedded analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become commonplace.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions.

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

GEP’s sourcing expertise and market intelligence enabled the company to centralize sourcing and order management processes, strengthen key supplier relationships, and enhance supply chain resilience and agility. The result was a year-over-year savings of more than 3%.

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LinkedIn + ZoomInfo Recruiter: Better Data for Better Candidates

That's where ZoomInfo Recruiter comes in, helping bridge the gap when job sourcing and communication efforts stall on LinkedIn. LinkedIn Recruiter is an effective way to start the recruitment process for an open position. But that doesn't mean there aren't some frustrating roadblocks on the network.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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The What, Why and How of Total Procurement Orchestration

By 2027, Gartner predicts that 40% of sourcing will be handled outside of the procurement function. How can procurement pros ensure that the process is efficient and unified for all users? For a synchronized and democratized approach to procurement, leaders are embracing total procurement orchestration solutions.