Recent research by Accenture found that Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) are ahead of their peers in the sales function, surpassing them in scaling digitally enabled solutions.
Procurement faces a dual challenge in 2020 – reducing internal and external costs while at the same time adding value and becoming a better strategic advisor to the business, according to new Procurement Key Issues research from The Hackett Group, Inc.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim is calling for renewed cooperation from all stakeholders to tackle the urgent issues of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.
Fortna®, The Distribution Experts®, a leading global automation, engineering services and software company, today announced that it has acquired Pierau Unternehmensberatung GmbH (“Pierau Planung”), a European-based, market leader in supply chain and logistics design,…
When the 2019 USC Marshall Global Supply Chain Excellence Summit convened last August, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka placed special emphasis on technology infrastructure. That same theme was sounded when he delivered the fifth annual “State of the…
New research from the National Center for the Middle Market finds that more than three-quarters of middle market businesses have either experienced a major transition in the past five years or expect one in the next five years.
Commerce reported that December retail sales, at $529.6 billion, were up 0.3% over November and up 5.8% annually. NRF reported that December retail sales were up 0.5% from November to December on a seasonally adjusted basis and up 2.1% on an unadjusted basis rose 6.7 annually%.
December shipments—at 969,53—were off 8.5% annually and fell for the fourth consecutive month, and were down more than November's 4.2% annual decline. For calendar year 2019, total shipments—at 12,243,739—slipped 1.0% compared to 2018, marking its worst annual…
The companies said they will collaborate to facilitate the development of integration tools allowing for faster, seamless implementations to improve productivity and efficiency for shared retail and 3PL customers, as well as establish HighJump as a licensed retailer of…
Columbia Capital, Greenspring Associates and DHL recently announced to jointly acquire Riskpulse to scale the business in combination with Resilience360.
Only 20% of government buying is conducted through the long and cumbersome bid/RFP process, so companies can move swiftly through the pipeline to try and capture the 80% of government business secured through a variety of other procurement vehicles.
In Procurement we must understand where we are, what we can do, where we want/need to go and how to get there when it comes to “digital transformation."
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