Sourcing & Procurement News
Supply Chain Automation: Optimizing Cash Flow in the Age of Uncertainty
This eBook examines the current challenges faced by supply chain leaders and the increasingly important role that automation is playing as businesses push for cash flow optimization.
4 Reasons Supply Chain Leaders Are Investing in Order Management Automation
This ebook details how supply chain leaders work in a competitive environment, and in order to get ahead of the competition, are increasingly turning to order processing automation solutions.
Re-thinking Procurement in a Prototype Business
In this Episode, Rosemary Coates, Executive Director of the Reshoring Institute, and Bernadine Henderson, Director of Strategic Sourcing and Global Procurement at Protolabs discuss procurement in a prototyping and small-lot environment.
Optimizing the End-to-End Order-to-Cash Process
Are outdated Order-to-Cash processes and siloed legacy systems affecting your company’s customer experience and working capital? Discover best practices in APQC’s latest report.
The Difference between Procurement & Supply Chain Management and Why the Two Should Converge
Many companies globally have kept the procurement and supply chain functions independent of each other, consequently, they have not been able to leverage the efficiency of merging the two.
Supply Chain Disruptions Spur Procurement and Finance to Band Together
It’s great to talk about resilient and sustainable supply chains, but what do they look like in practice? And how do you achieve those goals?
Threading the Supply Chain Needle
Learn how to break down departmental silos and design resilient and sustainable supply chains.
How Automation Makes Handling Customer Inquiries Easy to Achieve With a Digital Assistant
Many of today’s modern enterprises are stuck having at least one full-time employee who lives and breathes the central email box, and their job is solely to open every email that comes into the enterprise and try to figure out what exactly the customer might be asking for.
The Future of Process Automation will be Driven by Artificial Intelligence/AI, Not Bots
AI technology that works with bots not only performs repetitive manual tasks but also mimics the way humans think, analyze and decide the appropriate next course of action.
Building a Business Case for Order Management Automation
In this white paper, we discuss the best way to approach management and key stakeholders with an automation project, through compelling statistics.
Transforming the DNA of Your Customer Service Team - a Digital Assistant for the Shared Inbox
This ebook attempts to answer questions by examining recent customer service trends, addressing the elephant in the room (shared inboxes), and exploring the benefits of employing a digital assistant to help your customer service reps work smarter, not harder.
Market Dojo Accelerates Growth with the Completion of Esker Acquiring a Majority Share
British startup Market Dojo revolutionizes procurement standards by offering a 100% cloud eSourcing solution.
The Total Economic Impact™ of Esker’s Order Management Solution
Esker commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ study and examine the potential ROI that enterprises may achieve with Esker’s Order Management solution.
Achieving Supply Chain Management Excellence with Inbound Document Process Automation
The goal of this paper is to help CEOs and CIOs in the wholesale/distribution industry understand the variety of ways in which manual inbound document processing can negatively impact a business.
How Machine-Learning Solutions Drive Order Management Excellence
Download this Customer Service Workbook to discover industry tips and best practices for bringing efficiency and profitability to order management while freeing up your Corporate Social Responsibilities.
Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act – This Is Going to Affect Your Global Supply Chains
Listen in as Rosemary Coates and Gabby Griffith, Director at BPE Global, and discuss the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act that goes into effect on June 21.
Is Your Ecommerce Process For Order Management Really As Automated As Possible?
You may think your eCommerce business is as automated as possible, but there’s a chance you’re still missing out on order management efficiencies that you can take right to the bank, and ways to better serve your valued customers.
GEP Outlook 2022 - Supply Chain & Procurement: Key Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
Get actionable insights to effectively deal with disruption and uncertainty and learn supply chain and procurement strategies that can help your business thrive in the new normal.
Lockdowns in China – What to Expect Over the Next Few Years
On this Podcast, Rosemary Coates and Jennifer Clement of Complete Manufacturing and Distribution, discuss the current lock-down in Shanghai and what companies can expect for their global sourcing and manufacturing over the next few years.
Featured Companies
Strategic Procurement Solutions
The management team at Strategic Procurement Solutions brings a client-centered approach to your supply-management consulting & training opportunities. Our hand-picked professionals deliver impressive solutions that result from progressive experience guiding procurement programs for major clients in the Service, Manufacturing, and…
ConnXus is a cloud-based supplier management platform that connects small and diverse businesses to Fortune 2000 companies. The platform specializes in supplier diversity, vendor management, sustainable supply chain solutions and business services for minority-, woman-, veteran-, and LGBT-owned businesses.
GEP delivers transformative supply chain solutions that help global enterprises become more agile and resilient, operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability, and increase shareholder value.
Supply Chain Edge was founded in 2001 to help companies address their most pressing supply chain challenges. Our professionals are seasoned supply chain operators with years of hands–on operating experience and deep experience in delivering improved profits, enhancing EBITDA, and…
Vantage Partners is a global management consulting firm. We specialize in helping companies achieve breakthrough business results by transforming the way they negotiate with, and manage relationships with, key business partners.
MPO offers the world's only natively unified cloud platform for Multi-Party Orchestration. The platform complements existing enterprise systems with end-to-end supply chain visibility and in-app control, and optimizes order, inventory, and transportation across dynamic, multi-party networks. MPO helps diverse brand…
Tradeshift brings all companies, big and small, together to transact, connect and collaborate with each other. For suppliers, we deliver free electronic invoicing, faster payments and predictable cash flow. For enterprises, we empower them to work more easily and productively…
OpenText™ operates the world’s leading B2B network. Built on the strength of the OpenText Cloud™, it connects more than 600,000 businesses that execute in excess of 16 billion transactions per year. OpenText B2B Managed Services help reduce the complexity…
By engaging eBay Enterprise as a co-sourcing partner for the products and services you need, you get the most out of your online channel. With eBay Enterprise bringing you greater speed and operating capabilities, your commerce team has the freedom…
Sourcengine is a global e-commerce marketplace for electronic components where customers can check over 1 billion component offers and buy from 3,500+ traceable suppliers in one easy transaction. Procurement specialists can shop without ever having to leave our website. We eliminate the…
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