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The Gartner Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Planning Technologies publication assesses technologies that executives should consider leveraging to stay relevant to their various stakeholders and to gain or maintain their competitive advantage in the marketplace - in this article we detail 4 technologies supporting supply chain planning innovation.

The Hackett Group 2020 Key Issues Study findings confirm that the mantra of “doing more with less” is still prevalent, but the top concern of supply chain leadership is that their organizations are in fact overcommitted.

New joint venture will accelerate Business Spend Management adoption in Japan as companies look to gain more spend visibility and control - Japan is one of the largest public cloud markets in APAC.

In the post-COVID world, Supply Chain Planning and Source-to-Pay cycles need to be increasingly dynamic and intertwined starting with greater alignment between the Chief Procurement Officer and the Chief Supply Chain Officer.

Business leaders who are driving successful supply chain transformation in their organizations outmaneuver their peers during times of disruption and adapt with agility to achieve continuous, profitable growth.

In this webinar summary, Willy Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, shares insights into how global supply chains came to be the way they are and how their vulnerability has been revealed through numerous crises.

In this report we show you how to be ready for the future with the Business Spend Management “Suite 16” KPIs, and how to benchmark your digital transformation across procurement and finance today.

Protecting your supply chain from costly disruptions requires rethinking the least-cost or overly lean strategies that have dominated global supply chains for decades.

The Air Mobility Command of the U.S. Air Force needed to develop an airlift forecast with enough accuracy to book commercial aircraft 12 months in advance.

In this guide you will learn how to contain costs and mitigate risk by moving to the next stage in your procurement maturity, and advance to become a partner in driving business innovation.

In this benchmark report from Retail Systems Research, we look at the response and key finding from retailers who show an interest in adapting and using artificial intelligence, AI analytics to enable a more agile supply chain.

In this industry perspective paper, we detail how, even though supply chain events such as the COVID-19 pandemic are impossible to predict, life sciences organizations can at least, be prepared by taking an intentional approach to risk management, response, and continuous supply chain design.

This is the final part of the 3-part series about how companies must evolve their Procurement Operating Model to the next level, accelerate value creation, and make procurement become a competitive advantage to their organization.

Coupa officials said that this deal will augment its supply chain capabilities and also enable its shipper customers to drive greater value through BPM processes. And they also noted that LLamasoft will help Coupa achieve that value, given the heightened need for supply chain volatility and changing market conditions, which it said necessitates the need for shippers to make smarter and faster supply chain decisions.

The acquisition will empower both businesses to drive greater value across direct and indirect spend, and broaden its leadership in Business Spend Management.