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China’s latest tightening of rare earth exports has reopened an old Japanese anxiety: how much reliance on a single supplier…

Industrial companies are no longer dealing with disruption as a temporary setback. They are having to operate through a more…

Toyota’s evolving approach to supply chain resilience shows how manufacturers are trying to protect the gains of lean production without…

At the American Supply Chain Summit, Blake Tablak, chief executive of Trax Technologies, made a pointed case for a slower,…

Vertice has agreed to buy Vendr, in a deal that the London-based procurement software company says will create the world’s…

Siemens is betting that industrial AI will only pay off when it is tied directly to day-to-day operations, and Mendix…

Geopolitical shocks are now moving through supply chains fast enough to force a rethink of how contracts are written, negotiated…

UPS is stepping up its air freight offer in Mexico with a new time-definite service aimed at manufacturers that need…

Ocado and Asda’s new partnership is being presented by both sides as a route to overdue renewal, but the…

Healthcare supply chains have been under extraordinary strain in recent years, with rising demand, geopolitical shocks and persistent volatility forcing…

The Crown Commercial Service has begun the procurement process for Construction Works and Associated Services 3, a framework it says…

More than 300 delegates gathered in Johannesburg for the 3rd Annual Tender Success Summit 2026, as organisers and participants used…

Kaleidoscope has argued that sustainability only starts to matter commercially when it is built into the way a business actually…

AI success in procurement hinges less on the sophistication of the model than on the quality of the data…

Artificial intelligence has quickly moved from experimentation to a board-level priority in the public sector, but officials are being forced…