Saudi Arabia’s housing programme transforms procurement into a national development tool
Saudi Arabia’s drive to deliver 600,000 homes by 2030 is now shaping up as more than a housing programme: it is becoming a test of how far procurement can be used to reshape an entire industrial base. The National Housing Company, established in 2016 as…
Zycus’s Merlin Intake transforms procurement onboarding with AI-driven request management
Andrew Bartolini of Ardent Partners says enterprise procurement has long had a weak point at the very start of the buying process: the moment a user decides they need something and then works out how to obtain it outside the system. That gap, once treated…
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AI transformation shifts supply chain leadership from cost-cutting to ecosystem building
Chief executives are still fixated on expansion, but they are relying on cost discipline to keep profits intact. Gartner says 65% of leaders in supply-chain-heavy businesses expect artificial intelligence to shape the next phase of business, yet three quarters believe their current operating models are not ready for an AI-led…
For many large American companies, the bulk of their climate footprint lies outside their own operations. It sits instead in the upstream and downstream activity that surrounds them: the raw materials they buy, the logistics they rely on, the way customers use products and, eventually,…
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Pepsi Philippines leverages digital tools to empower sari-sari stores and boost local retail growth
Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines Inc. is deepening its bet on the country’s sari-sari stores, arguing that the smallest outlets in the retail chain are also among the most important. In an interview carried by The Tribune, company executive Phyo said these neighbourhood shops remain a core part of both Filipino daily…
Procurement strategies need to focus on physical realities amid Iran conflict disruptions
Procurement leaders are being warned not to confuse a market rally with a genuine easing in supply, as the Iran conflict continues to expose how quickly headlines can diverge from the physical realities of production, logistics and inventory. The central lesson is simple: a ceasefire,…
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View AllBeacon is making a clear break from the digital freight forwarding experiment that helped define its early years, arguing that the problem was not just execution but the model itself. Fraser Robinson, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, told The Loadstar that Beacon had once tried to operate as a…
Most vendor management programmes do not fail all at once. They begin to creak in familiar places: onboarding drags on, contracts are hard to locate, assessments arrive too late, and work slips between teams that are all operating in good faith but not from…

