Building trust through simple, clear supplier engagement for more accurate Scope 3 emissions data
For many organisations, the hardest part of measuring emissions is not the calculation itself but gathering the information that sits outside their own business. The most useful data often belongs to suppliers: the factories, farms, hauliers and other vendors that sit deep in the value…
Gulf tensions escalate as Iran allegedly targets King Fahd Causeway amid renewed US strikes
Iran’s reported attack on the King Fahd Causeway has been framed by market watchers as another sign that the Gulf confrontation is still worsening, even as the authenticity of the claim remains disputed and several credible sources have treated it as misinformation. The episode came…
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Dun & Bradstreet unveils AI-driven vendor management platform to boost third-party oversight
Dun & Bradstreet South Asia, Middle East and Africa has launched Partn-R, an artificial intelligence-enabled vendor management platform it says is designed to move companies beyond basic supplier onboarding and into wider third-party risk oversight. The new system replaces the company’s earlier Vend-R platform and is aimed at organisations that…
Retail’s new battleground: AI-driven real-time operations transforming store and fulfilment strategies
Retail is entering a phase in which speed matters as much as scale. The familiar priorities of standardisation and cost efficiency are still relevant, but they are no longer sufficient on their own in a sector where shoppers expect fluid journeys between online browsing, collection…
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Defence procurement is being reshaped by a quieter but consequential shift: buyers are no longer judging equipment purely on performance at the point of purchase, but on how well it can stay available, support itself and remain affordable over years of service. That change has accelerated as armies and navies…
In food manufacturing, customer complaints are often treated as an inconvenient afterthought, something to be logged, closed and filed away. Yet in complex supplier networks, they can be one of the most useful sources of operational intelligence. That was the lesson drawn by a food…
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View AllBruegel warns EU's critical raw materials strategy needs urgent overhaul to meet 2030 goals
The European Union still cannot rely on its own projects alone to secure supplies of critical raw materials, according to a Bruegel policy brief published on 9 July 2026. The paper, written by Madalena Barata da Rocha and Camille Reverdy, argues that the bloc is unlikely to meet its 2030…
Hexion, a 170-year-old chemicals group better known for adhesives and resins than digital experimentation, is trying to recast itself as an AI-enabled manufacturing business, with procurement among the functions being reshaped. Speaking on SupplyChainBrain, chief procurement officer Gaël De Martelaere said the company has used…

