Grid reliability still hinges on careful engineering and disciplined planning, but for utilities and developers the bottleneck is increasingly more basic: the hardware is not arriving on time. Danielle Pirrone, president and chief operating officer of ULE Group, argues that procurement has become a direct…
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Deel has bought Sastrify, the SaaS procurement platform, in a move that broadens Deel IT from device management into software purchasing, renewal tracking and spending control. The deal gives Deel a way to bring licence buying, contract oversight and renewal management into the same system that already handles hardware, security…
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Mercer County has launched a new training initiative designed to help smaller firms compete for public contracts, a market that can offer steady work but is often difficult for newcomers to penetrate. County Executive Dan Benson unveiled the Procurement Readiness & Empowerment Program on May 4, in partnership with the…
Amazon, Walmart and other major retailers are working with the Sustainable Packaging Coalition to send a more coordinated message to suppliers on sustainable packaging, after finding that many of their private-label challenges overlap more than expected. The effort, centred on SPC’s Retailer Forum, was set…
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View AllSAP Ariba’s Guided Sourcing has long been designed to make procurement less cumbersome, but the latest wave of updates points to a more ambitious shift: a move towards a sourcing process that is more automated, more conversational and less dependent on manual intervention. According to SAP’s own product materials, the…
Gap Inc. is deepening its use of artificial intelligence in the supply chain through a partnership with Inspectorio aimed at improving product traceability, data collection and operational control, according to the companies and a press release issued on 9 April. The retailer is using Inspectorio’s…
