For decades, technology looked nothing like the tightly coupled supply chains that define aerospace, automotive or oil and gas. Software and infrastructure vendors could be swapped with relative ease, while enterprises stitched together their own patchwork of cloud platforms, integrators and point tools. That era…
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For years, procurement was often reduced to a simple calculation: award the contract to the lowest bidder and call it value. That logic is looking increasingly outdated. Across sectors ranging from facilities management and food services to retail, e-commerce and managed living, organisations are finding that a cheaper quote can…
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…
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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…
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View AllHexion, 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…
