As manufacturers come under growing pressure to cut costs and shrink their environmental footprint, recycled PET has emerged as one of the most practical materials in the plastics market. Often chosen for its strength, light weight and recyclability, it is now being woven into supply…
Geopolitics is no longer a background risk in memory sourcing; it is now a central force shaping how DRAM and NAND are bought, allocated and qualified. For years, many electronics makers treated memory procurement as a largely cyclical business, assuming that tight supply would eventually…
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A conversation with a solo-practitioner lawyer offered a revealing contrast to the hype surrounding agentic AI. She said she had already spread artificial intelligence across her working day, but the tools she described were modest: Gemini for emails and contract summaries, NotebookLM for organising testimony, and ChatGPT for drafting blog…
ProcurePro secures $11 million to revolutionise construction procurement with AI expansion
ProcurePro has raised US$11 million in new funding as the Australian construction software company seeks to expand its AI-driven procurement platform into more international markets, according to the company and its investors. The round was led by QIC Ventures, the venture arm of Queensland Investment…
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UPM Specialty Materials and BASF have teamed up to advance recyclable, fibre-based packaging as the industry comes under sharper pressure to cut waste and redesign formats around recyclability. The companies say their cooperation combines UPM’s barrier and barrier base papers with BASF’s Joncryl HPB barrier technology resins to help brand…
JAGGAER launches AI assistant JAI to revolutionise procurement with faster, smarter workflows
JAGGAER has launched JAI, an artificial intelligence assistant intended to make procurement teams faster and less reliant on internal support desks, as software vendors race to add conversational tools to long-established buying systems. The company said the assistant is now available to customers and is…
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View AllG6 Hospitality launches unified digital procurement platform to streamline supply chain for Motel 6 and Studio 6
StoreHippo has teamed up with G6 Hospitality to launch G6 Marketplace, a digital procurement platform designed to bring more order and visibility to supply purchasing across the Motel 6 and Studio 6 franchise network in the US and Canada. According to the company, the system is built on StoreHippo’s composable…
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…

