Government contractors face new challenges as winning federal work becomes more competitive and regulated
For many government contractors, the most pressing worry is no longer a shutdown, a budget squeeze or another round of technological disruption. According to Washington Technology, the deeper anxiety now is far more basic: whether firms can still win enough federal work. That concern comes…
Julphar accelerates digital transformation with SAP S/4HANA and IBM Consulting partnership
Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries, better known as Julphar, is deepening its digital overhaul through a partnership with IBM Consulting and SAP that will move core business functions on to SAP S/4HANA. The company said the programme is designed to create a single, intelligent digital foundation across…
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Inventory accuracy sits at the centre of stable ecommerce operations, but in dropshipping the challenge is sharper because stock data lives with external suppliers rather than in a single warehouse under direct control. When those feeds are slow, inconsistent or incomplete, sellers can end up listing items that are no…
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…
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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 in store and rapid home…
South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has signed a new win-win agreement with POSCO and five of its affiliates in a move intended to improve payment practices, widen performance-sharing benefits and strengthen industrial safety across a supply chain that the regulator says covers about 5,300 companies.…
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View AllA supplier selection process is one of the most important controls in procurement, because the wrong decision can create problems long after the contract is signed. A low quote and a persuasive presentation can conceal weak capacity, fragile finances, poor compliance, or unreliable delivery. By the time those faults surface,…
Volvo tests private digital token to streamline supplier settlements on permissioned blockchain
Volvo Group has been testing a proprietary digital token for supplier settlements in what appears to be a closed, permissioned blockchain environment, according to an interview published by the Cardano Foundation with Ivan Branco, who oversees information management, artificial intelligence and analytics for Volvo Group’s…

