Supply chain resilience is increasingly being judged by how quickly a network can adjust, not simply by whether it can keep moving. The most useful measures now go beyond headline service levels and look at route reliability, transit-time variation, carrier performance, exception frequency, fill rate…
The construction sector has spent years championing collaboration, early contractor involvement and better risk management, yet many schemes are still being brought to market before the basics have been properly settled. In practice, that means contractors are often asked to price uncertainty rather than a…
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Corporate sustainability has become a proving ground for whether large food companies can turn grand promises into measurable progress. That distinction matters because net-zero pledges and other environmental commitments have increasingly come under scrutiny. JBS USA learned that lesson the hard way when it was fined US$1.1m after saying it…
For many health systems, the biggest gains in supply chain performance are not in the most visible categories, but in the sprawling, harder-to-manage areas of indirect spend and purchased services. Tom Swapp, senior vice-president of indirect spend and purchased services at Vizient, argues that these…
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Procurement teams are under sustained pressure to move faster, but many sourcing exercises still get slowed by manual administration. Emails, spreadsheets, supplier chases and approval bottlenecks can stretch even straightforward events into drawn-out projects. That is why automation is becoming central to procurement operations. Arkestro says its Process Science approach…
Single-Sourced And Exposed: The Procurement Lesson Buried In Pharma’s Pandemic Supply Chain Crisis COVID-19 didn’t just disrupt clinical manufacturing – it exposed a sourcing-strategy failure that procurement and supplier relationship management teams outside biotech should recognize immediately. By Lisa Cozza and Bill Connell, Tunnell Consulting…
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View AllFitting has closed a $1.1 million seed round as the Saudi start-up looks to expand its digital platform for construction supply chains and strengthen its technology base. The company, which focuses on automating procurement and supply chain processes for contractors, suppliers and property developers, said the investment included backing from…
