Supply & Demand Chain Executive

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The 13-Week Gap: Where Supply Chain Plans Actually Break

CFOs and COOs always ask supply chain leaders: “What do you see?” The better question for the next planning cycle is what they can do with what they see.

Aravo Launches AI Risk Management Application for Third-Party Vendors

Procurement Professionals Adopt General AI Tools But Struggle to Scale

ACERTUS Partners with AtoB to Launch Fleet Fuel Discount Program

Supply Chain Execution Failures Drive $849.9B in Retail Returns

OnRobot Introduces 2FGP20 Fork Electric Palletizing Gripper

How Business Intelligence Connects Procurement to End-to-End Supply Chain Performance

Featured

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Supply Chain Gals’ Liz Raman Builds Community and Opportunity for Women in the Supply Chain

Tell Me Everything Podcast episode featuring women in supply chain building networks with guest Marina Mayer

You are Your Own Advocate: Build Powerful Networks

Recommended

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Nominations Open for 2027 Pros to Know Award

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Highlights from 2025 Women in Supply Chain Forum™

Free webinar featuring Jenny Fall and Marina Mayer discussing mentorship for women leaders in supply chain and trucking industries on July 29 at 2 PM ET

Supporting the Next Generation of Women Leaders: Why Mentorship Matters

2026 Top Tech Startup Award: Nominations Open

Kase's Cecelia Pasos Promotes Worker Safety and Company Culture: Women in Supply Chain Forum™ Award

Reveel's Gabrielle Murabito Talks Connecting Data Across the Supply Chain: Women in Supply Chain Forum™ Award

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Highlights from 2025 Women in Supply Chain Forum™

Risk/Compliance

Aravo Launches AI Risk Management Application for Third-Party Vendors

Aravo Solutions Inc.

Aravo for Responsible AI provides a structured assessment that can be tailored to a third party’s AI use cases and operating context.

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Procurement Professionals Adopt General AI Tools But Struggle to Scale

While most are using general AI tools for procurement, procurement-specific tools often deliver more value.

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Fleet Management

ACERTUS Partners with AtoB to Launch Fleet Fuel Discount Program

Accessible to carriers of all sizes, both of the program’s cards can be used for fuel as well as other vehicle-related expenses, including maintenance, tires and tools.

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Reverse Logistics

Supply Chain Execution Failures Drive $849.9B in Retail Returns

Details from the report show that retailers typically treat the three pressures -- returns, freight cost, and peak-season readiness -- as separate conversations split across separate departments.

Cardboard return box in warehouse aisle with blue and orange shelving

OnRobot Introduces 2FGP20 Fork Electric Palletizing Gripper

This out-of-the-box electric solution entails a gripper that lifts packages from underneath and stabilizes them from above.

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Financial Management Software

How Business Intelligence Connects Procurement to End-to-End Supply Chain Performance

Ventagium Data Consulting

Spend analytics tells you where the money went. It doesn't tell you what a purchasing decision costs once you follow it into inventory, production and logistics.

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ABB Robotics Introduces High-Performance Robots for Precision Manufacturing

ABB Robotics launched two new compact, high-performance robots that deliver up to 20% shorter cycle times.

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Fleet Management

Cargofy Launches Architect to Build Logistics Software Around a Company's Operations

This AI agent learns how a company moves goods and builds the software around it in a few hours.

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Electrification

6 Supply Chain Priorities for Utility Leaders

ProcureAbility, a Jabil company

To keep pace with surging demand and mitigate supply-side risk, utility executives must adopt advanced supply chain playbooks.

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Procurement Software

The $1.5M Price Tag of Delaying AI Procurement Automation

Procurement teams spend almost one-fifth (18%) of their time on manual tasks.

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Carbon Footprint

Supply Chain Resilience: When Supplier Diversification Isn’t Enough

Esco Global Strategies

Supplier diversification remains an important resilience strategy. But supplier count alone cannot show whether the underlying means of production have actually been diversified.

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Netradyne's AI Agents Automate Fleet Management and Driver Safety

Fleet teams put Netradyne Intelligence to work with ready-made agents for everyday tasks and agents they create themselves.

Professional using dual monitors to manage fleet operations with AI-powered agents for business workflow optimization

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