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Negotiating With A Chatbot: A Walmart Procurement Case Study

Talking Logistics

Read more The post Negotiating With A Chatbot: A Walmart Procurement Case Study appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. More than two-thirds of the respondents (68%) said they weren’t using AI and.

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Watch: Modernizing EDI to Scale Freight Procurement

Supply Chain Brain

Kyle Jepson, senior vice president of product at Emerge, and Erik Kiser, chief executive officer of Orderful, relate a case study about how Emerge implemented a modern electronic data interchange (EDI) platform.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain Management (Lessons from the Past)

Talking Logistics

As I highlighted last week in “Negotiating With A Chatbot: A Walmart Procurement Case Study,” despite all the hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI), relatively few companies are using AI in their supply chain or logistics operations today. Simply put, we’re still in the very early adopter stage.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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How One Manufacturer Used GEP SOFTWARE To Save $45M in Direct Material Sourcing

Multiple legacy systems prevent procurement from standardizing processes and tracking what they’re spending with each supplier.

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Case Study: Roll Out the Barrel for Tailored Materials Handling

Logistics Business Magazine

Marston’s issued a detailed tender as part of a group-wide procurement and required a fleet that would predominantly transfer pallets of beer, spirits and soft drinks as well as keg and cask products to kerbside lorries for onward distribution.

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ISM 2018: The digitization of procurement

247 Customs Broker

That was driven home yesterday morning at the first session I planned on attending on Artificial Intelligence in procurement. Most of us aren’t at the stage of applying them to our procurement organizations. The post ISM 2018: The digitization of procurement appeared first on 247 Customs Broker. jberman@peerlessmedia.com.