Three steps to take back control of your SAP landscape

By Joe Byrne, Executive CTO, Cisco AppDynamics Businesses in all sectors rely on SAP to bring together data from across functions in order to seamlessly plan, allocate, and deploy resources across complex supply chains. Numerous business applications depend entirely on SAP to fulfill their purpose to end users, from the frontend — such as e-commerce […]

How Rising Fuel Prices are Forcing Logistics Companies to Adjust B2B Deliveries

By Anar Mammadov, CEO — Senpex There was a season when it appeared that businesses could stop worrying about fuel prices; then, the season passed. As recent headlines have reported, gas prices in the US are once again on the rise. While rising gas prices impact virtually every segment of the business world, B2B logistics companies are affected more than most […]

Supply Chain Reactivity: In Conversation with Mike McGrath of Kwayga

COVID-19 was not the first disruption of the global food supply chain. In the European Union, there was also Brexit. Kwayga, a start-up based in Cork, Ireland responded with what its CPO Mike McGrath describes as “the Tinder of supply chain technology.” The intent, though, is to maintain a relationship-focus with new partners rather than […]

HP Canada President: Canada can become a digital manufacturing powerhouse

Canada’s story has always been one of resilience, collaboration and ingenuity and in no time has that been truer than over the course of this year. COVID-19 was a systemic shock—not just for Canada but for nearly every nation on earth. It revealed a soft underbelly to what we previously considered to be steadfast, resilient […]

Greentec CEO Perrotta: Why we’re partnering with Glentel

In the fight to reduce climate change, Canadian mobile phone retailer Glentel Inc. announces partnership with Cambridge-based recycler Greentec, to responsibly dispose of old phones across Canada This year alone, 31 million Canadians are in possession of a smartphone, meaning half of these individuals are likely to be in the market for a new device. […]

Gatik Deploys Canada’s First Autonomous Delivery Fleet with Loblaw; Announces $25 million raise

Gatik, an autonomous technology company deploying autonomous vehicles for B2B short-haul middle-mile logistics, today announced a multi-year partnership with Loblaw Companies to deploy a fleet of autonomous delivery vehicles in Toronto, Ontario. The autonomous vehicle company also announces $25 million in VC funding. Beginning in January, Gatik will provide Loblaw with a safe, reliable, contactless delivery solution for transporting […]

Here’s Why RFID Tracking Will Never Go Out of Style

Now that B2B global communications networks have made it possible to share data across vast distances in real time, RFID tracking has revolutionized B2B shipping, warehousing, and logistics. Supply chain specialists can now keep closer track of shipments than ever before. And it’s not just a matter of tracking their physical location. RFID tracking technology […]

Mastercard Track OpenText

Mastercard makes a bigger investment in serving B2B markets like the auto sector with OpenText

Mastercard is enhancing its B2B global trade enablement platform with technology from OpenText, beginning with capabilities for auto industry professionals as part of a broader plan to create deeper relationships with corporate buyers. The company on Thursday announced its intentions to use OpenText’s Supplier Portal, Identify Portal and Internet of Things (IoT) at the vendor’s […]

Tealbook procurement CPOs

How Tealbook, Fluxym, Eved and others are trying to transform enterprise procurement

The digitization of purchase processes in the enterprise are creating a greater need for supplier management applications that work better together than allow chief procurement officers to get a “seat at the table” among senior decision-makers, according to a gathering of CPOs in Toronto on Thursday. Former procurement leaders from Google, GE and other large […]

FedEx Dream 2.0

FedEx offers a dream-like look at what happens while its B2B customers are sleeping

A TV commercial from FedEx suggests that business professionals who track the delivery of items online aren’t even seeing half of what really going in to getting their orders fulfilled. In ‘Dream 2.0,’ an animated series of commonly-shipped items — including a data center server, a medical monitoring device and a wind turbine — move […]

Avionos procurement research

Avionos research shows most procurement officers are bypassing supplier portals in favor of some consumer-friendly search options

Even though they work in B2B firms, 78 per cent of procurement managers begin looking for product searches on Amazon or Google rather than a vendor’s own site, and most are disappointed by what they find, according to a new report from Avionos. Avionos, a digital marketing firm based in Chicago, surveyed 160 U.S. B2B […]

Siemens OpenText supply chain

How Siemens is moving 100,000 trading partners from phone calls and faxed invoices to a digitally-driven supply chain

Siemens is in the process of rolling out new technology and services from OpenText that will try and encourage more than 100,000 firms connected in its supply chain to move to a more digitally-driven way of making payments and completing other business processes. The Berlin-based industrial manufacturing company was among those represented at Enterprise World, […]

Outlaw contracts legalese

Outlaw fights back at the incomprehensible legalese that plagues business contracts

It should have been a celebratory time for Evan Schneyer. His travel-oriented startup, Wanderfly, was being sold to Tripadvisor after about five weeks’ worth of discussion. Then, when it came time to sign on the dotted line, the contract challenges emerged that gave birth to his new venture, Outlaw. “It was like a glorified job […]

vendor managed inventory

Collaborative VMI Project Generates a Win-Win for the Buyer and Supplier

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a process where the supplier monitors customer information to keep the customer properly stocked with materials.  VMI often gets a bad reputation because historically procurement departments use it to shift cost to the supplier. This project was different.  The overall objective was to reduce the number of manual changes to […]