- 1. The Supply Chain May Be Opening Up
- (Supply)
- The disruptions in global supply chains in the past three years were unprecedented. It led to soaring inflation across many parts of the world. This has forced central banks to change their policy stance, ...
- 2. Financing the Supply Chain is Up Next on UPS' Agenda
- (Technology)
- ... technological innovations are helping banks in financing supply chain companies. For instance, technologies such as application programming interfaces (APIs) and distributed ledger technologies such as ...
- 3. Tech Keeps Supply Chain Flowing
- (News)
- ... While this often means serious inefficiency — food that’s destined for stores is wasted while consumers and food banks contend with empty shelves — the strain can also fast-track new technology and supply ...
- 4. Satellite Company Helps with Supply Chain Tracking
- (News)
- A California company is assisting companies with tracking their supply chains during the Covid-19 pandemic, reports Bloomberg. As the coronavirus pandemic leads to anxiety over the strength of the world’s ...
- 5. How FedEx and UPS are helping victims of Hurricane Dorian
- (Logistics)
- When disaster strikes an area, survivors are in crucial need of supplies in order to survive the hardship. In most cases homes, roads, and many structures are decimated making it tricky for survivors to ...
- 6. New Blockchain Finance Tool
- (News)
- Trado is a new blockchain finance enterprise, reports Global Trade Review. A consortium of international banks, corporates, fintech startups, an NGO and a research institution has released a new model ...
- 7. Bringing Blockchain to Tea
- (News)
- Unilever is teaming up with several partners to bring blockchain to its tea supply, reports GreenBiz. Unilever’s consortium will monitor tea coming out of Malawi to ensure it meets several criteria. ...
- 8. Chatbots in the Chain
- (Technology)
- ... uptick in interest in less than 9 months. Will supply chain use be different from banks and telecom operators? Certainly the topics will be different but the uses are likely to be very similar. Customers ...
- 9. Time to Automate Payments
- (News)
- "What's the best time to automate supplier payments?", the folks at Spend Matters ask. What's wrong with now?The technology is there, it's not a huge investment, and change management isn't complex, according ...
- 10. Tesco Makes its Bets
- (News)
- Although mega-corporations usually aren't known for their flexibility, they're often leaders in innovation because they have the resources available to devote to problems. Tesco, a British retailer, is ...
- 11. Visa's V.me Applicatio
- (News)
- The growth of ecommerce continues to have effects across all aspects of the business process. Payments happens to be one such hot area now. On the NASDAQ site, Andrew Johnson provides information about ...
- 12. Google Wallet: High Risk, High Reward
- (Retail)
- ... to digital payment systems: traditional credit card companies; banks; startups eager to leverage electronic capabilities to squeeze out the high costs of old-line payment approaches; and several of the ...
- 13. Currency exchange: pay across borders
- (Technology)
- ... of international payment Traditionally, businesses rely on commercial banks to clear international payments. Banks structure such transactions in terms of two major costs: currency exchange and transfer ...
- 14. Living/Surviving in the New Economy - Managing Item Information
- (Retail)
- ... and layoffs. Changes are being made at the top for some other companies, like Christopher and Banks and realignments like Best Buy. With all this happening, it's imperative that organizations continue to ...
- 15. eInvoicing: The Upside Down Cloud Application
- (Technology)
- ... the seller.” Buyers want to control the timing and initiation of payments from their banks and this has made them resist using e-invoicing systems, he says. Buyer self-invoicing overcomes this resistance ...
- 16. eInvoicing: The Upside Down Cloud Application
- (Retail)
- ... invoicing to pay the seller.” Buyers want to control the timing and initiation of payments from their banks and this has made them resist using e-invoicing systems, he says. Buyer self-invoicing overcomes ...
- 17. Doing it Wrong - Get it Right!
- (Management)
- ... has many different types of customers : internal departments (finance, customer service, DCs, HR, etc.), external service providers (credit card companies, banks, benefits providers), direct material suppliers, ...
- 18. EDI Scheduling and File Transfer Best Practices
- (Integration)
- ... not taken into consideration. For example, banks have specific cut-off times by the time an EDI transaction should be received. If not received by the cut-off time, the bank may keep the ...
- 19. Marlow Busts the Myths About Landed Costs
- (Supply)
- ... from 3PL’s or Freight companies International Goods – Cost of Goods charged by the supplier Financing costs from Banks for Letters of Credit Customs/Duty Consolidation costs Cost ...
- 20. On The Line - Michael Martz
- (Retail)
- ... we support electronic transactions across the business, meaning we deal with suppliers, customers, banks, benefits providers, and virtually every type of business partner of Grainger, as well as many of ...
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