Many companies still struggle to see what is happening across their supply chains because the underlying data is fragmented, incomplete or missing altogether. Product information, sourcing records and lifecycle details are often held in separate systems, shared inconsistently or never captured in the first place,…
Co-op is opening up its quick-commerce data to suppliers through a new analytics platform as it looks to quicken growth in the channel and give brands a clearer view of how their products are performing online and through delivery partners. The retailer has partnered with…
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Two hundred days into the war, the clearest lesson for Southeast Asia is not that supply chains have snapped, but that they have changed shape under pressure. What began as a question about whether the disruption would fade has become a broader reckoning about permanence. According to Dr Raymon Krishnan,…
Industrial organisations are increasingly turning to agentic digital workers as a way to relieve a mounting shortage of time, talent and operational bandwidth. In new research commissioned by IFS and carried out by The Futurum Group, industrial staff were found to lose 41% of their…
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Many companies begin looking for procurement software because they want to remove friction from everyday buying rather than because they are shopping for a technology category. The immediate pain points are usually operational: purchase orders stalled in approval chains, limited visibility over spend, delayed supplier payments, or finance teams spending…
Walmart transforms grocery shopping into a data-driven ecosystem for deeper customer engagement
Walmart’s grocery business has become about far more than filling baskets. What is increasingly apparent is that food is the mechanism that brings shoppers back repeatedly, week after week, and gives the retailer a stronger grip on the wider relationship it has with customers. That…
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View AllEU’s public procurement overhaul aims to prioritise quality over price, reshaping construction bidding standards
A major overhaul of the European Union’s public procurement framework is set to reshape how public works are awarded, with industry figures saying it could effectively end the long-running dominance of the lowest bid and weaken the practical importance of construction class rankings. The European Commission’s proposed Public Procurement Act,…
For many enterprise wholesale brands, the real challenge is not whether to digitise their trade business, but how to avoid forcing every account into a single buying model that was never meant to serve them all. That issue is becoming sharper as brands split their…

