Blue Yonder’s 2026.3 software release brings together changes to planning, order management, warehouse and transport operations, and collaboration between supply-chain partners. The company presents the update as an effort to make AI recommendations more transparent and keep their use within operational controls, while connecting decisions…
Artificial intelligence is becoming a test of procurement’s ability to pursue efficiency without surrendering control. For chief procurement officers, the challenge is not simply deciding which tools to buy. It is weighing uncertain returns, growing infrastructure costs and operational risks while helping the wider organisation…
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Renault Group has turned supply-chain resilience into a structured operating discipline, using digital control towers to spot risks early, keep goods moving and protect delivery commitments in an industry where disruption can quickly ripple from suppliers to showrooms. According to Logistics Insider, the carmaker’s approach rests on three linked systems:…
Sonepar’s chief executive Philippe Delpech has used a gathering of global suppliers in Paris to argue that the electrical wholesaler’s transformation is entering a new phase, with artificial intelligence, automation and closer data-sharing now expected to drive the next leg of growth. Speaking in an…
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Artificial intelligence is moving from the sidelines of business purchasing into the middle of the process, but Forrester says the final say will still rest with people. In its latest predictions for 2027, the research firm argues that AI will increasingly help buyers discover suppliers, compare options, assess risk and…
On 15 October, the Vietnamese-flagged tanker PVT Azura left St Petersburg carrying about 109,000 barrels of Russian diesel, according to shipping data cited by Shadow Fleet Monitor. The vessel is expected to reach Norfolk, Virginia, on 2 November, where it is said to be bound…
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View AllMany alliances fail not because they never generate revenue, but because nobody measures whether that revenue is sustainable. A partnership can look healthy in one quarter and still be quietly weakening through poor governance, rising costs, low trust or unresolved risk. The most useful scorecard, therefore, is not a single…
Bristol Myers Squibb lets staff buy directly as procurement shifts from gatekeeper to guide
Bristol Myers Squibb is rethinking one of procurement’s oldest assumptions: that the function should sit between employees and the act of buying itself. At the centre of the shift is Paula Glickenhaus, the pharmaceutical group’s chief procurement officer, who said on a panel at Amazon…

