Donald Trump’s drive to bring more manufacturing back to the United States has helped revive a familiar political promise: make it at home, sell it at home, and reduce dependence on distant suppliers. But as manufacturers and software startups are discovering, the hardest part is…
Business leaders often assume that if a supplier is meeting its service-level targets, the relationship is working as intended. In practice, that can be a misleading comfort. A vendor may deliver exactly what the contract asks for and still leave the organisation with avoidable rework,…
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EcoVadis has struck a partnership with Vertice that will place its sustainability ratings directly inside the AI procurement platform, giving buyers a way to weigh environmental, social and governance performance alongside price, contract terms, benchmark data and commercial risk. The arrangement makes Vertice EcoVadis’ first AI procurement orchestration partner, according…
Cisco is betting that the next major leap in its distribution business will come not from another layer of automation, but from software that can act with greater independence. The company is rolling out agentic artificial intelligence across its 2-tier distribution model, beginning with large-scale…
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Supply chain resilience has moved from an operational concern to a boardroom question, as executives weigh the cost of disruption against the price of keeping options open. Research from DP World suggests that many companies are now prepared to spend more on supplier diversity, alternative transport corridors and inventory buffers,…
For many pharmaceutical manufacturers, the logistics network they rely on today was not designed in one deliberate act. It grew layer by layer as new products were launched, markets were entered and businesses were acquired. What began as a sensible effort to avoid overdependence on…
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View AllFor schools and academy trusts facing tight budgets, procurement can look like a purely financial exercise: find the lowest price, protect cashflow and keep services running. Yet sustainable procurement is better understood as a form of prudent stewardship, because the cheapest option is not always the one that delivers the…
Nike’s push to redesign its supply chain is as much about optionality as it is about efficiency. The sportswear group wants to rely more heavily on manufacturing and logistics partners, while shifting more sourcing closer to its North American and Europe, Middle East and Africa…

