Making Remote Procurement Work: Strategies and Tools to Manage Business as Usual in An Unusual New World

Will supply chains ever really return to “normal”? Don’t hold your breath. Hear from Esker’s Brandon Plachowski as he lays out proactive strategies for addressing the supply chain challenges you can control — and how it all ties into your company’s future. Discover why inefficient customer service processes are the root of many supply chain problems and how AI-driven digital solutions.

Procurement is expected to deliver a strategy that brings stability & resiliency to the supply chain during times of disruption. But what are the best ways to identify the biggest risks during moments of crises? And how do you navigate effective vendor management at the same time? Watch this webinar to unpack strategies designed to give you immediate visibility into the health of your supply chain to focus your efforts on initiatives that bring vendor management back under control.

With the advances in connective technology and automated driving support systems, how can the journey towards platooning meet the operational challenges facing the transportation and logistics industry today? To uncover the benefits to technology and transport performance, truck platooning has to become plannable and integrable in the transportation planning, execution process and transportation management systems. HERE has developed intelligent truck platooning services that can be utilized to enable platooning along the transportation process chain, from planning to execution to reporting.

Many of the goods imported into the U.S. rely on intricate, finely-tuned, international supply chains. When the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on international supply networks that caused shortages, price increases, and instilled plenty of worry in consumers, it also set in motion more conversation about the emerging future of supply chains. But how did we get here? In this webinar, participants will learn more about the past, present, and future of supply chains and freight systems, including how supply chains have changed over time, evolving types of freight providers, autonomous freight advancements, and public policy changes. The presentation, which is also the TRB 2022 Deen Lecture, will be led by Anne Strauss-Wieder and discussion will be facilitated by Lillian Borrone.