Have you heard of blockchain fatigue? This is when continued efforts to implement blockchain technology have not hit traction. Gartner has predicted that by 2023, 90 percent of blockchain-based supply…
EarthNow for Procurement and Supply Chain Risk Management – Oh, the Possibilities!
EarthNow, a startup funded by Airbus, the Softbank Group, Bill Gates and Greg Wyler, describes its undertaking as ambitious and unprecedented. EarthNow plans on delivering continuous real-time video of the…
B2B Marketplace Innovation is a Hot Topic: Procurement Take Note
According to a projection made by Bank of America analyst Justin Post, there is a total addressable market for e-commerce B2B of $1.4 trillion by 2021. This projection was stated…
MFG.com Launches New Technology Platform for Sourcing Professionals and Suppliers
Online manufacturing marketplace, MFG.com, has launched a new technology platform for sourcing professionals and manufacturers. “Like ‘Tinder’ for sourcing professionals and suppliers, MFG.com’s AI and SEO-powered tools connect the manufacturing…
D&B Compass: Details and Availability Announced for New Third-Party Risk Management Solution
D&B Compass is Dun & Bradstreet’s new third-party risk management solution that is powered by Artificial Intelligence and allows for comprehensive due diligence and monitoring of all levels of customer,…
Security Risk (Including Cybersecurity) Rating Offerings for Procurement
For procurement and supply chain management there is a fairly new risk indicator that will play an important part in supplier evaluation research efforts in 2019. Recent studies support the…
Cottrill Research’s Open Access Research Provider List Of Honor 2018
In recognition of Open Access Week, which was last week (Oct. 22 – 28), Cottrill Research, for the second year in a row, is honoring research resource providers that make…
GovShop Is a Welcome Research Resource for Government Procurement
GovShop’s tag line, “a single place to search, find and connect with suppliers for the public sector market,” perfectly sums up what GovShop is all about. Created and designed specifically…
The Smart Cube Launches Smart Risk, a Supply Chain Risk Monitoring Solution
Research and analytics solutions provider, The Smart Cube, announced today that it is launching Smart Risk, a bespoke, real-time supply chain risk monitoring solution. According to the press release: For Category…
A.T. Kearney 2017 Global Services Location Index Spotlights Automation as Massive Job Displacer
On September 18, A.T. Kearney released its 2017 Global Services Location Index™ (GSLI), a study that analyzes and tracks the contours of the offshoring landscape in 55 countries across three major…