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Core & Main’s Category Model Powers Spec-Driven Sourcing

Core & Main’s sourcing-led expansion in technical product lines offers procurement leaders a replicable model for driving growth, compliance, and margin through category orchestration. In Brief: • Smart meter volumes rose 10% in Q1, on...

Inbound Logistics Shifts To AI-Driven Risk Scoring

Inbound logistics has traditionally followed the logic of first-in, first-out (FIFO), with dock assignments driven by arrival schedules or static delivery windows. But in high-velocity fulfillment environments, a delay at the dock can ripple...

Procurement’s Role in AI Compute and Model Supply Chains

AI adoption is no longer confined to tech labs or data science teams. As companies embed AI into core operations, training proprietary models, automating workflows, and deploying copilots across functions, a new procurement category has quietly...

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