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Swedish Steel Manufacturer Selects Ivalua to Further Optimize Procurement Efficiency and Mitigate Supply Chain Risk

ivalua

Ivalua, a global leader in spend management, today announced that it has been selected by Swedish steel manufacturer SSAB to further improve the efficiency of its procurement processes and uphold and strengthen supply chain risk management thanks to Ivalua’s Source-to-Contract (S2C) solution. Global Media Contact. Markus Leutert.

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Scale Up Your Agency’s Success

GovLoop

Agencies have a lot of data to manage and that can get costly – it’s estimated that 45% or more of all enterprise IT spending will be used toward public cloud solutions by 2026. Strategic planning: Agencies can struggle to keep IT current, especially with recent supply chain issues.

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Key Supply Chain Provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) for Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2024

Inside Government Contracts

The FY 2024 NDAA includes numerous supply chain and stockpile management provisions aimed at addressing a host of perceived vulnerabilities and weaknesses in Department of Defense (“DoD”) supply chain networks used to secure goods and services for our national defense.

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Pentagon IG not impressed by effectiveness of DoD vendors’ award fees

Federal News Network

This month, CISA extended the charter through 2026 for the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force. The ICT Task Force has developed guidance around hardware bills of material and other supply chain issues.

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EU: An Introduction to the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

Import and Trade Remedies

.* The CBAM requires importers to report the embedded greenhouse gas emissions in carbon-intensive goods (initially aluminium, cement, iron and steel, electricity, fertilisers and hydrogen) and, from the commencement of the operational phase in 2026, purchase “CBAM certificates” to account for these emissions.

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Proposed CMMC rule contains no surprises, but raises some initial questions

Federal News Network

DoD plans to fully institute those requirements across all solicitations by October 2026. It requires those companies to both comply with CMMC themselves and flow down the requirements to subcontractors throughout their supply chains.

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The Biden Administration Announces New U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Imports and Solar Products

Import and Trade Remedies

gigawatts “to ensure domestic module manufacturing continues to grow while manufacturers scale production throughout the supply chain.” 25% 2026 Natural graphite 0% 25% 2026 Certain critical minerals 0% 25% 2024 Permanent magnets 0% 25% 2024 Electric vehicles 25% 100% 2024 Facemasks 0-7.5%

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