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6 Things We've Learned from McDonald's Procurement Management

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In the foodservice industry, there are few better examples of great procurement management than McDonald's. Excellent procurement is part of the reason that McDonald's has been able to grow from a small family barbecue restaurant into a global conglomerate with more than 35,000 restaurants in over 110 different countries.

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PINC named Top Supply Chain Projects for 2020 by Supply & Demand Chain Executive

PINC

Union City, CA – July 29th, 2020 – Supply & Demand Chain Executive , the executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, has selected PINC, the leader in digital yard ™ solutions, as a recipient of an SDCE 100 Award for 2020. Visit us at www.SDCExec.com.

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What the 2020 Nobel Prize Means for SCM

SCM Research

Let us not forget the important work on auctions that has already been conducted in our discipline, for example by Wagner & Schwab (2004) , Hartley and her coauthors (2006) and Carter & Kaufmann (2007) , to name just a few.

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Supplier Diversity Part II: Supplier Diversity on the World Stage

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Agile Procurement in Canada. Since 2004, Canada has benefited from the establishment of the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) that has worked tirelessly to ” facilitate business relationships with Canadian corporations and supplier organizations owned by Aboriginals and minorities.”

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Disruption in China Ripples Across Global Supply Chains in April 2022

Supply Chain Matters

in March, and the lowest level recorded since August 2020. That level of activity is equated to that of February 2020, at the start of the global wide Covid-19 spread that originated from China. The authors of this report noted that manufacturing output fell at second-steepest rate since this survey began in early 2004.

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ESG in the Public and Private Market: Putting the Supply Chain in Focus

SupplyShift

The term “responsible supply chains” did not emerge until the late 2010s but became more mainstream in 2020 with the havoc wreaked by COVID-19. Deloitte’s 10th Annual Chief Procurement Officer Survey mirrors this shift in priorities. However, corporate sustainability was really brought into focus in 2020.

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Re-thinking the Strategic National Stockpile

NC State SCRC

During this testimony, I shared some of the insights I developed working with the Joint Acquisition Task Force as a pro bono consultant, during March – June 2020, during the throes of the PPE and healthcare supply shortages. The agency did not have enough warehouse capacity to procuring and storing materials, even if they had done so.