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The Future of Procurement Is Upon Us. Are You Ready?

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Niul Burton wrote a great article in Industry Week titled “Procurement 2025: 10 Challenges that Will Transform Global Sourcing”. For those of you who are executives in Supply Chain, Procurement or New Product Introduction/Development, this is a must read. We are not your father’s traditional Procure-to-Pay solution.

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SCRC Meeting Insights Part II: Management Principles for Executing Visibility Strategies

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The problem in most supply chains is “not enough data”, because data is being created from machines, from people, from systems, and from external sources. Often the sources of information are hidden in piles of data that we don’t think about. Will digitization change the way we measure things and monitor metrics? No easy task.

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Output reportedly rose in China , India and Brazil and fell more slowly in the Eurozone , Japan and the United States. This metric bears continual observation in the coming months. Business confidence levels reportedly rose to their highest level since April of 2023.