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6 Essential Procurement Training Courses for Professionals: How To Begin and Advance Your Career in Procurement

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Procurement training equips you to excel in the corporate world by teaching you everything from supplier dynamics to negotiating strategies. Choose between a broad overview of procurement and a focused course that focuses on certain topics like strategic sourcing, contract management, or supplier relationship management.

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Resilience is the New Critical Supply Chain Strategy!

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Companies have leveraged digital tools, and evolving skills, to collect vast data about product or raw materials sourcing, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. For the majority of Supply Chain’s history, this evolution has been driven by a knack for finding efficiency. They must always result from a strategic decision.

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Selling on Shopify for Beginners: Sourcing, Designing, and More

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Source your products. Before you build an online store, you need to source your products. There are several avenues you can take to source products from working with local stores or suppliers to wholesale distributor options. Last year, Shopify reported 218 million buyers in total made a purchase on a Shopify store.

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The Best Supply Chain Company You Have Never Heard Of

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Ferguson provides plumbing and heating products to 9 specialist customer groups – over a million customers – in the US and Canada. The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. Driving an excellent supply chain depends on how people are recruited and managed, processes, and the technology used.

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Network Consolidation: A Step Forward for Market-Driven Value Networks?

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The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy and sell-side markets) bi-directionally with near-real time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. This is a missionary buying market where taxonomies and technologies are not clear.

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25 supply chain experts reveal the best tactics to optimize a supply chain

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From raw materials sourcing to warehouse operations , logistics technology , order fulfillment and beyond, there are dozens of points throughout the supply chain, all of which contribute to overall supply chain efficiency. If you want to optimize your supply chain, the way to do it best isn’t to buy some fancy new machine.

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

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“Currently, the biggest challenge for supply chain managers is…” Keeping up with consumers and their buying behaviors. David Millington @nextlevelpurch David Millington, MSc.QSM, NPDP, SPSM3®, is Director of Education at Next Level Purchasing Association.