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The Approach to Effective Freight Procurement

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Pre-Procurement Before commencing on a Procurement Exercise, it’s important to collaborate with internal stakeholders, including procurement teams, logistics departments, and related teams, to ensure alignment on objectives, requirements, and budgets. Work with legal and procurement teams to draft the contract documents.

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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

ivalua

To stay relevant, Gartner suggests documenting all the ways procurement projects align with business priorities during recovery and beyond. This list should include the business metrics that each procurement project impacts. In the report, Gartner provides a helpful example of what a value map could look like.

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6 challenges facing medical device manufacturers and how ERP analytics can provide a cure

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

From stringent quality standards to comprehensive documentation requirements, Class 1 and 2 manufacturers must navigate a complex landscape to ensure compliance and product excellence. Manufacturers can exercise better control over the return and exchange of items bought from suppliers, ensuring smooth operations.

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Due Diligence Required – How Brands & Retailers Can Better Prepare for Regulatory Action

Pivot88

Well, for example, the CBP has published guidance for importers which outlines the following as requirements: Document Reconciliation & Transaction History. This is not a simple exercise. Collecting this documentation can be a substantial drain on resources – but we’re here to help! Non-Compliance Remediation.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?

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Comparing the 2023 National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS): A Critique and Comparison to Supply Chain Immunity

NC State SCRC

This aligns with the need for flexibility in supply chain management as mentioned in the Supply Chain Immunity Elements document. The NDIS also fails to include insights such as establishing global inventory positioning metrics that track materials in real-time, similar to examples used in our book, as well as The LIVING Supply Chain.

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Strategies for Managing Stress in the Workplace: Advice From 30 Experts Across the Globe

ToolsGroup

And this is something that is especially prevalent in most high-pressure corporate settings, where performance metrics are everything and survival often comes down to how well you perform and how consistently you do what is expected of you. Excessive workload and excessive deadlines cause people to feel rushed, pressed and overwhelmed.