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

ivalua

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. Globalization. Integration.

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Procurement Interview Questions & Answers

Supply Chain Game Changer

Procurement, or Purchasing, is an area of Supply Chain that involves and requires very specific skills and expertise. Regardless of your position or situation it is highly valuable to understand the type of interview questions, and answers, appropriate for Procurement and Purchasing professionals. It can appear useless.

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Product Sourcing: The Complete Guide for Retail & eCommerce

Unleashed

The product sourcing process can include: Market research Product research Vendor procurement Price comparison Supplier negotiations Product sourcing acts as the first and most important step in the successful execution of a business’s procurement strategy. Where can you source products from?

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Managing Legal Aspects of the Implications of a Hurricane on the Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

Much of the southern United States faces months—if not years—of cleanup and reconstruction following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) recently released the results of a special survey to assess how Hurricane Harvey impacted six key metrics.

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How Opna Bio SA Built a Successful Procurement Process as a Biotech Startup

Precoro

Cervino provided us with insights into how Opna Bio SA’s team chose the right system and how it impacted their procurement process. They were worried that with a manual approach, data entry and creation of procurement documents would be time-consuming and prone to errors. ." Thus, the onboarding process began.

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A World in Flux: Global Supply Chain Predictions for 2021

ToolsGroup

And the reason that we pointed out that difference is that as we monitor the supply chain technology landscape, there’s a tendency right now for supply chain risk mitigation to be purely focused on the procurement side and on the procurement technology side. So that’s kind of the overall theme that we’ve seen.

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IMO 2020 is Here. Are You Ready?

Supply Chain Game Changer

According to this regulation, the marine sector emissions in international waters will be slashed even outside the emission-controlled area: ECA s (Emission Control Areas; The Baltic Sea Area, The North Sea area, The United States, Canada, and the United States Caribbean Sea area). million metric tons annually.