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What Does a Procurement Manager Do? Job Description and Requirements

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If you’re eyeing a role as a Procurement Manager (or are looking to hire one), you’re in the right place! As a procurement Manager, you’ll play a crucial role in overseeing the purchasing and procurement process for a company or organization, making sure they get the best bang for their buck.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Digital Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Digital Procurement article, and permission to publish here, provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Navigating the complexity of the global supply chain as a procurement professional can sometimes feel like taking a walk through the Amazon without a compass, or entering into outer space without an oxygen tank. Don’t Panic!

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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

I know that your primary focus is procurement. The issues are largely rooted in politics and the lack of clarity on supply chain excellence. Or planned orders to purchase orders?) I observed companies use the beer game as an educational tool or a social networking activity. Go to the source. I don’t know.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. The problem with supplier visibility is bookended into procurement processes that have gone back, not forward over the last decade. To move forward educate the team on the differences between integration and interoperability.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

The second is, Why are companies focused on traditional risk management investments primarily focused on supply/procurement when the more significant opportunity is balancing risk and opportunity in an increasingly complex world? When he speaks of the supply chain, he means procurement. This is his world.

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6 Career Paths in Supply Chain Management You Can Take

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They are in charge of purchasing, procurement, and sourcing. With our customizable Logistics KPI Dashboard Excel Template , you can obtain a detailed view of your business’s Current Performance versus Target and the Previous Year’s performance.