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Enhancing Procurement Excellence Through the Power of Negotiation

Procurement Academy

Advance Procurement Excellence with Expert Negotiation Strategies With procurement excellence comes multidimensional skills. By identifying cost-saving opportunities like bulk purchase discounts, they can significantly impact both an organization’s profitability and market competitiveness.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience. Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel.

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Lead Your Enterprise to More Sustainable Business Practices

Logility

Ignoring corporate social responsibility (CSR) risks exposing your company to fines, supply chain disruptions, and brand-eroding public scorn. To be effective, sustainable business practices must originate at the top, and they must extend through all tiers of the supply chain.

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Raw Material Inventory Management: Manufacturer’s Guide

Unleashed

It encompasses the processes involved in purchasing, tracking, consuming, and relocating raw materials. Inventory planning Planning inventory is a common challenge for manufacturers due to factors such as demand variability, product lead times, and supply chain disruptions.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. The Sam’s Club and Costco shortages of water, toilet paper and laundry products signals one thing for me: the spread of the virus will disrupt every supply chain.

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Future of the Supply Chain: Technology, Sustainability and People

BlueYonder

Those who work in supply chain spend much of their time reacting to problems and coming up with countermeasures to ensure goods are available and delivered on-time. One of the words I heard a lot at ICON was “reactive” — just trying to basically play whack-a-mole with supply chain disruptions.

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8 Supplier Management Best Practices any bussiness can implement

Precoro

It can either make you a company's superhero or add extra headaches and purchasing risks because poor supplier management leads to the following problems: Missed saving opportunities and not enough leverage in negotiating with new suppliers. Source: Supply Chain Quarterly 8.