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

SCMDOJO

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, organizations across industries are realizing the immense value of effective procurement practices. Procurement professionals play a vital role in driving operational efficiency, cost savings, and strategic decision-making. But how do you get started? Do not worry!

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Putting the Supplier Experience at the Forefront of Strategic Procurement

HICX Solutions

SXM Webinar Series with Art of Procurement. In the first of a three-part Art of Procurement Live Webinar Series ‘Putting the Supplier Experience at the Forefront of Strategic Procurement’ in partnership with HICX, we focus on how to make the business case for Supplier Experience Management (SXM). .

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What I Have Learned Teaching Courses on Market-Driven Value Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

It senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time latency to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing functions. When this happens, there is greater balance between metric trade-offs and resiliency in year-over-year improvements in corporate performance.

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COVID 19: Supplier Partnerships, time to break the taboo

Proxima

If strategic sourcing creates value and transactional procurement locks in that value, then we know that a critical part of strategic category management is not only value creation, but an end to end understanding of the total cost of ownership. Quite simply, we know them better, and that helps us to anticipate.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

The need for any S&OP process to have an executive sponsor who actively participates in the process, albeit only by exercising final approval over plans and, of course, making any decisions that call for executive authority, cannot be overstated. The Executive Sponsor. The imperatives for one company will not be the same as another’s.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. This issue is that the orders have inherent order latency (The time for customer purchases to translate to manufacturing orders). Let’s start by addressing the barriers. Barrier #1. Inside-out Thinking.

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50 expert tips on supply chain management

6 River Systems

Senior management should set the tone, announcing that anticorruption efforts remain a priority, and ensure the message reaches all employees and partners by mandating training, reinforcing the code of conduct, and reiterating that now is not the time to circumvent the rules — even if doing so would temporarily speed up business processes.