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How Modern Software Empowers Procurement with Agility and Resilience in Times of Crisis

ivalua

What we learned about agility and resilience can be applied to future-proof the source-to-pay (S2P) process and help organizations meet any new challenge with confidence. The job of sourcing professionals is to understand the risk in the supply chain and manage it so they can react quickly when a problem occurs.”

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

So military logistics was really interesting because it’s big scale stuff. It was far more fascinating than military logistics, so within a few years I decided to leave and headed out to Australia and worked for a consulting company for two or three years. I said, “that’s fine, I’ll take that one”.

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Five Things We Can Do to Get Ready for the Next Pandemic

NC State SCRC

First, develop contracts with manufacturers of healthcare supplies. These have to be firm contracts – asking Manufacturers to “reserve” capacity/quantities of material to supplement the SNS is not going to happen. Our manufacturers most often rely upon foreign supply chains.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Interesting Facts & Financial Breakdown of the Global Logistics Market

GlobalTranz

Efficient logistics is an important determinant of a country’s competitiveness and source of employment. It is also defined as the procurement, maintenance, distribution, and replacement of personnel and material. The United States military ensured that the services and supplies were provided at the right time and at the right place.

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How Microsoft & ThroughPut are helping Global Manufacturers increase Output during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how every Operations Professional can help

ThroughPut

Automotive manufacturers are remobilizing to produce ventilators. That there are people who serve in the military and in healthcare that do far more honorable and impactful things, that I do not. Our constraint is not our ability to help global manufacturing at scale, but to help global manufacturing in time.

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Basic ITAR Compliance Awareness

Arena Solutions

Prior to consulting with the Trade Compliance Group, he worked in Global Trade Compliance for Symantec software company, and Flextronics, a contract manufacturer that you’re probably already familiar with. The ITAR controls the manufacture, export, and brokering of defense articles and defense services. Craig is ready to get started.

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Basic ITAR Compliance Awareness

Arena Solutions

Prior to consulting with the Trade Compliance Group, he worked in Global Trade Compliance for Symantec software company, and Flextronics, a contract manufacturer that you’re probably already familiar with. The ITAR controls the manufacture, export, and brokering of defense articles and defense services. Craig is ready to get started.