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Procurement Leadership is Needed for the New Era of Disruption Ahead

NC State SCRC

I recently spoke at the National Contract Management Association on the subject of human capital in supply chains , and the need for building leadership skills in our procurement and supply chain professionals. ” The study finds that that successful companies: link performance metrics to broader strategic goals.

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Water is as Important to Some Industries as Electricity

Enterra Insights

In the past two decades, military clashes between nations over water resources have been exceedingly rare, but internal water-related conflicts and tensions have been on the rise in recent years.” Transition to adaptive policies that enable NbS across infrastructure engineering, procurement, and construction.

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Red Sea Ocean Transport Disruption Update

Supply Chain Matters

These assessments are despite continued joint nation naval and air military efforts to attack and neutralize believed Houthi rebel’s missile, drone, and small ship laden attack sites. Scenario and simulation based planning methods that quantify and weight various short and longer term impacts of global events toward key business metrics.

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Transportation Network Modeling: A Powerful Tool in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Strategy

Talking Logistics

In 2010, Walmart announced its goal to eliminate 20 million metric tons of GHG emissions from its global supply chain by the end of 2015. million metric tons to date, saying that some measures had led to a doubling of fleet efficiency. Last year the company announced that it has exceeded this commitment early by eliminating 28.2

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Ferrari: Under the Hood

ToolsGroup

The reading audience is global, and spans a wide variety of roles: procurement, supply chain strategy and planning, product management, logistics and transportation, customer service, and others. We talked to Bob to see what we might learn from that experience. What is the makeup of your blog audience?

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Companies Using ERP: Case Studies

QAD

This type of software is used by businesses to plan and oversee routine operations, such as supply chain management, manufacturing, services, project management, customer relationship management, risk management, compliance, accounting and procurement. Overall, ERP software enables businesses to function more effectively.

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The Modern Risk Landscape Needs a Strong Supply Chain Risk Management Framework

Exiger Perspectives

A proven supply chain risk management framework, like Exiger’s TPRM and SCRM framework , enables compliance teams, corporations and governments to identify, assess and respond to third-party service providers, supplier risks and other involved procurement risks throughout their supply chain lifecycle.