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What does a 2015 article have to do with Hershey’s 2025 acquisition of LesserEvil for $750

Procurement Insights

It also reminded me of a 2008 article I had written on the Procurement Insights blog titled Procurement considerations when dealing with a merger? Under the heading Candy and supply base synchronization, I wrote the following: How important is effective internal collaboration? Just ask a candy company in the U.S.

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Procurement industry conferences, trade wars and Black Swan events – 2025 to 2030

Procurement Insights

Economic recovery post-2008 spurred interest, though data is anecdotal. 2007 | 3 2008 | 3.2 2007 | 3 2008 | 3.2 Key Insights Growth Drivers: Attendance grew with procurements strategic importance (e.g., Attendance likely grew modestly (e.g., hundreds to low thousands) as globalization increased supply chain complexity.

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The Links Between Agentic AI, Strand Commonality, Similarity Heuristics, Iterative Methodologies And Why It is Important to Procurement

Procurement Insights

My First Procurement Insights Post on Strand Commonality (Excerpt) – Optimization Modeling and the Modern Supply Chain (A PI Q and A) by JonHansen (March 2008) Numerous studies and reports have been published on the various methods (e.g., April 11th, 2008) Is Ford’s auto-xchange the “Real Deal?”

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Financial services sector talent woes continue

Procurement Heads

We saw in the period following the financial crash of 2008 that failure to invest in skills development, attraction and retention when markets are struggling can have a longer-term detrimental impact on recovery. “It’s

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Planergy: Vendor Analysis — P2P solution overview, roadmap, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary

Spend Matters

It is important to note that large enterprises are going on a different journey — more process orchestration, stakeholder collaboration, business intelligence, etc. which is not our area of interest in this Vendor Analysis.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

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For this reason, it is important to establish an effective mechanism to improve it, accelerate its improvement, and ensure the quality of the service and/or product. Depending on the size of your business and how organized you are, there are a variety of approaches that can be successful (Gordon Sherry R, 2008).

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Procurement & Net Zero

Procurement Templates

Why is net zero important? The UK Government amended the Climate Change Act 2008 in 2019 by introducing a target of at least a 100% reduction in the net UK carbon account (i.e. 1 Climate Change Act 2008: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/27/contents 1 Climate Change Act 2008: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/27/contents