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Arkestro Advisory Council: Strategic Flexibility: Adapting Procurement to a Changing World

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Top enterprises leverage Arkestro to confidently optimize their procurement cycles with direct actions and clear recommendations, managing spend at scale without increasing headcount. Hear from distinguished speakers on the essence of procurement flexibility and explore strategies for staying agile.

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Protecting your supply chain against catastrophic events

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For example, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan upended automotive supply chains across the globe, with car part facilities temporarily shutting down in the United States, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. This content does not necessarily express the views or opinions of Spend Matters.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Understanding this differentiation is important for the manager trying to navigate autonomous planning: rather than assuming everything can be autonomous, the manager can take a more sophisticated view onto the people, process & technology needed to support the future of integrated planning.

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7 Signs of Excellent Procurement Teams!

Supply Chain Game Changer

I spend 25% of my time there speaking with other CPOs, leaders from industry and technology companies, so I can find out how they’re thinking around these challenges and how they’re motivating their teams,” claimed Murphy ( Procurement Leaders 2017 ). Source: Procurement Leader 2017. Experimentation. Excellence doesn’t birth itself.

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How to move IBP from a Tired Old Process to an Executive Decision Factory

Supply Chain Trend

When I was IBP manager at a multi-billion-dollar CPG company about 10 years ago, I remember a marketing director telling me just before the executive IBP meeting; ‘Niels, this feels like going to the dentist every month’. How can supply chain attract the best talent when all you do is tying data together? I agreed with him.

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Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability – Partners or Adversaries?

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One of the most critical lessons learned during the global pandemic and its aftermath has been the importance of supply chain resilience. The good news is that these two goals are not mutually exclusive—in fact, sustainability can be a big part of building a more resilient supply chain. .