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Supply Chain Network Design — Everything About Supply Chain

Procurement Tactics

Bonus PDF: 51 ChatGPT Prompts to 10X Your Productivity in Procurement Download 51 Prompts →  Or receive our famous weekly newsletter Supply Chain Network Design — Everything About Supply Chain Supply chain network design helps businesses to mitigate disruptions by configuring the supply chain.

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Mastering Agility and Resilience in Your Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

The COVID-19 pandemic, along with disruptions such as Brexit, trade wars, and geopolitical tensions, has highlighted the need for business leaders to take a closer look at their supply chains to strike a balance between resilience and efficiency. Enroll in the Full Course offered by our expert Vera Rozanova on Supply Chain Resilience!

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Unwrapping Hershey’s $250M supply chain upgrade

Supply Chain Dive

The chocolate maker's Advancing Agility and Automation Initiative leans on digitization to boost visibility and optimize manufacturing and procurement.

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Agile vs Lean Supply Chain: What’s the Difference?

Procurify

Did you know that only 22 percent of companies have a proactive supply chain network? That’s why in today’s fast-paced global economy, it’s more important than ever to make sure your supply chain is efficient and reliable. . Let’s take a look at each of these supply chain management methods. .

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

A Fortune 500 CPG company partnered with GEP to improve end-to-end category management, optimize direct spend categories, and increase strategic focus on tail spend. This is essential reading for all procurement and supply chain leaders. The result was a year-over-year savings of more than 3%.

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Rethinking Relationships: Supply Chain Execution Loves Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Brain

Discover how Manhattan Active® Supply Chain Planning (SCP) empowers businesses to unify planning, transportation, and execution in real-time, offering unmatched agility and seamless coordination across all functions for continuous optimization.

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Procurement Supply Chain Shocks in 2024: An Overview

Procurement Templates

The global supply chain in 2024 faces a myriad of challenges that continue to disrupt procurement processes across industries. In this post, we will explore the major procurement supply chain shocks in 2024, their causes, and the potential responses organizations are adopting to mitigate their impact.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency

In the aftermath of the pandemic, supply chain inadequacies have been revealed in a new and stark light. Most found themselves ill-prepared for the magnitude of disruption in supply and demand, followed soon after by political unrest, labor and material shortages, and sharp inflation.