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Intake and Orchestration in procurement: How do the solution providers define its role? – ORO Labs

Spend Matters

Decreased cycle times — By automating the coordination of tasks and activities, orchestration frees procurement professionals to focus less on project management and more on their actual job. The result is a significant reduction in maverick spend.

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Why is Supply Chain Such a Great Career Path?

Supply Chain Game Changer

SCM encompasses the integrated planning and execution of processes required to optimize the flow of materials, information and financial capital in the areas that broadly include demand planning, sourcing, production, inventory management and storage, transportation — or logistics — and return for excess or defective products.

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How to build a successful product development strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Successful companies fuse product development practices with overarching business strategies to ensure sustainable innovations that will resonate efficiently and sustainably with customers—both in existing markets and among new target audiences. Will a product or feature drive specific and measurable business value?

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The Big Interview with Nathalie Adotevi

Procurement Heads

It requires so many different skills: commercial, financial, stakeholder management, project management, influencing … the list goes on. It requires engagement across the business, so it’s really internal facing as well as external as we engage with suppliers, external stakeholders, partners etc.

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The Big Interview with Nathalie Adotevi

Procurement Heads

It requires so many different skills: commercial, financial, stakeholder management, project management, influencing … the list goes on. It requires engagement across the business, so it’s really internal facing as well as external as we engage with suppliers, external stakeholders, partners etc.

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Operational Planning: A Guide to Improve Business Efficiency & Success

Pipefy

Strategic plans define an organization’s business strategy and other long-term goals, while operational plans define the steps needed to achieve those goals. Hiring plan Operational plans often identify skills gaps in the existing team, requiring the project manager to hire additional members.

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Why CHROs are the key to unlocking the potential of AI for the workforce 

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Orchestrating the new human + AI workforce Today, businesses are no longer only focused on finding the human talent they need to execute their business strategy. To train a generative AI assistant to learn project management, for example, you need a strong set of unstructured data about the work and tasks required.