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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance

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By selecting and developing the right suppliers and establishing streamlined, transparent communication with them, manufacturers gain the agility and resilience to respond to customer demands, rise to the top, and navigate disruptions more easily. Decision-makers must plan supply chain resilience strategies for a wide range of risk scenarios.

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Thought leader: How to get early supplier involvement right

Procurement Leaders

For many procurement and supply chain leaders, it is standard practice to involve suppliers early when developing new products and services. Part of the explanation was the then famous ‘Toyota Production System’, an approach to organising manufacturing and logistics efficiently and without waste. But does it work?

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5 Steps Towards Modernizing Supplier Management

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When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. Organizations are increasingly dependent on suppliers to successfully bring innovative goods and services to market on time, improve ESG performance, and meet other objectives. Gain control of your supplier data.

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Strategic Sourcing Success – Techniques Deployed by Leaders in S2P

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It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. Assessment of the supply market (who offers what?) However, whats really missing hereneeds analysis.

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Category Management in Procurement: A Comprehensive Overview & Best Practices

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It involves segmenting spending into areas that contain similar or related products, allowing for a focused approach on categories that offer opportunities for consolidation and efficiencies. Well, in-depth knowledge of the supply market will inform the best category management strategy.

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Let’s Get Digital: Introducing your Source-to-Pay Guide

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It is a crucial process for organizations that are looking to streamline their procurement activities, better manage spend and suppliers and increase operational efficiency. Through its sophisticated series of processes, organizations can unlock efficiencies and maximize profits like never before. What is Source-to-Pay?

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Why Agility and Creativity are the New Vital Procurement Drivers  (but don’t sacrifice “effectiveness”)

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Effectiveness is a better word than “efficiency”, of course. The task of processing thousands of purchase orders may be executed “efficiently”, but there may well be more effective ways of managing this need – for instance, users having access to online guided buying catalogues.