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Episode 136: Making the Impossible Possible in Global Sourcing with Chris Volz

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EPISODE 136 Making the Impossible Possible in Global Sourcing with Chris Volz By Kelly Barner | October 11, 2023 Global supply chains reach the furthest corners of the earth, bringing back valuable, well-made goods and putting us in touch with people we may never meet.

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What About Procurement Objectives?

Procurement Templates

Explore alternative sourcing models , such as consortium buying or global sourcing hubs. Elevate Stakeholder Management Achieve True Integration: Create cross-functional sourcing teams involving R&D, marketing, and logistics. Action: Develop a procurement cost-avoidance tracker for proactive budget control.

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Top 10 CEOs Who Have Had Roles in Supply Chain

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Still, during his tenure at Ford, he is credited with implementing new logistics and supply chain management strategies, including consolidating suppliers, streamlining production processes, and improving inventory management. Don’t forget! He is not primarily known for his work as a supply chain professional.

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What are the different types of sourcing?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

It can be considered an alternative outsourcing strategy: while outsourcing to distant countries may offer cheaper labor costs, it’s more difficult and costly to manage logistics. Global sourcing Global sourcing is sourcing goods or services from suppliers in global markets.

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What Exactly Is Supply Chain Management? 10 Different Definitions!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Check out What Exactly Is Reverse Logistics? Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more. Source: [link] ). Source: [link] ). Source: [link] ).

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7 Ways to Improve Supply Chain Visibility

Supply Chain Opz

Padmanabhan and Seungjin Whang Information is then grouped and converted in the infographic as below, 7 Ways to Improve Visibility 1) Shorten pipeline : the prevalent use of outsourcing, global sourcing in particular, increase the members of supply chain including related processes.

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Case Study: Huber+Suhner

Skill Dynamics

After a positive experience of working with Skill Dynamics at a previous company, Huber+Suhner’s Head of Sourcing & Logistics set out to advance the capabilities of his new team in Poland whilst also exploring whether Huber+Suhner’s global head office would also be interested in the initiative.