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High Speed 2’s approach to building supply chain transparency

Procurement Leaders

was set up by the UK Government to design and construct the railway and is responsible for procuring and coordinating a supply chain of designers and contractors to deliver billions of pounds worth of contracts. As a public funded project, supply chain transparency is critical.

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Procurement Strategy’s Role in Guarding Against Supply Chain Disruptions

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Why Your Procurement Strategy is More Critical Now Than Ever Before In an era of global supply chain disruptions, a robust procurement strategy is no longer optionalits essential. Optimize costs without compromising supply chain continuity. Enhanced Agility: Enables rapid response to unexpected supply chain changes.

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The Big Interview with Jo Meehan

Procurement Heads

Procurement doesn’t just buy from supply markets, procurement shapes markets. It could go a number of ways, I think the dominant way in which it is going at the moment is supply market concentration, which is concerning. What are the motivations of your students to go into supply chain and procurement?

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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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Webinar Recap: Procurement 2022, Big Trends and Predictions

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Enterprises will continue to undergo the financial burden of revenue disruptions, consumer , and uncontrolled supply chain variables. . Disruptions in global supply chains, labor market shortages, strong consumer demand. The Criticality of the Supply Chain (and Suppliers). What can we expect in 2022?

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SAP Spend Connect – See the bigger picture

Spend Matters

Beroe for supply market intelligence) that’s woven into the solutions to enhance better decision making. Finally, we would still like to see a common knowledge graph ‘backplane’ to model n-tier supply chains that ties the various networks (and applications) together better. using RAG ).

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Procurement Challenges Condensed

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To my mind, your challenges depend on where you are in transformational change within your organisation, the scope of your function within Procurement and the nature of the organisation’s supply chain. For example, is your focus on strategic long-term supply relationships to support your manufactured product? Speed of supply.