Research: Strategic Planning Primer 2025
Procurement Leaders
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The study highlights the thinking of 83 CSOs and senior sustainability decision-makers and will assist them in developing their ESG strategies.
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Quick response really is similar to strategic planning
SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)
JANUARY 3, 2023
Strategic planning and quick response (QR) processes are strategically focused. Therefore, both processes have to be directed by someone from the executive suite because the risks are too high vis-a-vis those taken during the SOE and S&OP processes.
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Strategic Planning: Strategically Plan Your Routes to Optimize Your Distribution, Sales, and Service Operations
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 14, 2021
You may be surprised to see how many out-of-the-way stops your teams make every day — not to mention the amount of backtracking they do.
CPO Crunch: Follow the money
Procurement Leaders
MAY 7, 2024
Planning for 2025, already Please look out for an invitation to participate in our 2025 Strategic Planning Guide survey, as I’ll be reaching out to you next week.
TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency
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Flawless execution relies on strategic planning; cost-effective operations require flexibility and agility to mode-shift and access a full cost-to-serve picture beyond transport; high customer service levels rely on being capable to promise factoring inventory levels and availability across all domains into transport planning and execution.
What is the Best Strategic Planning Book?
Supply Chain Opz
JULY 1, 2018
The good news is that many strategists and CEOs write strategic planning book. Action Plans or a list of things to do to meet Guiding Policy. Finding the Best Strategic Planning Book We believe good strategy should be tested by business leaders who use them every day. What is Strategy?
Delivering Value with Robotic Process Automation in Procurement
ProcurePort
MARCH 1, 2022
When well set out in a procurement department, staff can concentrate on higher-value tasks such as strategic planning and innovation. Robotic process automation in procurement is fit for repetitive tasks that follow well-set-out rules requiring little human intervention. However, these […].
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Brave New World
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 7, 2024
Residual effects from supply chain disruption have paralyzed businesses in their investment decisions and strategic planning, and now, a new model is needed for understanding risk and opportunity.
2024 planning: Supporting growth by expanding strategic procurement and optimising operating models
Procurement Leaders
AUGUST 25, 2023
By benchmarking leading organisations alongside others, Procurement Leaders’ Strategic Planning Guide 2024 research reveals the measures procurement chiefs can take to ensure their functions perform at the highest possible level.
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Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Execution for Organizational Success
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 31, 2024
However, a significant gap often exists between strategic planning and effective execution, impeding the realization of intended outcomes. In today's dynamic business landscape, organizations invest substantial resources in formulating robust strategies to gain competitive advantage and drive growth.
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Managing risks, priorities and talent: Nestlé’s approach to the polycrisis
Procurement Leaders
JANUARY 16, 2023
‘I’m always shopping for talent’ Mirroring the findings of Procurement Leaders’ Strategic Planning Guide 2023 , which identified talent as the number one priority for CPOs, attracting and retaining the right staff is Stroup’s greatest concern.
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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions: U.S., U.K. Manufacturers Accelerate Procurement
ivalua
JULY 14, 2022
The independent study surveyed 233 senior procurement executives from leading manufacturing companies in the US and UK about their strategic plans for optimizing sourcing and supply chain processes. Nearly all executives surveyed (97%) point to significant disruption today in their direct materials supply chain.
A Guide to Choosing the Right Freight Carrier, Large or Small
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 25, 2021
Establishing a tailored carrier-selection process is the first step toward developing a strategic plan for the most efficient transportation system.
Part Five: Top Trends and Challenges Shaping Procurement Leader Priorities
Supply Chain Brain
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
To navigate today’s dynamic environment, Procurement Leaders must isolate the trends impacting their function, unpack the challenges they pose, and prioritize the actions needed in response to shape their strategic plans now and into the future.
Friends not Foes, Supplier Relationships Made to Last
ivalua
MAY 31, 2022
The tools can also assist in the build-out of supplier diversity programs to enrich supplier enablement and future strategic planning. . Today, leading Procurement teams are leveraging digital procurement tools like supplier portals–where suppliers can self-serve to free up resources.
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New ONS data released
Procurement Heads
JULY 19, 2022
Across the financial and professional services sector the demand for top talent has been extremely high – and at Procurement Heads we have helped organisations push on with their strategic plans by partnering with them to recruit the best procurement and supply chain talent.
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Paris 2021 – EN – Jose Bustillo
ivalua
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Jose joined Bulgari in 2018 to lead the strategic planning, training and implementation of IVALUA for North and South America. With over 7 years of experience in the Fashion industry managing, leading and implementing ERP and EDI Systems.
CPO Crunch: See savings as a starting point
Procurement Leaders
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Separately, our advisors have been on many calls with procurement leadership teams over the last couple of weeks to share the findings of our Strategic Planning Guide 2025 – Procurement Leaders’ annual study that benchmarks how the community is performing and where CPOs’ priorities lie. It was lively, as you might expect.
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CPO Crunch: Why do you do what you do?
Procurement Leaders
APRIL 2, 2024
So, I was delighted to receive a note from a CPO member the other day who shared how they had recently completed a strategic planning exercise culminating in a north star and vision that put the Covid years – and its overhang – firmly in the “rear-view mirror”.
Talent emerges as the key to unlocking procurement’s potential
Procurement Leaders
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Procurement executives anticipate staffing problems to persist throughout 2023; 41% of respondents to the Strategic Planning Guide 2023 highlighted that skills shortages as barrier to success while the same proportion considered a lack of dedicated headcount as an impediment.
CPO Crunch: Let’s get rational about ESG
Procurement Leaders
JULY 9, 2024
To drive change in ESG demands long-term, strategic plans between buyers and suppliers; plans that require significant capital expenditure and, in many cases, deep inter-company collaboration. The arguments are fierce, with threats of litigation being thrown around already.
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CPO Crunch: Measure your success in succession
Procurement Leaders
JUNE 24, 2024
Benchmark against the best Just two weeks remain before we close the survey for our ever-popular Strategic Planning Guide , which provides timely insight at a key time of the year. So, to be truly successful, think now about your successor.
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Fourth Party Logistics — Everything You Should Know
Procurement Tactics
MAY 16, 2023
However, the client remains responsible for planning and implementing the logistics strategy. Offers a more comprehensive logistics solution that includes coordination and strategic planning. 3PL providers are more focused on day-to-day operations. 4PL 4PL providers are commonly non-asset-based.
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Supply Chain Planning — The Ultimate Guide of 2022
Procurement Tactics
AUGUST 15, 2022
Supply Chain Planning Process. Strategic Planning. The strategic planning process is focused on the long term and creates a framework for the supply chain of the organization. A well-developed supply chain lowers costs, improves the reliability of the deliveries, and helps to manage unexpected demands.
Episode 77: Manufacturing Macrotrends and the Metaverse with Minesh Pore
Una
AUGUST 10, 2022
Minesh has over two decades worth of experience leading multinational organizations in Intraprenuership, corporate transformation, business development, and strategic planning. In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes Minesh Pore. Highlights.
Mastering competitive outcomes in Procurement: Insights and strategies
Spend Matters
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Blair Romain, Senior Manager, Content Marketing at Arkestro The essence of competitive outcomes in Procurement — Procurement is a critical function that requires strategic planning to ensure the best value for the organization. Below, we highlight key insights from their exchange.
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CPO Crunch: Collaboration the key to progress on Scope 3
Procurement Leaders
JULY 1, 2024
Last call to benchmark against the best We’ve asked for a lot – and we’ve asked you a lot – but our analysts tell me they’re overjoyed with both the quantity and quality of responses to our Strategic Planning Guide 2025 survey. If you haven’t taken part yet, it’s not too late.
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Procurement Service Provider — The Ultimate Guide of 2022
Procurement Tactics
JULY 14, 2022
These include strategic planning, supplier collaboration, implementing best practices , strategic sourcing , and negotiation. . Its services include strategic planning, cost-effective methods, capability building, and digital foundations and enablers. .
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100 Day Plan
Procurement Templates
APRIL 15, 2024
Stage 10: Review and Future Planning Days 91-100 Performance Review: Conduct a comprehensive review of the procurement function’s performance against objectives, KPIs, and targets. Future Planning: Develop a strategic plan for the next phase, outlining priorities, initiatives, and goals for the coming months and years.
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Achieve Data Center Excellence with IBM and VMware
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JANUARY 30, 2024
Envision and achieve excellence When building (or modernizing) the data center of the future, strategic planning is the blueprint for excellence. Partnering with strategic solution, service and technology providers will help you transform your aspirations of operational excellence into tangible realities.
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Meet AI in Vendor Management Systems
Spend Matters
APRIL 2, 2024
In the VMS context, generative AI could create personalized candidate experiences, generate synthetic data for training machine learning models or simulate workforce scenarios for strategic planning.
CPO Crunch: Measure more to drive impact
Procurement Leaders
MAY 28, 2024
Benchmark against the best We are busily collecting data to support the production of our ever-popular Strategic Planning Guide , which provides timely insight at a key time of the year. As everyone knows, and as Peter Drucker once said, you can’t manage – or improve – what you don’t measure.
CPO Crunch: Operating models evolve
Procurement Leaders
JUNE 3, 2024
Benchmark against the best We are busily collecting data to support the production of our ever-popular Strategic Planning Guide , which provides timely insight at a key time of the year. Our Performance Glide Path report is a good place to start.
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AI and All That – Ivalua Now Looks to the Future
ivalua
APRIL 12, 2019
If we get that right, then AI can digitize the full P2P process, eliminate manual processes and free capacity for strategic planning – which takes us nicely into the session from Vishal Patel of Ivalua, who told and showed us more about Ivalua’ s approach to AI.
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CPO Crunch: The 1% Club
Procurement Leaders
JUNE 10, 2024
Benchmark against the best We are busily collecting data to support the production of our ever-popular Strategic Planning Guide , which provides timely insight at a key time of the year. Because of that, remaining laser-focused is priority number one.
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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity
Supply Chain Trend
AUGUST 13, 2020
The importance of these drivers depends on the planning horizons, from the shortest – the Execution Horizon and Sales and Operations Execution – through Integrated Business Planning to the longest horizons of Strategic Planning and Visioning.
CPO Spotlight: Victoria Cope
Procurement Heads
MARCH 15, 2023
Balancing strategic planning for the future, and building the function’s capacity and capability whilst delivering outcomes for the public has been a unique and exciting opportunity.
7 recruitment tips for building your procurement team
Procurement Heads
OCTOBER 20, 2022
If ED&I is high on your company’s strategic plan, make sure this is embedded in your hiring process too. Again, if you are unsure how to make your recruitment process inclusive, discuss it with your recruitment agency and take their steer on the best practices. .
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10 Strategies for Improving Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)!
Supply Chain Game Changer
JULY 10, 2019
Align Suppliers to your Strategic Plan. Your supplier selection processes should be so robust that the output is the selection of suppliers whose strategic plans are closely aligned to yours. The interest of your suppliers should match your supplier selection criteria. This is critical to success in business. Collaborate.
10 lessons from CPOs leading procurement’s response to the polycrisis
Procurement Leaders
MARCH 6, 2023
Procurement Leaders’ Strategic Planning Guide 2023 found that, for the first time ever, cost was not considered to be the function’s most important priority – coming a close second behind reducing supplier risk.
Neom
Procurement Templates
DECEMBER 28, 2023
And right alongside all those amazing development plans–the strategic planning, compliance efforts, and nitty gritty contract and execution details to be ironed out. Neom has many more initiatives, not just in the design of the city but in resident and work lifestyle.
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Operational Planning: A Guide to Improve Business Efficiency & Success
Pipefy
JULY 12, 2023
Operational planning is the creation of a detailed roadmap based on a strategic plan. It aligns action items with timelines and key milestones that an organization needs to execute the strategic plan. Operational plans may also create a more specific strategy for leveraging a particular partnership.
CPO Spotlight: Richard Trower
Procurement Heads
JUNE 28, 2022
Great businesses have always looked to procurement for a balanced scorecard across the strategic planning cycle. They’ll be responsible for the overall procurement budget and implement strategic plans across the function. But that balanced scorecard has always been there in the best procurement organisations.
Advantages Of Utilizing A Procurement Management Solution
Procurement Freelancers
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
It is critical to strategic planning,… The post Advantages Of Utilizing A Procurement Management Solution first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News. In the broadest sense, procurement is a systematic process.
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