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Achieving Supply Chain Resilience: Strengthen and Adapt Your Operations

Skill Dynamics

Global conflicts, macroeconomic shocks, and shifting global trade routes are all combining to provide real challenges to modern supply chains, and are driving the uncertainty that organizations feel. Companies often struggle to plan for such challenges, which is why developing a strong and resilient supply chain team is so important.

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The Best Ways to Use Project Management to Build Resilient Supply Chains Amid Global Disruptions

SCMDOJO

Supply chains are the backbone of global trade that ensure the smooth movement of goods and materials across industries. One of the most effective strategies for building resilience is integrating project management into supply chain operations. Enhance visibility across the supply chain through structured reports.

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Tariffs and Procurement (Part 2): Tariff management and building an action plan

Spend Matters

Tariff management is a strategic subset of direct materials management and sourcing that involves navigating and optimizing the complex costs and regulatory implications of importing materials and goods across borders. Tariffs essentially taxes imposed on imports and exports directly impact product cost structures.

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Agentic AI in Supply Chains: The Future of Decision Making

SCMDOJO

From rule-based systems to predictive analytics and the generative AI boom, businesses have leveraged these technologies to optimize operations, forecast trends, and create data-driven strategies. This leap in AI capabilities is revolutionizing industries, and AI-driven supply chain management is no exception.

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

A Fortune 500 CPG company partnered with GEP to improve end-to-end category management, optimize direct spend categories, and increase strategic focus on tail spend. This is essential reading for all procurement and supply chain leaders. The result was a year-over-year savings of more than 3%.

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GM confident it can mitigate tariffs

Let's Talk Supply Chain

By diversifying its supply chain and leveraging global partnerships, GM aims to minimize disruption and maintain competitiveness in the market. By leveraging a robust network of suppliers and implementing contingency plans, GM aims to adapt to changing tariff landscapes effectively.

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Procurement transformation 2025: Why invest in procuretech and how to make the case – Kodiak Hub

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Operational: The time saved and operational excellence improved by automation of tasks, improved data analytics and process optimization (> OPEX reduction/optimization) is greater than 20%-50% of total FTE. Customer requirements on more sustainable products/services, and/or requests for supply chain transparency/due diligence.