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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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Procurement Strategy’s Role in Guarding Against Supply Chain Disruptions

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Procurement leaders, Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), and Supply Chain Managers must proactively build resilience into their procurement processes to safeguard operations. Conduct a Supply Market Analysis: Use PESTEL and SWOT frameworks. Get Access Now How to Implement a Resilient Procurement Strategy?

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Thought leader: How to get early supplier involvement right

Procurement Leaders

To fully benefit from the innovation potential of a supplier network, buyers should ensure following conditions are in place: Strong competences in supplier / supply market scouting of the innovation potential,to bring innovative solutions from the supply base to the business.

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The Science and the Art of Procurement

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After all, we’re only just beginning to see what AI and machine learning might do to revolutionise procurement and supply chain management; the possibilities are endless and hard to predict. However, we would stress that doesn’t mean forgetting the science and (of course) the technology.

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High Speed 2’s approach to building supply chain transparency

Procurement Leaders

To address supply chain transparency, a new initiative, “SCM+”, was developed in the second quarter of 2021. A group of five people formed an extension of the existing 10-person Supply Chain Management team within the 200-strong Procurement & Supply Chain function to focus on this.

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Supply Chain Maturity Model for Capability Assessment

Supply Chain Opz

There are so many supply chain maturity model produced by consulting or independent research firms. Anyway, the most widely cited maturity model is the work named " The development of a supply chain management process maturity model using the concepts of business process orientation " from McCormack and Lockamy III in 2004.

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What Exactly Is Procurement? And What is Purchasing?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Check out What Exactly Is Supply Chain Management? Subscribe Here! Email Address. 10 Different Definitions! For his entire career my Father worked in the field of Procurement. But the job titles that he had during his career alternatively included either the word Procurement or the word Purchasing.