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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

These companies are moving to procure key components from more suppliers, ensure that suppliers of similar components are not located in the same region, and doing more near-shoring. And many are adding supplier risk management duties to the sourcing tasks performed by their procurement managers.

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How Modern Software Empowers Procurement with Agility and Resilience in Times of Crisis

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What we learned about agility and resilience can be applied to future-proof the source-to-pay (S2P) process and help organizations meet any new challenge with confidence. The job of sourcing professionals is to understand the risk in the supply chain and manage it so they can react quickly when a problem occurs.”

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Eworld Procurement & Supply, 24th September 2019, London

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The Ivalua team will be returning to eWorld Procurement & Supply in London. Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders – to transform your SRM you need to understand your Procurement maturity (Beginner, Expert or Advanced), and what you are looking for from each supplier relationship.

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Procurement in the Age of Uncertainty: 4 Lessons from the New Forrester Study

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Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Procurement in the Age of Uncertainty: 4 Lessons from the New Forrester Study May 9, 2023 | | Innovation by Alex Saric In today’s age of uncertainty, procurement departments are under tremendous pressure. Fortunately, the report shows that procurement is putting actions behind words.

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When It Comes to Planning, Please Vote with Ike!

Supply Chain Shaman

Eisenhower was a military officer and statesman. The organization with deep manufacturing “roots” automated factories and trucks but did not align make, source, and deliver together. As a result, the river of demand becomes dirty and turbulent as demand flows through the organization to procurement. ” Dwight D.

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Providing Protective 3D Printed Gear to Combat the Spread of COVID-19

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Face shields, masks and ID holders for the Dutch military and police. The Dutch Army is supporting the Netherlands’ civil authorities in the fight against COVID-19, including deploying military doctors across the country. Image source: Dutch Ministry of Defence. Image source: FIT. The Army is no stranger to 3D printing.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.