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2024: Planning for Success Amid the Uncertainty

Logistics Viewpoints

Sourcing and procurement comes in close second at 88 percent, followed by innovation at 87 percent. Logistics and inventory management rounds out the top four focus areas at 82 percent. Other critical functions include order management, manufacturing, and product development. Remember that talent management matters.

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Webinar Recap: Procurement 2022, Big Trends and Predictions

ivalua

Last week, Ivalua partnered with Ardent Partners to discuss Procurement 2022: Big Trends and Predictions. . Procurement 2022: Big Trends and Predictions. #1. Organizations must shift focus toward strengthening their procurement processes and procedures to gain 100% supply chain visibility. View Webinar Replay. More on that here.

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Boston Procurement Leaders part 3: Talent Management Challenges

Supply Chain View from the Field

One of the most interesting panels from the Boston Procurement Leaders conference was focused on Talent Management. We heard from a number of speakers on the subject of how the need for talent is shifting dramatically in the years ahead. The Vendor Management team are starting to sound like banking regulators.

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Which supply chain and procurement skills will best equip us for the future?

Procurement Academy

For those of us working in the field of supply chain and procurement education, it’s an open secret. But the same is most emphatically not true of supply chain and procurement. Business schools and conventional approaches to supply chain and procurement education struggle to keep pace with all this change.

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Future of Procurement Study Available

Supply Chain View from the Field

I recently completed a study of 25 CPO’s, each providing their view of what procurement will look like in 2025. Procurement has a history that is linked in the core concepts of centralization, volume leveraging, and cost reduction. The earliest traces of this can be linked to materials management.

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Insights From Procurement Leaders Conference Part 1 – Making HR Your Friend!

Supply Chain View from the Field

master of ceremonies”) for the Procurement Leaders Forum in the heart of Boston at Sixty State Street. Today’s knowledge forum focused on Talent Management and featured one speaker who really inspired me. ” Procurement needs to re-think that and seek to narrow RFPs as well as go to the field with fewer suppliers.

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Winning Student Posters Focus on Visibility, Total Cost of Ownership, and Procurement Processes

Supply Chain View from the Field

Bayer Crop Science – Internal Procurement Audit – Undergraduate Team: Hamilton Brewer, Emily Ciriano, Scott Gray. Strategic Sourcing Manager – Tires, Wheels, and Mounting Systems. John Deere World Headquarters – Enterprise Supply Management. Advisor: Cecil Bozarth, NC State Faculty.