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Is Your Supply Chain Recession Proof? A Guide for Building a Resilient Supply Chain

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Supply chains are particularly vulnerable during recessions. Economic downturns can disrupt the flow of goods, increase operational costs, and reduce profit margins. Consequently, it is imperative to develop a recession-proof supply chain to make them more resilient and adaptable.

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First, There Was The Ariba Interviews, Now There Is The Pierre Mitchell Interview (Sort Of*)

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procurement officers) and AI agents (self-learning algorithms) for continuous data cleaning via a learning loopback process, as seen in DNDs 2004-2007 success (20% savings). Emphasizes decentralized empowerment, practitioner validation, and resilience over automation, reducing silos and failure risks, per Procurement Insights (2025).

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ERP Agent Swarms In The Age Of Intake And Orchestration And The Agent-Based Metaprise Model

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” So, in today’s post, let’s discover what they are and how relevant they are to 2025 procurement and supply chain management. Collaboration: Agents communicate and collaborate to achieve shared goals, such as reducing costs, optimizing resource allocation, or improving delivery times.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

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In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).

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Will your supply chain lead in the next decade?

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Yesterday was the first day of Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Summit. The conference theme is “supply chain will lead in the next decade.” Because of supply chain’s far reaching effects, Gartner is challenging supply chain leaders to drive transformation throughout their organizations.

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7 Trending Business Practices Disrupting Procurement!

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Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Days and years went by, and eventually, the ’93 Ford Escort was living in the hybrid-dominated world of the year 2004. Time and technology had progressed, and there were a plethora of better alternatives on the market in 2004. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Source: Accenture 2013.

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Are Spend Matters 50 To Know / Watch, ProcureTech 100 lists useful?

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Founded by Jason Busch in 2004, they were the first of the major procurement and supply chain blogs. These are the companies that Spend Matters recognises as “best in class in the procurement and supply chain technology market”. Do you want agility and simplicity? Let’s start off with 50 To Know.