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Top 5 Critical Skills Next-Gen Procurement Leaders Must Develop Now

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

According to McKinsey research , in the five years immediately following the 2008 global financial crisis, total return to shareholders for companies with top-quartile procurement capabilities was 42 percent higher than the companies whose procurement operations were in the bottom quartile. Risk management.

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Sales and Operations Planning – What Is It, and Why Should You Care?

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

The executive component to Sales and Operations Planning is top management’s portion of the overall S&OP process. Act as a forum for disciplined discussion around setting policy, strategy, risk and budget changes. Improving the S&OP Process is a SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) Model best practice (BP.026).

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Banking on mainframe-led digital transformation for financial services

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Why mainframe application modernization stalls We’ve experienced global economic uncertainties in recent memory, from the 2008 “too big to fail” crisis to our current post-pandemic high interest rates causing overexposure and insolvency of certain large depositor banks.

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The Sidekick #001

Una

Politics also plays a huge part – secession in Texas became a hot topic after Obama’s 2008 win (why? While this is true, it’s worth noting that one-third of Texas’ annual budget is supported by federal funds though. What would it mean for supply chains? It’s also about money. Scary, isn’t it?