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Blockchain for Supply Chain: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses

SCMDOJO

Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their supply chains. By providing a secure and transparent way to track products from their origin to their final destination, blockchain for supply chain can help increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve trust between suppliers and customers.

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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. This is to enable greater autonomy and agility. .

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Economic uncertainty ahead: 7 things you can do to prepare for a recession

Procurify

While dealing with the ongoing inflation, companies must navigate supply chain disruptions, geopolitical issues in certain markets, labour shortages and the foggy business environment caused by the pandemic. Where you can, reduce business expenses such as the lease of your office space. Sell smarter.

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Why Procuretech has Immense Potential to Grow

Procurement Software

The experience of COVID-19 also showed that poorly managed vendor master data contributed to some of the delivery delays and supply chain disruption. Vodafone founded in 2008 Vodafone Procurement Company : a subsidiary company managing $24bn spend across Vodafone ecosystem “ with digital and pioneering procurement practices”.

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The Unofficial History of Spreadsheets in Procurement: Are Reports of Their Demise Greatly Exaggerated?

Procurement Insights

Ironically, the first article in this blog about using spreadsheets was a guest post by Glenda Leatherman , a change management consultant, in March 2008. Coinciding with Andrew’s point of view was the release of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive ‘s white paper “ Are Spreadsheets Sabotaging Your Supply Chain?

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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.