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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance

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By selecting and developing the right suppliers and establishing streamlined, transparent communication with them, manufacturers gain the agility and resilience to respond to customer demands, rise to the top, and navigate disruptions more easily. That makes agility a foundational part of your manufacturing strategy.

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Pandemic Prepared! 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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From this discussion, we compiled a list of 8 critical supply chain management activities that to improve, build, and maintain supply chain resilience now and in the years to come. But building an agile, resilient supply chain doesn’t happen overnight; it requires forethought and planning.

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8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience for Manufacturers in a Post-Covid World

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Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, was interviewed in late 2020 by Philip Ideson from Art of Procurement. Having already done the work to build resilience into its supply chain strategy, Navistar’s procurement organization was better prepared than most to weather the Covid-19 crisis.

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10 Key Issues The Hackett Group Says Will Impact Supply Chain Transformation in 2021

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Supply Chain Transformation is ongoing but never more important than in 2021. Supply Chain Risk and Supply Continuity: Risk moved front and center of Procurement during the pandemic, as procurement organizations grappled with constrained supply chains. What Will Impact Procurement Processes in 2021?

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Building Supply Chain Resilience in the Real World

Speaker: Kelly Barner - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point, LLC

Since 2020, procurement and supply chain professionals have faced an unprecedented set of challenges. The pandemic was just the start.

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What is supply chain resiliency?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

For years, supply chain professionals have measured success by how well they have been able to drive down costs and drive up efficiency. Then, 2020 sent shockwaves through many JIT strategies; the disruption was just too big to absorb and supply chain ecosystems had not been built to flex.

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Supplier Diversity: From Checking the Box to Driving Business Strategy

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Amid the pandemic in 2020, I was spending a great deal of time comparing notes with colleagues (past and present) about how their supply chains were faring, as well as canvassing thought leadership and talking to current and potential customers about how our solutions could help with their supplier risk and management challenges.