Prior to March 2020, the world had been a pretty predictable place for procurement professionals.
Supply was plentiful, costs were contained and the focus for many was to put more eggs in one basket and reduce the number of suppliers that had to be managed. Today, that paradigm has been turned upside down.
As organizations increasingly look to procurement for solutions, supplier relationships and supplier diversity have never been more important. Indeed SRM could be the future of procurement.
In this special digital edition from Supply Chain Management Review, we’re bringing together the best of our recent stories on procurement, which we hope you’ll find useful as you take your procurement team into the future.
Inside this issue…
- Supplier relationship management: Supporing a new era for growth
- Don’t let negotiations upset the apple cart
- The ABCs of competitive bidding
- You’ve suffered a supply chain disruption: Now what?
- Procurement has a significant role to play in the pursuit of ESG goals
- Working with competitors—or why co-opetition is the key to improving cost and efficiency
- Mitigating the impact of inflation across your value chain
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