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What is supply chain sustainability?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

When your sourcing team chooses what to buy and who to buy from, are you selecting vendors who share the same social values as your brand? Your customers, employees and shareholders want to know you have a plan to address supply chain sustainability. Why is supply chain sustainability important?

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Q3 2023 Insider roundup: A deep dive into procurement tech market movements; updated coverage of 13 vendors

Spend Matters

Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.

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What Are the Pressures That Procurement Faces In 2024 and Beyond?

Barkers Procurement

The increasing pressure from macroeconomic factors that include inflation, continued supply chain disruption, geopolitical tensions and ESG factors are primary areas of concern for the procurement professional. McKinsey has reported that supply chain disruption is costing companies 0.47% on average each year.

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What Are the Pressures That Procurement Faces In 2024 and Beyond?

Barkers Procurement

The increasing pressure from macroeconomic factors that include inflation, continued supply chain disruption, geopolitical tensions and ESG factors are primary areas of concern for the procurement professional. McKinsey has reported that supply chain disruption is costing companies 0.47% on average each year.

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What Importers Need To Know, And Do in 2022

Let's Talk Supply Chain

The disruption the global supply chain is facing today has been a long time coming, yet it seems to have caught the entire industry off guard. Xinjiang produces vast amounts of raw materials like cotton, coal, sugar, tomatoes, and polysilicon, and the city supplies workers for China’s apparel and footwear factories.

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The Supply Chain Management Playbook: Your Game Plan for Operational Success

World of Procurement blog

What is Supply Chain Management (SCM) Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods, services, information and finances as they move from raw materials to final product, from manufacturer to consumer. Optimized supply chains lead to improved profit margins.

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The Time-to-Action Dilemma in Your Supply Chain

Supply Chain Action Blog

If you can’t answer these 3 sets of questions in less than 10 minute s (and I suspect that you can’t) , then your supply chain is not the lever it could be to drive more revenue with better margin and less working capital: 1) What are inventory turns by product category (e.g. 2) What is the inventory coverage ?