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The Importance of Supply Chain Visibility for Procurement

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

Supply chain visibility is essential for successful procurement, as it enables businesses to proactively manage risks and optimize their supply chain. By having a clear view of their entire supply chain, businesses can identify potential issues and take steps to mitigate them.

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7 Strategies to Improve Your Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Strategies to improve your Supply Chain article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. The supply chain is a significant part of your overall business strategy and inventory management. Another strategic solution to boost your supply chain is to embrace technology.

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Procurement and Sustainability are Your Yin and Yang!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Sustainability has evolved from a business discipline applied as a means to conserve, to an integrated strategy — applied in the organization across functions— to realize social, financial, and environmental change. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. 5 Quick Tips to embed Sustainability into Procurement.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Companies of all sizes have been capturing the value from Global Supply Chain to increase the economies of scale and scope for years. Due to the rapid change in global business environment, managers find it difficult to gain the edge over competitors. delivery reliability”), but is that really “supply chain thinking”?

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How to Conduct a ?Health Check? on Your Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Hosted by Bob Bowman, Managing Editor of SupplyChainBrain. Show notes : D&B’s perspective on supplier management. He also discusses just how sensitive and reactive a system of alerts should be. Look for a new episode of the podcast, which can be downloaded or streamed, every Friday on the SupplyChainBrain website and iTunes.

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How A.I. Will Transform Shipping and Logistics

Supply Chain Brain

in logistics from Dan Stoll, senior technical manager of Nintex , a provider of workflow automation systems. Hosted by Bob Bowman, Managing Editor of SupplyChainBrain. On this episode, we learn about the progress of A.I.

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Strategies for Embracing the Internet of Things

Supply Chain Brain

While they might embrace the underlying concept of the IoT, they’re dubious about their ability to manage the resulting flood of data in a meaningful way. Sastri says it’s essential for businesses to achieve total visibility over their devices. A fair number of companies are leaning toward the latter view.