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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

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Procurement refers to the business processes involved in acquiring goods, services, and work from external suppliers. It involves identifying needs, sourcing potential vendors, obtaining quotes and proposals, negotiating contracts, selecting suppliers, managing relationships, and meeting obligations.

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13 Important Roles of Data Analytics in Supply Chain Optimization

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By doing this, they can make corrections fastly which will help avoid costly disruptions and improve supply chain resilience. They can simulate scenarios and perform theoretical analyses that assess the potential impact of demand changes, supplier performance, and market conditions.

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2021 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Trends

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Even now, the global GDP for 2020 contracted by an estimated 4.3% Resiliency is now the name of the game for supply chains. With that in mind, here are a few trends for 2021 that could help your business outlast the pandemic: Supplier Diversification. Supplier Diversification. Focus on eCommerce.