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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

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Procurement Strategy and Planning An effective procurement strategy is essential for aligning spending with broader corporate goals and extracting maximum value from the sourcing process. Procurement leaders must partner with business heads to map procurement strategy to strategic priorities.

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2022 Logistics and Supply Chain Management Trends

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Consequently, companies are becoming more focused on anticipating, reacting to, and planning for the unexpected through their supply chain strategies. In 2022, key supply chain management trends all lean towards building supply chain resilience.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

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Strategic planning–often for 3-5 years out–creates the initiatives to realize the vision (the What) as well as to promote the values and behaviors to display (the How). The budget, or annual operating plan, is normally the first year of the strategy.

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4 Predictions on Procurement’s Top Trends in 2023

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At the same time, they’ll need to watch and prepare for future economic downturns and supply chain disruption. Particularly for procurement, there will be increased reliance on tools and services that can create and foster supply chain resilience, cost optimization, and agility,” Mellot added.

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? What are the pros and cons, and what supply chain strategy will pave the way to higher margins, improved supply chain risk management in healthcare and improved patient care?