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How to conduct a good procurement interview process

Procurement Heads

“The interview process will be really straightforward. “It will just be a simple 15-stage virtual interview followed by a quick six-stage face-to-face with three short presentations to our Founder’s cat to round it all off.” A poorly planned interview process hugely impacts an organisation’s ability to successfully hire talent. And with a continuation of the tight procurement talent market, what can hiring managers do to ensure they are in control?

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India Export Statistics 2022 — 18 Key Figures

Procurement Tactics

33 Procurement Interview Questions in 2022. Success! First Name. Email. Download Free Whitepaper ?. ?. Or receive our famous weekly newsletter. India Export Statistics 2022 — 18 Key Figures. India is one of the largest countries in the world. Thus, its exports are crucial to know especially nowadays. . In this article, we will show you the latest export statistics for India in 2022.

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How to conduct a good procurement interview process

Procurement Heads

“The interview process will be really straightforward. “It will just be a simple 15-stage virtual interview followed by a quick six-stage face-to-face with three short presentations to our Founder’s cat to round it all off.” A poorly planned interview process hugely impacts an organisation’s ability to successfully hire talent. And with a continuation of the tight procurement talent market, what can hiring managers do to ensure they are in control?

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4 Ways to Keep Shipments Moving Smoothly During Annual Leave!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 9 Steps to Create a Seamless Customer Shipping Experience! If you are a store owner, you understand how high annual leaves can stall your shipments. When running a business, there are endless things to consider. In addition to having a solid lineup and effective marketing, you must also consider shipments.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Adding awareness and intelligence to the supply chain

Supply Chain Dive

The need for an efficient supply chain has never been greater as witnessed by the massive issues experienced during the pandemic. How do you achieve this level of real-time monitoring, highly accurate awareness, and intelligence?

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Realizing the full potential of supply chain resilience surveys

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

As supply chains become more complex and nuanced, surveys about their performance have to keep up to develop strategies that counter disruptions. Here’s a straightforward, two-step process for turbo-charging survey data and building back resilience.

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Why ‘Self-Driving’ Vehicles Will Still Need a Human Minder

Supply Chain Brain

Companies may be plowing billions of dollars into automation in delivery operations, but true autonomy in the sector may be years away.

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Breaking the skill-loss cycle in supply chain and procurement

Supply Chain Dive

To maintain supply resilience and continuity, SC&P professionals must be proactive in identifying and preparing for potential disruptions.

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Driverless Car Development Sets Ablaze a Bonfire of Billions

Supply Chain Brain

While executives and investors alike are in some cases heading for the exits, well-capitalized companies in the space are plowing ahead into new markets and projects.

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IT Innovation and Procurement as the Driving Force

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IT Innovation and Procurement as the Driving Force. By Hugo Britt | November 8, 2022. Whose job is it to drive IT innovation? Is it the Chief Information Officer? The Chief Technology Officer? Or does the job belong to the heads of functions that require IT solutions such as marketing, HR, or finance? Or is it procurement? The answer is: everybody.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Making Your Supply Chain More Recession-Proof with Modernized Apps

Supply Chain Brain

Low-code projects can be achieved at a fraction of the expense, time, and disruption to an existing network that a traditional integration would require. .

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[Pod] Putting Digital Procurement in the Spotlight w/ Matthias Gutzmann

Art of Procurement

“If you look at some of those big event players out there, they have a lot of events per year. The post [Pod] Putting Digital Procurement in the Spotlight w/ Matthias Gutzmann appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedEx Freight tests dimensional LTL pricing

Supply Chain Dive

The pilot program takes into account the space a shipment requires in a truck, as well as the weight and shipping speed.

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Diageo’s digital supply chain transformation

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

The global leader in premium drinks is transforming its supply chain to balance short-term demand and meet the future.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Oracle vs SAP Ariba: E-procurement head-to-head technology evaluation and comparison

Spend Matters

Categories: eProcurement / Procurement , Supplier Risk and Compliance Management Tags: Head-to-Head , PRO , SolutionMap E-Procurement , SolutionMap E-Procurement Premium , SolutionMap Head to Head , SolutionMap Premium SAP Ariba and Oracle are the newest contenders for our head-to-head analysis of e-procurement. Both companies have been around since the beginning of on-premises e-procurement solutions and now, in the world of cloud-based solutions, they continue to bring solutions with great mar

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Are you resilient?

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

What has become clear as we do our post-pandemic reviews is that the firms that demonstrated the ability to get up off the canvas and keep punching were those that invested in resiliency before the pandemic—even if they didn’t use that term.

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Apple expects China COVID-19 restrictions to delay iPhone shipments

Supply Chain Dive

A key facility is working at reduced capacity amid a resurgence of the virus.

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Build a playbook to implement supply chain resilience

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Supply chain resilience is one of the hottest topics in supply chain management. Practitioners want to know how to implement it into their operations. What follows is a pragmatic framework.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Valid Reasons Why You Should Conduct A Supplier Audit

Procurement Freelancers

The hazards connected with an organization’s supply chain increase as it grows. Every new supplier… The post Valid Reasons Why You Should Conduct A Supplier Audit first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Use LCAs to Kickstart Your Sustainability Efforts

Supply Chain Brain

Currently, LCAs are the best method we have for finding and shoring up the weakest links in our supply chain, because they provide the best data to address environmental impact at scale.

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Direct Sourcing’s Impact On 2023 Hiring

CPO Rising

Our Monthly Webinar Series continues this Thursday at 2 pm ET with a great look at how organizations can scale their 2023 hiring initiatives (details here). There’s no question as to the power of direct sourcing in today’s volatile business climate. When economic uncertainty arises, enterprises require the ability to scale their workforce based on […].

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Sustainable procurement in the creative industry

Positive Purchasing

Annabel Kaur-Barry, who leads digital and production procurement globally for Interpublic Group (IPG) – one of the ‘big four’ global advertising agencies – looks at sustainable procurement in the creative industry. Creative procurement When buying creative services that are not tangible, you have to develop really strong supplier relationships.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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Pivotree, GreyOrange Partner To Combine AI, Robotics Capabilities With WMS

Supply Chain Brain

The partnership is aimed at helping customers scale and improve warehouse operations by enhancing inventory accuracy and increasing visibility of operations performance.

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AFS Logistics launches scholarship program for students pursuing logistics careers

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

The 3PL wants to cultivate talent and expand opportunities for aspiring young professionals in company’s home state of Louisiana.

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Watch: Today's TMS: A Pain Reliever for Shippers

Supply Chain Brain

A full-service transportation management system (TMS) can solve shippers' visibility pain points, says JP Wiggins, vice president and co-founder of 3Gtms.

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Leadership and planning in an ambiguous world

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

If the world doesn’t follow a script in a post-COVID world, how can a business? Maybe it’s time for applied improvisation.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Apple: iPhone Shipments Delayed Over China COVID Lockdown

Supply Chain Brain

Officials locked down an assembly plant in Zhengzhou, on November 2, for seven days, and it is now operating at a significantly reduced capacity.

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Data-Driven Procurement in Higher Education: A Panel Discussion with Procurement Leaders

SpendHQ

The post Data-Driven Procurement in Higher Education: A Panel Discussion with Procurement Leaders appeared first on SpendHQ.

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Baltic Nation Seeks to Become LNG Hub in Pivot Away From Russia

Supply Chain Brain

As the region pivots away from Russian supplies amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, more terminals are needed. .

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Where Can Spend Analysis Take You? Procurement Strategies and Solutions to Lead the Way

SpendHQ

The post Where Can Spend Analysis Take You? Procurement Strategies and Solutions to Lead the Way appeared first on SpendHQ.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,