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4 Key Trends Reshaping Manufacturing Procurement in 2024

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As we move into 2024, procurement teams continue to face hurdles like supply chain volatility, geopolitical tensions, budget restrictions, talent shortages, and more. In fact, manufacturing procurement has never been more important, holding the power to influence IT, finance, and C-suite decision-making. Sustainable packaging.

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Understanding Offshoring, Onshoring, Nearshoring, and Rightshoring in Procurement

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Understanding Offshoring, Onshoring, Nearshoring, and Rightshoring in Procurement Explore the nuances between offshoring and other approaches to procurement and how each one can impact the bottom line, supply chain resilience and overall strategic objectives.

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How do rising interest rates and inflation affect global supply chains?

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Supply chain managers and inventory management professionals face a constant barrage of supply chain crises, with one always waiting around the corner. With every crisis comes the potential for supply chain disruption that can cause chaos for stock-holding businesses. Global supply chains.

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4 Predictions on Procurement’s Top Trends in 2023

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But hopefully, we can incorporate what we’ve learned into our day-to-day, creating a better—more resilient—path going forward. Among them were supply chain disruptions , inflation, and supply scarcity and shortages. The Supply Chain Will Continue to Heal. However, it will be a very cautious optimism.

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Elevate Your Supply Chain Resilience With Scenario Planning

Speaker: Robert Olszak- Vice President, Global Supply Chain Optimization, RGP

As a supply chain director, you want to ensure that your supply chain network can withstand any disruptions and be optimized for peak performance. The global logistics market is growing, and companies need to prepare for the next generation of supply chain management.

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

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Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.

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Why Predictive Procurement in Health and Pharma is the Future

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From April 2021’s “ A New Paradigm For Procurement ”: “As enterprises increasingly depend on an expanding and evolving supplier ecosystem, better optimization of strategic planning and procurement is paramount. Procurement and sourcing teams worked tirelessly to find solutions to disrupted supply chains. Take the Next Step.