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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Supply Chain Blog

1 Slowly but surely, institutional investors started to recognize that companies could potentially improve financial performance and risk management by focusing on ESG issues like greenhouse gas emissions. Elkington’s goal was to highlight a growing body of non-financial considerations that should be included when valuating companies.

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CSRD & Supply Chain Sustainability: What You Need to Know

SupplyShift

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is new legislation in the European Union that requires, elevates, and standardizes ESG reporting like never before. It broadens who must report, standardizes what they report, and expands the scope of reporting to include the full value chain.

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Understanding Spend Management Perspectives: CFO, CEO, Procurement Director & Procurement Manager

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

For example, a CFO is concerned with the company’s financial health and performance and seeks to ensure that the organization is operating within budgetary limits while maximizing profits. Perspective 1: CEO “As the CEO, I understand the importance of Spend Management in maintaining our organization’s financial health.

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The Big Interview with Rebecca Howard

Procurement Heads

We have teams that look after risk and excellence because in financial services we need to demonstrate to our regulators that we have appropriate controls in procurement and supplier management. My team has regular governance meetings with our suppliers where we cover third-party risk management topics, performance, value and sustainability.

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The Beautiful Complexity of Procurement Planning

The Good Spending

It's a good enough topic, which misses one crucial element - demand management mastery comes after sophisticated planning. You can easily download inventory reports when planning, but that would happen around Q3, while you need to forecast Q1 next year. Around this time, the company's Financial Plan will become clear.

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Getting ready for artificial general intelligence with examples

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The exact nature of general intelligence in AGI remains a topic of debate among AI researchers. Nearly all respondents reported promising early results from gen AI experiments and planned to increase their spending in 2024 to support production workloads. Mastering a topic? Struggling with a concept?

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How to Manage Supplier Risk and Performance in an Uncertain Global Economy

ivalua

Create a process to continuously gather information about suppliers using surveys or a supplier portal, including topics like information security practices, certificates, financial updates and generic information updates. Implementing such a system requires considerable advance planning and strategic thought.

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