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Improving Logistics through Partnerships with 3PLs Logistics leaders have lately faced a variety of challenges, including such issues as visibility into their supply chains and capacity needs.

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The Monthly Metric: Active Suppliers Accounting for 80% of Sourceable Spend We last focused on suppliers accounting for 80 percent of total spend in January 2018, before the global trade war

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ISM World 2021: Empowering Women in Supply Management Women in supply management commonly face four challenges, leadership coach Shami Anand has found: (1) navigating a male-dominated field, (2)

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A ‘Really Positive’ Shift in Supplier Diversity Spend Corporate social responsibility (CSR) directives — including supplier diversity — have been growing in importance among many supply

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Pandemic Heightens Supply Chain Awareness, but Paper Invoices Remain Despite even the best digital-finance efforts, the reality is that 80 percent of businesses still use paper checks to pay

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Developing a Supplier Diversity Program Like other strategic initiatives, your supplier diversity program should have a dynamic plan that morphs, grows and evolves — all while delivering business

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A Company Is Only as Sustainable as Its Supply Chain Companies need to expand their sustainability efforts to the supply chain and work with it to deliver a network of firms that not only

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The Monthly Metric: Time to Ship One of the metrics that could be top of mind for many companies over the holidays is time to ship — not to be confused with lead time, though the former can

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The Monthly Metric: Aligning With Finance Supply managers have an opportunity to become more influential and strategic partners in their businesses, and one of the best ways to do that is to

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The ‘Business Case’ for Elevating Women in Supply Management International Women’s Day celebrates the achievements of women, whether social, economic, political or cultural. The commemoration on

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