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What Makes a Top 25 Supply Chain Company The companies in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 offer numerous lessons for supply managers looking to create more value and advance their organizations.

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• Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics (CSR)
• Logistics Management
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Supply Chain Planning

The Monthly Metric: Measuring Diversity’s Impact For a strategy to be meaningful, the process must be measurable. In many ways, supplier diversity analytics are a work in progress, as the

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• Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics (CSR)
• Supplier Relationship Management

UPMG2020: Workplace and Role Challenges Facing Utilities Talent and workplace challenges were among the top topics at UPMG2020, the annual conference of Institute for Supply Management®’s

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• Supplier Relationship Management
• Systems Capability and Technology

The Monthly Metric: Back-Order Rate When a customer’s shipping request date is missed — turning a backlog order into a back order — the situation becomes more problematic. A high back-order rate

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• Logistics Management
• Risk
• Supplier Relationship Management

Building Impactful Tier-2 Supplier Diversity Programs Supplier diversity provides opportunities for diverse businesses to participate in competitive bidding, setting the stage for supply chain

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• Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics (CSR)
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• Supplier Relationship Management

Inflationary Impacts: Pushing Back on Supplier Price Increases Companies are seeing suppliers push price increases that, if unmitigated, directly impact margins. Procurement organizations must be

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• Cost and Price Management
• Financial Analysis
• Risk
• Supplier Relationship Management

The Monthly Metric: Supply Management ROI While supply management has elevated its status as a strategic business partner during the coronavirus pandemic, conveying the function’s value to

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• Financial Analysis
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Supply Chain Planning

Increasing Business Opportunities Through Supplier Diversity A corporate awakening has brought diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) to the forefront, increasing visibility and funding for

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• Business Acumen
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics (CSR)
• Supplier Relationship Management

5 Steps to Boost Supply Chain Resilience Disruptions — from weather events to trade wars to the coronavirus pandemic — have wreaked havoc on supply chains. Since it’s likely such disruptions will

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• Risk
• Sourcing
• Supplier Relationship Management