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The Monthly Metric: Cash Flow From Operations Cash flow from operations (CFFO) is a measurement that has increased in importance at many procurement organizations, due in part by the coronavirus

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• Cost and Price Management
• Financial Analysis

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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• Supplier Relationship Management

The Monthly Metric: Level of Integration Between Procurement Applications Even before COVID-19, supply managers realized they no longer could operate in silos, and that integration is critical to

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Research Column Resources "Transform Supplier Quality," the Research column in the March 2017 issue of Inside Supply Management® features a list of additional supplier-quality resources

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The Challenges Facing Supply Management Talent — and the Skills Needed There’s a lot of talk about how the supply management profession has evolved from a tactical, purchasing role to a strategic

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The Monthly Metric: Percentage of Strategic vs. Operational Employees As a supply chain manager at Intel Corporation from 2007-14, Jim Fleming, CPSM, CPSD, oversaw several employees whose careers

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The Monthly Metric: Metrics of the Future At some point, analytics will again be more about strategy than survival, providing an opportunity to reevaluate metrics and how they can measure

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