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Our annual risk-, agility- and transparency-themed issue explores the topics from various viewpoints. Features delve into how hospital supply chains are creating value and opportunities that go beyond cost savings, the changes influencing the global shipping industry, and how transparency and agility can aid in successful sourcing and risk mitigation for local Super Bowl vendors. Additionally, learn how Jaguar Land Rover usedtransparency, consistency and collaboration to manage chip shortages
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The reaction from investors was hardly muted as they pondered the lower-then-expected composite index reading of 50.3 percent, the immediate impact on the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields, and how the U.S. Federal Reserve might respond when it meets next week.
The supply chain successes of Schneider Electric, the French multinational digital automation and energy management provider, have proven worth studying: For the first time, the company claimed the top spot in the Global Supply Chain Top 25 rankings by Gartner.
In the U.S. manufacturing economy, the music has been slowing for some time — and the only way for the pace to quicken again to is for the participants to start dancing first. The ISM® Report On Business® data for May indicated how potentially arduous the waltz between buyers and sellers will be.
Addressed spend as a percent of sourceable spend is designed to gauge a supply management team’s workload by measuring the spend it actively controls during a current reporting period.
Smart consumption methodology and its five pillars can help companies achieve sustained results by capturing impactful savings and embedding behavioral change into the organization.
Frank Palmer, Tom Rapp, Dan Belz, Bob Tevelson, Tyler Vigen
Product and labor shortages still abound — and cost is still paramount — but health-care systems are realizing the value and opportunities their supply chains can bring in other ways.
After two years of elevated rates and record profits, ocean carriers face changing tides, including a pricing power shift, capacity conundrum and innovation vacuum.
When the Super Bowl came to Arizona, local suppliers discovered the flexibility required to handle the challenges — exacerbated in some cases by an incomplete playbook from the NFL — of working football’s biggest event.
A pilot program to address semiconductor shortages at Jaguar Land Rover has combined transparency, consistency and collaboration to accelerate the automaker’s procurement function.
Heiko Gierhardt, Ph.D., Florian Burgdorf, Ph.D., Wolfgang Schnellbächer, Ph.D., Matt Crawford, Lena Edig
Have you reached out to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup to discuss licensing negotiation, only to get promptly ushered to its online sales portal and click-through service agreement? This has become a rather common occurrence regarding new SaaS tools and platforms that are the “flavor of the month” within your organization’s developer and younger employee cohorts.
After more than two years of walking a tightrope to keep products — and their companies — moving during the coronavirus pandemic, many procurement professionals are feeling the ‘PTSD’ of supply chain burnout.
Increasing numbers of companies are asking employees to return to the office, but workers are balking, preferring the flexibility of working remotely, at least two or three days a week.
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