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    Digital Twin Powers, Ready to Activate

    Still an emerging capability, this ‘living, learning model’ enables organizations to use a high-fidelity mirror image to test supply chain resiliency — and determine a plan’s probability of success.
    Sue Doerfler

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    Taking Out the ‘Garbage Data’

    By advocating for a governance shift, coaxing other functions into more advanced systems and leveraging the importance of spend tracking, supply management can usher an analytics revolution at companies.
    Dan Zeiger
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    Catalyzing Supplier Diversity Through Innovative Initiatives

    JPMorgan Chase’s supplier diversity commitment extends to growing and developing diverse businesses — and the communities they serve — by working across the organization and with key partners.
    Sue Doerfler
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    Solo Sourcing

    A procurement department of one enjoys autonomy but has sole responsibility for a company’s supply chain and must overcome a competitive disadvantage against larger organizations.
    Dan Zeiger

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Supply Management Can Benefit from Emotional Intelligence

It’s hard to make it through a day without reading a headline about a product shortage, logistics disruption or other supply chain challenge. “Supply chain” has become a household phrase.
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Perspectives

It’s important that the organization’s RFP processes are standardized to some degree. However, procurement professionals have a chance to refine those processes each time we send out an RFP.
Jennifer Lada
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An Entrepreneurial Approach Elevates Organizations

With companies becoming more global and remote work more the norm, employees and management face greater difficulty building trusting relationships. The workplace has become task-oriented, sometimes with less communication and greater alienation for many employees, which can make them feel less invested in their organizations.
Preeti Kaur, EMBA
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An Analytics Expert Who Thrives on Change

Tracey Smith, MBA, MAS, CPSM. Position: Founder and president of Numerical Insights LLC in Williamsville, New York.
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The Great Resignation or Great Reshuffling?

Supply management organizations have been rocked by talent challenges: Not only have they faced difficulties finding skilled workers, but they’ve also experienced a phenomenon dubbed the Great Resignation — employees voluntarily quitting their jobs.
Sue Doerfler
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Gazing Into the Future of Supply Management

Responding to external forces — including technology, market conditions, government regulations, talent availability, geopolitical tensions and supply disruptions — requires a constant reinvention of supply management.
Adegoke Oke, Ph.D., MBA, Mohan Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D.
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Finding Your Company’s ‘True North’

Three interconnected challenges — climate change, loss or deterioration of nature, and growing inequality — are impacting global society and how business is done.
Bill Sisson

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