March/April 2024

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March/April 2024

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    March 12, 2024
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    The New Tools and Rules of Negotiation

    Global supply chain challenges continue to emphasize relationships in deal-making, one of many insights to be gleaned at the ISM World 2024 Annual Conference.
    Dan Zeiger

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    Helping the Environment, One Package at a Time

    Sustainability is a growing trend in shipping materials, driven by climate change, consumers, investors and companies themselves.
    Sue Doerfler
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    A Global Race Against Time and Hunger

    As climate change threatens food supplies, feedstocks and human livelihood, procurement professionals seek ‘go-forward’ solutions to meet sustainability goals and nourish the planet.
    Melanie Stern
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    Keeping the Faucet Open

    The most critical supply chain resource — water — is under threat from climate change, but successes in the Grand Canyon State could be a role model for policy elsewhere.
    Dan Zeiger

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Standing for Sustainability is the First Step

Supply chains can empower heightened global consciousness by doing the right things through environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.
Susan Marty
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March 12, 2024
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What do you anticipate will be the biggest technology impacts and procurement transformation trends over the next year?

No matter the meaning, technology is always evolving across all industries. Each roadmap is different, as needs and opportunities are dependent on a company’s current condition.
Ana Paula Zamorano, MBA
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The Science of Setting (and Achieving) Goals

Tracking achievement against goals through annual reviews is a way to provide motivation, focusing on short-term wins and avoiding stagnation. This may be true for some people, but not everyone. 
Suzanne Weston
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March 12, 2024
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Building a Mature Software Supply Chain

How companies consume and leverage open-source software can impact their success.
Sue Doerfler
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The Workplace Skills to Keep Procurement at the Table

During the last four years — since the start of the coronavirus pandemic — procurement’s role has accelerated. Procurement teams and leaders gained seats at the table. Value propositions became more robust than ever.
Sue Doerfler
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March 12, 2024
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The Evolution of ESG and a Shifting Balance of Power

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards are the promise of a better world to some, more of burden for others. But was ESG really born out of nowhere?
Michelle Varble, CPSM
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March 12, 2024
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The Psych in Negotiations — Using Human Factors to Attain Superior Outcomes

Most senior supply management professionals agree that negotiations are the preferred methodology for dealing with alliance and strategic types of supplier relationships — ones that account for a large proportion of supply chain expense.
Mark Trowbridge, CPSM, C.P.M., MCIPS, Melanie Trowbridge, M.D.
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March 12, 2024
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Collective Intelligence Through the Power of Teams

Working in a team and/or leading a group of people is something everyone does in their careers. That means we will all experience the communication problems and personality clashes that inevitably occur from time to time when people are brought together.
Mandy Flint, Elisabet Vinberg Hearn

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