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L.I.N.K. | Women in Supply Chain: Leaders Must Advocate for their Employees

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel sits down with Supply and Demand Chain Executive 2021 Women in Supply Chain award winner Abby Nawrocki, regional general manager of Deliverr.

Supply Chain Group Promotes From Within

Brielle Jaekel, Supply & Demand Chain Executive's associate editor, was promoted to managing editor, Supply & Demand Chain Executive, taking on a more leadership role in managing and executing content, ideas, collaboration and more.

Five Keys to Unlock Continuous Innovation

Five Keys to Unlock Continuous Innovation

Innovation starts with having a customer-centric vision. This means delivering quality products and services that captivate customers and grow market share. In bringing that vision to life, businesses often find themselves struggling with legacy systems t

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Embracing RPA: The Benefits and Steps for Success

Investing in RPA now is imperative for enabling the procurement function to take advantage of other advanced technologies and intelligence.

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Accelerator Ecosystem Speeds Up Time-to-Revenue for E-Commerce Firms

Each Accelerator comes with prebuilt end-to-end business process logic for deploying common API and EDI-based supply chain integrations.

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Procurement Organizations Achieve Breakthrough Improvements with Digital Technology

Digital world-class organizations are 85% more likely to be viewed by stakeholders as taking a proactive approach to supply risk mitigation and 19% more likely to be considered a valued business partner.

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Supply Chain Industry Experts Discuss Future of Supply Chains

SCN Summit: State of the Supply Chain Week kicks off Dec. 6 with a discussion on warehouse automation and e-commerce fulfillment, followed by Industry Outlooks, procurement, transportation, procurement, risk management and smart manufacturing.

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China Plus One – An Emerging Supply Chain Diversification Strategy

Diversifying the sourcing portfolio from China (either nearshoring or offshoring) will help address challenges, whether in supply chain, logistics or availability of raw materials.

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The Secret to Solving Your Supply Chain Blind Spot

AP automation does away with the blind spots, providing full visibility and transparency into AP workflows.

Five Keys to Unlock Continuous Innovation

Five Keys to Unlock Continuous Innovation

Innovation starts with having a customer-centric vision. This means delivering quality products and services that captivate customers and grow market share. In bringing that vision to life, businesses often find themselves struggling with legacy systems t

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Why the Benefits of Procurement Automation Are Not Limited to Procurement Managers

Companies that have embraced the inevitable change of automation are navigating through this crisis successfully. It is no different in procurement.

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Fixing Communications: A Persistent Pain Point

When it comes to ensuring you have the strongest, healthiest supply chain possible, supplier experience management is a winning strategy.

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Adopting an Efficient Payment Process

There should be one centralized place where you can view all information while a payment partner handles any payment errors that occur.

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Enhance Customer Experience with Efficient Repair Services

Partnering with a global logistics and repair services provider can help an OEM keep its customers’ perspectives at the forefront of its customer satisfaction strategy.

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Visibility and No-Code Automation: The Formula for an Always-Ready Supply Chain

This supply chain overhaul builds resilience into the entire process, and it comes at the intersection of visibility, no-code, automation and digital agility.

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Aligning Supply Chain and Service Goals with Asset Data

It’s time to share the data you collect and work together to understand which data can benefit both sets of goals.

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Digital World-Class Procurement Reaching New Heights

Digital world-class procurement organizations are 85% more likely to be viewed by stakeholders as taking a proactive approach to supply risk mitigation.

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E-Procurement Adoption on the Rise

Despite lower project volumes in 2020, agencies expanded the use of e-procurement to a broader set of buyer groups within the agency.

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Why Supply Chain Finance’s Struggles Have Only Just Begun

Here's why supply chain finance will continue to underwhelm in the present business climate:

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Overcoming Roadblocks to ESG in Procurement

For organizations looking to prioritize sustainability, understanding the roadblocks and leveraging an ESG lifecycle assessment is a great foundation.

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Supply Chain and Procurement Professionals Optimistic About Job Market

Two in three (66%) respondents from the talent community said they plan to look for new opportunity in the next 6 months.

Five Keys to Unlock Continuous Innovation

Five Keys to Unlock Continuous Innovation

Innovation starts with having a customer-centric vision. This means delivering quality products and services that captivate customers and grow market share. In bringing that vision to life, businesses often find themselves struggling with legacy systems t

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Transformational Leadership: A Call to Action for Procurement Executives

The next greatest challenge is for suppliers to shift their mindsets so they can achieve long-term success for their companies, humanity and the planet.

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Factory Fires and Leadership Transitions Remain Top 5 Supply Chain Disruptions

The data also reveals that disruptions due to supply shortages (semiconductor chips, plastics, cardboard, resin, for example) were up 638% in the first half of 2021.

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Environmental Cost of Retail Returns

Returns will always exist, but now retailers have multiple options to help reduce the returns volume.

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How Procurement Resources Identify Efficiencies in the Supply Chain

BP selects Fairmarkit to manage spend ranging from the receipt rolls in cash registers to billion-dollar specialist equipment.

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Export Controls on COVID-19 Vaccines, Military End Use and EU Recast Regulations

Who knew it would come in handy to prevent vaccines from being exported at inconvenient times? Here is an overview of three recent export compliance areas of attention.

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Pandemic Dramatically Slowed Payments to Suppliers, Disrupted Inventory Levels

Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) was the main working capital shift evident in 2020, rising by 7.6%, with typical companies now taking more than 62 days to pay suppliers, an all-time high.

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Pros to Know: Implementing Successful Procurement Strategies with Sush Koka, Basware

Mackenna Moralez talks with Sush Koka, director, global product marketing, Basware about how she sets the roadmap and direction of product marketing and defining successful go-to-market strategies for the Basware product portfolio.

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JAGGAER Builds New E-Procurement Platform for Siram

JAGGAER has supported Siram with the launch of the new sourcing platform for management and online negotiation of purchases, extending the digital functionalities in e-procurement.

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5 Books You Need to Read on Supply Chain Management

Supply & Demand Chain Executive have narrowed down the top five supply chain management books you should read in order to best maintain success.

Turn Global Supply Chain Challenges into Competitive Advantages

Responsiveness is the name of the game.