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Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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As teams worked with suppliers through creative solutions, it became obvious that transparency and supplier risk management are essential components to maintain stability during crises like these. Additionally, procurement technology can help organizations improve compliance with regulations and reduce risk.

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? What are the pros and cons, and what supply chain strategy will pave the way to higher margins, improved supply chain risk management in healthcare and improved patient care? Demand planning capabilities.

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It’s Time for Procurement to own Scope 3 Emissions

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You need emission data that will allow category managers and buyers to report emissions tied to their organization’s purchasing activity at a category or product level. Corporate emission data from suppliers’ CSR reports or 3rd party climate change questionnaires are not actionable.

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It’s Time for Procurement to own Scope 3 Emissions

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You need emission data that will allow category managers and buyers to report emissions tied to their organization’s purchasing activity at a category or product level. Corporate emission data from suppliers’ CSR reports or 3rd party climate change questionnaires are not actionable.

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From a recent practitioner: More of what’s ahead for federal acquisition in 2024

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For what buyers and sellers can expect in the year ahead, we hear from Sonny Hashmi. In fact, as you know, Laura Stanton, who runs the GSA affairs, is ITC organization is the governmentwide category manager for technology products and services. So supply chain risk management and elimination becomes a very important discipline.

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Ivalua Now – So How Was The First Morning For You ?

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He also talked about the recent release and the new features there, such as a new user interface across the platform, a new category management module (which I want to investigate more) and an integrated “digital assistant” at platform level.

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OFPP’s acquisition workforce modernization effort to kick into gear in 2024

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As part of this effort, OFPP proposed a new circular in November, which would establish a new acquisition data management policy that would require agencies to create policies, processes and tools for acquisition data sharing. Part of that effort means improving the management of software purchasing.