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Be Prepared: Improving Supplier Risk Management In Your Business

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From inventory management to customer shipping, leave nothing to chance when it comes to supply chain risks. With that in mind, let’s take a look at how supplier risk management can benefit your business and prevent the disruption of services. Understanding Supplier Risk Management. Consider this.

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

All countries in the region have signed the Paris Agreement, which aims to increase countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as stabilize global warming below 2°C and as close to 1.5°C This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries. C as possible.

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Strategic sourcing enters a new age. Are you keeping up? (Part 2)

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Instead, today’s sourcing pros must facilitate cost improvements through a more sophisticated and complete understanding of cost management strategies involving: Materials. Financing, hedging, and currency plays. alternatives. alternatives. consolidation. alternatives. Geographic. relocation. reductions. optimization. improvements.

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Simplifying Public Sector Procurement: Strategies to Increase Sme Participation

The Procurement School

Seasoned practitioners in public procurement can be jaded from situations that have gone wrong, and it is common for inexperienced public buyers to experience risk aversion and fear of the unknown. Additionally, a simplistic risk transfer strategy may reduce market interest, and the number of bids submitted.

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Frictionless P2P: A Dream or Reality? 

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Nowadays, Procurement practitioners primarily talk about emerging topics like the reduction of scope 3 emissions, supplier-enabled innovation and supply risk management. Being engaged in so many P2P engagements, I noticed that performance management is often deprioritized. Previously published on Capgemini’s website.

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What are the Supply Chain Management Lessons to Learn from the Covid-19 Crisis

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As financing and cash flow is uncertain, cash is once again king and Procurement and AP leaders are being asked to forecast and preserve cash wherever possible. And to maximize the impact of these and other objectives, Procurement needs to be managing all spend and all suppliers. But not more than other objectives.

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How Can Procurement Create a Competitive Advantage in Talent Acquisition

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managed service providers or MSPs), headhunters or job boards, to improve the talent acquisition teams’ capacity, reach and efficiency. This is one step on a longer maturity journey which may begin with cost efficiency and risk management but goes far beyond that.