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Mitigating Risks and Future-proofing the Supply Chain

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This content is part of the latest WBR Report: As the world has been readjusting to the ripple effects caused by the pandemic in the past two years, successful enterprises have developed contingency plans to protect their supply networks from future shocks to the supply chain. Taking Steps to Increase Resiliency.

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How Procurement can help to drive Supplier-led innovation

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In today’s competitive business landscape, consumers demand a continuous cycle of new products and services, and the gap between each launch is shrinking. Suppliers offer an excellent source of knowledge to help businesses rapidly innovate. Alex Saric, Chief Marketing Officer, Ivalua. Cost-focused approaches block innovation.

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Webinar Recap: Procurement 2022, Big Trends and Predictions

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Enterprises will continue to undergo the financial burden of revenue disruptions, consumer , and uncontrolled supply chain variables. . in October 2021*, the highest in more than three decades, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The Criticality of the Supply Chain (and Suppliers).

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How Modern Software Empowers Procurement with Agility and Resilience in Times of Crisis

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The pandemic wreaked havoc on businesses and their supply chains, but even in these trying times, there’s a silver lining. The job of sourcing professionals is to understand the risk in the supply chain and manage it so they can react quickly when a problem occurs.” Data silos also inhibit agility, Keeley said. “As

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How 2011 Prepared Us for Today

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But few remember the stress the 2011 event placed on global supply chains. . The interdependence of the global supply chain guaranteed the effects would extend far beyond the Japanese economy. . Thankfully, by 2011 the global supply chain had an arsenal of weapons to help combat the economic aftershocks of the disaster.