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Manufacturers Must Seek Better Supply Chain Visibility

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There are two initiatives that we believe manufacturers should elevate to the top of the priority list for their company: tracing the upstream supply chain and supplier capacity management. Manufacturers need to understand every supplier, processor, trader, smelter, etc., Visibility into supplier capacity.

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

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Enabling this holistic strategy requires aggregating and analyzing data generated at every stage of Procurement — from sourcing to purchasing, to contract lifecycle management and invoicing — and extracting actionable insights that can inform decisions about suppliers, products, spend management and more. .