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Five Ways Health Care Supply Chains Can Leverage Technology to Respond to Global Supply Turbulence
With the rapid spread of COVID-19, we need to protect our nurses with the proper Personal Protective Equipment. Now more than ever, an effective healthcare supply chain is desperately needed. As the response to the pandemic is beginning to stabilize, the strategic...
Earth Day 2020: Leveraging Supply Chain Technology for a Greener Tomorrow
April 22, 2020 marks 50 years of celebrating Earth Day! We have been celebrating in a variety of ways over the decades: gardening, recycling, educating others about sustainable practices, saving energy, and that just scratches the surface. According to Earth Day...
Interview with Danielle Baskin, Founder of Mask Force
During times of global turbulence, new supply chains emerge rapidly to respond to urgent demands. In the US, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a massive new demand and subsequent shortage for personal protective equipment (PPE), a shortage which puts healthcare...
3 Ways To Empower Your Sourcing Team Working From Home During COVID-19
COVID-19 is impacting supply chains globally, and as a procurement leader, you may feel pressured to make critical shifts in your approach to prioritizing projects and examining risks in supplier relationships. Whenever extraordinary circumstances prevail, the...
5 Tips to Becoming Your Customer’s Favorite Supplier
There are more business opportunities out there for the taking in today’s connected world than at any point in the history of humanity. Pick any (legal!) industry, and I’ll prove it to you. However, this plethora of sales opportunities belies a more significant trend...
Women in Procurement: Enabling Equality Today and Forever
Happy International Women’s Day! The theme for 2020 is #EachforEqual: An Equal World is an Enabled World. To celebrate women in procurement and to discuss their future, I am interviewing Amanda Prochaska (Jackson), President and CEO at Global Women Procurement...
Emotion, Personality, and Negotiation: Why AI Provides Unique Leverage on the “Soft Skills” of Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Selection
People who make forecasts about AI assume that because AI is a virtual machine (albeit an adaptive one), that it will be good at things we’ve come to know machines are good at and bad at everything else. Strangely, the past few years have disproved this – AI seems...
Data Science Is Changing the Procurement Landscape
Contributor Post from Christian Ries For years, supply chains have relied on manual data entries from spreadsheets to assess spend and opportunity. At the same time, large companies with several supply chains combined their sourcing efforts in order to compile enough...
40 Business Requirements For Your Strategic Sourcing Software
Constructing an RFI (Request for Information) for an RFQ Software platform presents numerous challenges. Based on a survey of strategic sourcing leaders, here are 40 business requirements for your RFQ software – with no BS – organized around the four key sourcing...
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