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The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals has released its 30th annual State of Logistics report, putting into perspective the rough year that shippers endured in 2018 as various forces conspired to drive up the cost of doing business. Last year, a strong economy caused the cost of logistics in the [...]

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Supply and Demand Chain Executive (SDCE) magazine has recognized Source One with a spot on their Top 100 Projects list. SDCE's annual list acknowledges the consultants and practitioners behind the year's most innovative and impactful supply chain projects. It provides an example for supply chain professionals interested in driving the [...]

Welcome to CPO Rising's all-new feature, the Future of Work Influencer series, which will highlight innovative voices in the evolving world of work. This exciting new series will be a go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how work gets done. Be [...]

Again, since we are in the situation where most claims of AI are just Applied Indirection to the lack of new technology being offered by the platform which is wrapping up old tech in a new UX with a little bit of RPA and, hopefully, better canned reporting and analytics, [...]

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Categories: I hadn't realised that Denmark is internationally recognised as a leader in several aspects of innovation, including clean technology, biotech and IT. It's no surprise […](...) [...]

How organisations choose to manage their digitally transformed procurement teams [...]

In 2019, having access to accurate, real-time metrics is a game-changer – perhaps now more than ever. Establishing and measuring relevant metrics allows an organization to understand its “current state” while laying the groundwork for its desired “future state.” After all, if a group is unclear on where it stands [...]

The devil went down to Vegas He was lookin' for some souls to steal He was in a bind ‘Cause he was way behind And he was willin' to make a deal When he came upon this young man Speaking on the big stage and workin' the crowd And the devil jumped Up on a podium And said, “boy, [...]

Categories: Ian Nethercot, MCIPS, Supply Chain Director at IT digital marketplace Probrand, continues his monthly roundup of the latest movements in the IT market to help with […] (Read... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] [...]

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Abigail Schroeder, a member of our Future Procurement Leaders (FPL) Steering Committee, shared her experience in developing stakeholder influence at International Paper during a recent webinar [...]

Here is an article I wrote for the Italian Procurement Magazine Year 5 number 2 – 2019 on lean and agile procurement. Share your thoughts here or feel free to post your comments on the magazine site itself via the following link: https://www.theprocurement.it/magazine-theprocurement/lean-agile/ [...]

Hello, my faithful readers. I have been on an assignment the past month traveling to Montreal for the 100th Anniversary SCMA Conference where I was on a panel discussing the future of procurement – more on that at a later date. I have also written several articles for different magazines around [...]

kraft-heinz-disaster-cost-cutting: Cost Cutting Strategy gone wrong I´m going to leave this article here just to take a note on this strategy, which is not procurement or strategic sourcing but just plain cost cutting. The results are eminent and “A Harvard Business School article in 2016 warned that the technique is [...]

I find myself yet again looking for a good pool of contractors for civil works for a job in a new geography where we have no presence before. All new, very little reference, trying to understand the specifics of the new location. One thing that stroke me was, how in the [...]

Some common themes from ISM and Procurement Leaders. Last week I had the pleasure of sitting in on some great presentations at the Procurement Leaders World Procurement Congress 18 in London, as well as attending the Institute for Supply Management ISM2018 in Nashville, TN the week before. They provided the [...]

Instead of “recycle, reuse, retread” let's talk about a reboot. Memorization is a frontage road: It runs parallel to the best parts of learning, never intersecting. It's a detour around all the action, a way of knowing without learning, of answering without understanding.” — Ben Orlin, “When Memorization Gets in [...]

Data and intelligence holds the key to procurement moving from the past to the real time and beyond There is no doubting the fact that technology is evolving at an ever faster rate, meaning that the possibilities to analyse and understand business performance is also increasing and is opening up all [...]

It's hard to argue that we are not living in some uncertain economic and political times, perhaps best demonstrated right now in the UK and US, among other nations. [...]