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By fostering fruitful supplier relationships and designing strategically focused outcomes, sourcing and procurement professionals now play a central role in addressing supply…
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In establishing a supply chain strategy, concerns for efficiency need to be balanced against risk. The recent global market disruptors of a pandemic and sharp economic…
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Supplier Risk Management: Strengths and Weaknesses
The sudden inability of suppliers to fulfill orders can have a disastrous effect on an organization and its reputation with customers. Although sourcing and procurement staff…
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Supplier Risk Management in the Spotlight
As the world adjusts to the changed conditions resulting from global disruption, organizations must consider the lessons learned from the impact of the pandemic on the supply…
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While many supply chain leaders recognize the importance of negotiation, quite a few organizations struggle to cultivate this skill among their procurement staff. APQC…
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To gain real-world insights into how procurement leaders can transform their organizations to maximize sustained value, APQC turned to Michael van Keulen, a seasoned…
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Michael van Keulen is a procurement executive with more than 20 years of experience in procurement and finance. Most recently he was at lululemon athletica, where he led a…
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APQC's research team members have been looking at key trends in 2019 and providing their outlook for 2020 and beyond. The wildly successful social media campaign for…
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This article is a summary of an APQC conversation in August 2019 with supplier relationship experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith, and Emmanuel Cambresy. The panel discussion…
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Despite the establishment of a formal procurement process, some organizations have staff members who engage in maverick purchasing. Maverick purchasing often occurs because a…
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This webinar wrap up summarizes a May 2019 APQC webinar featuring Xenophon Koufteros, Professor at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, who highlighted findings from…