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Controlling Unconscious Bias Toward Suppliers

Rather than continually reassessing and optimizing supplier arrangements in an effort to ensure ongoing best value, many companies slip into a pattern of relying habitually on the same limited group of supply chain partners.

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Podcast | Five Steps to Building a Resilient Supply Chain

So you’ve locked in your supply chain plan and network design? Good luck with that. In today’s global supply chains, unpredictability has become — well, predictable.

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Three Must-Haves for Procurement Professionals Today

We’re in the third decade of the 21st century. What competencies are emerging for purchasing leaders?

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Watch: Connected Planning in the Post-S&OP Era

Is sales and operations planning obsolete? Not at all, says Evan Quasney, vice president of solutions marketing with Anaplan. But there's a need for organizations to take a deeper approach to connected planning, to achieve competitive advantage.

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Watch: A New Era of Supply Chain Planning: Are We Ready?

Mergers and acquisitions and a digital-savvy younger generation are changing the landscape in supply chain planning, says Alex Pradhan, product strategy leader at John Galt Solutions.

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Five Ways to Avoid, Absorb and Recover from Supply Chain Disruptions

Supply chain resiliency is the ability of an organization to avoid, absorb and recover from the business impact of disruptions through a risk-balanced approach to product, supply chain strategy and network design.

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Watch: Where Digital Collaboration Is Falling Short

Quite a few companies have embarked on their digital collaboration journey, but many haven't developed it to its full potential, says Ville Parkkinen, director of product marketing at OpenText.

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Watch: Planning in the Midst of Chaos

Supply chain planners will continue to face turbulence and disruptions, but S&OP is evolving to meet the challenges, says Micheal Youssef, vice president team manager at Gartner.

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What If You Treated Your Data Supply Chain Like the Physical Supply Chain?

While the task and responsibility for managing the data supply chain is primarily the responsibility of information technology professionals, the concepts and tools we use every day directly apply to the data supply chain as well as the physical supply chain.

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Achieving True Visibility Through a Supply Chain Control Tower

To improve collaboration and responsiveness, enterprises need what one might call “end-to-endless” visibility — advanced analytics that’s greater than the sum of its parts.

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Fintech Is Changing Supplier Marketplaces for the Better

By deploying financial services technology at each stage of the supply chain, companies can speed up access to working capital.

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Watch: Dealing With Supply Chain Uncertainty

Supply chains are in flux, and planners will need to deal with continuing challenges in the near future, says David Food, head of supply chain marketing at Board International.

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