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What Transportation Sourcing Professionals Need to Do

January 18, 2016
Logistics Viewpoints
These days, sourcing has become a common discipline in supply chain and transportation management. There is an organizational expectation that transportation modes will be sourced and cost will be taken out of the network with some regularity. However, meeting these expectations while maintaining service year-over-year has become more challenging.
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Mid-sized U.S. Manufacturers Expect to See Strong Revenues, Hiring for Remainder of 2015

September 24, 2015
Prime Advantage
A survey of more than 750 U.S. manufacturers shows continued optimism about revenues and employment as well as increasing demand for flexibility and responsiveness in supply chains. Moreover, confidence in growing revenues extends into 2016.
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Bracing for Supply Chain Sticker Shock

August 21, 2015
Michael Deering, Steven Tess and Michael Edwards, PwC
For most of the past three decades, private equity firms and other investors have relied on two simple questions to assess the supply chains of the companies in which they've invested: Are our companies leveraging low-cost country supply sources and are they keeping supply chain costs in check? Deeper inquiries have always seemed unnecessary, so private equity firms and investors have focused on other aspects of the businesses they own to drive value.
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Procurement Leaders Should Ease Up on Cost Reduction

June 19, 2015
Paul Nöel, Senior Vice President, Procurement Solutions, Ivalua
Globalization and evolving social, economic and regulatory trends have elevated corporate competition to a new level altogether. For procurement departments in particular, cutting costs, doing more with less, and running agile operations are the new standards for success.
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Procurement Aims for Your Trust by Closing Ability Gaps

June 19, 2015
SupplyChainBrain
With their operating budget expected to grow by just 2.7 percent this year, procurement leaders are focusing their transformation efforts on cultivating procurement's role as a trusted advisor, investing in next-generation training and development, and harnessing big data.
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B2B Procurement Begins to Feel Emergence of Millennials

March 18, 2015
Ad Age
Millennial influence within business-to-business buying decision groups is growing rapidly, according to a study by Google and the research house Millward Brown Digital.
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The Problem with Maturity Models in Procurement

June 17, 2014
Mickey North Rizza, Vice President of Strategic Services, BravoSolution
We're all familiar with maturity curves, but how helpful are they really? Telling a company how mature they are, based on academic factors, means next to nothing if it's not rooted in practical applications that relate to a procurement professional’s day-to-day work.
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Program Launched Honoring Supply Chain/Procurement Professionals Under

May 9, 2014
ThomasNet
ThomasNet and the Institute for Supply Management are partnering to spotlight millennials whose initiative and leadership are strengthening procurement and supply chain management.
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Top Chief Procurement Officers Enable 22-Percent Higher Profit Margins, Study Finds

May 29, 2013
IBM
At the Smarter Commerce Global Summit, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a study that says companies with high-performing procurement organizations are driving better bottom line results, according to an IBM study. These organizations report profit margins of 7.12 percent as compared to just 5.83 percent for companies with low-performing procurement organizations. Also, companies with top-performing procurement organizations report profit margins 15 percent higher than the average company - and 22 percent higher margins than companies with low-performing procurement organizations.
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Processing Costs, Green Initiatives Among Reasons Why E-Invoicing On the Rise, Study Finds

April 13, 2012
Syncada
A rising percentage of organizations are choosing e-invoicing to reduce processing costs, accelerate approval cycles, and increase on-time payments, according to a PayStream Advisors study sponsored by Syncada from Visa. Internal pressures such as green initiatives and increased centralization contribute to e-invoicing adoption, as do external changes, including global supplier requirements. The study recommends first implementing top tier customers to achieve the most financial and operational impact.
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