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·Apr 11

Enabling supply chain transparency to combat forced labor and modern slavery (Part 1): The evolving legal frameworks

Spend Matters begins a new series looking into how a combination of process and technology can help root out and combat forced labor and modern slavery in global supply chains. We’ll look at understanding and addressing the regulatory environment, the role technology can play in bringing issues to the fore…

Procurement

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Enabling supply chain transparency to combat forced labor and modern slavery (Part 1): The evolving…
Enabling supply chain transparency to combat forced labor and modern slavery (Part 1): The evolving…

Published in Procurement Tidbits

·Dec 14, 2021

Design for supply (DFS) and supply-chain problems — Part 2: Challenges and opportunities

In part 1 of this Spend Matters PRO series, we looked at what “design for supply” (DFS) is and positioned it as a means to connect/align demand, supply and product. We also highlighted that DFS is not a new practice. Procurement has been, to some extent and varying degrees for…

Procurement

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Design for supply (DFS) and supply-chain problems — Part 2: Challenges and opportunities
Design for supply (DFS) and supply-chain problems — Part 2: Challenges and opportunities

Published in Procurement Tidbits

·Dec 13, 2021

Design for supply (DFS) and supply-chain problems — Part 1: The need for change

Ensuring that a product finds its customers through its form and function, delights them, and differentiates itself from competing products is a critical part of the design process. However, there are many other design requirements to include and balance that have nothing to do with form and function, and they…

Procurement

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Design for supply (DFS) and supply-chain problems —  Part 1: The need for change
Design for supply (DFS) and supply-chain problems —  Part 1: The need for change

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·Aug 2, 2021

Procurement’s role in supply chain carbon emissions reduction

Framing the CO2 challenge and how to evaluate vendors that can help — Beyond pure environmental concerns, procurement and supply chain organizations sit at a nexus of difficult, seemingly conflicting options around price, lead times, quality and risk. But the challenge of reducing carbon emissions is not a zero sum game; rather, it perfectly captures the nature of ESG and sustainability integration into…

Procurement

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Procurement’s role in supply chain carbon emissions reduction
Procurement’s role in supply chain carbon emissions reduction

Published in Procurement Tidbits

·Jul 13, 2021

The ROI of sustainability technology in procurement

“Sustainability goals cannot be measured only in terms of profit and loss. It must also be measured in terms of the well-being of billions of people and the health of our planet.” — John Elkington in “25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase “Triple Bottom Line.” Here’s Why It’s Time…

Procurement

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The ROI of sustainability technology in procurement
The ROI of sustainability technology in procurement

Published in Procurement Tidbits

·Jul 12, 2021

ESG and sustainability technology in procurement

Why it matters now and how the market is responding — Last year and 2021 so far have been extraordinary for all of us as Covid impacted us in many ways, both in our personal and in our professional lives. And, even if the pandemic is not yet behind us, there is a lot to learn from it. Perhaps the clearest…

Procurement

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ESG and sustainability technology in procurement
ESG and sustainability technology in procurement

Published in Procurement Tidbits

·Oct 19, 2020

“Autonomous Procurement” Is A Really Dumb Idea (II)

Part II: The people side of things… — By Bertrand Maltaverne In the 1st part of these two series, I explored why autonomous Procurement is a dumb idea when looking at it as if it meant that machines should be replacing people. In this 2nd part, I want to…

Procurement

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“Autonomous Procurement” Is A Really Dumb Idea (II)
“Autonomous Procurement” Is A Really Dumb Idea (II)

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·Oct 14, 2020

“Autonomous Procurement” Is A Really Dumb Idea

Part I: The technological side of things… — By Bertrand Maltaverne An article inspired by a recent Linkedin post from the excellent Matthias Gutzmann… TL;DR For sure, technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and the latest advances in AI (among other ones) are transforming and will deeply transform work…

Procurement

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“Autonomous Procurement” Is A Really Dumb Idea
“Autonomous Procurement” Is A Really Dumb Idea

Published in Procurement Tidbits

·Mar 16, 2020

Procurement & KPIs: The Risk Of Putting All Eggs In One Basket

The current Coronavirus crisis should be a wake-up call for Supply Chain and Procurement professionals! — By Bertrand Maltaverne Almost a year ago, I wrote about the side effects that poorly designed KPIs could have: What Is The Cure To The Side Effects Of KPIs? If there is one topic in business literature that has been covered exhaustively, it is Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). But if you’re not…medium.com

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Procurement & KPIs: The Risk Of Putting All Eggs In One Basket
Procurement & KPIs: The Risk Of Putting All Eggs In One Basket

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·Oct 24, 2019

Ignore Supply Chain Risks… At Your Own Peril!

Despite the general consensus that risk management is important, recent studies have found that many companies still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do… — By Bertrand Maltaverne “The Supply Chain stuff is tricky!” — Elon Musk at Code Conference in 2016. When someone like Elon Musk says that something is tricky, it means something! The examples that Musk mentions in the video show that modern supply chains are becoming more global and more…

Procurement

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Ignore Supply Chain Risks… At Your Own Peril!
Ignore Supply Chain Risks… At Your Own Peril!
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