CPO Crunch: Get involved, early
Although working with suppliers can be challenging, procurement teams that build trusted relationships can reap the rewards
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CPO Crunch: Looking back on the ‘year of AI’
AI offers CPOs a unique opportunity – one that leaders must begin to factor into their long-term digitalisation roadmaps
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Research: High-velocity procurement
In partnership with Tradeshift: Making the right move before anyone else can deliver significant business benefits. Procurement Leaders uncovers how CPOs are improving the function’s speed and impact
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UCB CPO Sebastien Bals on using technology to get ahead of supply chain disruptions
Accessing supply chain insights quickly is crucial if buyers are to respond to – or anticipate – threats amid the polycrisis, says UCB’s procurement chief
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Urenco CPO: Working together key to weathering the polycrisis
Suppliers supported Urenco during the pandemic, now it’s helping partners overcome the polycrisis, says Tony Roberts
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Tim Snow on managing risks in a polycrisis: ‘We go as deep as Tier-7’
The Inmarsat CPO explains why his organisation has a ‘profoundly different’ approach to supply chain threats amid the polycrisis
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Lene Aabo-Bjerregaard on close communication and collaboration in a crisis
Although Novozymes has developed a tool to categorise material risk, its CPO explains why close supplier relationships can be the most effective mitigation lever
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Eric Espinasse interview: ‘The more we depend on a supplier, the closer we need to be to them’
The Ferring CPO explains how the company is strengthening relationships with its key suppliers – and helping them to manage rising energy bills
Interview: Barilla turns to multisourcing, new supplier markets and technology to overcome risks
Amid inflation, shortages and volatile commodity markets, the pasta maker is leveraging internal and external relationships, says CPO Luigi Ganazzoli
Blue sky thinking at Ovation
Procurement has the opportunity to become purpose-driven, data-led value creators in a way that no other business function can. To get there will require strong vision, the power of upwards influence and the ability to bring others along for the ride.
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