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September / October 2020

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    The Supply Chain Election

    From China to COVID-19, from tariffs to transportation, from education to immigration, issues that matter to procurement professionals are on the ballot in 2020.
    Dan Zeiger
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    Sourcing for the Moon and Beyond

    With its sights on another series of lunar landings, NASA has combined science and research with supply management to create boundaries as limitless as space.
    Dan Zeiger
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    A Viral Threat to Utilities

    Electricity, gas and water companies are seeking more powerful risk management as the coronavirus pandemic leads to increased cyberattacks aimed at their workers and supply chains.
    Sue Doerfler
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    The Procurement Renaissance

    Strategic management of a five-element framework can help the function, already a critical business partner, become even more valuable — just when it’s needed the most.
    Bob Tevelson, Harish Hemmige, Buzz Maslov, Dan Belz

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Pandemic May Precipitate New Sourcing Strategies

In the health-care sector, longtime personal protective equipment (PPE) sources and supply chains have been disrupted. Before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the PPE category was well sourced and priced, with clear manufacturing leaders and distributor networks.
Eric Hiam, CPSM
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Perspectives

Emerging complexities around promoting business continuity and financial solvency have dominated business strategy amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, causing leaders across impacted industries to consider a myriad of approaches to stabilize operational and financial performance.
Rose Celestin
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Industry 4.0: A Practical Guide for Empowering Teams

The practical productivity that can be gained through the digitization of manual processes offers organizations exciting cost-savings opportunities to address near-term headwinds. Industry 4.0 technologies can accelerate companies’ digitization strategies by enabling teams to drive greater organizational agility and profitability. Think of these technologies as simply tools that do a job — in this case, software converts manual data into digital data to offer practical productivity gains. 
William Crane
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New Role is Perfect Fit for ‘Dedicated’ Change Agent

Dedicated. I’m dedicated to my family, profession, career and lifelong learning. I always aim to be the best person I can be, and I embark personally and professionally on the challenges we all face.
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Talent Acquisition in the ‘Next Normal’

Not many of us would have factored a global pandemic into our 2020 planning strategy. The coronavirus (COVID-19) has shown us how difficult it is to forecast the long-term future with any degree of certainty. But there is one thing we can say for sure — how and where we work are changing.
Mark Holyoake
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Refining Purchasing Metrics During COVID-19

Purchasers and supply managers have historically been measured on one mega-goal: cost savings. Are the global disruptions created by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic enough to convince top management that the function should be about more than cost savings?
Lisa M. Ellram, Ph.D., MBA, Larry C. Giunipero, Ph.D., Monique Murfield, Ph.D., MBA
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A Nimble Approach to Supplier Relationships

According to Institute for Supply Management®’s recent Round 3 survey of more than 600 procurement professionals, 97 percent of respondents indicated that their companies have been or will be impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Diego De la Garza

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