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Top Seven Issues Facing Procurement Leaders in 2023 and How to Solve Them

Explore the top seven issues facing you as a procurement leader in 2023, including reducing risk, containing costs, and driving corporate sustainability.

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Secure the Future: Leveraging Today's Insights for Tomorrow's Supply Chain

IDC research uncovered effective supply chain resilience strategies from global procurement leaders and put their findings in a new e-book. Take a look.

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Shifting gears: Procurement refocuses on risk and sustainability

An Economist Impact global survey of C-suite-level executives finds risk reduction and sustainability are critical ways to increase value in procurement. Download the report to learn more.

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Comprehensive Supplier Collaboration Reconnects Globally Distributed Supply Chains

Get this IDC Technology Spotlight for their insights on trends in external manufacturing and other outsourced supply chain functions and how supply chain visibility enables greater resiliency.

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Changing with the times: category management at a crossroads

Economist Impact research finds that category management implementation and improvement are in focus – and top drivers of digital transformation – as Procurement seeks to deliver more value to the organization.

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How Collaboration Drives Supply Chain Resiliency

Learn how the right mix of agility, diversification, and relationships can take your supply chain operations to the next level. If you are seeking a comprehensive understanding of supply chain resiliency, this is the paper for you.

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Unpacking Trading Partner Trust

Explore research into the building blocks for boosting compatibility and trust in strategic partnerships. Three colleges compiled over a decade of research and distilled it into a proven framework for measuring and building trust in your organization.

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2022 Benchmark Survey Insights

Key metrics and best practices to improve your performance. Based on benchmark surveys conducted over the past two years, this report covers the key metrics in processes across the source-to-pay cycle.

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What's Keeping CPOs Up at Night – And what could give you peace of mind

Economist Impact surveyed C-suite executives to understand how they’re transforming procurement to meet today’s challenges, like disrupted supply chains and inflation. SAP recommends solutions that can help you shorten that procurement transformation process and move forward.

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Make the Case for Change

If the procurement gaps uncovered during the pandemic haven’t inspired investment in digitizing procurement, what will? To help you make a case for change, we offer five key questions that every CPO should answer with their teams.

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Supplier Collaboration and Strategic Sourcing Inform Next Generation Product Design

How important is the new product development and introduction (NPDI) process at your business? In this new paper, IDC reveals why effective and efficient collaboration tools are more important to the process than ever.

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