What really makes a supply chain intelligent? More importantly, how do you build one? GEP and CIO.com discuss the building blocks of an intelligent supply chain. These are the key elements you’ll need to build a digital, cognitive supply chain network that gives your business a unique competitive advantage.
Our latest paper with Spend Matters highlights the evolution of demand forecasting. Historical data isn’t good enough for today’s dynamic supply chain. Enterprises need to know the shifts in demand before they happen.
Supply chains are in shock. Materials are stuck at borders. Outsourced services are shut down.
With revenues falling, companies are managing in unprecedented global chaos.
Leaders must align and navigate their procurement and supply chains right now.
Our latest blueprint for CV-19 contingency and cost containment is a detailed 6-point checklist that will help you capture all your risk and help isolate your recovery plan.
This bulletin presents a multipronged plan to safely open up workplaces through collaboration and caution even as the risk from the coronavirus persists.
This is a watershed moment for global supply chains. The disruption caused by COVID-19 has demonstrated, like no other event in recent memory, the need to rethink long-established supply chain and forecasting strategies.
In this analysis piece, GEP’s experts talk about steps enterprises should take to reexamine and align their procurement and supply chain strategies to the new business realities, post-COVID-19.
This bulletin discusses cost-saving and sourcing strategies that procurement can implement to help retailers manage disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
This bulletin provides a rapid action plan for procurement teams to identify, assess and quickly realize savings opportunities across spend categories and mitigate the financial impact of the pandemic-induced slowdown.
With an economic downturn here, your supply chain will be under extreme pressure over the next 3 to 6 months. How you act right now makes all the difference.
But bad choices matter just as much.
Our latest GEP BULLETIN: “4 Business Mistakes to Absolutely Avoid During a 180° Economic Shift” details exactly what not to do today.
Are you making the tough choices on cost cutting? Rapidly sourcing? Renegotiating contract terms? What’s your available cash?
To help sustain a downturn, you want to trim your material and operational costs out of your P&L today.
Now is the time to step up and help weather the storm. Head-count reduction, consolidation, bankruptcy and production cuts aren’t the full answer.
The latest GEP BULLETIN “What to Do About Falling Oil Prices” directly addresses how to manage procurement and your supply chain in the current unstable economic climate.
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