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Procurement and Supply Chain trends for 2024
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Procurement and Supply Chain trends for 2024

More than half of a typical company’s total annual budget will be spent with external suppliers. Yet CEOs often spend only 1% of their time with these vital partners, relying on their procurement team to manage the relationships.

Digital Risk Management: Managing the polycrisis
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Digital Risk Management: Managing the polycrisis

In view of the growing complexity of crises today, it is no longer a question of whether companies should invest in digital risk management, but what their investment should cover and which tools it should call on.

Morocco has that sense of momentum
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Morocco has that sense of momentum

Due to the many recent crises, global supply chains have been restructured, and Moroccan companies now prefer direct supply relationships.

The Supply Chain Act: The whole company needs to be on board
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The Supply Chain Act: The whole company needs to be on board

Even companies that are not covered by the legislation or only indirectly – as suppliers to larger customers – should make sure they are fully au fait with the Supply Chain Act regulations and examine their supply chains.

Nearshoring in Spain and Portugal – why not?
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Nearshoring in Spain and Portugal – why not?

In this interview, Oliver Idem explains how companies can benefit from this.

Critical raw materials: How the EU wants to secure supplies
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Critical raw materials: How the EU wants to secure supplies

To achieve energy transition, the EU has launched a comprehensive package of legislation to ensure that companies succeed in the transformation to a climate-neutral economy.

Inflation in procurement
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Inflation in procurement

Ten percent always works - that's what everyone who started in procurement learned in their first few weeks on the job. But with inflation setting in last year and currently reaching record levels in the European Union, the old mantra of ten percent cost reduction per year can no longer be realized.

NEW WORK in Consultancy
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NEW WORK in Consultancy

Having a detailed understanding of your clients’ markets and challenges is crucial for delivering productive consultancy services. If we are to guide our clients properly on transformation issues in particular, it is important that we lead by example. That is why we have also engaged closely with Ne

Reshoring: The way back also begins with the first step
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Reshoring: The way back also begins with the first step

The relocation of production steps from overseas or the selection of regional suppliers should be anchored in the corporate strategy. We show you how.

Experts on Digital Transformation – Peter Jeitschko
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Experts on Digital Transformation – Peter Jeitschko

Peter Jeitschko, Solutions Sales Specialist for Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft Austria, talks in an interview about trends, collaboration between data teams and business departments.