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Procurement and Supply Chain Techniques

Co-sourcing

Co-sourcing

Co-sourcing is advisable for processes that an organisation does not want to completely allocate to an external provider. It reviews the main characteristics, benefits and pitfalls of this type of co-outsourcing, along with some case evidence showing how some organisations had approached it.

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Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment

Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment

Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) is a business practice that combines the intelligence of multiple trading partners in the planning and fulfilment of customer demand. The concept describes the CPFR process model, including the major capabilities and underlying success factors.

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Collaborative Relationships in Procurement

Collaborative Relationships in Procurement

This concept reviews collaborative relationships and explored how they have evolved from transaction process-based agreements to collaborative processes based on trust and information-sharing.

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Commodity Strategies

Commodity Strategies

The concept reviews two categories of commodity strategies and describes their advantages and disadvantages. It also addresses implementation information and case evidence from leading companies.

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Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence

Competitive intelligence concept is designed to aid managers and business owners in their decisions through competitive intelligence. You will gain an understanding of how to gather intelligence and use it to achieve organisational goals.

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Complex Procurement

Complex Procurement

This concept has been designed for procurement professionals who engage in complex or high value tendering. It will give you a better understanding of complex procurement processes and will raise your awareness of rules and regulations in relation to procurement with specific reference to complex situations.

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Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement

Continuous improvement spans operations, strategy and digital transformation, evolving into an organisation-wide capability guided by phased models (Lameijer, 2023). It strengthens when leaders set aims, invest in coaching, standardise problem-solving routines, and cultivate autonomy with accountability and psychological safety (Löfqvist, 2024).

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Contract Management

Contract Management

This concept describes different types of contracts, effective contracting methodologies and the benefits of contract management activities.

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Cooperation and Mutuality in Procurement and Supply Chain

Cooperation and Mutuality in Procurement and Supply Chain

Created to assist procurement professionals to grasp the benefits of cooperation in procurement, the concept discusses how cooperation can reduce administrative costs, eliminate duplication of effort, lower prices, and improve information sharing.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility

This concept explores the different ways in which CSR is defined and provides an account of success factors and business evidence.

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Countertrade

Countertrade

This concept examines advantages and disadvantages of countertrade and discusses the implications, strengths, weaknesses and success factors of this trading approach.

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Crisis Management

Crisis Management

Crisis management focuses on rapid response and continuity, but recent work adds three priorities: a structured readiness process, leadership for continuous (not one-off) crises, and contingent performance indicators aligned to crisis type and phase (Björck, Bläse and Bastida, 2024; Hällgren and Buchanan, 2024; Deverell and Ganic, 2024).

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Cross-Docking

Cross-Docking

This concept provides a review of cross-docking systems and discusses techniques that can improve the overall efficiency of the logistics and distribution operation. The concept also presents useful examples and implementation information.

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Cross-Functional Supply Management

Cross-Functional Supply Management

The concept examines current practices and trends in the field of cross-functional supply-chain management and provides practitioners with both a specialist knowledge and basic information in related business disciplines to design and manage efficient and effective cross-functional supply chain systems.

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Customer Centric International Shared Services

Customer Centric International Shared Services

Learn how customer centric international shared services can help your company achieve savings of 20%-30% or more, while significantly improving service delivery to internal customers across the globe. Case study evidence highlights the factors for success and provides step-by-step implementation advice.

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