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Social Value – Optimizing your positive impact
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COVID-19: Coping with unpredictability in supply chain
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Cost Optimization
Building Predictive Success in an Unpredictable World: A Modified Playbook for Supply Chain Stardom We can all look…
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COVID-19: Hibernate to reboot your business
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Procurement Transformation There are businesses out there today who have gone through procurement transformation and are booming, but…
COVID-19: Liquidity – How to achieve it
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Risk & Resilience
Cash may be king, but don’t cash in According to figures released by Trade Shift, cross border trade…
COVID-19: Keeping your young talent growing
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Risk & Resilience
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COVID-19: The last American cowboy and next American hero
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The cost of doing good…
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ESG
With sustainability high on the agenda, it’s time to bust a myth: there is no longer a cost…
Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion
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Capability & Skills
A Conversation with Four Inspirational Women – Proxima Procurement Consultancy “Diversity is being asked to the party. Inclusion…
Sustainability: The next power play for the CPO
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ESG
The next big powerplay for the CPO is sustainability. They are the right place for sustainability to sit,…
The retail payment solutions revolution
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GNFR
With card transactions now accounting for around 80% of retail spend, this is a key battleground for retailers…
How Finance, IT, and Commercial can work together for successful Cloud implementation
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Cost Optimization
It seems like we have been talking about The Cloud for an eternity. But what is it, and…
The Great Retail Opportunity – GNFR Procurement
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Capability & Skills
GNFR (or Goods Not For Resale) refers to any goods or services bought by a retailer but not…
The conscious consumer – Buying the change they want retail to make?
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Cost Optimization
Once satisfied by the right quality and a fair price, consumer expectations have now evolved far beyond this…