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Women in Global Sourcing: Beth Boegershausen
4 Traits to Look for in a Software Development Outsourcing Vendor for Perfect-Fit Alignment
Thinking of Strategic Sourcing? Think Hard.
When companies start to consider adding strategic sourcing to their regular business processes, they often overlook a number of critical considerations. Chief among these are the benefits of a third-party support and – even more crucially – the process of aligning procurement with this new methodology.
How AI and Digital Apps Can Support In-Person Vendor Negotiations
Attracting and Retaining Talent in the Face of Low Unemployment
Intelligent Automation: Forget Scale – Think Impact
One of the perennial buzzwords in the Automation Industry is scale. Researchers, providers, industry-watchers and the media in general are focussing on the nirvana of delivering Robotic Process Automation (RPA) at scale. This is most likely because there is less success in the industry than was expected…far less.
Cognitive Procurement is Trending and Cognitive Outsourcing is Up Next
There has been a lot of buzz about “cognitive procurement,” the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to support buying goods and services to free up humans to handle valuable procurement functions that AI cannot manage.
The same advanced technologies that are making procurement smarter, more efficient and more data-driven, can be used to make outsourcing relationships leaner, more profitable and more advantageous.
Women in Global Sourcing: Tracy Scheid
How to Know if Your Print Suppliers are “Green”
Passionate about the Planet with Celia Landesberg from EcoVadis
In this episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape, Dawn Tiura interviews Celia Landesberg. Caring about the environment is embedded in the fabric of Celia’s personality since she was a young child. She was thinking about supply chains before she knew what one was.
Promoting the Role of Women in Cybersecurity
Europe is one of the worst offending regions in the world when it comes to women working in cybersecurity, with females making up just 7% of the industry workforce and one of the biggest gender pay gaps in the world according to the Global Information Security Workforce Study.