Understanding Your Supply Landscape
Disruption Management has become a major discipline in today’s Supply Management doctrine. The abatement of supply risks is at the heart of such doctrines and strategies. NLPA designed the Supply Risk Ecosystem Framework to conceptualize [...]
How to Benefit and Reduce Cost by Improving Your Risk & Disruption Processes
Continuous Improvement and Risk Management Systems have long been essential to realizing supply chain and organizational success. This is especially true at a time when organizations are preoccupied with ensuring reliable supply lines, cost reduction, [...]
Keys to Negotiation Success: Assessing Leverage and Issue Identification
Successful negotiations require careful preparation and planning. The following are the 10 Critical Steps for Negotiation Preparation: Assessing your Leverage Identifying the Issues Setting Targets Deciding when to disclose targets Developing a Strategy Putting Negotiation [...]
Do You Conduct an Annual Procurement Strategy Review?
Annual strategy reviews are critical to strategic, tactical, and operational management. A Procurement strategy is a game plan or action plan by which a Procurement Function Mandate is implemented. Moreover, a procurement strategy provides teams [...]
Case Study: An Auto Manufacturer’s Supply Chain Goes From 0 to 60 (in less than a year)
Supply chain management is critical to achieving several business objectives. It is essential to company success and customer satisfaction. Read about how a British supercar manufacturer took control of its supply chain management and became [...]
Sales and Operations Planning – What Is It, and Why Should You Care?
What is S&OP? S&OP stands for Sales and Operations Planning. In simple terms, it is a decision-making process that ensures that the tactical plans in all business functions are aligned and in support of the [...]
Do You Conduct an Annual Procurement Strategy Review?
Annual strategy reviews are critical to strategic, tactical, and operational management. A Procurement strategy is a game plan or action plan by which a Procurement Function Mandate is implemented. Moreover, [...]
Case Study: An Auto Manufacturer’s Supply Chain Goes From 0 to 60 (in less than a year)
Supply chain management is critical to achieving several business objectives. It is essential to company success and customer satisfaction. Read about how a British supercar manufacturer took control of its [...]
Sales and Operations Planning – What Is It, and Why Should You Care?
What is S&OP? S&OP stands for Sales and Operations Planning. In simple terms, it is a decision-making process that ensures that the tactical plans in all business functions are aligned [...]
Qualified to Handle Your Company’s Logistics? Think Again!
The larger the operation, the more challenges it presents to a company's logistics needs. Determining who should handle logistics depends on both the buyer and seller's relative and absolute sizes. [...]
How to Correct Poor Supplier Performance
Correcting poor supplier performance is the other side of rewarding good supplier performance. When it is evident through your rating methodology that a supplier’s performance is inadequate, you need to [...]
Strategic Development of Supply Partners
When set up right, a supplier development program will lead to producing a trusted business partner. Procurement Teams are responsible for an increasing number of suppliers. Consequently, this increases the [...]
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