{"id":3287,"date":"2013-10-22T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2013\/10\/22\/sourcing-as-a-competitive-advantage\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T11:00:16","slug":"sourcing-as-competitive-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/sourcing-as-competitive-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourcing as a Competitive Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you enjoyed the article, <em>Make Sourcing Your Competitive Advantage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>I referenced the fact that sourcing as a competitive advantage was part of my opening keynote speech at the 2013 NLPA Conference.\u00a0 During that speech, I showed some photos of how sourcing was mentioned on product packaging.\u00a0 Here are a few of those photos\u2026<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you enjoyed the article, Make Sourcing Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - 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