For decades, technology looked nothing like the tightly coupled supply chains that define aerospace, automotive or oil and gas. Software and infrastructure vendors could be swapped with relative ease, while enterprises stitched together their own patchwork of cloud platforms, integrators and point tools. That era…
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For years, procurement was often reduced to a simple calculation: award the contract to the lowest bidder and call it value. That logic is looking increasingly outdated. Across sectors ranging from facilities management and food services to retail, e-commerce and managed living, organisations are finding that a cheaper quote can…
Dun & Bradstreet South Asia, Middle East and Africa has launched Partn-R, an artificial intelligence-enabled vendor management platform it says is designed to move companies beyond basic supplier onboarding and into wider third-party risk oversight. The new system replaces the company’s earlier Vend-R platform and…
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A major disruption to global supply chains could leave many companies struggling to keep operating, according to a new Proxima report that paints a stark picture of how exposed boardrooms remain to shocks in logistics, cyber security and supplier fragility. In the consultancy’s Global Supply Chain Resilience Outlook, part of…
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View AllSweden faces two intertwined challenges: preparing society for a changing climate and strengthening civilian readiness in a more uncertain world. These are too often treated as separate policy areas, but in practice they are part of the same task: keeping society functioning under strain. When cloudbursts close roads, heatwaves test…
