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In the wake of severe disruption, businesses’ risk management strategies will face severe tests. For procurement, and not least direct procurement, volatility is both an ongoing threat to continuity and the bottom line – and a significant influence on the effectiveness of procurement strategies for months and years to come. The decision-making required to meet that challenge requires the right data and the ability to analyse it effectively. How teams prepare themselves in terms of developing capability, integrating a data-led forecasting process into direct procurement strategy, will influence how well their businesses cope with 2022 market conditions and beyond. What does an effective data-led strategy to counter volatility look like, and what’s required to support that? Download this whitepaper, created in partnership with Mintec, to find out.

Danske Bank rendered itself "Digitally Fit for Audit" across all Supply Chain governance activities, much of which the Danish Financial Services Authority audits on a regular basis. It simultaneously doubled the number of contracts under active management per Contract Manager, following adoption of Brooklyn as the core vendor management platform for central IT.

Taulia, a leading provider of working capital solutions, recently surveyed 50 retailers worldwide for their views on recent trends affecting the retail industry. This whitepaper includes further detail on the significant results Taulia discovered, which includes a growing recognition of the importance of agile supply chains, critical to managing shocks.