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4 strategic sourcing use cases to strengthen your supply chain

IBM Big Data Hub

For sourcing teams, that means pivoting their mindset around selecting suppliers from a tactical, lowest-cost-above-all approach to a strategic one. The benefits of strategic sourcing are vast, ranging from overall supply chain process optimization to more cost-effective, long-term relationships with partners.

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The Royal Mint’s diversification means all change for IT and security

CIO Business Intelligence

We used a security scorecard benchmark and said we could become the most secure global mint.” They then reported back on the score’s movement of the score, going from68 to 98 in a year based on 10 core security metrics provided by securityscorecard.com, with 100 meaning there were no vulnerabilities on the visible attack surface.

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