GEOPOLITICAL AND MACROECONOMIC ISSUES
What does this reveal about the severity of global disruption?
Global disruption is no longer episodic, it’ s the new normal. Procurement has responded by diversifying the supply base, nearshoring and doubling down on risk intelligence. That’ s smart.
We can’ t eliminate disruption, but we can build resilient supply chains that anticipate and adapt. This is procurement’ s moment to take full ownership of all external risks and disruptions, and to build a more resilient enterprise.
These results underscore just how deeply global instability is reshaping procurement. Diversification and nearshoring are increasingly becoming C-level strategic imperatives in a world where supply chains are becoming geopolitical battlegrounds.
While cost is of course a critical factor, considerations around continuity, adaptability and resilience now have to be weighed equally. The playbook has changed: procurement must now operate as a real-time, intelligencedriven function to navigate this new global normal.
Michael Van Keulen Global Practice Leader Procurement Coupa
Nick Heinzmann Head of Research Zip
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