Businesses today are ever more dependent on their supply chain partners for goods and services which make up a significant portion of the solutions they provide to their clients. Correspondingly, globalization has introduced the opportunity to do business with suppliers the world over, allowing greater access to a host of untold products and services - that can provide a competitive advantage to the OEM, which enables them delivering increased value to their clients.\r
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However, in increasingly competitive global markets, a global sourcing strategy has introduced a set of risks well beyond what was typical in the traditional supply chain. Sourcing organizations must be able to react to not only financial and competitive events that impact risk but also geopolitical and even climactic ones. \r
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In this webinar, we will explore how IBM gains benefits from global sourcing while weighing and managing risks. The discussion will go beyond assessing the risk of a supplier and their supply, to identify collaboration opportunities and assess a supplier's level of resiliency and where appropriate, to engage in actions of remediation.
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