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Recession Survival Kit: Go live with scenario planning, cash forecasting in under a week

How can manufacturers actually plan for scenarios like rock-bottom revenues, interest rates that don't fall enough, and highly constrained capital resources? A Recession Survival Kit from Adaptive Planning helps businesses of all sizes gain quick control over their overall cash impact, and reset financial plans to deal with economic volatility and a potential global recession.
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Above and beyond: Hackett procurement model offers 12 key dimensions

What capabilities should procurement organizations develop that will extend their value proposition from simply assuring supply to truly harnessing the power of supply markets and influencing business strategy and tactics? A new procurement model from The Hackett Group reveals the answer.
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GE alive: 500,000 suppliers, six languages, 10 countries using Aravo supplier SaaS

In what could be the world's largest Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployment, GE is using an information management platform from Aravo Solutions to manage all of GE’s supplier information.
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Step-change innovation: P&G agreement with SAP will drive global IT transformation

Procter & Gamble has signed a five-year contract with SAP to become one of only 13 SAP customers to enter into a Global Enterprise Agreement—or GEA—the highest level of engagement SAP maintains with a customer. That’s a significant commitment, particularly in an economy that has frozen/postponed many companies' IT investment plans.
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