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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Ireland’s Impressive Global Rankings

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Ireland’s Impressive Global Rankings

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (and my oldest son who is named Patrick), here is how Ireland positively ranks against other countries using various criteria. 2 – Global Food…

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Check Out the Newly Organized Location Risk Section of the Supply Market Indexes Collection for Easier Access!

Check Out the Newly Organized Location Risk Section of the Supply Market Indexes Collection for Easier Access!

To make the measurement tools and indices in the Country (Global), National (US), and Regional (i.e. Europe) Risk section of the Supply Market Intelligence Index Collection easier to identify and…

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Moody’s Launches Supply Chain Catalyst and Other Supply Intelligence-Related Announcements To Note

Moody’s Launches Supply Chain Catalyst and Other Supply Intelligence-Related Announcements To Note

Moody’s Analytics Earlier this month, Moody’s Analytics announced the launch of Supply Chain Catalyst, a data and analytics platform for monitoring and managing supply chain risk. Basically, users can monitor…

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What’s New in the Beginning of 2022: Recently Announced Supply Chain Related Intelligence Offerings

What’s New in the Beginning of 2022: Recently Announced Supply Chain Related Intelligence Offerings

In less than four weeks into the new year there are already interesting supply chain related intelligence new launches and offering updates to note: Making a big splash and receiving…

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Supply Market Research Trends for Procurement and Supply Chain: 2021 Update

Supply Market Research Trends for Procurement and Supply Chain: 2021 Update

Our book, Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals: Research, Process, and Resources, was published in 2015. To keep up with the continuously evolving and changing nature of supply market intelligence,…

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Wells Fargo Introduces Tool to Measure Supply Chain Constraints

Wells Fargo Introduces Tool to Measure Supply Chain Constraints

Wells Fargo has announced that it has built its own tool, The Pressure Gauge, to answer the one question “that business owners, policymakers, consumers and financial markets” have all been…

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The Newly Launched International Market & Competitive Intelligence Magazine Is Valuable Reading

The Newly Launched International Market & Competitive Intelligence Magazine Is Valuable Reading

The International Market & Competitive Intelligence (IMCI) Magazine is a newly launched open source publication that focuses on competitive and market intelligence topics. The Editor in Chief is Rom Gayoso,…

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Indexes Added to the Supply Market Intelligence Virtual Library in the First Half of 2021

Indexes Added to the Supply Market Intelligence Virtual Library in the First Half of 2021

In simplest terms, an index directs you to relevant data. The concept of an index is not a modern one. The origins of the word, index, derive from in (Latin),…

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Mid-Year Update: Focus on Supply Market Research and Information Provider Partnerships

Mid-Year Update: Focus on Supply Market Research and Information Provider Partnerships

Partnerships that formed in the first half of 2021 reveal the strategic direction of various supply markets, in addition to the suppliers and companies that compete in those markets. Here…

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Supply Market Research and Information Trends 2020

Supply Market Research and Information Trends 2020

Scanning new resource launches and updates to include in ProcureSearch gives us a unique view into the supply market intelligence space. Every year end we write about the trends we…

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