CAPS News - 26 Aug 2020

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Owning supplier assessments for risk, quality, and sustainability

• Conducting supplier assessments helps companies track quality (87%), manage risk (72%), track environmental sustainability (41%), and adhere to CSR principles (27%), but did you know that at 83% of the companies we surveyed, the responsibility of these assessments lies with the supply management organization? 
  • Source: Supplier Assessments and Audits, CAPS Research, 2018.

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Map your supply network to safeguard your business

• A recent feature of ASU professors and CAPS researchers Dale Rogers and Tom Choi looks at pressures on supply networks in post-pandemic business: Pandemic reveals weakness in companies' supply chains, ASU Professors say
• Check out the research referenced in the article, Feasibility Study of Nexus Supplier Index, to take an in-depth look at your own tiers of suppliers

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