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Marisa Brown

Houston

Contributor at Freelance

Always looking for supply chain and supplier-related best practices and interesting benchmarks. Views expressed are my own.

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  • 1 month ago | scmr.com | Marisa Brown

    The volatile environment for supply chains requires organizations to leverage all the tools at their disposal, including technologies such as AI. Organizations must devote time to standardizing their procurement processes to yield the most benefit from technology adoption. Growing technologies such as AI offer organizations an opportunity to drive efficiency within procurement.

  • 1 month ago | scmr.com | Marisa Brown

    (Photo: Getty Images) Supply chains operate in an environment where disruptions are almost guaranteed. To address this, procurement organizations must leverage all the tools at their disposal to not only anticipate disruptions but also change how they respond with targeted improvements in processes and investments. Subscribe to our weekly e-mail update Don’t miss out on the best in supply chain.

  • 1 month ago | sdcexec.com | Marisa Brown

    If you want a faster, more efficient, and more productive procurement function, you should centralize direct procurement to the extent that you can. Of the organizations that participated in APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking research for procurement, those with centralized direct procurement have lower costs, require fewer full-time equivalent employees (FTEs), and achieve faster cycle times than those with decentralized direct procurement.

  • 2 months ago | sdcexec.com | Marisa Brown

    Supply chain planning encompasses a broad range of processes and activities, all of which are closely tied to the success of an organization’s supply chain. From developing production and materials strategies to managing demand, creating a master production schedule, and more, there are a lot of moving parts that supply chain leaders need to account for in their planning—and plenty that could go wrong along the way.

  • 2 months ago | pbn.com | Marisa Brown |Anne Ewing

    Marisa Angell Brown | Providence Preservation Society executive director No matter what your organization or business does, 2025 is shaping up to be a year of acute change. It is something that I have become deeply familiar with during my time with PPS. Like so many other cultural and heritage institutions today, the preservation society Already a Subscriber?

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Marisa Brown @MB_APQC
19 Jan 24

RT @BrianPCornick: Ensuring the safety of our #SupplyChain requires constant vigilance and upkeep! By anticipating changes and disruptions,…

Marisa Brown
Marisa Brown @MB_APQC
15 Sep 22

RT @APQC: Announcing APQC’s new Process Excellence Certification! 📢 We are proud to officially launch our first course offering: Certified…

Marisa Brown
Marisa Brown @MB_APQC
13 Sep 22

RT @APQC: To learn more about order visibility as a key part of the order-to-cash process, read this article by APQC's Marisa Brown (@MB_AP…