Direct Spend Management: A Checklist for Enabling Shared Value with Direct Suppliers

Harvard Business Review recently published an article, “To Build Resilience, CEOs Need to Become Supply-Chain Experts”. They noted the fact that companies whose leaders had supply chain experience took a more proactive approach to addressing potential supply-chain challenges, and in leveraging the supply-chain function to generate new business opportunities. In this article, we wanted to discuss one aspect of supply chain that is often not given enough attention –  buildin