Plan. Do. Check. Act.

Good Wednesday afternoon all and welcome to this SPECIAL edition (No. 41) of "With That Said" (WTS), a LinkedIn newsletter powered by your friends here?at Supply Chain Now .

Our global audience & community have told us time and time again that they are on a mission to find a better way to do their jobs, meet & exceed goals, lead their organizations, serve their customers & suppliers, manage their teams & supply chains: all to do better tomorrow than they did today. Our SCN team strives each week to deliver content & programming that helps our audience members make progress in these critical areas (and more).

To that end, we wanted to share several upcoming LIVE events, recent episodes, tools & other resources here today.

Let's start with two special events tomorrow, featuring our friends from OMNIA Partners , Leonard Green & Partners (LGP) , & Celonis :

In these current VUCA times, organizations are looking to future-proof their enterprises, strengthen their supplier relationships, mitigate risks, and reach their goals. Are group purchasing organizations the answer? Join us tomorrow for a?timely webinar to learn how utilizing a GPO can dramatically impact your organization's resiliency: click here

Looking to optimize supply chain planning at your organization? Attend the upcoming "Supply Chain Transformation: Master Data Improvement Demo" hosted by Celonis on Thursday, July 13th at 10 am ET. Attendees will receive a free $20 lunch/voucher and information on a new application from the Celonis team: click here

Next up, let's offer up a few tools & resources that have been popular with our listeners & global SCN fam:

• "4 Ways to Counter Global Supply Chain Risk" from 恩富软件 : click here
• "The Logistics Report", a daily collection of news/insights from our friends at The Wall Street Journal : click here
• Check out this ROI calculator from Conexiom that helps you determine how much you could save by automatically processing the orders you receive by email: click here
• A use case from RateLinx that shows how a Fortune 100 saved millions of dollars annually with RateLinx Freight Payment. Also, don't miss our upcoming webinar with RateLinx: click here
• Transform the way you source, purchase, book & pay with our friends at Esker U.S. : click here
• "Freight Forward", a well-written, weekly LinkedIn newsletter on, well - you guessed it! - FREIGHT! From a great friend of the show, Cathy Morrow Roberson : click here
• Learn how a smart data fabric can enable end-to-end visibility, data driven insights, end-to-end predictive and prescriptive orchestration, and ultimately, end-to-end aligned decision making within your supply chain business. Check out this infographic from the InterSystems team: click here
• The "Top 10 Supply Chain Design Use Cases" from the Optilogic Inc. team: click here
• Check out this helpful eBook from e2open on "8 Imperatives to Improve OTIF Performance": click here

And finally, we invite you to check out a few of our most recent episodes that we've published on a variety of our channels, to include: Supply Chain Now, Logistics With Purpose? , Digital Transformers, LLC , Supply Chain Now En Espa?ol & Veteran Voices

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