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Indirect Procurement: Why It Gets Mismanaged and How to Fix It

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Indirect procurement sometimes flies under the radar, but its impact on cost, compliance, and efficiency can be significant. For many enterprise teams, managing indirect spend feels like a reactive process that’s out of sync with business goals. While juggling decentralized requests, surprise renewals, and one-off contracts, enforcing policy and staying on budget is no easy feat.

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Why ADOPTing Great Technology Is Not Enough To Achieve ProcureTech Success

Procurement Insights

Gartner Post on LinkedIn (July 2025) – As enterprise leaders seek new ways to navigate the increasingly complex digital world, the ADOPT principle offers a structured framework for building scalable, efficient process automation architectures. – Use it to streamline operations and drive business impact: [link] The following is the RAM 2025 6-Model, Level 1 assessment of Gartner’s ADOPT principle, including the alignment and uplift from the Hansen Fit Score Model.

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Revolutionizing Procurement: Empowering Professionals with Procurement Tactics’ Price Tracker Tool!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! In today’s fast-evolving business world, staying ahead of the curve is not just a competitive edge but an absolute necessity. Recognizing this need, Procurement Tactics, a pioneering player in the procurement industry, has introduced its game-changing Price Tracker tool – an innovative solution that promises to reshape the way procurement professionals approach price monitoring.

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How AI in Strategic Sourcing improves effectiveness

Procurement Software

AI in strategic sourcing is relatively new. Whereas e-sourcing tools , on the other hand, have revolutionised procurement over the past two decades. However, these platforms have always had significant gaps. Some of the biggest challenges lie in the preparation work needed before launching an RFX event. Procurement teams spend countless hours on supplier onboarding, writing specifications, preparing documentation, and then setting up the tender in the platform.

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Precision in Motion: Why Process Optimization Is the Future of Manufacturing

Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management

In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.

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Fast, wrong and invisible: How bad data destroys good AI

Spend Matters

As part of our analyst research into AI in procurement , its use cases, its capabilities and how supporting technologies compare, which forms part of our digital transformation survival guide , we are pleased to include these personal insights on the valuable role of data in AI from Iyyappan Chandramouleeswaran , a source-to-pay transformation specialist and ex-management consultant.

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Top 8 Procurement Challenges and How to Solve Them

Procurement Freelancers

Procurement professionals constantly juggle complex priorities – tight budgets, quality standards, supplier reliability, and evolving… The post Top 8 Procurement Challenges and How to Solve Them first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Unpacking Nico Bac’s DPNow Mapping With Additional Extraction From Spend Matters Solution Map And Art of Procurement Directories

Procurement Insights

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the RAM 2025 Model 1, Level 1 assessment of Nico Bac’s DPNow Mapping, corroborated by Spend Matters Solution Map and Art of Procurement directories. Please note that this is a preliminary assessment using only one (1) model of six (6) and one (1) level of five (5). As we delve deeper into the assessment process, the algorithm rankings can and will often change as a result of the vetting process.

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Cultivating Procurement Excellence Through the Power of Negotiation!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The New Age of Negotiation! Negotiation skills are highly expected in lots of posts; it’s no wonder modern business finds employees with this ability to be the most valuable ones. Their proficiency in securing favourable terms, building strong relationships with vendors, and optimization of procurement processes has great influence on the overall success of the company.

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Negotiation for Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals: Award Winning Author Releases 4th Edition of Essential Guide To Negotiation

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Published by Kogan Page on 3 August 2025Paperback, £54.99/$72.00 Negotiation for Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals, now in its 4th edition, is a step-by-step approach to delivering winning negotiations with tools and tactics for purchasing and supply chain professionals. Author Jonathan O’Brien with 30 years of experience, has helped equip global organizations to increase their purchasing capability through digital platforms, training, education and working directly with practitioners a

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State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2011 Agenda

CPO Rising

The role and strategic agenda of the chief procurement officer (CPO) have evolved over the past decade. In a new weekly series from Ardent Partners, we revisit what defined procurement… The post State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2011 Agenda appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How BD Biosciences was successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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What are procured managed services?

Barkers Procurement

In a rapidly evolving business environment, organisations need to be constantly looking for ways to drive efficiency, reduce their operational costs, and remain agile in the face of stiff competition. One increasingly popular and effective strategy is the use of procured managed services – a model that blends specialist procurement expertise with the professional delivery of ongoing services.

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What Do The Procurement Insights Archives Say About The Gartner ADOPT Principle and The Hansen Fit Score?

Procurement Insights

MODEL 5 Based on my deep dive into the Procurement Insights Archives, I’ve gained several crucial additional insights that significantly enhance and validate our previous analyses: Major Additional Insights from Procurement Insights Archives: 1. Fundamental Distinction: Agent-Based vs. Agentic AI The archives reveal a critical distinction: “When organizations make the mistake of leading with technology, they are bending their people and processes around an equation-based model approa

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7 Strategies to Optimize Your Medical Equipment Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

How to Increase Transparency in the Medical Device Supply Chain! In any business, supply plays an important role. It ensures you dispose of your manufactured goods to your ideal customers. It’s the only way to get output from your investments in the production process. Based on this, an efficient supply chain is a must-have, despite the industry. Suppose you’re in the medical equipment business.

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How Fleet Management Systems Resolve Route Planning Challenges in Logistics

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Fleet management systems resolve route planning challenges in logistics by improving operational control, enhancing delivery accuracy, and reducing transportation costs. They streamline complex decision-making using real-time data, automation, and intelligent algorithms. Route optimization becomes faster, more precise, and responsive to changing conditions.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2011 Agenda

CPO Rising

The role and strategic agenda of the chief procurement officer (CPO) have evolved over the past decade. In a new weekly series from Ardent Partners, we revisit what defined procurement… The post State of Procurement (A Retrospective): Insights from the 2011 Agenda appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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What Restaurants Can Teach Us About Procurement & Supply Chain

Art of Procurement

Discover valuable procurement and supply chain lessons from Eleven Madison Park's journey to becoming the best restaurant in the world. Learn about systems, cost management, and exceptional customer service.

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Gartner Graphs vs Procurement Insights’ Graphs: Which Tells The Better Story

Procurement Insights

How effective are Gartner’s graphs and corresponding advice in addressing procurement and supply chain challenges in 2025 and beyond? So, I thought, why not tap into RAM 2025’s 6 Model, 5 Level assessment tool and see what it has to say? By the way, this is a Level 1 assessment. MODEL 2 Critical Examination The establishment narrative, embodied by Gartner’s $4.7B revenue (2023) and 14,000+ employees, positions its graphics as authoritative, leveraging complexity to signal expertise.

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What is a Pre-Shipment Inspection and Why is it Important?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Cross Country Shipping Guide: Everything You Need to Know! Before logistics providers send goods over to their destinations, they conduct a pre-shipment inspection. This might seem like a tedious or bureaucratic process if you need to send goods urgently, but a pre-shipment inspection is vital. According to industry research , shipping errors occur on 2% of the average merchant’s packages.

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From Basic to Brilliant: Early Optimization of Material and Transport Planning

Explore how a global manufacturing organization steadily advanced its supply chain maturity – starting with basic transportation management and evolving towards a fully integrated, optimization-driven planning approach. Get an inside look at a multi-year 4PL collaboration journey, culminating in the implementation of 4flow TORO to unlock the full potential of early optimization in material and transportation planning.

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Infusing Intelligence into the Buying Journey: How Order Management Links Your Supply Chain

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How to Choose the Right Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Software: The Ultimate Checklist

ContractSafe

Contract lifecycle management software (CLM) should simplify your life, not complicate it. The right tool saves time, reduces risk, and helps your business grow. However, with so many solutions available, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure where to start. This checklist is designed to help you cut through the noise and identify what you need now, and what will continue to work as you expand, without unnecessary complexity or high costs.

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State of Supplier Management 2025 (Part 3): Optimizing Supplier Performance Management for Strategic Impact

CPO Rising

Did you miss the recent webinar “Proactive Supplier Risk Management Requires a Solid Data Foundation, featuring Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer for Ardent Partners, and William McNeill, VP,… The post State of Supplier Management 2025 (Part 3): Optimizing Supplier Performance Management for Strategic Impact appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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What if expense management could improve forecasting accuracy instead of undermining it? — Free download

Spend Matters

Expense management is often treated as an afterthought, something to clean up at the end of the month or the quarter. But what if it could do more? In our latest white paper, Improving Expense Management for Financial Forecasting and Control: A Finance – Procurement Alignment Approach , we lay out a pragmatic roadmap to transform expense management from a reactive administrative task into a proactive source of financial insight.

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How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform

Tariffs are no longer just policy noise. They’re driving real, bottom-line impact. One policy shift and your sourcing strategy is upside down. This bulletin cuts straight to the point. How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.

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Shipping Container Tracking and Sustainability: How it Reduces Carbon Footprint!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Shipping Containers! More than just a Box! (Infographic) International trade depends on shipping, with over 80% of goods elated by sea. While it supports the cheap shipping harms the environment. It produces about 1,000 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. This accounts for roughly 3% of worldwide emissions. The Global Maritime Group warns that emissions could surge by 50% by 2050 without significant action.

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Five Ways to Mitigate Supply Chain Risks in Retail and Manufacturing

Supply Chain Brain

A volatile geopolitical environment, coupled with sophisticated cyber threats, underscores the need for a sound, five-step supplier risk-mitigation strategy.

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WD-40 shifts supply chain to dodge tariffs

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Procurement 6 – Aug 1st, 2025

Art of Procurement

Weekly insights and updates in procurement, delivered every Friday at 6am by the Art of Procurement team. Subscribe now for tips, news, and event summaries.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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The Rise of Online Marketplaces and Their Supply Chain Implications

All Things Supply Chain

The past decade have brought about a significant transformation in worldwide commercial activities.

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Applying Bankroll Management Strategies to Supply Chain: Optimizing Resources and Mitigating Risks!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe What are Payroll Services and Can They Transform Supply Chain? Relating bankroll management strategies in sports betting and casino games to supply chain management does bring about some interesting parallels, as both deal with the optimisation of one’s resources, minimizing risks, and maximizing returns. Herein shows how the concepts align and can provide insights across fields.

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AI/ML Capabilities Bring Better Signals, Models, and Collaboration to Demand Forecasting

Supply Chain Brain

Advertise Contact Us Supplier Directory SCB YouTube About Us Login Subscribe Logout My Profile LOGISTICS Air Cargo All Logistics Facility Location Planning Freight Forwarding/Customs Brokerage Global Gateways Global Logistics Last Mile Delivery Logistics Outsourcing LTL/Truckload Services Ocean Transportation Parcel & Express Rail & Intermodal Reverse Logistics Service Parts Management Transportation & Distribution TECHNOLOGY All Technology Artificial Intelligence Cloud & On-Dema

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Cybersecurity Protocols That Improve Supply Chain Resilience

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Supply chains are the lifelines of global commerce. From small manufacturers to multinational corporations, organizations depend on interconnected networks to deliver materials, goods, and services in a timely and cost-effective manner. While efficiency and speed remain critical, they now share priority with cybersecurity. As supply chains digitize and lean on cloud platforms, software systems, and third-party vendors, their vulnerability to cyber threats has dramatically increased.

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Procurement Is Navigating a Tech Tsunami (and It’s Upending How You Work)

Procurement is in the middle of a tech tsunami. And if it feels like the old playbooks aren’t working anymore, that’s because they aren’t. Agentic AI. Autonomous procurement. Unified source-to-pay ecosystems. These innovations are converging and transforming how procurement teams operate. The GEP 2025 Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report breaks it all down.