Procurement Insights

APRIL 5, 2025

7 ProPurchaser 2008 Started in 2008, newer but focused on negotiation tools. 9 Lytica 2015 Established in 2015, a newer player in supply chain analytics. 10 Archlet ~3050 employees Startup with a lean team, ProcureTech 100 honoree, but minimal scale. market share (Apps Run The World, 2023) lead.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Over the years, various methodologies have emerged to address this need, including lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and the integration of both known as Lean Six Sigma (LSS). In this blog, we’ll delve into the integrated Lean Six Sigma approach, exploring its benefits, deployment models, moreover the implications for SMEs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 20, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What Supply Chain Management problem does this solve? The biggest problem in the transitional supply chain is lack of open and trustworthy information availability across the supply chain caused by multiple issues – trust, technology and legacy practices being the top ones.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 13, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. When the market crashed in 2008, and millions of Americans lost their jobs, we saw a greater need for wealth management. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 30, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. It is needed to ensure the efficiency of the cost of ownership of the technological landscape of financial services. IBC Bank, in Texas, released its iPhone app back in 2008. You lean your smartphone, tablet or smartwatch against the payment terminal — the payment has passed.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 9, 2023

Founded in 2008, TraceGains connects people and information so teams can work smarter. As a global technology company, they provide networked innovation, quality, and compliance solutions to consumer brands that want to reduce supply chain risk, innovate faster, speed up business processes, and take control of data.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 28, 2019

As we’ve explored in our last two blog posts, economists are predicting a decline in global economic growth due to policy and trade issues both in the United States and the European Union , bringing an increased risk to supply chains and procurement organizations.

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Jaggaer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The financial meltdown of 2008 provided a further impulse. Whichever way you look at it, most SME (small to medium enterprises) and large companies alike have found managing supply chains and their spend very difficult compared to how it was just a few months ago. Resiliency and Agility is the Name of the Game.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 29, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. m/m in 2020 was taken way back in 2008 and it got ratified in 2016 in the 17th session of MEPC meeting. Reducing sulphur emissions by utilizing low sulphur fuel oils in shipping vessels will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 requirements.

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Una

JANUARY 31, 2024

Meanwhile, trade wars and rising tensions have led to what the Financial Times has described as a “great reshuffling” of global supply chains, with US FDI (foreign direct investment) in China falling from a peak of $20.9bn in 2008 to an 18-year low of $8.2bn in 2022. You want to keep your suppliers honest.”

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

According to McKinsey research , in the five years immediately following the 2008 global financial crisis, total return to shareholders for companies with top-quartile procurement capabilities was 42 percent higher than the companies whose procurement operations were in the bottom quartile. This is to enable greater autonomy and agility. .

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Coming on top of a very difficult and complex existing situation, Covid-19 has put additional pressure on profitability and capital requirements in the banking sector in the European Union and Africa, with drops in revenue in the order of 35-45% and the lowest return on equity since the aftermath of the great crash of 2008.

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Una

JANUARY 29, 2024

Politics also plays a huge part – secession in Texas became a hot topic after Obama’s 2008 win (why? What would it mean for supply chains? But Taiwanese voters chose to defy China by re-electing the independence-leaning Democratic Party led by Lai Ching-te. It’s also about money. Scary, isn’t it?

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