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A Gameplan for Procurement Transformation

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

A successful procurement transformation involves a strategic overhaul of processes, technologies, and approaches to achieve greater efficiency, cost savings, risk management, and value creation. Automation increases efficiency and reduces errors, leading to faster and more accurate procurement cycles.

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Competitive Procurement through Category Management

Sourcing and Supply Chain

Hence, buyers have also adopted the concept of suppliers to bundle the requirement of multiple locations and the similar product as a category to have a better understanding, control, and volume to negotiate. It results in specialization in category for a buyer and ends up in a better deal with saving time, resources, and money.

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7 Trending Business Practices Disrupting Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 7 KPIs Your Procurement Team May Be Ignoring! Initiatives are being put in place to make these statements a reality, but are these organizations agile enough to shift strategies, process and operations — for real? Subscribe Here! Email Address. Responsible Sourcing.

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The Journey to Value-Based Procurement 4.0 [Part 1]

The Good Spending

Procurement is on the journey from cost-cutting to value delivery Naturally, Procurement started in the lowest cost arena, where the cheapest bid wins. As we evolved from the transactional cost-cutting tool to a more strategic role, we realized that the cost is just an element of the complex equation.

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Can Blockchain Unblock Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Game Changer

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.