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A Gameplan for Procurement Transformation

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

This results in better negotiation outcomes, improved quality, reduced costs, and enhanced overall value delivery. Initiatives that prioritize environmentally friendly practices, fair labor, and responsible sourcing improve brand reputation and mitigate potential legal and reputational risks.

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Competitive Procurement through Category Management

Sourcing and Supply Chain

Later on, it is categorically understood that for multiple sources of consumption or multi factory plants, sourcing a similar product by different persons may lead to consumption of more time, money, and resources. 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. Organizations are ‘going carbon neutral by 2025’, and ‘implementing Artificially Intelligent business systems’ and ‘sourcing form solely environmentally friendly suppliers’. Responsible Sourcing. Subscribe Here! Email Address. 7 KPIs Your Procurement Team May Be Ignoring!

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

The Good Spending

TLC adds transportation, packaging, and storage costs to the unit prices. These additions are most important when buyers consider remote locations as physical goods sources. TLC analysis requires a deep understanding of supply chain costs - customs, duties, tariffs, and 3PL services.

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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.