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A Gameplan for Procurement Transformation

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

The Future of Procurement Technology Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Enhancement: Justification : Strengthening supplier relationships through SRM initiatives fosters collaboration, innovation, and mutual growth. This results in better negotiation outcomes, improved quality, reduced costs, and enhanced overall value delivery.

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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. Organizations are ‘going carbon neutral by 2025’, and ‘implementing Artificially Intelligent business systems’ and ‘sourcing form solely environmentally friendly suppliers’. The responsibility of sourcing responsibly is shared between stakeholder, supplier, buyer and society at large.

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

The Good Spending

Selecting suppliers by cost-only criteria (even as sophisticated as the TCO) contradicts procurement ambition to become the contributors of a value. This article will map our journey from cost-cutting to value delivery on the road to Procurement 4.0. TLC adds transportation, packaging, and storage costs to the unit prices.

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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.