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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

Sourcing : Procurement uses competitive bidding, e-sourcing, and supplier development. Buy fair trade, organic, and locally sourced goods whenever possible. Conduct supply chain audits and due diligence on high-risk categories. Organizations want to source responsibly and align with ESG initiatives.

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How to Implement a Strategic Sourcing Process

Una

How to Implement a Strategic Sourcing Process A play-by-play manual showing how to implement a strategic sourcing process that aligns with your organization’s goals, optimizes spend, and creates long-term value. At its core, strategic sourcing formalizes the process of finding, assessing, and choosing suppliers.

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The Future of Procurement

Una

This left procurement organizations and departments scrambling to find more strategic alternatives to not only survive but carve out their place in an evolving global market. Then, in the 1960s, the practice of competitive bidding became commonplace giving rise to trained procurement professionals. What’s changed? Is that all?

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Innovative Procurement Models: Exploring Different Approaches

Empowering CPO

At its core, procurement is the process of finding, agreeing to terms, and acquiring goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process. The value of using technology to track sales and inventory in real time for better supply chain management.

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Procurement Strategy: Everything You Need to Know

World of Procurement blog

In this blog, we're diving deep into the realm of procurement strategy—discussing its importance, how to craft an effective plan, communicate it within your firm, measure its success, and understand different procurement methodologies, including agile procurement. This can range from competitive bidding to direct negotiations.

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Procurement Strategy: Everything You Need to Know

World of Procurement blog

In this blog, we're diving deep into the realm of procurement strategy—discussing its importance, how to craft an effective plan, communicate it within your firm, measure its success, and understand different procurement methodologies, including agile procurement. This can range from competitive bidding to direct negotiations.

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Services Procurement: What Is It and How To Manage It

Planergy

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Quality assurance can also be challenging since conversations between procurement and suppliers are more direct and personal when sourcing services. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend.