Procurement Insights

APRIL 4, 2025

Under the heading Candy and supply base synchronization, I wrote the following: How important is effective internal collaboration? This will be a worthwhile read as it demonstrates the potential repercussions of excluding supply chain personnel in the early planning stages of an organizations M&A strategy.)

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Companies of all sizes have been capturing the value from Global Supply Chain to increase the economies of scale and scope for years. In this article, we will show you tips from worldwide experts that you can use to streamline your global supply chain operations. However, you may wonder what kind of practices really work.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. Rider (1970)). Bowersox, David J.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Your customers, employees and shareholders want to know you have a plan to address supply chain sustainability. Supply chain sustainability is defined as embedding environmental, social or corporate governance considerations as raw materials are sourced, converted to products and delivered to market.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 21, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. A “Don’t Touch” Strategy will Dramatically Lean out your Supply Chain! Everyone involved in these Supply Chains is abiding by the social distancing and protective mandates we all are adhering to. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By selecting and developing the right suppliers and establishing streamlined, transparent communication with them, manufacturers gain the agility and resilience to respond to customer demands, rise to the top, and navigate disruptions more easily. That makes agility a foundational part of your manufacturing strategy.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility. So, lets be blunt.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

I recently hosted a webinar in which our star speaker was Lora Cecere, Founder at Supply Chain Insight. Supply chain management typically does not fit very well with procurement, which is a challenge at the best of times, and can be a disaster in difficult times. As late as the 1990s, supply chains were very local.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt. Procurement’s value became evident, as did the importance of the supplier relationships they had built. As a result of the disruption, cost management and supply chain visibility were suddenly top of mind for executive leadership teams. .

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Check out Brand Protection – The Definitive Role of the Supply Chain! The Supply Chain function within your company has many responsibilities. Yet often the Supply Chain is undervalued. Why is Supply Chain often undervalued? Pressures for Cost Reduction in Supply Chain.

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TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

But what exactly does procurement operations mean, and why is it so important? This step often begins with employees or departments noticing a shortfall, whether its raw materials for production, office supplies, or maintenance equipment. The need is recognized and communicated to the procurement team to start the process.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

In this article, we are going to explore what procurement tracking is, its importance in business and the tools to be used when conducting it for its efficient execution. Procurement Tracking: Why is it Important? These tools allow for automated, integration to suppliers and visibility in procurement data at any time.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Don’t forget to check out our best practices , tools , and a list of helpful supply chain resources on the website! To maximize efficiency, distributors should adhere to the following set of guidelines for evaluating and planning their supply chain with the strategies mentioned below.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 5, 2023

Today I’m joined by Logward , an exciting tech brand with a vision of a future where supply chain departments lead the transformation of their industries, instead of simply transporting it. 31.33] An overview of Logward’s Transport Solutions, and the visibility it provides. You avoid that by listening properly.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Detective and the Distribution Centre Disaster! This change paradox, and the resultant paralysis, could only be solved by The Supply Chain Detective. To understand the challenge ahead it was important to understand the players involved.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. preferred terms are negotiated in sourcing but only captured if purchased against) Invoicing: The most important part of the process for the supplier–getting paid. Purchasing is also where value is captured (i.e.,

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. Where and how to buy strategically important goods and services in a way that optimizes value while minimizing risk.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 14, 2020

Define the contours of your supply chain network from end-to-end – inbound from vendors to production facilities and outbound from DCs to customers. Game out how the risk(s) you’ve identified may impact each supply chain and be prepared with strategies to react in real-time to disruptions as they occur.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For years, supply chain professionals have measured success by how well they have been able to drive down costs and drive up efficiency. Then, 2020 sent shockwaves through many JIT strategies; the disruption was just too big to absorb and supply chain ecosystems had not been built to flex.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Supply Chain Management is complex and truly mastered by few. For those of us who have made our careers in supply chain, one of the great challenges, and the attraction of the discipline, is the variety of differing opinions about what constitutes ‘excellence in supply chain’ and how it can be best achieved.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 21, 2025

Ecosystem Orchestration: Agents align procurement with finance, logistics, and suppliers, ensuring end-to-end process coherence. Example: During the 2025 China tariff retaliation, agents rerouted $700M in coffee imports to Latin American suppliers, limiting cost hikes to 57%.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 27, 2022

The disruption the global supply chain is facing today has been a long time coming, yet it seems to have caught the entire industry off guard. At the time of this article going live, I can imagine a lot of scrambling going on across importers up and down the country—and we’ve not even hit peak selling season yet.

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The Network Effect

MARCH 18, 2016

There’s an interesting report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Three Paths to Advantage with Digital Supply Chain , that illustrates the urgent need for companies today to transition to a digital supply chain, if they haven’t done so already. ” What is the Digital Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Imagining the Supply Chain of the Future! Mike Mortson was recently interviewed by Oracle as a part of their Global Supply Chain Influencer program. This article was posted on Oracle’s Supply Chain Management blog. Email Address. Mike Mortson.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 22, 2025

Leadership Founder & CEO: Jag Lamba, former McKinsey consultant, leads the company with a focus on operational agility, risk management, and AI innovation. Advantage AI-First Automation End-to-end automation, from onboarding to risk and compliance, with AI at every step. Key Differentiators Feature Certa.ai is essential.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 9, 2024

Smart procurement is the use of technology to improve efficiency and help build more agile procurement processes. Artificial intelligence plays an important role in the popularization of smart procurement for its ability to track and analyze data faster than ever before. Making more agile and accurate business decisions.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

What is Supply Chain Management (SCM) Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods, services, information and finances as they move from raw materials to final product, from manufacturer to consumer. Optimized supply chains lead to improved profit margins.

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Solvoyo

MARCH 5, 2021

For businesses of all sizes, the digital transformation of supply chain planning became the most important initiative. . Considering this surge in digital transformation and the changing needs of 2021, here are some insights and tips for embarking on Supply Chain Digital Transformation projects.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Recent trends have increased the strategic importance of an effective, transparent Invoice-to-Pay process, managed by AP. A recent study by Forrester found that the single greatest factor in increasing a supplier’s willingness to collaborate with and share innovations with a customer was timeliness of and visibility into payments.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 4, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Create a Responsive Supply Chain to Handle Peaks and Lulls! If you work in Business or Supply Chain you feel the results and the immense pressure caused by inaccurate forecasts. This can be highly disruptive and it is a very real Supply Chain nightmare scenario.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Eliminating network complexity and bolstering application connectivity In a world where consumers expect the best possible experience when interacting with an organization’s offerings, DNS continues to serve an important role in how we transact through applications and data.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As if the gender gap wasn’t enough already, women leaders in supply chain have their work cut out for them. With a decade already punctuated by constant disruption; consumers are more aware of supply chain and how industry shortages , talent gaps, and climate events impact their daily lives and local communities.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

How can you tell if your Supply Chain is broken? But before the situation gets to those extremes what are the clues that your Supply Chain is not working as well as it could, or should? But before the situation gets to those extremes what are the clues that your Supply Chain is not working as well as it could, or should?

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HICX

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As an increasing number of organizations engage with vendors on a global level to fulfill their supply chains, the need for supply chain robustness has never been so critical. The Global Supply Chain Landscape: What is the current situation?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Supply chain collaboration is a hot topic today and no wonder: companies that collaborate effectively across the supply chain have enjoyed dramatic reductions in inventories and costs, together with improvements in speed, service levels, and customer satisfaction. Supplier chain collaboration itself isn’t new.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 28, 2024

I was recently delighted to be joined in webinar discussion by Iain Prince, Operational Transformation & Supply Chain Partner at KPMG. But to focus our attention even more sharply, let’s take our cue from Sir David Attenborough: “The decisions we make this decade are the most important in human history”. No pressure, then!

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Pipefy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To do this, procurement teams require visibility into their data, control over their processes, and a seat at the business strategy table. Today, quick fixes are being eclipsed by strategic agility that seeks to drive long-term business value and innovation. Among those executives in finance, the percentage rose to 67%.

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