Procurement Templates

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Sustainability and Compliance: Ensure procurement activities align with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards and regulatory compliance. Action Steps: Automate Processes: Implement cutting-edge procurement software to automate routine tasks, reducing manual errors and boosting efficiency.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

This leap in AI capabilities is revolutionizing industries, and AI-driven supply chain management is no exception. The Role of Agentic AI in Supply Chains Supply chains are dynamic and complex, requiring continuous decision-making across multiple functions, from procurement and inventory management to logistics and demand forecasting.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

APRIL 28, 2025

In the ever-evolving landscape of supply chain management, procurement leaders must stay ahead of the‍ curve to ‍ensure success in 2025 and beyond. In this article, we will explore four key strategies that procurement leaders can adopt to ‍navigate the complexities of the future supply chain landscape.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Opportunities for Procurement Technology As we look toward 2025, European businesses are reshaping their supply chains to navigate an increasingly complex global landscape. A recent report by Maersk and Reuters Events highlights that 68% of companies are making supply chain visibility and monitoring solutions a top priority.

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ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

This guide breaks down the key procurement technologies in use today and the trends reshaping the future, such as AI-driven sourcing, predictive risk management, and deeper integration across the supply chain. Your procurement technology platform should help unify data and processes across tiers to avoid disruptions.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

As supply chains become more interconnected and risks more dynamic, traditional procurement tools fall short. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. This shift empowers teams to create greater value for their organizations.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

As supply chains become more interconnected and risks more dynamic, traditional procurement tools fall short. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. This shift empowers teams to create greater value for their organizations.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Analytics and insights from procurement data were minimal. 20152020: Procurement Gains Strategic Recognition Emergence of Strategic Sourcing : CFOs began to recognize procurement’s role in driving long-term value through strategic sourcing, supplier relationships, and risk management.

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ivalua

JUNE 9, 2025

In this type of environment, traditional procurement software and manual processes are insufficient – and many procurement teams are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) for answers. Key Takeaways Understand the potential impact of AI – including Generative AI & AI Agents – in procurement.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 15, 2025

Modern procurement needs have far surpassed transaction management; procurement is now a critical component in driving strategic value across businesses and AI has become a key tool in procurement teams back pockets. This means better compliance, fewer disruptions and greater efficiency in managing supplier relationships.

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Strategic Alignment and Goal Setting Every effective procurement strategy starts with clear alignment to enterprise-wide objectives. No matter the focus, whether cost reduction and quality improvement, or supply chain optimization and resilience, procurement must have a concrete role in delivering outcomes that matter to the business.

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Skill Dynamics

APRIL 24, 2025

Understanding regulations is critical – but what truly builds resilience is training agile, informed teams who can pivot fast, minimize risk, and protect performance when global trade gets turbulent. Its the result of investing in targeted training that keeps your team afloat and ready to sail through any storm.

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

Despite investments in tools and data, most procurement teams struggle to scale their efforts beyond one-off reports or limited categories. This fragmentation leads to inconsistencies that undermine trust and force procurement teams to chase data instead of analyzing it. The culprit?

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Strategic Alignment and Goal Setting Every effective procurement strategy starts with clear alignment to enterprise-wide objectives. No matter the focus, whether cost reduction and quality improvement, or supply chain optimization and resilience, procurement must have a concrete role in delivering outcomes that matter to the business.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 9, 2025

By integrating these technologies, organizations unlock efficiencies, enhance decision making and create more agile, connected supply chains, ultimately boosting their ROI. Partnering with a comprehensive provider like SAP can help ease many common issues procurement teams face.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It leverages advanced technologies to optimize and automate procurement cycles and predict more favorable outcomes. Its real-time insights allow procurement teams to respond swiftly and effectively to changing market conditions and component availability.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 6, 2025

Procurement teams now face a clear need: build bendable systems instead of unbreakable ones. This might include balancing domestic and overseas providers, large-scale manufacturers with smaller niche specialists, or established firms with newer, agile suppliers. That’s why flexibility and resilience matter so much.

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Skill Dynamics

APRIL 24, 2025

When you look behind the scenes of a global business operation, procurement strategy and supply chain management are usually top priorities, though theyre not always working in sync. This blog explores procurement vs supply chain strategy and looks at how aligning the two leads to operational excellence.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 24, 2025

Excess inventory weighs down supply chains. This lean model doesn’t sacrifice speed, but instead thrives on it. The Shift to On-Demand Production Models Modern supply chains need flexibility more than volume. Teams used to working with forecasts and bulk schedules must adapt to real-time production planning.

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ivalua

JUNE 3, 2025

As Procurement teams are tasked to do more with less in an increasingly complex and uncertain market, digitization has become a must. Procurement leaders have increasingly turned to Spend and Supplier Management platforms to improve decision-making, efficiency and collaboration. These results are more than just statistics.

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ivalua

JUNE 17, 2025

In a world of ever-growing economic uncertainty, procurement is at the heart of organizations’ aim to drive efficiency and cost savings. This blog provides an overview of the most significant insights and best practices to make your procurement teams future ready.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 23, 2025

Spend Matters asked him to revisit his earlier theme of creating a digital transformation roadmap and update those insights to reflect his current focus expansion into AI and human augmentation for the Spend Matters Digital Procurement Transformation Survival Guide. Heres what he had to say.

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Skill Dynamics

APRIL 10, 2025

Global supply chains have always been complexbut in todays climate of rising geopolitical tensions and evolving trade policies, theyve become even more unpredictable. These changes impact the entire end-to-end supply chain, from planning and procurement to logistics and customer delivery.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 1, 2025

It’s unlikely that the category-based approach to procurement will disappear anytime soon. Traditional waterfall methodologies give way to agile approaches. Project managers increasingly coordinate cross-functional teams across multiple time zones. These create transparent supply chain tracking mechanisms.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

With international commerce increasingly digitalized and customer requirements continuing to grow, the demands on supply chain professionals to create frictionless, responsive, and cost-effective operations have never been higher. Supercharge your supply chain career through the SCMDOJO Supply Chain Learning Track Certification!

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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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Planergy

MAY 8, 2025

4][5] Supplier Portals Enhance Collaboration: Digital supplier portals are now in use across 35% of procurement platforms. Nearly 50% of teams still report productivity slowdowns due to manual data entry, though 43% of leaders are prioritizing change. [4] The progress made in recent yearsparticularly in 2024set a strong foundation.

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Jaggaer

JULY 3, 2025

AI is moving from hype to reality, and the C-suite is under mounting pressure to deliver clear, ROI-driven strategies—especially in the high-stakes world of procurement and supply chain. This session will equip you with actionable insights to accelerate your AI strategy—and empower your teams to thrive alongside the technology.

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 22, 2025

White Paper: Projected Adoption of Hansen Fit Technologies (2025–2075) Abstract This white paper outlines the projected adoption trajectories and anticipated impacts of Hansen’s Metaprise, agent-based automation, and strand commonality models in procurement and supply chains.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Companies that excel in strategic sourcing achieve greater cost savings and procurement efficiency while ensuring supply chain resilience. With a structured approach, companies can transition to a more agile, data-driven procurement function.

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TYA Suite

JUNE 22, 2025

It transforms raw procurement data into meaningful insights that support both short-term improvements and long-term strategic goals. Procurement analytics is the process of gathering, examining, and interpreting information about a business's purchasing operations. KPIs monitor procurement performance and analytics' effects.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. These four steps constitute the downstream procure-to-pay part of the process. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration.

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Barkers Procurement

MAY 7, 2025

When Covid-19 first hit five years ago, retailers experienced the need for supply chain resilience. Now, as they build the agility and strength needed to respond to potential unexpected events, we can look to this period for guidance. A key flaw to emerge was that supply chains were murky. Nothing moved.

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TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

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. is made after the necessity has been determined.

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HICX

JUNE 9, 2025

What is the use of AI in supply chain management? AI helps optimize supply chain management by offering predictive supplier analytics , real-time tracking, and automation. How is AI transforming procurement & supply chains? How AI can forecast demand in the supply chain?

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 26, 2025

The Future of Procurement: The Bullish Case In this optimistic outlook, procurement undergoes a transformation driven by compelling external forces. Visibility and Transparency Heightened demands for supply chain visibility propel investments in technologies that enhance transparency across procurement processes.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 6, 2025

Configurable and scalable: Every organization is unique, and Raindrop offers options for procurement teams to adjust workflows, dashboards and forms to capture specific information tailored to their needs, ensuring adoption and scalability as they grow.

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