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The Beautiful Complexity of Procurement Planning

The Good Spending

When discussing value generation , we mainly mention category management, stakeholder relationships, and supplier innovation. The lion's share of procurement value could be created in the planning stage. Bad planning and suboptimal demand management cannot be compensated by discounts. Each chunk of demand (e.g.,

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The Importance of Supply Chain Collaboration

The Good Spending

Other peers around the company overlap with us in their functions - Technology tends to manage suppliers , Finance owns the demand planning and budgeting, and Sales and Marketing monopolize the end-customer value chain. Once, I was asked what makes the supply chain important to a company.