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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

The procurement team manages the order, monitors quality, ensures on-time delivery, processes invoices, and handles any issues that arise during fulfillment. Common procurement metrics include spend under management, savings targets, supplier lead time reduction, procurement process efficiency gains, sustainability metrics and more.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Strategic planning–often for 3-5 years out–creates the initiatives to realize the vision (the What) as well as to promote the values and behaviors to display (the How). The budget, or annual operating plan, is normally the first year of the strategy. Doing so frees up time for executives to focus on the bigger picture. .

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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ERP solutions often lack robust capabilities around managing all of the data attributes for products and vendors, and cannot update them in real time or in an automated fashion. Demand planning capabilities. Demand planning is the ability to create forecasts that predict the future need for your products.