Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 5, 2025

Subscribe The Complexity of the Lego Supply Chain! Supply chains in the energy sector are among the most complex and capital-intensive in the world. Each of these actors introduces interdependencies, legal considerations, and transaction costs. It’s about capital flow, asset risk, and regulatory layering.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2025

Consider this your business suddenly faces a major supply chain disruption. But the truth is, a fragile supply chain can make or break your companys success in today’s world. But the truth is, a fragile supply chain can make or break your companys success in today’s world.

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ivalua

JUNE 5, 2025

Understanding these differences is essential for businesses that want to optimize operational efficiency and safeguard against costly errors. Aligning procurement and purchasing ensures efficiency, cost control, and reduced risk across the organization. What is Procurement?

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ivalua

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The majority of organizations consider supply chain transparency to be a top priority, however less than a third are satisfied with the level of visibility into their suppliers. Most organizations continue to suffer from severely limited visibility in the lower levels of their supply chains.

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process. Why is Business Budgeting Important? Budgeting should be part of regular financial planning.

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Spend Matters

MAY 1, 2025

It is now a strategic enabler of operational efficiency, cost savings and supplier innovation. A well-structured transformation journey ensures organizations progress from basic digitalization to advanced AI-driven procurement, enabling smarter decision-making, better compliance and optimized supply chain performance.

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Spend Matters

MAY 27, 2025

Finance and procurement play critical roles in shaping an organizations financial health and operational efficiency. Technology is a powerful enabler of finance-procurement collaboration, bridging gaps in spend visibility, cost control and data integration. This series shapes a five-phase approach to aligning finance and procurement.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

While traditional KPIs often emphasize cost savings or budget control, aligned organizations take a more strategic approach, tracking performance indicators that reflect the joint impact of finance and procurement on business outcomes. Compare actual procurement costs against financial forecasts to improve budget accuracy.

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Planergy

MARCH 18, 2025

Download Free Copy Supply Chain Disruptions in Schools: Challenges and Solutions Category Inventory Written by Keith Murphy 17 min read Tags Education Risk Management Supply Chain Management Last edited March 18, 2025 Download PDF KEY TAKEAWAYS Efficient school supply chains are critical for maintaining consistent educational services.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 6, 2022

Modern enterprises rely on supply chain software to track several activities, including manufacturing and distribution of goods. Many supply chain systems are closed-source, all-in-one, proprietary, expensive, and difficult to customize ( read Why ERP Sucks ). Benefits of No-code Platforms.

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Skill Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2025

How can you ensure that your supply chain team are consistently up-to-speed with the modern supply chain landscape? A well-defined supply chain competency framework can be extremely useful. It typically covers key supply chain areas including procurement , logistics, demand forecasting , and much more.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 9, 2025

This guide will walk you through the essential steps to find the perfect distributor for your electronic components, ensuring that your projects run smoothly and efficiently. While you don’t want to compromise on quality, finding a distributor who offers competitive pricing can significantly impact your project’s budget.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 24, 2025

In the intricate dance of the global electronics supply chain, a disruptive force has emerged, sending ripples of chaos through its intricate web of interconnected components. Welcome ‍to the frontline of change in the world of electronics supply chains.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

According to Gopal Chandak, FP&A Leader at Landmark, “The consolidation of the financial budget, cost allocation methods and standardization of common records posed as major obstacles. Because of this, the budgeting process was inefficient.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 18, 2023

The following is a business case highlighting the background, context and value proposition of SCMDOJO’s Expert Marketplace, a platform designed to connect businesses with specialized Supply Chain Expert Services. It is within this context that SCMDOJO’s Expert Marketplace was conceived.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Unfortunately, outdated tools and fragmented processes make it difficult to maintain visibility across the supply chain and adapt at the pace of business. They increase an organization’s efficiency during processes like sourcing, purchasing, supplier management, and spend analysis.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

As supply chains become more interconnected and risks more dynamic, traditional procurement tools fall short. These technologies work in concert to enable AI-driven procurement, which, in turn, leads to faster, smarter, and more efficient operations. And they don’t require constant human intervention.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Identifying the need for foundational technology and processes Before joining Utz as its SVP Procurement, Ron had been consulting with the Supply Chain department working on a number of different projects. In addition, the broader supply chain organization was working to implement other new tools and processes.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Here’s a breakdown of the shifts over this period: 2011: Procurement as a Tactical Function Primary Focus on Cost Savings : In 2011, CFOs largely viewed procurement as a cost-control function , tasked with negotiating contracts, reducing spend, and maintaining compliance with budgets.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

By using data, automation and better processes, procurement can improve financial reporting, cut costs, support budgeting and manage risks. Use procurement data to provide realized savings, supplier performance and compliance metrics for financial transparency. Average time to resolve cost discrepancies.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 25, 2025

However, the reality is that stakeholders, including budget owners, business units, etc., Suppliers and external partners contribute another layer of complexity, as they rely on procurement systems for seamless onboarding, data accuracy and operational efficiency. largely control procurements level of influence.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Introduction As global supply chains evolve, ensuring cost efficiency is crucial. One way to assess the cost performance of any function within the supply chain is through Cost Performance Index (CPI). What is the Cost Performance Index (CPI)? According the research paper by Winanda et.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

How MES is Shaping the Future of Manufacturing and Boosting Production Efficiency What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)? An MES provides a functional layer between enterprise resource planning (ERP) and process control systems, giving decision-makers the data they need to make their production area more efficient.

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ivalua

JUNE 9, 2025

Inefficiencies are baked into the procurement process, wasting time and budget while leaving the door open to errors such as missed deadlines or incorrect orders. This strengthens internal controls and reduces regulatory risk, while improving audit readiness. This allows you to work more efficiently and respond to issues proactively.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 7, 2025

Advanced technologies such as AI, automation, and predictive analytics are playing a pivotal role in optimizing procurement processes, enhancing transparency, and driving efficiency. Traditional procurement methods can lead to inefficiencies, delays, and cost overruns.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 3, 2025

Come along while we take a look at emerging tech tools and dig deeper into how cost estimation is being transformed into something faster, smarter, and surprisingly budget-friendly. Transparent Costs and Building Strong Supplier Relationships: Discover the valuable role transparency plays in building trust with customers and suppliers.

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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 four steps constitute the upstream source-to-contract part of the process.

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ivalua

JULY 11, 2022

New release features AI-powered contract management, more seamless messaging and communications, supplier risk and performance enhancements and procure-to-pay efficiency . Inventory Efficiency: Improve visibility into stock and process efficiency by defining a distribution scope for each storage location. . Procure-to-Pay.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 5 Ways to Reduce Fleet Management Costs! These businesses are saving money by leasing their vehicles instead of buying them, and they’re also enjoying improved supply chain management due to their increased mobility and flexibility. Efficient Team Transport.

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Procurement Tactics

JANUARY 23, 2023

A transport management system is an innovative software used to make the transportation of goods and services throughout a company more efficient. This helps further optimise costs due to reducing downtime and improving load utilisation from resources.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 2, 2023

A formal contract document that contains the detailed requirement for purchasing and obtaining goods and services, a job order is utilized with a view to ensuring that the desired goods or services are acquired in an orderly and efficient way. A clear budget 4. What is a Job Order?

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 19, 2025

We conclude that different types of loans may help e-commerce supply chains. Grown from the concept of the e-commerce supply chain – end-to-end process from product sourcing through delivery, it has become the determining factor in a business advantage. Here, we get another central point, the capital.

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Spend Matters

MAY 6, 2025

These differing goals can create friction, impacting cash flow efficiency. Procurement’s cash flow priorities Procurement plays a vital role in cash flow management by: Strengthening supplier relationships to ensure resilience in the supply chain. Lets take a look at the differing priorities of finance and procurement.

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Procurement Tactics

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Cost Effectiveness Vs Cost Efficiency — Everything A Procurement You Should Know. Cost-effectiveness and cost-efficiency are often used interchangeably by many people. In this article, we will discuss what cost-effectiveness and cost-efficiency are. What is Cost-Effectiveness?

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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. It allows businesses to track and improve their procurement activities and have a transparent outlook of their procurement process. The key elements are typically: 1.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 15, 2025

Across industries, AI is capable of reshaping procurement, making it smarter, more predictive and highly efficient. Manufacturing and industrials: Strengthening the supply chain backbone In the manufacturing world, procurement is about much more than just tracking spend its the heartbeat of supply chain management.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It also has an impact on procurement teams as they are responsible for managing supplier relationships, identifying opportunities for cost savings, and ensuring that goods and services are delivered on time and within budget.

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