Procurement Insights

MAY 1, 2025

Risk Mitigation: Historical archives help identify recurring supplier issues, disruption patterns, and the effectiveness of past mitigation strategies, supporting more resilient procurement planning.

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Procurement Supplier relationship management Supply Chain Optimization Negotiation 40

The Good Spending

APRIL 2, 2023

Our colleagues tend to accept the business demand for granted and not try to understand or, God forbid, challenge it. 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.

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Procurement Demand Planning Category management Budget 98

Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 26, 2020

With the promise of future business awards Procurement is largely responsible for finding and qualifying potential new suppliers. Once there is a pool of suppliers Procurement conducts and leads the quotation and supplier selection process culminating in the award of business. The Responsibility.

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Procurement Purchase orders Ethics Supply Chain Optimization 105

Claritum

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Procurement needs to transform and continue to transform to align to the business. Procurement has to move away from a transaction based function and become an advisory resource. The Category Manager needs to become more integrated into key business processes and more consultative in nature.

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Procurement Eprocurement Category management Purchasing 47

Claritum

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Address Procurement Strategy. Focus Procurement on supplier optimisation. Don’t lose Procurement’s focus on costs. Keep Procurement up to date. Procurement is a complex multidisciplinary team activity that crosses all areas of the business. Introduction.

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Procurement Procurement team Supply Chain Efficiency Purchasing 69

Procurement Software

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Procurement, or purchasing as it was usually called back then, was definitely a back office function. Yes, there was some sourcing and supplier management involved as part of the team’s activity. We’re in 2024, and procurement teams are still getting trapped in administrative work and firefighting. Fast forward 25 years.

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Procurement Procurement team Real-time Visibility Influencing 52

The Good Spending

MAY 28, 2023

Building a High-Performing Procurement Team While efficient sourcing, negotiation, and supplier management are crucial for organizational success, the strength of the procurement team is equally important. Coordinator will manage the incoming flow of end-user requests in the Middle Office.

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Procurement team Procurement Category management Sourcing 52