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Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role

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Resources / Blog / Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role Buyers have always played an important role in the procurement industry, helping organizations obtain goods and maintain a careful balance of speed, cost-efficiency, and quality.

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Tail Spend: Your Guide to Full Spend Visibility and Savings

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This is where strategic sourcing professionals spend most of their time, communicating directly with their top suppliers through an SRM program , and using cutting-edge procurement software to analyze spend and track risk. It's decentralized by buyers in the business (not procurement people). Next is the tail. Is it worth it?

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Zivio: Vendor Analysis, 2023 Update — Services sourcing solution overview, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary

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At the same time, the importance and criticality of services spend for organizations hasn’t shrunk (on the contrary …) nor the need to address typical challenges and hurdles inherent to complex service categories: inefficient processes, lack of control and low spend visibility. This content is for members only.

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Streamline Your Procurement Processes with Integrated Source to Pay Platforms and Autonomous Quick Sourcing Technologies

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You must have found yourself struggling with limited visibility into preferred or contracted suppliers, contract utilization status, budgeting issues, and multiple requirements for sourcing low dollar items or services. It is usually time consuming, require multiple approvals and follow ups. Lack of pricing compliance

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The True Power of a Payments Partnership

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By removing the friction in global supply chains, for the first time, the payment and the sourcing event are seamlessly linked. This allows for part-payments, quality or milestone-based contract terms, even payment on receipt to be visible to the supplier, finance, treasury, and the buyers.

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How Predictive Procurement Orchestration Helps Unlock Savings in 60 Days

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Our team traveled to Asia to train 25 of the organization’s employees (including buyers and sourcing managers) on how PPO can be applied in their specific circumstances. Supplier and Buyer Engagement In India, our team worked to train over 15 buyers. You can unsubscribe at any time. The results were immediate.

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‘Emission’ Impossible – 4 Steps to Kickoff your Decarbonization Strategy

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In fact, most organisations report emissions from their supply chain are several times greater than from their direct emissions. Through working with immediate and sub-tier suppliers to routinely monitor critical areas for improving sustainability, organisations can ensure they drive real improvements in environmental practices.

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