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From Spend to Supply — Coupa’s direct spend management progress

Spend Matters

Categories: Conferences , Spend Management Tags: PRO The question of how to manage direct materials can yield polarized answers and requires deeper evaluation than simply evaluating a few narrow use cases. These capabilities further extend Coupa’s existing advanced supply chain capabilities (Supply Chain Planning and Design solution).

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The Role of IT in Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Supply chain management is an important aspect of every business because it ensures your business gets the supplies, resources, and materials it needs to fulfill services or deliver products to customers. However, the modern supply chain has become increasingly complex and challenging to manage. Procurement Management.

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Supply Chain Department – A Typical Structure

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While Its primary purpose is to manage the entire process, from procurement to delivery, efficiently and cost-effectively, it also coordinates with production to automate processes and planning, etc. Improved Customer Satisfaction A structured department is better equipped to handle customer demands.

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Supply Chain Forecasting — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Having too little in stock means running out at unfortunate times when the demand is high, causing your buyers to buy elsewhere. Demand forecasting can analyze how many products your customers may likely order during a specific week, month, or quarter.

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The Big Interview with Lorna Baker

Procurement Heads

We’re a centralised indirects procurement team with category management being introduced where it can in order to support the parts of the business where we need subject specialism. We’re responsible for the supplier management and then supporting the business in contract management as well.

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How to Choose the Right Last-Mile Delivery Technology for Your Business

Let's Talk Supply Chain

How do I manage my fleet? Consider how well the last-mile delivery technology can integrate with your existing systems, such as order management, inventory management, and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. It’s a challenge that shippers and carriers worldwide are battling every day.

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The Big Interview with Lorna Baker

Procurement Heads

We’re a centralised indirects procurement team with category management being introduced where it can in order to support the parts of the business where we need subject specialism. We’re responsible for the supplier management and then supporting the business in contract management as well.