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5 Chilling Challenges Facing Procurement Today

Arkestro

Fortunately for us mere mortals, humans bring invaluable contributions to the procurement process that aren’t likely going to be replaced by machines anytime soon: Strategy: Human judgment and expertise are invaluable assets when it comes to things like supplier relationship management, negotiations, and more.

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If you can measure it then you can manage it

Claritum

Whether you are focused on controlled growth or cost efficiencies, the ability to measure what is occurring in real time is essential to making decisions. The supply chain may contain components of raw materials, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, resellers, agents, logistics, retailers and many other entities.

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The 25 Hottest US Procurement Startups

Procurement Software

Lavenir AI LavenirAI is a conversational AI-powered procurement negotiation training platform. Designed by procurement specialists, for procurement professionals, LavenirAI was developed to raise the bar for procurement negotiation. LavenirAI allows you to train anywhere, any time, so you can stay at the top of your game.

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Selecting the right service provider partner for each one of the three steps or stages of procurement digital transformation success

Procurement Insights

They say that, like truth, good ideas stand the test of time. In this test case, the public sector organization realized a year-over-year 23% cost of goods savings for seven consecutive years while simultaneously reducing the number of buyers required to manage the contract to 3 from an original 23.