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‘Emission’ Impossible – What are the 4 Steps to Ensuring Supply Chain Sustainability?

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Businesses must start looking to the supply chain to ensure this renewed focus on transparency and accountability. Importantly, the study demonstrates why more needs to be done across the supply chain to assess and measure green credentials regularly. Measure suppliers on carbon emissions.

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The top capabilities of E-Procurement solutions

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What does an E-Procurement solution do? E-procurement solutions use an electronic interface to automate, guide and approve the purchase and reception of products and services. To compare product strengths and weaknesses, try Spend Matters TechMatch to directly assess the capabilities of digital procurement solutions.

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Digital Transformation in Procurement: Leveraging Technology for Efficiency

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Embracing digital technologies has become a necessity for companies to streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and increase overall efficiency. Procurement’s Role in Driving Business Success Procurement, often viewed as a behind-the-scenes function, plays a critical role in a company’s success.

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New Year Insights for the procurement solutions and services marketplace 2024: IntegrityNext

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One of the standout trends within this paradigm shift is the focus on supplier collaboration in bolstering ESG practices across the supply chain. Enterprises are actively mapping supply chain links and dependencies, understanding that sustainable practices are only as strong as their weakest link.

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Onventis makes the leap from a ‘Provider to Watch’ to a ‘Provider to Know’ in the 2023 best-in-class procurement solution lists

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Here’s how Onventis describes itself: “We are pioneers in cloud-based solutions, transforming purchasing and finance processes since 2000. Our flagship product, Onventis Buyer cloud software, stands as a comprehensive procurement system designed to empower organizations across all aspects of procurement.

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The re-rise of conversational AI for procurement efficiency and how to integrate it into your processes

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Neither oral nor text-based conversational AI (also known as conversational user experience [CUX] and conversational interfaces [CUI] the latter of which include chatbots) is by no means new, despite the relatively recent prolific uptake by procurement solution vendors. This helps the system to respond more accurately to queries.

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Everything You Need to Know About Procurement Solutions

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In its long history , procurement has evolved from self-contained purchasing entities to an essential business partner handling processes involving several departments and many subprocesses. The risks of errors and bottlenecks alone in manual work make procurement a superb place to begin a digital transformation. Risk reduction.