ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It breaks the bond between Buyer and Supplier, resulting in fragile supply chains and lots of mistrust. When this started for me, I’d hoped that after twenty years of evolution, AP would be touchless, compliant and low cost. Is there a budget and contract (the purchase order is a contract) for these items?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

BPR examples: Use cases Streamlining supply chain management Using BPR for supply chain optimization involves a meticulous reassessment and redesign of every step, including logistics, inventory management and procurement. BPR initiatives generally boost key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As we are coming to the end of the year, procurement and supply chain leaders across industries initiate their annual strategic planning process for the next year. We have shortlisted 7 C ritical T rends that will help supply chain leaders and practitioners to build a strategic blueprint for 2023 and beyond.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 21, 2023

With over $8 billion of product sourced, nearly 1 million RFQ’s and over 50,000 buyers and suppliers involved, they are the world’s largest manufacturing marketplace. The amount of on-shoring we’re seeing is significant; the level of supply chain flexibility that’s required moving forward, there’s a different expectation.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

E-procurement IT solutions improve process automation, increase spending under management, reduce maverick spend, improve cross-functional process/data integration (e.g., budget compliance and inventory availability), enable effective spend, preferred supplier and category management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Check out Brand Protection – The Definitive Role of the Supply Chain! The Supply Chain function within your company has many responsibilities. Yet often the Supply Chain is undervalued. As such there can be unrelenting pressure to continue to cut costs. Promoting Supply Chain Value.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

On November 2nd – 3rd, SupplyShift held its third annual Summit, joining business leaders from across the world to share their knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices on tackling today’s biggest supply chain sustainability issues. Check out our roundup of supply chain sustainability collaborations and industry groups.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

On November 2nd – 3rd, SupplyShift held its third annual Summit, joining business leaders from across the world to share their knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices on tackling today’s biggest supply chain sustainability issues. Check out our roundup of supply chain sustainability collaborations and industry groups. .

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 30, 2023

This will eventually cause a negative impact in the lumber industry as the supply chain is plenty while the demand is below average. Furthermore, pandemic home buyers are expected to stay in their homes rather than move and buy expensive houses to keep their low mortgage rates. Here are four key considerations: 1.

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Arkestro

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With an ever-changing industry requiring staying up to date with technology developments, current trends, and new regulations, it can be difficult to manage costs while still ensuring quality parts. What that did was buyers were over quoting suppliers causing quote fatigue. Jeoff: Glad to be here! Purchasing 3.0

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. This is succession and is usually built into a business plan; it is also usually harder for any smaller accounting practice that may not have the budget to train somebody to be the head of the firm. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on December 1, 2022.

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The Thomas Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

To start, industrial businesses will need an effective online marketing and sales strategy to help them achieve their business goals — because the B2B buyer behavior has changed. Buyers want to know as much about you as they can to help answer these questions: Are you reliable? Be Where Buyers Search For New Suppliers.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To get the most out of any procurement team, all the associated key roles need to be filled with qualified individuals that understand both technology and the principles of supply chain management. Negotiates cost-effective contracts with suppliers while following organizational policies and guidelines.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Procurement operations are the backbone of every company’s supply chain. Fundamental to procurement is the acquisition of goods and services from a party that’s further up the supply chain. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Contrarily, real money has diverse morphological qualities and traits, like bills and coins. They also make supply chain processes simpler by eliminating the need for international currency fabrication and delivery. They might reduce costs. Subscribe Here!

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Planergy

JANUARY 19, 2023

It has been applied to various topics such as economics, business management, quality control, and mathematics. This would mean that 70% of your spending is going toward one type of product—in this case, stationery—and 30% is being spent on other types of office supplies. How Pareto Analysis Works?

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Una

JUNE 8, 2023

We need to focus on those that are critical for maintaining a reliable supply chain, optimizing costs, driving innovation, improving efficiency , and supporting strategic objectives. The focus for these items is usually on building strong relationships with suppliers and ensuring a stable supply chain.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This results in better negotiation outcomes, improved quality, reduced costs, and enhanced overall value delivery. Procurement teams equipped with risk management tools can ensure business continuity and minimize potential negative impacts.

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Empowering CPO

MAY 5, 2023

In essence, procurement serves as the backbone of an organization’s supply chain, contributing to cost savings, risk management, and supplier relationship management. This approach often resulted in inefficient use of resources, limited visibility into supplier performance, and difficulty in managing complex supply chains.

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Planergy

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Sourcing Supply Chain Management. RFX – request for X – can refer to any request a buyer issues a vendor – thereby applying to any of these documents. Buyers can provide information about prices, quality, delivery times, and other important factors when purchasing. Lyle Del Vecchio. 15 min read.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Supply chain collaboration is a hot topic today and no wonder: companies that collaborate effectively across the supply chain have enjoyed dramatic reductions in inventories and costs, together with improvements in speed, service levels, and customer satisfaction. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Empowering CPO

MAY 31, 2023

In essence, SRM is a comprehensive approach to managing an enterprise’s interactions with the organizations that supply the goods and services it uses. The main objective of SRM is to streamline and improve processes between a buyer and its suppliers. Now, what are the benefits of effective SRM?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Done correctly, this process also contains critical activities that can significantly reduce costs and satisfy a business’ key metrics for success. Using automation, businesses can create buyer personas at a rapid pace and use them to improve the customer journey and craft engaging content across channels.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 12, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Emerging procurement theory suggests that creating win-win situations within buyer and supplier agreements are the best ways to create long-lasting, engaging, creative, collaborative, and innovative partnerships. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles!

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is arguably true that supplier performance management is considered a business practice for measuring, analyzing, and managing supplier performance to reduce cost, and risk and also drive continuous improvement. Most companies rely on on-time delivery, price reduction, and quality service from suppliers to make more profit.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Typically, the value that a procurement professional contributes to a business can usually be measured either in: Hard cost savings, or; Other, less tangible but equally important forms of value: Cost avoidance. Sustainability initiatives within the supply chain. But what if my data quality is poor?

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Solvoyo

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Traditionally, well-run RFI and RFP processes try to reduce the risk of deployment failure for the buyer via questions and a demo, and sometimes a proof-of-concept study with made-up data. A well-run T&L removes all onboarding risks due to return on investment (ROI) estimates, data quality, and integration scalability.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 26, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “ Seasoned Leadership in Action ™” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 18, 2023

The following is a business case highlighting the background, context and value proposition of SCMDOJO’s Expert Marketplace, a platform designed to connect businesses with specialized Supply Chain Expert Services. It is within this context that SCMDOJO’s Expert Marketplace was conceived.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 14, 2023

It is a strategic process that involves identifying business needs, sourcing suppliers, negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products or services. This can lead to a race to the bottom, where suppliers are incentivized to cut corners in order to offer the lowest price.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Typically, the value that a procurement professional contributes to a business can usually be measured either in: Hard cost savings, or; Other, less tangible but equally important forms of value: Cost avoidance. Sustainability initiatives within the supply chain. But what if my data quality is poor?

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Where is procurement, outsourcing, sourcing, supply chain, and purchasing going? As we have all seen in the last few years, school districts across the United States are not making budget and there have been a lot of cuts. Federal Government is stepping up cutting budget dollars for programs. What are We Seeing Firsthand?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action ” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. I would call myself an accidental supply chain executive!

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The Procuretech Podcast

JUNE 28, 2022

He says that, interestingly enough, many of the biggest companies make the biggest mistakes - 50, 60, perhaps even 70 percent of a company’s overall budget is managed through suppliers by procurement. Or is it more simple, that procurement just needs a bigger training budget? Oftentimes it goes even higher. The value of talent.

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Pipefy

MAY 23, 2023

If your industry has volatile inclinations or there is a supply chain disruption, a digital contract management tool can monitor and forecast those changes so that you can mitigate possible disasters. Empower and engage suppliers A fast, hassle-free onboarding process is a great way to start a buyer/supplier relationship.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Due to globalization, growing consumer demands on transparency, the pertinence of sustainable development and technological advancements, procurement and supply chain professionals have been highlighted as an integral part of their organizations. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Even if budgets have been set, there is very little control that a CFO or a procurement team can yield. These requirements are often not well negotiated because as long as the stakeholder is within budget, he/she probably doesn’t care so much about the cost. Processes either don’t exist or are not being actively enforced.

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