Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 24, 2021

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 25, 2022

In 2022, he was awarded the Special Mentioned Individual Award by Supply Chain Asia for his contribution to the national emergency procurement for the Covid-19 operation. Furthermore, He was voted by Supply Chain Digital as one of the top 10 procurement executives worldwide. Trillion budget. . Rajeev Karmacharya.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As the procurement industry and supply chains become more tech-driven and complex, one fact is clear: companies that embrace industry trends will be best positioned to thrive in the challenging procurement landscape of 2025 and beyond. Here are five key trends that will shape procurement and supply chain management in the coming year.

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Strategic Sourceror

AUGUST 5, 2022

Indeed, the industry employs close to 58,000 people working in various capacities to keep the candy supply chain flowing. Ever since, they're lucky to have the orders in buyers' hands within three months. " Supply chain issues are one of several problems candy makers are battling.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 19, 2015

Strategic Sourcing has been used by companies of all sizes for years. In our hypercompetitive market environment, which is characterized by customers demanding products and services that are “faster, better, and cheaper”, the help of supply chain partners is needed.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Empowering Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders Across the Globe. New forecast and order collaboration capabilities allow companies to improve collaboration between buyers and suppliers, reducing cycle times and risk of supply chain disruptions. Recognized as a Leader by Analyst Firms.

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Jaggaer

JULY 4, 2024

Christian Heinrich, Co-Founder and Managing Director, c arbmee The 80% Challenge I was recently delighted to participate in a JAGGAER live webinar focused on the introduction, in recent years, of carbon emissions measurement as a factor in strategic sourcing. The objective of net zero carbon footprint is now familiar.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Strategic sourcing becomes part of the process and ensures that the best vendors are selected, and that favorable deals are negotiated with them. This sequence of tasks is sometimes referred to as source to contract, and they form the upstream elements in S2P. Strategic sourcing: The word strategic is added for good reason.

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Jaggaer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

An advanced source-to-pay platform is crucial for unleashing procurement’s potential and optimizing supply chain performance. Strategic Sourcing with Superior Supplier Intelligence Superior supplier intelligence is a major value driver especially at the sourcing stage.

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ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

Recently I attended a conference for Strategic Sourcing in the medical device manufacturing sector. The latter is of particular importance since second sourcing can often be very expensive in this sector. When the supply base is limited, being the customer of choice is essential. Time is Money. Settle no more!

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Procurement Insights

MAY 3, 2025

Sourcing Innovation Launch Date: June 2006 Overview: Authored by Michael Lamoureux, a Computer Science PhD, Sourcing Innovation focuses on procurement technology, strategic sourcing, and supply chain management. AI, e-sourcing), spend analytics, and best practices.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 10, 2024

To potential buyers — Matchory is valuable to organizations seeking a cost-effective solution for quick and accurate supplier discovery, enhancing transparency in global supply chains and optimizing strategic sourcing efforts. This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Try this as a tongue twister: “Tripping through tantalizing TikTokers, tenfold to transform your tangled supply chain!” In our digital age, where viral trends dominate, TikTok’s influence now extends to supply chain management. Discover the Top 10 TikTokers reshaping how you view supply chains.

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Jaggaer

JULY 10, 2024

Or even in contrast, narrowing the supply base so you can more easily monitor tier 1 suppliers’ efforts to reduce emissions. Sourcing: Category and supplier management strategies can then inform your sourcing events to include commercial costs as well as risk and sustainability factors.

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Skill Dynamics

JANUARY 14, 2025

They can improve performance, lead to stronger strategic alignment, and enhance the career development opportunities for your procurement staff. A typical procurement competency framework covers several key areas, including but not limited to strategic sourcing, supplier management, risk management, and contract negotiation.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 24, 2025

Strategic Sourcing: Strategic sourcing involves managing suppliers, while their selection is done through Request for Quotation (RFQs) forms from multiple suppliers to compare and evaluate them based on pricing, quality, and delivery speed. However, its impact is typically greater on the buyer than on the supplier.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Vendigital’s team uses analytics tools to help clients tidy their data so they can make informed improvements to their businesses, e.g., internal cost reduction, supply chain design and strategic sourcing. To the buyer — Vendigital offers a SaaS analytics tool and experts to interpret the analysis.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 14, 2022

Additionally, the demand has increased as many buyers or firms cannot negotiate a reasonable price for products or services. These include strategic planning, supplier collaboration, implementing best practices , strategic sourcing , and negotiation. . Provides supply chain management.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Building Stronger Relationship s : Effective Approaches to Multi-Tier Supplier Collaboration A chain is only as strong as its weakest link—but what if you can’t evaluate the entire chain? Tier 1 suppliers and their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers—make up an organization’s multi-tier supply chain.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 16, 2025

Improved Outcome: More adaptive procurement strategies , helping organizations respond to supply chain disruptions. While they are distinct concepts, they complement each other in AI-driven procurement, strategic sourcing, and market intelligence. ABM simulates market dynamics and predicts future supply chain risks.

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Strategic Sourceror

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

From cereal staples like Cheerios to snack treats like Ho-Hos and Ding Dongs, pantry staples are beloved by grocery buyers because they know what they're getting with each bowl or individually wrapped snack cake. As Supply Chain Dive noted, countries like Brazil have seen very little rainfall this year.

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The Good Spending

JANUARY 4, 2023

Its two dimensions suggest the flat Earth approach with insufficient room to cater to the complexities of modern category management and strategic sourcing situations. The Strategic Sourcing Matrix Let’s start with the classical view, which is the adapted Strategic Sourcing matrix.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Well-defined contracts help ensure suppliers meet expectations while protecting the buyer's interests. Buy fair trade, organic, and locally sourced goods whenever possible. Conduct supply chain audits and due diligence on high-risk categories. Buyer/Purchasing Agent - Executes purchase orders and transactions.

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Strategic Sourceror

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Prospective buyers say the environmental benefits of EVs are fueling their interest. A Blog for Procurement, Supply Chain and Purchasing Professionals, sponsored by Corcentric , a leading Procurement Service Provider, specializing in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Resources and Procurement Advisory.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 16, 2025

Furthermore, Procure-to-Pay (P2P) , e-Sourcing and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) apps often contain supplier portals. Three-way communication between Buyers, Stakeholders and Suppliers avoids the need for unnecessary emails. Digital procurement tools are the enabler to free up time for these.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2019

It is either a data input, such as what we gather and use in spend analysis, or it is a process by-product, such as the information we gather from prospective suppliers during strategic sourcing. Procurement, distributed buyers, the executive team, sales and marketing all have their own reason for looking up suppliers.

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Strategic Sourceror

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When a warehouse receives an order from a customer, a multitude of actions take place for the desired item to be selected, handled, packaged, placed and shipped to the buyer. Seamlessly respond to market shifts in customer demand Underestimating demand proved to be a major supply chain dilemma for businesses during the pandemic.

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Strategic Sourceror

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

While supply chain disruptions have frustrated both buyers and sellers since 2020, many of the previous bottlenecks have since been dislodged, setting the industry up for what could be a banner year from a sales perspective, despite high inflation. "From a supply-chain standpoint, it's the opposite of last year."

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Strategic Sourceror

JANUARY 20, 2023

While this can help them maintain profit margins in the short term, it only contributes to the rise of prices across the supply chain and the long-term persistence of inflation, putting businesses in a double bind. Businesses might respond to inflation by overstocking warehouses, which could make inflation worse.

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Procurement Heads

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

I quickly moved up into MRO purchasing and became even more passionate about saving my company money using smart supply chain solutions and strategic procurement. Nobody says, “I want to be a Buyer when I grow up!” I began pulling material for a manufacturing plant in 2016 and instantly fell in love with material flow.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration for Agility Your world is characterized by dynamic market conditions, shifting customer demands, new technologies, rapidly changing regulations, and frequent supply chain disruptions. Decision-makers must plan supply chain resilience strategies for a wide range of risk scenarios.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Capturing Value occurs when a contract has been established that governs the responsibilities and obligations of both supplier and buyer, and well as when the organization has the right Procure-to-Pay processes in place to ensure compliance to those agreements, goods, services and prices. .

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

READ MORE ON: “STRATEGIC SOURCING VS. PURCHASING – 7 KEY DIFFERENCES” at our website SCMDOJO! The Inner Workings of a Sourcing Agency: 1. Client Consultation: Understanding Needs The journey begins with a detailed consultation between the sourcing agency and the client.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

Procurement eAuctions may be used in a multitude of sectors and domains, including industrial machinery, supply chains and logistical operations, telecommunications, commodities, and business technical support programs. Introduction to Strategic Sourcing. . It’s time for the Auctioneer to take the stage!

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Strategic Sourceror

AUGUST 3, 2022

Product shortages were a common sight throughout much of the country, due in part to supply chain bottlenecks, so stocking up wherever possible made sense. It's just painful on the path from here to there." Retailers aim to reduce their inventory that is piling up due to slower sales. Brought to you by the StrategicSourceror.

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Strategic Sourceror

MAY 12, 2022

With manufacturers responsible for approximately 11% of the United States' gross domestic product and employing nearly 8% of the nation's workforce, many of the supply chain problems the country is encountering have fallen squarely on the industry's broad shoulders. Expansive though they may be, manufacturers are feeling the pressure.

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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. Making The Right Choices.

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