Procurement Insights

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. The Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series was based on my review of the ISM, CAPS and A.T.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The first step to building a resilient supply chain is strengthening your relationships with suppliers. The slow supply chain recovery post-pandemic, along with increased volatility and disruptions due to factors like climate change – means key partnerships can make or break your business moving into the new year.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

ERP vs. Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? That’s the question we set out to answer in our recent panel discussion with Procurement and Supply Chain experts.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 1, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Make your Supply Chain more efficient article and permission to publish here provided by Alejandro Carrera. 7 Ways to Make Your Supply Chain More Efficient. Invest in supply chain visibility.

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Claritum

JULY 5, 2018

The supply chain may contain components of raw materials, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, resellers, agents, logistics, retailers and many other entities. Knowledge of part of this chain is not sufficient. Procurement needs to have real time data on the entire supply chain. 2 The challenge of Tail Spend.

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ivalua

APRIL 6, 2021

A Guide to Contract Management Tools and Processes including a guide to the key steps of the Contract Lifecycle Management Process and to the benefits that using Contract Management software can bring to your Procurement processes. An Overview of Contract Lifecycle Management. What are the benefits Best Practice Contract Management?

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 26, 2018

Software programs have gradually matured to the point where they can finally be labeled as “artificial” intelligence, aping the thought processors of their creators in the form of “expert systems.” Creating a long horizon is important because the buyer need to have an accurate sense of a supplier’s total capacity for producing over time.

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