Procurement Templates

MARCH 7, 2024

Key components typically found in a procurement playbook include: Procurement policies and procedures: Clearly defined rules and regulations governing procurement processes, such as vendor selection criteria, bidding procedures, and contract management protocols. I curate best book marks so you don’t need to hunt around!

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Procurement Tactics

MARCH 16, 2023

Category Management Category management sorts your spending into areas with the same supplier markets. Supplier Management Supplier management involves the handling of relationships between suppliers and the company. It can also help you with contract management and compliance processes.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 11, 2024

It provides customers with a platform that connects buyers with qualified suppliers and offers a range of capabilities (in-app and as services) such as category management, demand management, e-sourcing, auctions, supplier management and contract management.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The source-to-contract process is where Procurement identifies and creates value for their organization. Ivalua offers a completely integrated experience across the entire upstream process, enabling customers to successfully define and execute sourcing and supplier management strategies and lock in the value with Contract Management.

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Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 16, 2023

This required commercial and procurement advisory from Barkers to implement the transition from a tactical procurement function to a more strategic Category Management structure. Strategic review of and implementing new FM service contracts – grounds maintenance and waste management. Set up contract management.

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Procurement Templates

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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The Good Spending

APRIL 2, 2023

When discussing value generation , we mainly mention category management, stakeholder relationships, and supplier innovation. Draft Demand Plan includes thousands of SKU lines, which procurement needs to segment into different categories. Not 100% of the demand will be covered by the category management.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 20, 2023

Read More: Decoding the Procurement Department: A Comprehensive Guide to Roles and Responsibilities ] What does a Procurement Manager do? They also work closely with other departments within the organization to ensure that procurement needs are aligned with the overall goals and objectives of the company.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

Gatekeeper combines contract lifecycle management with third-party risk management, two areas that are related but usually addressed with disparate software tools. Spend Analytics AnyData Solutions is used for spend analytics, contract management, supplier relationship management and ESG/performance tracking.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 19, 2024

Generative AI’s current impact in procurement is best illustrated by tech-savvy procurement category managers leveraging apps like ChatGPT and Bard to streamline the execution of routine tasks. Category Management AI will increasingly be used to help to write and generate category strategies.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

AI can help create greater efficiency and value across all source-to-pay processes, including spend analysis, opportunity identification, sourcing and contract management, category management, supply relationship management and risk management.

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Procurement Heads

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Also, a lot of contract management and supplier relationship management. Sustainable procurement is becoming not just a topic to look at but retaining within the core of the business in the same way that contract management, supplier management and cost savings are as well.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 23, 2024

We see this with the incorporation of a LLM into SAP Ariba Category Management and the increasing role of Joule across our portfolio.” Take contract management, for example. In category management, for example, you need to have a simultaneous grasp of outside and inside elements to recommend potential strategies.

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Empowering CPO

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

To answer these questions it is important to summarize and define Procurement Market Intelligence & Analytics Services, it is also important to summarize typical role of a category manager and KPI’s of an ideal Procurement Organization. Role of category manager & KPI’s of an ideal procurement organization.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

Choose between a broad overview of procurement and a focused course that focuses on certain topics like strategic sourcing, contract management, or supplier relationship management. Category Management plays a vital role in every business, regardless of its size. What is the category management in procurement?

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Most experienced Procurement Managers don’t enjoy performing administrative tasks and firefighting operational issues. And yet, poor operational efficiency in Procurement means that the typical Category Manager often spends at least a THIRD of their time performing “busy work” This is not an effective or efficient use of their time.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Supplier relationship management: Procurement manages relationships with suppliers to ensure coordination and effective workflow. Contract development: The team develops and establishes contracts with supplier organizations to meet the buyer organization’s requirements and needs.

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Arkestro

APRIL 25, 2023

Project Complexity Construction projects involve numerous stakeholders, including architects, engineers, category managers, contractors, suppliers, and clients. The bigger the project, the greater the need for collaboration, communication, and streamlined supplier management.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 2, 2023

Modern procurement services encompass a wide range of activities such as strategic sourcing, category management, contract negotiation, risk management, and supplier relationship management. Contract Management: Contract management involves the administration of contracts with suppliers.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Most experienced Procurement Managers don’t enjoy performing administrative tasks and firefighting operational issues. And yet, poor operational efficiency in Procurement means that the typical Category Manager often spends at least a THIRD of their time performing “busy work” This is not an effective or efficient use of their time.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Magnus Carlsson’s book, Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons Learned at IKEA is a masterful composition and guideline of how a procurement and sourcing organization can start building a quality infrastructure by gaining inspiration from IKEA’s procurement triumphs and failures.

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Procurement Heads

MARCH 27, 2023

We’re a centralised indirects procurement team with category management being introduced where it can in order to support the parts of the business where we need subject specialism. Procurement at Futures involves negotiating and renegotiating contracts for all goods, works and services.

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Barkers Procurement

MAY 25, 2022

Category management. Barkers started category councils and reviewed tendering and negotiations practices, delivering £750k savings in the first year. Infor EAM (asset management and procurement module) implementation. Contract management system implementation: Visibility of ongoing contracted spend.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Identifying Value , is where procurement teams leverage spend data and spend analysis to understand trends in spend and identify opportunities and develop category management strategies. . There are, in fact different phases of procurement value creation that tie into the Source-to-Pay process: .

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ProcurePort

JANUARY 18, 2022

Category management is the process of pulling together similar products in a single category; and then addressing all the diverse initiatives of a single category as a whole. The initiatives captured in a particular category may include merchandising, procurement process, retail, and sales efforts.

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World of Procurement blog

JULY 27, 2021

We’d even go so far to say that the modern procurement pro doesn’t focus that much time on the actual buying, as roles have grown to focus on Supply Chain Management, Contract Management and Relationship Management. This stage is finalised once both parties sign the contract. Go do that now. Email Address.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Automation increases efficiency and reduces errors, leading to faster and more accurate procurement cycles. This results in better negotiation outcomes, improved quality, reduced costs, and enhanced overall value delivery.

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Skill Dynamics

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Strategic Approaches: Leveraging Advanced Techniques Skill Dynamics helps the following roles with negotiation techniques achieve procurement excellence: Operational Buyer Procurement Analyst Buyer Senior Buyer Contract Manager Category Manager Procurement Manager Support Manager Quality Assurance Manager An interactive suite of negotiation courses (..)

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Empowering CPO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

All Tools and Systems in Place: They should have the right kinds of tools for procure to pay process, this includes tools like Supplier Relationship Management, Contract Management, Sourcing (SFX), Auction Event Management Tools, and Spend Tools among others that may be required depending on the size and type of an organization.

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Procurement Heads

MARCH 27, 2023

We’re a centralised indirects procurement team with category management being introduced where it can in order to support the parts of the business where we need subject specialism. Procurement at Futures involves negotiating and renegotiating contracts for all goods, works and services.

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Sustainability Agile and Lean Supply Chain Influencing Procurement 130

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. Category management can lead to better supplier selection, improved negotiation, and enhanced value delivery.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Lastly, when we think of procurement analytics, we traditionally think of Spend Analytics and all the above does apply to that, but there is now so much more, such as analytics in category management, strategic sourcing, contract management and P2P to name a few.

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Una

JUNE 15, 2023

The CPO is supported by strategic sourcing managers, category managers, buyers, analysts, contract managers, a compliance officer, an SRM manager, and others as new roles emerge. By Hugo Britt | June 15, 2023 Search Search The procurement office of Company A is a bustling place.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Those same companies, out of necessity, became more sophisticated and implemented Strategic Sourcing and Category Management, delivering substantial savings to their companies bottom line and even help capture innovation. We can even manage all your contracts for you utilizing our new Contract Management as a Service (CMaaS).

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ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

But now with strategic sourcing and category management, the process has become much easier to track, monitor and control. It’s a style of working that produced innovative thinking – but by its nature, could be hit and miss; where “miss” could have a significant negative impact to an organisation’s balance sheet.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Redwood City, CA – October 26, 2020 – Ivalua, a leading global spend management cloud provider, and Consus, a leading global supply chain solutions provider, today announced that Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) has successfully deployed Ivalua’s platform to empower its procurement digital transformation, with Consus leading implementation.

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Procurement Software

APRIL 9, 2024

They have a team of 10 procurement category managers. Each of those category managers earns $100,000 gross per year, which gives me a $1 million salary bill. How would I take this category management team of 10 each on $100K a year? The backbone of the team is still going to be Category Managers.

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