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The Beautiful Complexity of Procurement Planning

The Good Spending

Our colleagues tend to accept the business demand for granted and not try to understand or, God forbid, challenge it. When discussing value generation , we mainly mention category management, stakeholder relationships, and supplier innovation. The lion's share of procurement value could be created in the planning stage.

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4 Predictions on Procurement’s Top Trends in 2023

Arkestro

Procurement has had massive challenges and targets over the past year: Managing inflation. Reducing supplier risk. Companies Will Scale Their Procurement Knowledge Base and Enablement Programs To Attract and Retain A New Profile of Category Management Talent. scenario-driven demand plans. Reducing spend.

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The Big Interview with Lorna Baker

Procurement Heads

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. We’re responsible for the supplier management and then supporting the business in contract management as well.

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The Big Interview with Lorna Baker

Procurement Heads

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. We’re responsible for the supplier management and then supporting the business in contract management as well.

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Walmart Supply Chain: Building a Successful Integrated Supply Chain for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SCMDOJO

The retail giant has strategically adopted various IT initiatives to optimize its operations, enhance collaboration with suppliers, and achieve real-time inventory targeting. This system facilitates seamless communication and coordination between Walmart and its supply chain partners, including suppliers and distributors.

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Better Visibility for Direct Spend – Anne-Sophie Le Bloas from Ravacan

The Procuretech Podcast

Anne-Sophie Le Bloas, Founder and CEO of Ravacan, experienced in both her native Europe and also in the US, that there wasn't much innovation out there when it came to leveraging digital tools to manage direct materials spend, and set out to remedy this. Demand planning. Ravacan offers modules that cover: "Should cost" analysis.

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How Supply Chain Can Make or Break a High Growth Company!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Rather than taming out-of-control spend later , they’re maximizing profitability by being strategic about the company-wide spend now , by hiring a team of Procurement category managers. But Evans talks about how founders can actually use Supply Chain Management as an opportunity to improve and build their brand.