Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

By the time I have finished writing this article, and certainly before it is published, the situation will have changed. One is reminded of the Chinese proverb, Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos. We need to rewrite these systems and introduce new taxonomies to manage hyper-variability.

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Demand Logistics Real-time Visibility Procurement 52

Spend Matters

JULY 1, 2025

All of the phases are peppered with real-world case studies from the people who have been in your shoes; so you don’t have to step into the same holes they’ve already avoided! From simple automations that save time to sophisticated strategies that drive major business value, embedding AI in your business processes can provide immense value.

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Procurement Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency Contract 90

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It includes sourcing and supplier management, contract management, and procure-to-pay (P2P) functions. A well-executed S2P strategy reduces costs, increases visibility, and ensures compliance. Organizations leveraging digital solutions for S2P gain real-time insights into spending patterns, enabling smarter decision-making.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

JAGGAER characterizes the steps in this process as Spend Management, Category Management, Sourcing , and Contracts. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility.

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Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing e2e Real-time Visibility 52

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Real-World Focus: SCMDOJO courses often incorporate real-world case studies, expert interviews, and practical exercises, ensuring that you gain relevant and applicable knowledge. The interactive approach caters to learners who want to develop practical skills and gain real-world insights. Click Here!

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Procurement Real-time Visibility supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization 59

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In times of pressure and crisis , highly responsive and trustworthy suppliers make agility possible. Following widely-known standards keeps your vendor options open so you’re not locked into sourcing from a small pool of specialty suppliers that can negatively impact time to market. Performance and stability can waver.

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Collaboration Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. Implementation of new supply structure Track results and restart assessment This model has essentially stood the test of time.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

Tracking performance over time is key to measuring the business value the collaboration is delivers. However, procurement plays a critical role in reflecting cost-saving initiatives, supplier contracts and spend management efforts in financial statements and budget planning.

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Sustainability supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility 69

Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In this article, we’ll go over a few ways to improve the process: education, gaining spend visibility , categorizing spend by supplier or department, etc. Direct vs. Indirect Spend Types of Indirect Spend Categories What’s Behind This Disconnect? What Happens When Indirect Spend Isnt Managed? The list goes on.

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 3, 2025

Poll Time The following is a poll that was posted in the Global & Purchasing Supply Chain Professionals LinkedIn Group, which has over 164,000 members. Reality: No one invested time in proper training, and category managers are still relying on spreadsheets. What is the edge one driver has over another?

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Real-time Visibility supply chain budgeting supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Optimization 81

Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 7, 2020

In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic the need for complete, end to end Supply Chain visibility has never been more important! The necessity for visibility started with store shelves being emptied of toilet paper , food, and various household items. Supply Chain visibility and the Digital Supply Chain has never been more important!

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2021

– Spend control through real-time visibility into budget consumption, negotiated prices, preferred suppliers, engagement channels. Also, an eprocurement solution provides you with clean spend data, which is the basis for a sound spend analysis and eventually relevant category management.

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Eprocurement Real-time Visibility Purchase orders Budget 235

ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

ERP solutions often lack robust capabilities around managing all of the data attributes for products and vendors, and cannot update them in real time or in an automated fashion. Best-in-class solutions do a better job of capturing usage data for healthcare products at the time of patient use. Demand planning capabilities.

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Future Purchasing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In our recently published FP Category Management Leadership Report 2021-22, 51% of respondents agreed an annual plan of category management projects with their relevant business stakeholders, compared to 39% in 2019-20. The importance of strategic alignment. There are a number of critical elements to consider.

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Category management Collaboration Real-time Visibility Management 52

ivalua

MARCH 28, 2019

The huge growth in the use of technology has been the most visible part of that developing picture. Outside the technology field, we have also seen “science” come to the fore in terms of codifying processes such as Category Management.

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Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain Real-time Visibility Innovation 167

Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is Spend Management? In the past, many businesses relied on tools like spreadsheets to manage their spending. However, these manual processes are ineffective and cost a lot of effort, time, and money. Spend management refers to the management and the continuous improvement of the company’s spending.

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Una

JULY 6, 2022

A guide to exploring the benefits of working with a group purchasing organization to save money, time and effort. The real value, however, and where you’ll truly benefit from working with a group purchasing organization like Una, lies beyond the initial cost savings. GPO Case Study | Saving 27% in Multiple Categories with Una.

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Purchasing Category management Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency 92

SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

The company has implemented sophisticated barcode scanning and point-of-sale systems to collect real-time data from its stores. By employing these technologies, Walmart gains valuable insights into customer buying behavior, sales trends, and inventory levels.

Supply Chain Efficiency 98

Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain 98

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 solutions Procurement e2e Real-time Visibility 113

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

The needs of a Procurement Excellence Manager or a Consultant are going to be rather different to those of a Category Manager. A team of Category Managers will likely require more granular features at line item level. The Category Manager or Data Analyst can eliminate a huge chunk of work thanks to automation.

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supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Category management Data 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

The needs of a Procurement Excellence Manager or a Consultant are going to be rather different to those of a Category Manager. A team of Category Managers will likely require more granular features at line item level. The Category Manager or Data Analyst can eliminate a huge chunk of work thanks to automation.

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supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Category management Data 52

Procurement Leaders

JUNE 1, 2022

Excluded from planning meetings and strategic decisions, and with a team lacking the knowledge and relationships to drive real change, procurement was extremely decentralised, in control of just 30% of global spending and focused mostly on tactical, transactional activities.

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Procurement Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Leadership 130

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Procurement departments tend to be less visible to many stakeholders than sales, operations or even finance departments, but the impact they have on everything from the bottom line to product quality and service delivery shouldn’t be overlooked, which is why “procurement excellence” is a worthy pursuit.

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Procurement Heads

JULY 19, 2023

Our organisation is up and running, we have Category Managers, and we have regional teams. We have an amazing analytics dashboard, which gives us visibility on spend and suppliers’ contract duration, supplying really important insight. How much has changed for you professionally since your last Head2Head with us?

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Real-time Visibility Procurement Sustainability Import 130

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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Procurement solutions Procurement supply chain budgeting Real-time Visibility 98

Una

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Our team is dedicated to empowering procurement and technology professionals to make the best sourcing decisions for their organizations while saving money, time, and effort. As a horizontal GPO , Una leverages our buying power in categories that are commonly purchased by nearly every business. Technology. The benefits?

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Arkestro

APRIL 25, 2023

The workforce shortage reached half a million this year , and many sectors continue to grapple with increased lead times, and volatile material costs. At the same time, the number of young, able-bodied construction workers has decreased by 8% over the past decade, further exacerbating the industry’s labor shortage.

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Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing supply chain budgeting Real-time Visibility 52

Spend Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2024

These start-ups are taking technology further than most to address problems not previously solved, or are introducing a new category of automation that tackles new challenges in interesting ways. We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices.

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Buyers Real-time Visibility Sustainability Data 112

Una

JULY 25, 2023

The first three KPIs we suggest every procurement team should monitor are: Defect rates Lead time Contract compliance Can you guess what the other four KPIs will be? Every free resource is dedicated to empowering procurement to save more money, time, and effort. Read the article to find out.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Some examples are – Category. Category manager. Selected parameters have to work in synergy (combination) to achieve real savings. The internal stakeholders have to cover various touch-points and need visibility into all relevant variables. Category Managers. Category and commodity savings.

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Real-time Visibility Management Procurement Category management 40

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

JANUARY 16, 2023

You must have found yourself struggling with limited visibility into preferred or contracted suppliers, contract utilization status, budgeting issues, and multiple requirements for sourcing low dollar items or services. It is usually time consuming, require multiple approvals and follow ups. Lack of pricing compliance .

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Sourcing Real-time Visibility Procurement Buyers 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 28, 2020

Instead of waiting for others to realize that now is the time for Procurement professionals to make their value and contribution known. Now is the time for Procurement to SELL! Now I would never advocate selling something that isn’t real. Procurement People It’s Time to Sell Yourselves!

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Procurement Chief Procurement Officer Supply Chain Efficiency Purchase orders 93

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

But, as stakeholders in the future of tomorrow, we also have to be conscious about the necessary steps to realize sustainable impact, for real. So, what are the steps that need to be taken in businesses globally to make real sustainable impact? Businesses must serve as the champions of sustainability. Source: Purina.

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Sustainability Sourcing Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility 75

Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 30, 2022

In my experience Total Cost of Ownership ( TCO or TCOO) models typically include some combination of the following elements: Unit price (Always the first item) Takedown rate performance Payment terms Freight and Logistics terms and transfer of ownership Lead times (order, delivery, replenishment) Other Parameters (eg.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If we had this level of synchronization we would be aligned when it came time to develop our attack plan. Organizationally I learned that while there was one person responsible for Inventory performance tracking this person was not given a lot of time by the Executive team. After all we were in this together.

Inventory 72

Inventory Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain Supply 72

Una

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It’s impossible to have the most current or newest application implemented at all times. Lack of visibility into spend and contract data also contribute to the difficulty of managing IT spend. There are times when cost reduction is a priority but the IT procurement process should take other factors into account as well.

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Procurement Contract Real-time Visibility Purchasing 98

Procurement Software

MAY 14, 2024

Enhanced Efficiency and Visibility: By adopting process orchestration tools and platforms, businesses gain real-time insights and control over their procurement activities, facilitating quicker decision-making and improved risk management. Modern process orchestration software is designed with the end-user in mind.

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