SCMDOJO

APRIL 26, 2023

Category management is a procurement strategy that involves grouping similar products or services together into categories and managing them as a single unit. In this guide, we’ll explore the key principles of category management and how it can benefit your organization.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What is Source to Pay (S2P)? Yet in the case of source to pay, it is wholly justified. That said, many organizations, including large enterprises, may not think in terms of source to pay as an end-to-end process, if they think about it at all. Yet there are good reasons to do so.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Is Strategic Sourcing? A Complete Guide Strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. It is called strategic because it replaces traditional ad hoc approaches to sourcing, which were almost entirely focused on cost savings, item by item.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Procurement Templates

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strategic Objectives Cost Savings: Achieve cost reduction targets through effective supplier negotiations and strategic sourcing. Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong supplier partnerships to ensure long-term business value. Explore alternative sourcing models , such as consortium buying or global sourcing hubs.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. Who Should Prioritize an S2P Digital Transformation?

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Procurement Tactics

MARCH 16, 2023

When strategic procurement is done correctly, it can help an organization to optimize its profit margin, reduce risks, and streamline the process of purchasing goods and services needed to achieve business goals. Category Management Category management sorts your spending into areas with the same supplier markets.

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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. . He began his career at A.T.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2022

Redwood City, 17 August, 2022 – Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that O-I Glass Inc, an American Fortune 500 company headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, has selected its solution to streamline its Global Direct and Indirect Source-to-Pay (S2P) Processes. in 2021 and 24,000 employees. Follow us at @Ivalua.

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Future Purchasing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Category management is the strategic end-to-end process for managing categories of related supplier spend that aligns business goals and requirements with supply market capability. Effective internal cross-functional working is the foundation of successful category management.

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Jaggaer

MAY 16, 2025

Procurement teams now include specialists such as category managers with deep market knowledge who drive sourcing events and significantly impact the companys bottom line. Through smart sourcing, procurement can help accelerate R&D processes and enable faster delivery of new products or solutions.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This focus and track record however, was in some ways at the expense of fully optimizing and maximizing procurements total strategic value to the enterprise as a whole. The most significant impact of implementing a spend analytics solution was providing the visibility and details behind the dollars spent on various Indirect spend categories.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

The following sections explore how shared KPIs can be monitored to support financial reporting and budgeting, measure procurements impact through supplier performance, compliance and cost savings and optimize alignment efforts through tracking best practices. Category-based budgeting should align with corporate financial strategies.

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Skill Dynamics

JANUARY 14, 2025

A typical procurement competency framework covers several key areas, including but not limited to strategic sourcing, supplier management, risk management, and contract negotiation. This can lead to more effective sourcing, reduced sourcing costs, higher quality products, and stronger overall supplier relationships.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In today’s dynamic business landscape, category management in procurement has become an essential weapon for procurement teams seeking to optimize spend, strengthen supplier relationships, and drive growth. This is where category management in procurement emerges as a game-changer.

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Procurement Tactics

JANUARY 8, 2023

Spend analysis enables businesses to assess procurement spending data from internal and external data sources. It can also help drive sustainability initiatives in your supply chain and procurement process. . The Closed Loop Spend Management. Manage and monitor cost savings and sustainability impact for each initiative.

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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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Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

I recently hosted a webinar in which our star speaker was Lora Cecere, Founder at Supply Chain Insight. Supply chain management typically does not fit very well with procurement, which is a challenge at the best of times, and can be a disaster in difficult times. As late as the 1990s, supply chains were very local.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 28, 2024

In recent years, there has been a significant shift in the supply chain industry as more and more women are choosing careers in this traditionally male-dominated field. This rise of women in the supply chain is not only breaking gender barriers but also bringing a fresh perspective and new ideas to the table.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The primary goals of SRM are to foster hand-in-glove supplier relationships, manage risk, and optimize the value chain. 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.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 21, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. A “Don’t Touch” Strategy will Dramatically Lean out your Supply Chain! I started thinking about the Costco Supply Chain. What is it that makes Costco’s Supply Chain so effective? This is a massive source of efficiency.

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

At a time when businesses are evolving at a rapid pace, the significance of supply chain management continues to grow, becoming an essential part of operations for companies around the globe. Two platforms that stand out in this field are SCMDOJO academy and Coursera supply chain courses , among many others.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 30, 2023

Introduction In the dynamic world of business, the ability to effectively manage and optimize supply chains has emerged as a critical success factor. At the heart of this revolution lies a powerful tool that many companies are now leveraging to achieve competitive advantage: Managed Procurement Services.

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 26, 2025

Or, maybe youre suffering from Cinderella complex: not bold enough to demand an upgrade to the outdated, clunky, legacy Source-to-Pay suite interfaces that suppliers and stakeholders havent really adopted. This shift elevates procurement from a reactive cost centre to a proactive driver of both cost optimization as well as sales enablement.

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

The total costs, in terms of human lives, disrupted supply chains, ruined businesses and GDP impact, are still just projections in the array of charts presented daily by statisticians and data modelers. There are, however, already some clear lessons to be learned by Procurement and Supply Chain leaders.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 1, 2025

Cost Management: By analyzing long-term pricing and spend trends, organizations can make more informed sourcing decisions, avoid overpaying, and optimize contract negotiations. Impact on Cost-to-Value Analysis Value Multiple Increase: With this unique archive, Procurement Insights value multiple would rise further (e.g.,

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Today, for procurement organizations too, applying an AI-first approach has become imperative, especially in the source-to-pay process. Generative AI, in particular, offers transformative potential in optimizing source-to-pay processes. And the maximum value can be extracted from these new tools through strategic integration.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Essential Guide to Source to Pay, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay Whether youre new to the world of procurement and supply chain management, or a seasoned veteran; whether you work in a major manufacturing industry, a university, or a medium-sized clinical research organization, you may find procurement jargon rather confusing.

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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 30, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Single Point of Failure in Supply Chain – Semiconductor Fabrication! Many businesses use some form of Total Cost of Ownership model to support their Procurement and sourcing decisions. That’s the concept, anyways! Where do these TCO Models break down?

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 6, 2024

Watch Procurement Jobs in Future I The Supply Chain Show video on SCMDOJO YouTube Channel! Ethical and Sustainable Procurement: The curriculum emphasizes the importance of responsible sourcing practices, aligning with the growing demand for ethical and sustainable supply chains. Enroll Now!

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 20, 2023

Our procurement manager job description template is designed to provide you with a comprehensive guide to the key responsibilities and requirements of this pivotal role. Dr. Muddassir has received a PhD in Management Science from Lancaster University Management School.

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Una

JULY 6, 2022

As a true sourcing accelerator , our goal is to become an extension of your procurement team. Una does this by offering assistance on everything from supply chain management, data and analysis, education, and more. Supply Chain Management. Category Management. Partner in Procurement.

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Arkestro

JANUARY 4, 2023

Among them were supply chain disruptions , inflation, and supply scarcity and shortages. Companies Will Scale Their Procurement Knowledge Base and Enablement Programs To Attract and Retain A New Profile of Category Management Talent. The Supply Chain Will Continue to Heal. Inflation will go down.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Effective supply chain management is essential for success in the dynamism and connectivity of modern companies. To accomplish this, you require the skills of supply chain experts who can manage the complexity and difficulties of today’s global supply chains.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 19, 2025

Procurement today has three overarching objectives: to maximize profitability, minimize risk, and optimize sustainability. The second has become more pronounced in recent years, notably with the Covid pandemic and supply chain disruptions. The first of these has always been with us. We want to reduce costs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Procurement is a function that is undergoing an exciting transformation in the majority of global value chains; simultaneously, within its own strategy, process, and technology. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! It’s time to air our dirty laundry.

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