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. With a Ph.D.

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Arkestro

APRIL 25, 2023

Resources / Blog / Reducing Construction Costs & Improving Sourcing Efficiency with Predictive Procurement Reducing Construction Costs & Improving Sourcing Efficiency with Predictive Procurement Construction companies face a host of challenges in the post-COVID era. from February 2020 to August 2022.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Why is spend analytics software so important? through strategic sourcing and targeted cost savings is a lot easier to accomplish than a sales force increasing their revenue by 10%. Anyhow, in this article, we’re going to take a look at: How to get a reliable spend analysis without the help of specialised spend analytics software.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Why is spend analytics software so important? through strategic sourcing and targeted cost savings is a lot easier to accomplish than a sales force increasing their revenue by 10%. Anyhow, in this article, we’re going to take a look at: How to get a reliable spend analysis without the help of specialised spend analytics software.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 18, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Disintermediation of the Supply Chain! For many years the predominant priority in sourcing has been finding the lowest cost possible. What is the appropriate sourcing strategy going forward? Geographic Sourcing History. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 19, 2024

It will take time before we have dedicated generative AI-driven procurement software. 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.

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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. Take into account things like your current skill level, desired improvement areas, and professional objectives.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data. Read part 1 here , part 2 here and part 3 here.

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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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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Advantage Source-to-Pay(S2P). The Source-to-Pay(S2P) process begins with identifying and evaluating relevant suppliers, contracting with those suppliers, placing orders, monitoring the supply of the ordered products and services, authorization, and the final release of payment. Learn More: Zycus Source to Pay Suite.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 7, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Toilet Paper Supply Chain! In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic the need for complete, end to end Supply Chain visibility has never been more important! Supply Chain visibility and the Digital Supply Chain has never been more important!

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Procurement Software

APRIL 9, 2024

While on the other hand we must equip our teams to tackle sustainability, geopolitical instability and ensuing supply chain disruptions. 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.

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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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Una

JULY 19, 2023

Every major trend in talent, from The Great Resignation to layoffs and hiring freezes to quiet quitting, affects how companies balance and blend their sources of talent. In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes Julia Braun. Today she is the Director of Enterprise Procurement for Highspot.

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The Procuretech Podcast

JUNE 28, 2022

I’m talking to Dr. Wolfgang Schnellbächer from BCG, the author of a new book fresh off the presses - Profit from the Source: Transforming Your Business by Putting Suppliers at the Core. . Sales or sourcing? He’s always thinking in terms of profit from the source, and it’s paid off for them. And this supported the mandate.

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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. Technology Vendors & IT Spend Solutions.

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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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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. Detail the category ownership that turns sustainability into reality.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 12, 2024

Autonomous sourcing and autonomous negotiation applications, as well as spend analytics tools , have all used machine learning algorithms to train their bots on the data. It will also be able to assist in monitoring supply chain disruptions by being able to quickly summarise foreign language news sources and weather reports.

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Positive Purchasing

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

At procurementsoftware.site you can select more than one category. If you want a sourcing platform that also has a contract repository, you can select both and the website will show you anything that matches both of those criteria. A central repository – to manage your sourcing events and contract data.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 23, 2024

In SAP® Ariba® Sourcing, for example, there are AI-driven tools that enable practitioners to automate the RFx process. We see this with the incorporation of a LLM into SAP Ariba Category Management and the increasing role of Joule across our portfolio.” It basically multiplies efficiency through higher process automation.

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Procurement Software

JULY 4, 2023

Procurement technology, or procuretech, refers to software which powers these digital tools which automate and streamline procurement. Software can be used to not only assist procurement teams to automate manual processes such as data entry, document processing and vendor communication. What is procurement tech?

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 25, 2024

In no order of preference, other than by the date they arrived in our inbox, today let’s hear from enterprise intelligence software specialist SAP , one of Spend Matters 50 Procurement Providers to Know. I believe that the scope of procurement will not contract back to a sole focus on supply stability and cost containment.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Green Supply Chain: True Sustainability or Just One Big Marketing Stunt? Sustainability is created at the source of our products, services, and consumption. Sustainability is created from Responsible Sourcing. How can you make Responsible Sourcing a Reality?

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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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The Procuretech Podcast

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The constant challenge of poor data, inaccurate or missing taxonomies and battling with free text PO descriptions is what ultimately led them down the path of creating a software business to solve this problem at scale. AI must be applied to specific fields to provide tangible solutions. From whom do I buy? What price am I paying?

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Travel and Expense management leveraging SAP Concur is an easy plug in for travel spend management and all spend flowing through expense reporting. Beroe for supply market intelligence) that’s woven into the solutions to enhance better decision making. EcoVadis), the SAP Business Network and/or GenAI.

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Procurement Software

MAY 23, 2023

He’s a co-author of Profit From The Source. Profit from the Source: BCG’s 10 Step Plan to deliver Procurement Excellence It starts off by introducing Tim Cook of Apple as being something of an anomaly. Very few CEOs come from Procurement or Supply Chain. Link to the episode below.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 3, 2022

Procurement eAuctions may be used in a multitude of sectors and domains, including industrial machinery, supply chains and logistical operations, telecommunications, commodities, and business technical support programs. These reductions are substantiated by eAuctions software providers Cimmra. Macfarlane, 2017).

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Procurement Software

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Whereas others are more specific to the procurement and supply chain space uniquely. Traditional office-based jobs such as those in procurement and supply chain are having to compete with jobs which can be done remotely. Or, even better, automated and digitised by using procurement software. Probably not.

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The Procuretech Podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

On this week's show we're digging into the world of direct materials sourcing. It's a part of the digital procurement landscape that's been a bit neglected, except for e-sourcing tools, and my guest this week decided to do something about this. What's wrong with managing directs within an ERP?

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Planergy

DECEMBER 29, 2022

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Best Practices & Tips Category Management Procurement. Managing the challenges with best practices, including using procurement software for the marketing spend category helps simplify your process.

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Procurement Software

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’re gradually evolving into being the fulcrum of an organisation’s supply chain who strategically manages and controls supplier relationships. If you’re hiring “policeman” roles while firing front line Category Managers or Analysts, then please stop and think. That is to the detriment of the business as a whole.

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Planergy

JANUARY 18, 2024

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Using a dynamic punchout catalog ensures customers can access data directly from their procurement software, and the data is always correct.

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ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

Niul Burton wrote a great article in Industry Week titled “Procurement 2025: 10 Challenges that Will Transform Global Sourcing”. For those of you who are executives in Supply Chain, Procurement or New Product Introduction/Development, this is a must read. Globalization. Integration.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 22, 2022

I gradually learned more about the supply chain that supported the insurance industry and that companies were being used to dry out properties when there had been a flood, replace property when there had been a theft and that the supply chain world interested me more and more.

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