SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 29, 2024

SCMDOJO Academy elevates your procurement and supply chain skills through its extensive course library. Mastering Procurement – Essentials Skills and Competencies Mastering Procurement by Maryna Trepova is the ultimate Procurement and Purchase Management course for Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Students.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

JAGGAER characterizes the steps in this process as Spend Management, Category Management, Sourcing , and Contracts. Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. This transparency enables organizations to make informed decisions, mitigate risks, and ensure accountability.

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Skill Dynamics

JANUARY 14, 2025

Finance and Cost Management Being able to efficiently and effectively manage and control procurement budgets and general costs will lead to stronger financial control across your business , increased cost efficiencies, and a better allocation of resources, which allows you to enhance profitability and improve your team.

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ivalua

JULY 3, 2025

Direct and indirect procurement are two fundamental approaches in supply chain management, each serving distinct functions within an organization. Both focus on improving efficiency and reducing costs but differ in their strategic approach and impact on the core business operations.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 15, 2025

Procurement efficiency (or lack of it) is the elephant in the room. Most experienced Procurement Managers don’t enjoy performing administrative tasks and firefighting operational issues. This is neither an effective, nor or efficient use of their time. This is neither an effective, nor or efficient use of their time.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The process creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. In recent years unforeseen supply chain disruptions have forced companies to identify and plug these gaps at short notice.

Strategic sourcing 52

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

Success depends on integration, transparency, and alignment with help from modern spend analysis software that supports trusted data, configurable logic, and cross-functional collaboration. If teams can’t explain how categories like marketing or legal spend are assigned, they won’t act on the insights.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 16, 2025

While full-scale digital transformation certainly takes time, organisations can see rapid improvements in efficiency, collaboration, and data accuracy right from the outset. Procurement now has its turn to drive efficiency and performance gains through better data. Sales have had reliable data ever since they had a CRM.

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Future Purchasing

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Public procurement departments are navigating a complex landscape of challenges, including regulatory shifts, inefficiencies, difficulty building resilient supply chains, and an increasing demand for sustainability and transparency. Limited tech adoption Procurement technology adoption in the public sector is slow.

Innovation 52

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Rather than treat procurement as a series of disparate tasks, global organizations in all sectors implement efficiency across the source-to-pay journey. Each stage contributes to a more strategic approach to procurement: Spend management: Despite the title, source to pay cannot really start with sourcing. the public sector).

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 26, 2025

Increasing inflationary cost pressures, more supply chain disruptions, and the imperative for more transparency to satisfy Corporate Social Resposibilty (CSR) directives, or recent legislation in countries like Germany and Norway. Category Managers will be freed up to spend more time on execution rather than data gathering.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By selecting and developing the right suppliers and establishing streamlined, transparent communication with them, manufacturers gain the agility and resilience to respond to customer demands, rise to the top, and navigate disruptions more easily. Decision-makers must plan supply chain resilience strategies for a wide range of risk scenarios.

Collaboration 52

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Procurement Software

JULY 6, 2025

Yet the valuable contributions from Category Managers handling indirect spend often come through cost avoidance or successfully deferring contractual price increases or inflationary pressures. Building this trust requires transparency in methodology and consistent application of agreed-upon rules.

Procurement 52

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Identifying the need for foundational technology and processes Before joining Utz as its SVP Procurement, Ron had been consulting with the Supply Chain department working on a number of different projects. In addition, the broader supply chain organization was working to implement other new tools and processes.

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Spend Matters

JULY 1, 2025

AI in Procurement AI in procurement: How different industries are harnessing its power Across industries, AI is capable of reshaping procurement, making it smarter, more predictive and highly efficient. Procurement platforms are getting smarter, or most people think so at least. And they are testing the limits of procurement’s preparedness.

Procurement 90

Procurement Real-time Visibility Contract Supply Chain Efficiency 90

Procurement Software

JUNE 1, 2025

Category Managers memorised ERP commands as if they were sacred. Category management Modern category managers orchestrate ecosystems of suppliers, technologies, and internal stakeholders. They design category strategies that integrate seamlessly with business innovation cycles.

Procurement 52

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These include risk management and resilience in a volatile world. Companies want to avoid or mitigate disruptions to the supply chain and manage stranded assets. Procurement stands at the center of several competing aims and objectives: cost savings, compliance, reputation, innovation, finance and supply chain resilience.

Leadership 52

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Complete Source to Pay cycle and Strategic Sourcing Guide An optimized Source-to-Pay (S2P) process helps businesses enhance procurement efficiency, reduce costs, and improve supplier collaboration. Key elements include total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, supplier relationship management, and category management.

Strategic sourcing 52

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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. However, whats really missing hereneeds analysis. Thus, strategic sourcing makes more sense when done at scale.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 21, 2025

With their holistic approach, Pallet Alliance aims to reduce your operational costs, streamline pallet spend and modernize the performance of your palletized program assets across your supply chain ecosystem. We take a scientific approach to pallet and category management.” 06.35] The ideal client for Pallet Alliance. “So

Supply Chain Optimization 52

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 16, 2025

Let’s delve into more specific details for each of your follow-up questions, leveraging the principles of his model: What new procurement efficiencies could Hansen’s Metaprise unlock by 2030? In supply chain, it could predict how a local disruption cascades into a global crisis.

Supply Chain Optimization 52

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Targeted Learning: SCMDOJO offers a range of courses and learning paths focusing on specific procurement areas, such as e-auctions, contract negotiation, cost optimization, and supply chain resilience. This allows you to tailor your learning to your particular needs.

Procurement 59

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

Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

Supplier performance tracking: A high-performing supplier base contributes to cost efficiency, operational stability and risk mitigation. Procurement teams should: Track on-time delivery rates to prevent supply chain disruptions that impact financial planning.

Sustainability 69

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

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. A prime example of this is sustainability: since a large portion of emissions lie within the supply chain, procurement holds a crucial lever here think Scope 3.

supply chain budgeting 52

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Different departments handle different purchases without much transparency across departmental lines. Admin staff might be responsible for ordering office supplies. Types of Indirect Spend Categories Managing indirect spend can feel overwhelming, especially when it spans so many categories. The list goes on.

Spend management 40

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Spend Matters

MARCH 12, 2025

Nearshoring and ally-shoring arent just buzzwords anymore; theyve shot to the top of the agenda for anyone trying to keep supply chains resilient and businesses competitive. However, efficient and effective discovery can be a challenge.

Suppliers 80

Suppliers Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply chain resilience Supply Chain Efficiency 80

Procurement Insights

MAY 15, 2025

Thoma Bravos investment played a pivotal role in this shift, as the private equity firms focus on cost efficiencies and operational improvements helped Coupa transition from consistent losses to profitability. This is consistent with Cirtuos efficient, SaaS-focused business model and increasing market adoption.

Spend management 52

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Jaggaer

MARCH 19, 2025

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

Contract management 52

Contract management supply chain budgeting Sustainability Influencing 52

Procurement Insights

JUNE 7, 2025

What does he have to do with anything related to procurement and supply chain? supply chain delays, demand spikes). Reactive Risk Management : Traditional models lack predictive analytics or autonomous risk mitigation, leading to delayed responses to supplier failures or compliance issues. Jeff Bezos?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Jaggaer

JANUARY 14, 2025

With its enterprise platform for both direct and indirect spend, JAGGAER offers solutions to streamline and optimize spend analytics, category management, supplier management, sourcing, contract life-cycle management, procurement, invoice automation, inventory, and payment.

Supply Chain Optimization 52

Supply Chain Optimization Category management Sourcing Supply Chain Efficiency 52

ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ivalua Blog [ivory-search] Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience February 8, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley In the face of an unprecedented global crisis, Procurement stepped up to become a crucial driving force for business continuity. Work to achieve 100% supply chain visibility.

Supply chain resilience 242

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2023

Ivalua’s new Environmental Impact Center empowers Procurement and Supply Chain teams with reliable and actionable insight to reduce Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. As products are purchased within an organization, category managers can precisely track the year-to-date carbon emission trajectory for their purchases.

Supply Chain Efficiency 246

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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.

Category management 108

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

ERP vs. Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? That’s the question we set out to answer in our recent panel discussion with Procurement and Supply Chain experts.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Blog » Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium June 26, 2023 | | Thought Leadership by Eloise Barnum As businesses navigate through supply chain disruptions, high inflation, and sustainability initiatives, procurement, and supplier management has taken center stage in driving change.

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

From this discussion, we compiled a list of 8 critical supply chain management activities that to improve, build, and maintain supply chain resilience now and in the years to come. But building an agile, resilient supply chain doesn’t happen overnight; it requires forethought and planning.

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Procurement Freelancers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For any company, supply chains are their bloodlines. Sometimes, inefficiencies can find their way in… The post How to Cut Costs and Boost Efficiency in Your Supply Chain first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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