Procurement Heads

JUNE 26, 2023

Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased recruitment activity in procurement across various industrial sectors due to a number of factors but namely a lack of availability of raw materials and specialist products. However, finding suitable candidates with the required skills and experience has become challenging.

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Raw materials Procurement Category management Procurement strategies 130

Spotlight on Procurement

APRIL 29, 2020

Simon Lipscomb, Sales and Marketing Director at Efficio speaks to Greg Horgan and Tibor Sotkovszki about how to run successful supplier negotiations Key discussion points include: How to approach supplier negotiations Key to success in negotiations Long term impact of negotiations

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Supplier negotiation Negotiation Suppliers 40

ivalua

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Research from Ivalua, a leading global spend management cloud provider, has revealed that more than a third of UK businesses (36%) have extended payment terms for suppliers in the last 12 months, due to the impact of COVID-19 (62%), Brexit (39%), and rising energy costs (38%). About Ivalua. Learn more at www.ivalua.com.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Spend management Suppliers Collaboration 130

Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is still present even though many countries have started to vaccinate their citizens. The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the world economy as incomes are severely struck by job losses. Sustainable Procurement Statistics: What Does it Mean?

Sustainability 181

Sustainability Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 181

Procurement Heads

AUGUST 16, 2023

As a team, we are split out into the following categories (Marketing, Technology, Corporate, Customer, Data and Commercial) this split ensures commercial acumen for each area of the business and drives long term strategic thinking within each procurement category.

Procurement 246

Procurement Suppliers Risk Negotiation 246

Spend Matters

AUGUST 29, 2022

Categories: Sponsored Article , Supplier Management , supplier networks , Supply Chain Management Tags: Sponsored Article In the modern world of business, outsourcing has become increasingly popular due to its multitude of benefits; from cost-saving to accessing specialized skill sets and resources.

Supply chain 120

Supply chain Supply chain management Supply chain management Supply 120

ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

The study reveals how the disruption caused by COVID-19 has transformed procurement and supply chain strategy across the globe, exploring how procurement is helping organizations get back on their feet after the pandemic. Accordingly 50% are increasing investment due to COVID-19, with only 23% decreasing it. About Ivalua.

Procurement strategies 130

Procurement strategies Strategy Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement 130

ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, was interviewed by Philip Ideson from Art of Procurement to discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Procurement. Resiliency in a post-Covid world will depend largely on talent acquisition — but recruitment has historically been challenging in an often misunderstood field.

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Supply chain resilience Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 130

ivalua

MARCH 16, 2021

They discussed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Procurement and came up with this list of 8 critical supply chain management activities that can help Procurement teams build and maintain supply chain resilience now and in the years to come. In fact, they experienced just two weeks of disruption before they were up and running.

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Supply chain resilience Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 130

Barkers Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Cost transformation helps to meet stakeholders’ demands for more value External events such as COVID-19 and high inflation have placed immense financial pressures on businesses, and these have drawn more attention to costs. COVID-19 clarified this and created more pressure to increase cost reduction.

Demand 52

Demand Sustainability Influencing Business strategy 52

Strategic Sourceror

JANUARY 20, 2023

Medical equipment has been in short supply since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Trade Commission near the start of the pandemic found that among 203 medical product categories analyzed, China is the dominant source of imports for 32 of them. One report from the U.S.

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Supply Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Suppliers 62

ivalua

MAY 11, 2021

What was the impact of Covid-19 on digitization? In fact, the survey found that 62% of respondents reconsidered their priorities as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. This capability has been essential for distributing Covid-19 vaccines by Pfizer and other manufacturers.

Risk management 130

Risk management Risk Supply Chain Efficiency Management 130

Spend Matters

JANUARY 24, 2023

Categories: Accounts Payable , Procurement Systems & Architecture Tags: PRO , SolutionMap AP Automation , SolutionMap Head to Head Before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, not all suite providers cared to strengthen their offerings by automating their accounts payable processes like e-invoicing and payment processing to the point of being (..)

Data 80

Data Procurement 80

Procurement Tactics

MARCH 16, 2023

Category Management Category management sorts your spending into areas with the same supplier markets. The importance of strategic procurement is visible at the time of COVID-19 when every company all over the world is severely affected by its effect.

Procurement 238

Procurement Procurement strategies supply chain budgeting Contract management 238

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Categories: Cost Management , Procurement Strategy & Planning , Sourcing , Spend Analysis Tags: PRO In this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis we give an update of LevaData, a solution built to support the sourcing process for direct materials. More precisely, LevaData focuses on Design-for-Supply (DFS). We still have much to learn.

Sourcing 79

Sourcing Supply Chain Optimization Procurement strategies Supply chain 79

Arkestro

JUNE 29, 2023

Resources / Case Studies / Leading Design Build Contractor Tackles COVID Cost Escalations in a Volatile Market with the Power of Prediction Leading Design Build Contractor Tackles COVID Cost Escalations in a Volatile Market with the Power of Prediction Like most industries in the past few years, the construction industry was hit hard by COVID-19.

Bill of materials 52

Bill of materials Bidding Price Procurement team 52

Procurement Heads

MARCH 15, 2023

Since we last spoke I am delighted to have made the move into public sector procurement and joined the Government Commercial Function as the Commercial & Category Director for the UK Health Security Agency. You’re now Commercial & Category Director at the UK Health Security Agency, what does your role entail?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 246

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Sustainability Contract Leadership 246

Procurement Tactics

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Cybercrime stood out among 19 categories of economic crime as the most infamous and disruptive experience over the past two years around the world. . Procurement Fraud Increased Significantly During COVID-19. Cyber-enabled Economic Crime. This was seen during the pandemic which many organizations have encountered. .

Procurement 179

Procurement Risk Networking Influencing 179

ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The judging panel consists of procurement experts with each category requiring a minimum of 5 judges. All entries endure a thorough three-stage judging process, comprising scoring, peer reviewing and final judging meetings, to ensure complete transparency and guarantee that the winners really are the best of the best.

Procurement 130

Procurement Eprocurement Spend management Negotiation 130

ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The judging panel consists of procurement experts with each category requiring a minimum of 5 judges. All entries endure a thorough three-stage judging process, comprising scoring, peer reviewing and final judging meetings, to ensure complete transparency and guarantee that the winners really are the best of the best.

Procurement 130

Procurement Eprocurement Spend management Negotiation 130

Spend Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Categories: CSR , Procurement Strategy & Planning , Supply Chain Management , Sustainability Tags: CSR , ESG series , EU Because of its traditional status as an afterthought, procurement often engages with the world in a reactive manner. million since 2016 due in part to the continued fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Procurement strategies 73

Procurement strategies Supply chain management Supply chain management Supply chain 73

ivalua

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Recent supply disruptions from black swan events such as the Covid-19 pandemic and current geopolitical events have placed supply chain transparency firmly in the spotlight as organizations need a new level of agility to reconfigure their supply chains,” said Alex Saric, CMO at Ivalua. About Ivalua.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting supply chain software solutions 130

Jaggaer

AUGUST 12, 2020

For the first three months after Covid-19 hit, virtually every sourcing project , in every sector , was put on hold while companies tried to assess the situation and how best to deal with the epidemic. That applies even if their main categories – for example, transportation – are still quiet.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Bidding supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Optimization 52

ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

As the risk involved in such strategies became clear once Covid-19 struck Wuhan, companies looked at diversifying their supply base. By including sub-tier risk and enabling visualization at a category level, you can improve your risk management. For example, China first has become China + 1 in many cases.

Suppliers 130

Suppliers Risk Bidding Strategy 130

ivalua

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This year’s Ivalua NOW theme is Procurement Rising, and the agenda will focus on how organizations can leverage their spend and suppliers to help restore growth beyond Covid-19 and ensure resilience for today’s uncertain world and the next crisis. Each of the two events will be broken into 3 half days. About Ivalua .

Procurement 130

Procurement Spend management Innovation Supply chain 130

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

Eroding margins and depleting cash reserves: Not only is spending going up, margins are going down and cash reserves are depleting, this was a trend that began pre-covid-19. Establishing processes to identify and capture savings by category. Some have embraced this well before covid-19, others have been forced to as a result.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 219

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 219

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The impact of Covid-19 on demand, the opening and closing of borders, factories and ports, the obstruction of the Suez Canal and the war in Ukraine have created a nightmare for supply chain and procurement professionals.

Risk management 74

Risk management Supply Chain Optimization Risk Supply chain 74

Una

AUGUST 9, 2022

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 49% of companies were considering layoffs, while over 33% had frozen new hires as a way to implement some sort of cost reduction strategy in the middle of a global crisis. With vaccines now available, the threat of COVID-19 shuttering economies continues to dissipate. in April 2020.

Purchasing 96

Purchasing Strategy supply chain budgeting Procurement team 96

ivalua

JUNE 7, 2021

Procurement’s role and status have been on an upward trajectory for many years, accelerating during the Covid-19 crisis. Digitise to enable effective collaboration across more suppliers and categories. Leaders demonstrated their ability to respond to the many shocks incurred, keeping supplies flowing and costs under control.

Strategy 130

Strategy Procurement Collaboration Innovation 130

ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt. It’s tool, the Procurement Business Alignment Too l (BAT), evaluates 30 attributes of the Procurement function across multiple spend categories. Procurement Teams Step-up. It’s critical to be vigilant.

Chief Procurement Officer 130

Chief Procurement Officer Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 22, 2023

COVID-19 has created a plethora of challenges. The service provider’s knowledge of category management, and the use of digital procurement tools, can help you pre-empt these challenges. Access to key materials and goods could be a problem. Digital procurement services can help you plan for this kind of disruption.

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supply chain budgeting Procurement Category management Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Trend

JUNE 28, 2023

That is a scary thought in times of disruption like we’ve seen with COVID and, more recently, the war in Europe, where companies had to make big supply chain decisions in days or weeks. COVID-19 exposed the inability of companies to make rapid cross-cutting or big-bet supply chain decisions.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 60

Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting Supply chain Supply 60

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Many of today’s challenges, such as port congestion or Covid-19, will almost certainly prove to be transitory. One that takes a portfolio view of category supply risk. Taking a category view often means little more than ensuring alternate sources are available. Shifting Category Strategies.

Risk management 130

Risk management Supply Chain Efficiency Risk Supply Chain Optimization 130

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Identifying Value , is where procurement teams leverage spend data and spend analysis to understand trends in spend and identify opportunities and develop category management strategies. . Just getting the goods is not enough – as we continue to experience the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on global supply chains.

Procurement 130

Procurement Procurement team Sourcing Supplier relationship management 130

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Likewise, there has been reflection and examination of such systems since the advent of COVID-19 and its impacts on supply lines. Step 2: Select opportunities from the DOWNTIME categories, Six Big Loss categories, and VUCA Categories. .

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supply chain budgeting Risk Agile and Lean Supply Chain Risk management 52

Value Match

JUNE 13, 2022

Categories. Delays at the border – through Covid and Brexit there have been reported delays at borders due to additional imports and bureaucracy. Covid-19 – The ripple effect from the Covid-19 pandemic has seen companies struggling with supply chain disruption. Best Practice Guides. Bid Management.

Risk management 52

Risk management Supply Chain Efficiency Risk Supply chain 52

ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

As I write this blog, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage populations and economies around the world. First, category managers should look to investment professionals and take a broad portfolio view of supplier risk management. As far as reviewing supplier performance regularly, the results were 97% versus 17%.

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Supply chain management Supply chain management Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization 130