Empowering CPO

JULY 5, 2023

Our goal is to empower Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their teams by providing a suite of comprehensive managed procurement services. We believe in the power of strategic sourcing and procurement to drive significant value across organizations. Digital transformation in procurement is no longer a luxury but a necessity.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Many enterprises struggle to derive real value from their cloud journeys and may continue to overspend. Patterns-as-code that help codify multiple cross-cutting concerns (this also promotes the inner source model of patterns maturity and drive reusability). DevOps pipeline-driven activities that can be utilized across the lifecycle.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 21, 2023

It’s about automating tedious tasks, enhancing data visibility, and providing more profound, actionable insights. Additionally, the sheer volume of transactions that large businesses dealt with on a daily basis made manual Spend Analysis highly time-consuming and inefficient.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

A good way to understand longer end-to-end transit times which under the current scenario have increased dramatically on most of the major trade lanes is to take a closer look at where delays are more likely to happen. Source: project44 Monthly report.

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ivalua

MARCH 15, 2016

He said he had seen it all in supply base management and had experienced the feeling of victory leaving plenty of blood on the floor in negotiating with suppliers in his day. He talked about how that experience with power was a real high at times. Without good visibility and frankly, transparency, any collaboration is hard.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 11, 2023

Procurement teams are now expected to perform as a strategic, value-creating business partner that improves business agility, financial visibility, process resilience, and competitiveness. An abundance of manual work and rapidly changing processes. Time-consuming invoice reconciliation (28%). Complex purchasing systems (31%).

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Pipefy

JANUARY 10, 2024

If this still isn’t a priority in your business strategy, it’s time to make it one. In addition to cultural and performance strategies, the job market is extremely competitive, and attracting and retaining top talent becomes increasingly challenging as work models evolve and technological advancements change employees’ daily activities.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 14, 2023

At its core, procurement is the process of finding, agreeing to terms, and acquiring goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process. These models are often accompanied by practices such as annual rate contracts, bulk buying, and just-in-time purchasing.

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Procurement Software

APRIL 25, 2023

Indeed, in the current inflationary environment, it’s procurement that has real power to move both the top and bottom line. Therefore, now is the time for all businesses to embrace the benefits of digital procurement software. Whether it’s visibility over your processes, enhancing your data , or contract management software.

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Claritum

MAY 2, 2019

If your procurement team is spending over half their time on transactional activity, what opportunities are they missing? The following are the traditional areas associated with Procuring (Source: CIPS). Source/examine supplier options *. Total lifecycle costs / Managing profitability. Change management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 5, 2021

From the first time I went to Colorado and saw the Front Range, I developed a level of awe and respect for these natural wonders. But if there is an extraordinary chance that you will fail if you push towards the goal at that time, it can be better to fall back, regroup, and try again later. My friend did exactly that.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 20, 2023

It’s what enables businesses to gain visibility into their spending, identify inefficiencies, and uncover opportunities for cost savings. Your data can come from a variety of sources. It’s crucial to incorporate data from all these sources to get a complete picture of your spending. Remember, consistency is key.

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The Procuretech Podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2022

FinTech content at the time was a lot more attractive: Punchy articles, simple “How To.” This takes consultation and a lot of time. People often jump on a new technology without thinking about the bigger picture of change management. You can implement the best technology but with poor change management it will fail.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 21, 2023

This extensive reach provides businesses with the opportunity to connect with various demographics and target markets, enabling them to broaden their brand’s visibility and potential customer base significantly. > Watch Now: Too Late for Change Management? >

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Conversely, it has a larger scope than task management, which deals with individual tasks, and project management, which handles one-time initiatives. Through BPM, disparate data sources—including spend data, internal performance metrics and external market research—can be connected.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 15, 2019

Thank you Bronwen for your friendship, your support of Supply Chain Game Changer, and taking the time to share your experiences and expertise with us. We’ve built a peerless network in the areas of Procurement, Logistics, Change Management, Strategic Sourcing, Planning, and other functional areas in Supply Chain.

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ivalua

JANUARY 12, 2023

To avoid this pitfall, it is necessary for public procurement teams to routinely review the entire process and challenge steps to ensure that requirements are necessary to meet rules or requirements and/or deliver real value. . Another aspect of scalability is ensuring a solution can match organizations’ appetite for change. .

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

Overall, their strategy must move toward data-driven decision-making to provide real-time information visibility. Although Amrest utilizes a sourcing process, the liquidity gap blocks past analyses and data. . Additionally, historical data can provide a more accurate breakdown of initial startup costs.

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Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

Mid-market businesses, on the other hand, could invest in this software and easily see a quick return if they have the right change management and procurement talent in place. Above $1 billion businesses are typically a target of established, enterprise source-to-pay and source-to-contract suites.

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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. Creating a procurement centre of excellence.

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Pipefy

AUGUST 10, 2023

In contrast, process intelligence automatically and continuously acquires data at scale, resulting in clear visibility into an organization’s journey towards improving its processes. Reading recommendation: What Is Workflow Management? These tools may work with both historical and real-time data.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It’s a good time to reflect on recent global events and what this should mean for the future. Despite the cataclysmic disruption caused by the pandemic, inertia will prevent real and sustainable progress from being made. And having the courage to implement these changes will be the real test of leadership.

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Empowering CPO

MAY 4, 2023

By effectively managing the purchasing process, companies can better control their expenditures and optimize their supply chain, ensuring the availability of the right products and services at the right time. Contract management systems: Solutions that store, organize, and manage procurement contracts in a centralized repository.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They may not consider potential issues of integrations, supplier onboarding, supply chain data management, change management and system optimization, all of which add to complexity and costs. Best-in-class solutions do a better job of capturing usage data for healthcare products at the time of patient use.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Separately, since ERP will track past orders and real-time inventory the customer is much more likely to receive the correct items on time. Customize reporting Real-time data reporting is one of the highlights of an ERP solution and why it’s a serious advantage over other business management systems.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 25, 2023

Procurement, in its simplest form, is the process by which businesses acquire the goods, services, or works they need from external sources. Through tools like spend analysis, businesses can gain in-depth insights into their spending patterns, identify cost-saving opportunities, and drive strategic sourcing.

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Pipefy

AUGUST 18, 2023

Process discovery includes the identification and definition of activities and tasks comprising a process; its purpose is to make all stages in a process visible in order to ensure clear responsibility for each of those phases. These inefficiencies lose hours and money that can add up to huge amounts of waste over time.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

These SLAs can span: Application availability Data retention Recovery speed Network uptime and availability Tracking warranties Data center managers can struggle in a complex environment to track which warranties have expired or what each warranty covers. This can result in gaps in performance visibility and inefficient workload distribution.

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Solvoyo

MARCH 5, 2021

Remember those times when we used to stroll down the block and find local stores such as the mom-and-pop diners and get the chance to relish the coziness and sense of family environment there. Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 20, 2023

Being able to manage your contracts in one place, author them, approve them and sign them is a massive productivity boost. Not only that, it also offers a single source of truth, having all of your contract documents and contract management data in one place. We did a Live Demo stream with Cobblestone back in October 2022.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. However, topics such as logistics, logistics, physical sourcing and supply chain management are not included in these courses.

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Planergy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Monitoring helps identify any issues early and allows for timely interventions if needed. It is also mandatory as part of the governance guidance for MATs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Recent projects include the digital transformation of a worldwide service and repair parts program; enabling an OEM’s end-to-end supply chain visibility of outsourced manufacturers, assemblers, distribution hubs and 3PL’s; and forming a B2B business development capability for a successful B2C eCommerce company.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

To do that, technicians, facility managers, maintenance teams, reliability engineers and project managers need accurate, real-time information at their fingertips. Data was siloed, hidden away in a multitude of spreadsheets and filing cabinets, and carrying out tasks manually was time-consuming.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Some of the materials were sourced and managed by the customers. Still the sourcing and supplier management of other materials was delegated to our facilities. It was time to start an investigation! Every facility had customized those processes over time to suit whatever their specific needs were.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Leading companies will invest in AI, ML and intelligent workflows to deliver end-to-end forecasting capabilities that utilize real-time feeds from multiple data sources, leveraging hundreds of AI and ML models, to deliver more granular and accurate forecasts and customer insights.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

When data strategy and business strategy are aligned you can use data investments to pursue new sources of value, and fuel innovation within your organizations in alignment with the organization’s strategic goals. It can also synchronize data in real time without disrupting mission-critical data. The result?

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