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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

It involves identifying needs, sourcing potential vendors, obtaining quotes and proposals, negotiating contracts, selecting suppliers, managing relationships, and meeting obligations. Sourcing : Procurement uses competitive bidding, e-sourcing, and supplier development. What is Procurement?

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Innovative Procurement Models: Exploring Different Approaches

Empowering CPO

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. Market volatility, globalization, and changing customer expectations have made procurement more complex than ever before.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Digital Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Sometimes, digitalization requires change management, process shifts, and organizational restructuring. Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2019. Below are some outlets that are trustworthy sources of news, content, reports, and conversations: LinkedIn Groups. Source: Paua Ventures. What do you have to lose? Publications.

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The Impact of Digital Transformation on Spend Analysis

Empowering CPO

Data Integration and Visibility: Connecting disparate data sources, such as procurement systems, supplier databases, and financial records, to create a centralized and holistic view of procurement activities. This enables better analysis, identification of trends, and informed decision-making.

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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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. What is the benefit of using a single source to pay solution? Demand planning capabilities.