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Tail Spend: Your Guide to Full Spend Visibility and Savings

Una

This is where strategic sourcing professionals spend most of their time, communicating directly with their top suppliers through an SRM program , and using cutting-edge procurement software to analyze spend and track risk. Even with the help of procurement tech, it takes time and resources to bring an unruly tail spend under control.

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CPO Spotlight: Kendall Smith

Procurement Heads

I am the Chief Procurement Officer, which means that I am responsible for the procurement of everything that we don’t sell in stores or online, so everything non-product. Building the team and having greater visibility internally. I wanted the company to know that we have a great procurement team! .

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Uniting manufacturing CFOs and procurement for margin expansion

Spend Matters

As the economy teeters between a so-called ‘soft landing’ and all-out recession, an emerging consensus across C-suites has taken shape: the time to cut costs is now. Once again, all eyes are on procurement. Using conversion funnels to turn skeptics into raving procurement enthusiasts “Can you give me feedback on this approach?

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Predictive Procurement: Overcoming Challenges in Health and Pharma

Arkestro

Supply Chain Visibility. Supply chain visibility is another critical issue. Visibility provides regulatory and consumer assurance in the face of issues like counterfeiting. To combat these issues, health and pharma need supply chain visibility—all the way down the supply chain.

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Predictive Procurement: Your Solution to Supplier Diversity

Arkestro

As a result, implementing a process that effectively supports supplier diversity is a real obstacle many companies struggle with. However, there is a proven solution: predictive procurement. And there’s no better example of how predictive procurement solves the challenge of supplier diversity than Arkestro.

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How is technology transforming global sourcing ?

Claritum

Your business could struggle to achieve visibility of its global supply chain. Without good visibility, maximising the benefits from global sourcing is impossible, as it is impossible to track exactly how much is being spent. Do you have visibility of a global supply chain? Do you have visibility of a global supply chain?

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The Intersection of Technology and Managed Procurement Services

Empowering CPO

Before we dive in, let’s first set the stage by discussing EmpoweringCPO, a leader in the field of managed procurement services. Our goal is to empower Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their teams by providing a suite of comprehensive managed procurement services.