ivalua

JUNE 12, 2020

The need for Procurement to improve collaboration with suppliers, and other stakeholders, has gained broad acceptance in recent years. Looking beyond Covid-19, virtually any of Procurement’s growing list of objectives can be better achieved through better collaboration. Improving CSR/sustainability? Accelerating innovation?

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Collaboration Suppliers Innovation Quality 130

Procurement Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here, Procurement Leaders speaks to CPO Lene Aabo-Bjerregaard about some of those complexities, and what she and her team are doing to manage them. PL: We are in the middle of a period of rampant inflation, what are you doing differently to manage this environment? LA-B: Many things.

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Collaboration Supply Chain Efficiency Raw materials Supplier relationship management 162

ProcurePort

OCTOBER 25, 2023

• Vendor management is essential for cost efficiency, quality assurance, risk mitigation, and fostering innovation through collaborative relationships with suppliers.

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Vendor management Management Procurement Quality 130

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

JANUARY 31, 2024

As reverse logistics becomes a bigger focus for brands, collaboration between stakeholders is becoming a must.

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Collaboration Logistics 102

ProcurePort

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Holistic Risk Management Approach: Proactive Identification: Implementing proactive measures to identify and assess diverse risks, ranging from supply chain disruptions to market fluctuations, regulatory changes, and operational inefficiencies. appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Historically, if you asked sourcing leaders to name the one competency they felt they needed their procurement and sourcing teams to master in order to achieve ongoing sourcing and supplier management success, most would likely have said negotiation skills. In many cases, collaboration is simply an advanced state of negotiation.

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Collaboration Sourcing Suppliers Management 173

Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 17, 2024

Driven by artificial intelligence, modern-day task management offers faster computing over wider bandwidths, enabling collaboration in real time from anywhere in the world.

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Management Collaboration 111

ProcurePort

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Online Contract Management Safety Overview: Strong security measures, like encryption and access controls, are important for keeping online contract management systems safe. Strategic Considerations for Enhanced Safety: Collaboration and integration […] The post Is it Safe to use an Online Contract Management System?

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Contract management Contract Management Collaboration 130

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

MARCH 4, 2024

Leveraging a profound truth and the power of silence to improve collaboration and supply chain performance.

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Collaboration Suppliers Supply chain Supply 85

ivalua

JULY 12, 2021

Redwood City, CA, July 13, 2021 – Ivalua, a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions, announces an extension of its Procure-to-Pay solution with a new Inventory Collaboration capability. Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management solutions. min, max levels) . Clearly identify consignment stocks.

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Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Strategic Sourcing Manager — The Ultimate Guide. A strategic sourcing manager is a key person in ensuring that the strategic process is effective and efficient. In this article, we will discuss what a strategic sourcing manager is. Additionally, we will tell you the skills needed to be a strategic sourcing manager. .

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ivalua

JULY 11, 2022

New release features AI-powered contract management, more seamless messaging and communications, supplier risk and performance enhancements and procure-to-pay efficiency . Redwood City, CA – 11 July, 2022 – Ivalua , a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions , announced the general availability of its new platform release 174.

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Supply chain resilience Collaboration Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting 130

ivalua

MARCH 5, 2020

Last week, round 40 Procurement leaders got together in the very pleasant surroundings of the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London to talk about collaboration, and to celebrate Ivalua’s increased presence in the UK. My own contribution was to lead a discussion around collaboration.

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Collaboration Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement supply chain budgeting 130

Procurement Tactics

JULY 17, 2023

Bonus PDF: 51 ChatGPT Prompts to 10X Your Productivity in Procurement Download 51 Prompts →  Or receive our famous weekly newsletter Choosing a Contract Management Tool Choosing a contract management tool is crucial for your business as you need to select what suits your company the best. Contract Management: What is it?

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Contract management Contract Management Negotiation 189

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In today’s dynamic business landscape, category management in procurement has become an essential weapon for procurement teams seeking to optimize spend, strengthen supplier relationships, and drive growth. This is where category management in procurement emerges as a game-changer.

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Strategic Sourceror

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It can also help strengthen collaboration, which a number of successful supply chain leaders point to as something that helped their supply chains stay supple when the coronavirus struck. They all agreed that collaboration served as a binding agent. Here's how: 1.

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Procurement Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

This was initially done on a joint development basis, with PMI and two tier-1 manufacturers collaborating on the design and testing of products. The first step on this journey was the creation of seven interlinked workstreams aligned to the new product development process: Supply Base Management – co-led by procurement and legal.

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Collaboration Strategy Product development Supply Chain Efficiency 130

ivalua

JANUARY 29, 2020

What does this mean for procurement and supplier management? Crucially, it suggests that the dominant model of supplier engagement needs to be collaborative rather than adversarial in nature, at least for key strategic suppliers. However, supplier collaboration is much easier to talk about than implement.

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Collaboration Innovation Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement 213

ProcurePort

MAY 31, 2022

• A vendor management system provides efficiency, reduces operational costs, and extends a collaborative approach to improving products and services. Managing vendors is a central part of any procurement process. The post Vendor Management for Dummies appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Vendor management Management Supply Chain Efficiency Collaboration 130

ProcurePort

AUGUST 24, 2022

• Supplier quality management is the proactive and often collaborative approach to ensure that a supplier delivers goods and services of the highest quality. The post Benefits of Supplier Quality Management appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. These include the timeliness of delivery, quantities, and price.

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

In the complex structure of modern businesses, the role of a procurement manager is pivotal for efficient operations and cost management. Here, we dive into what a procurement manager is, what their job entails, the typical day in their life, the career path, and, of course, the remuneration that comes with this crucial role.

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

In the complex structure of modern businesses, the role of a procurement manager is pivotal for efficient operations and cost management. Here, we dive into what a procurement manager is, what their job entails, the typical day in their life, the career path, and, of course, the remuneration that comes with this crucial role.

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supply chain budgeting Management Procurement Chief Procurement Officer 52

Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Often within pre-defined and aligned cross functional policies as facilitated by an IBP manager / S&OE manager. I call them routine collaborative decisions. But you get the point; many decisions in the S&OE horizon and in planning in general, are routine collaborative. Some examples: A material is short.

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Collaboration Inventory Agile and Lean Supply Chain Price 109

Una

AUGUST 23, 2022

How to Improve Collaboration Between Procurement and IT. For sourcing professionals, attempting to collaborate with another function can feel a bit like trying to establish contact with an alien species. The consequences of poor collaboration can be very expensive, particularly in the realm of IT. Speak the language of IT.

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Collaboration Procurement Purchasing Data 98

Procurement Tactics

JULY 20, 2023

However, with the advancement of technology, businesses now have access to software that simplifies and automate the entire order management process. In this article, we will explore what supplier order management software is, its benefits, and some of the best software options available in the market.

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supply chain software solutions Suppliers Management Real-time Visibility 134

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Historically, if you asked sourcing leaders to name the one competency they felt they needed their procurement and sourcing teams to master in order to achieve ongoing sourcing and supplier management success, most would likely have said negotiation skills. In many cases, collaboration is simply an advanced state of negotiation.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Sourcing Suppliers Management 100

Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 16, 2022

Supplier Management — The Ultimate Guide of 2022. Supplier management is crucial for organizations that have many vendors or suppliers. They need to manage their supplier to maintain the relationship that they have built. For this article, we will discuss what supplier management is. What is Supplier Management?

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Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Management Supplier relationship management 130

Spend Matters

JANUARY 24, 2024

In this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis, we give an overview of Hellios, a Supplier Information Management (SIM) solution. In the complex landscape of supplier management, organizations struggle with challenges such as compliance, inconsistent supplier data and growing demands for reporting. This content is for members only.

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Suppliers Management Buyers Collaboration 93

IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

IBM Consulting is uniquely positioned to provide exceptional FinOps and TBM services, from strategic planning to operating model implementation and managed services. IBM Consulting’s vision for the future of FinOps We at IBM Consulting understand that it is hard to manage, predict and optimize cloud spending.

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Collaboration e2e Budget Leadership 82

ivalua

JUNE 3, 2020

Significant opportunities to improve CSR performance, increase profitability and accelerate innovation linked to improving supplier collaboration. The research, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, found improving collaboration was a priority for 77% of respondents.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Innovation 130

The Good Spending

AUGUST 16, 2022

Why is supply chain collaboration essential? Other peers around the company overlap with us in their functions - Technology tends to manage suppliers , Finance owns the demand planning and budgeting, and Sales and Marketing monopolize the end-customer value chain. The supply chain is the most collaborative function in the business.

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

ivalua

JULY 14, 2022

Redwood City, CA, July 12, 2022 – Manufacturers are working to accelerate digitization initiatives to manage supply chain disruptions in 2022 and beyond, according to an original survey commissioned by Ivalua , a leading global spend management cloud provider. Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management solutions.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 29, 2024

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence (AI) seamlessly collaborates with existing supply chain solutions, redefining how organizations manage their assets. Let’s look at some of those challenges to generative AI for asset performance management. Undoubtedly. But what if you could optimize even further?

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Data Supply Chain Efficiency Management Supply Chain Optimization 88

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 14, 2024

A new type of supply chain is emerging that is increasingly reliant on digital tools to optimize and automate processes, holistic in its always-on, end-to-end control tower visibility, and collaborative in its partner relationships rather than dictated from the top down and inside-out.

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e2e Supply Chain Optimization Management Collaboration 105

Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 19, 2022

Vendor Management Best Practices — The Ultimate Guide of 2022. Vendor management best practices are utilized to boost business growth and productivity. For this article, we will discuss what the best practices in vendor management are. We will also share the benefits of vendor management that will captivate you to use it. .

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Bonfire

AUGUST 19, 2022

With demands on public sector procurement teams increasing all the time, the need for effective RFP collaboration will continue to increase, too. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at why RFP collaborations tends to be so chaotic, and how Bonfire helps transform the chaos into productive teamwork. Solving RFP Collaboration.

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