Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration: Driving Innovation and Competitive Advantage In today’s hyper-connected global economy, where supply chains span continents, and industries are interlinked globally, supplier collaboration serves as the foundation to drive innovation and create a future-ready organization. What is supplier collaboration?

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Building Stronger Relationship s : Effective Approaches to Multi-Tier Supplier Collaboration A chain is only as strong as its weakest link—but what if you can’t evaluate the entire chain? Collaboration brings visibility and agility for gaining market share.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Art of Supplier Collaboration: Best Practices to Build Lasting Partnerships Dynamic market changes and global events seem to create newer demands and greater pressure on procurement professionals. Growth Strategic supplier relationships are vital for supporting business growth.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Complete Source to Pay cycle and Strategic Sourcing Guide An optimized Source-to-Pay (S2P) process helps businesses enhance procurement efficiency, reduce costs, and improve supplier collaboration. What is Source-to-Pay?

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Positive Purchasing

JANUARY 20, 2025

These changes have reshaped how procurement professionals collaborate and execute their tasks. In this new era, collaboration in procurement has become critical for achieving efficiency and innovation. She highlights the importance of collaboration in today’s hybrid work environment.

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Procurement Templates

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here’s a detailed guide to enhance procurement capabilities across various domains: Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management Actionable Steps: Analyze Spend Data: Use spend analysis tools to identify areas where costs can be reduced or efficiencies improved. Resources: Online courses on strategic sourcing (e.g.,

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Procurement Templates

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strategic Objectives Cost Savings: Achieve cost reduction targets through effective supplier negotiations and strategic sourcing. Having good relationships with our suppliers means that they are also willing to work with procurement collaboratively, after all a win win situation should benefit both parties.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. Who Should Prioritize an S2P Digital Transformation?

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What is Source to Pay (S2P)? Yet in the case of source to pay, it is wholly justified. That said, many organizations, including large enterprises, may not think in terms of source to pay as an end-to-end process, if they think about it at all. Yet there are good reasons to do so.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The idea for True ValueHub was born out of the pain points our Founder, Gautam Pasari, experienced first-hand over the years working for various manufacturing companies while leading their strategic sourcing, category management and digital transformation functions. What is the road ahead for True ValueHub? “We

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Simplified: Best Practices for Maximizing Value Strategic sourcing goes beyond cost savings its about making informed decisions that drive long-term value. Now well dive into best practices in these critical areas to ensure a more effective and resilient sourcing strategy.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

EDITOR’S NOTE: I have recently completed a preliminary analysis of Packaging & Container Companies’ challenges to enable greater supplier collaboration and automation around the purchase order process, including PO confirmations, shipment notices, and price/quantity changes.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is an established industry process that aims at finding a balance between demand and supply and streamlining cross-functional collaboration. This collaborative approach leads to a more proactive and preventative approach to quality management.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Tariff management is a strategic subset of direct materials management and sourcing that involves navigating and optimizing the complex costs and regulatory implications of importing materials and goods across borders. Tariffs essentially taxes imposed on imports and exports directly impact product cost structures.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Because True ValueHub is collaborative in a way most costing solutions are not, the solution can support discussions and negotiations between buyers and suppliers based on facts, which is a condition for capturing more value for both sides. Also, its approach could potentially change how the traditional sourcing process is executed.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 10, 2025

AI is the game-changer that allows procurement professionals to escape the cycle of transactional work and focus on what really moves the needle: strategic sourcing, supplier collaboration, and advanced analytics. Smaller teams, in particular, feel the squeeze and struggle to balance compliance, efficiency and innovation.

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ivalua

MAY 31, 2022

A company’s supply chain is a key source of competitive advantage and Supply Chain Management (SCM) is designed to allow a company to monitor its suppliers and utilize the available resources to improve performance. But most sourcing and procurement teams need to pivot and modify the way they handle SCM decisions.

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Supply Chain Dive

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The retailer is collaborating with environmental nonprofit Canopy to develop paper products using agricultural waste and non-forest fibers.

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Spend Matters

MAY 1, 2025

Yet, many organizations struggle to modernize procurement processes, not due to a lack of technology, but because they fail to align workflows, stakeholder collaboration and automation effectively. A collaborative procurement model ensures that stakeholders work together to optimize purchasing strategies and vendor relationships.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It ensures that organizations have the right materials sourced from the right suppliers at the right time and for the best cost, making tariff management a natural part of these processes. Direct materials management is essential for aligning demand, supply and product objectives throughout the product lifecycle.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Interoperability: Supports multi-enterprise collaboration , ensuring different procurement platforms work together as one. Network Intelligence: Learns from market trends, supplier performance, and risk factors to optimize sourcing and supplier management. sourcing, supplier onboarding, contract approvals).

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Procurement Leaders

MAY 13, 2024

A major difference between an RFS and an RFP is that buyers approach suppliers without knowing precisely what it is they are sourcing. If selected, those proposals can then be further developed in collaboration with relevant business stakeholders. Procurement and the business collaborate to define the requirements around a challenge.

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Supply Chain Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Collaborations can lower procurement costs and drive operational change, but experts say aligning objectives and cost structures are key to success.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Vishal Patel and Peter Hunt delivered their session ‘Creating Value with Strategic Sourcing’ to discuss how Procurement professionals are recognizing that the fast-paced digital landscape of today demands new approaches to category management and strategic sourcing. The answer is simple – automation. See you soon!

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2023

This puts the Procurement function in a central role towards establishing a transparent emissions baseline using reliable data and collaborating with suppliers on carbon savings plans to meet reduction targets and for reporting and risk assessment. They can use these models to focus on high-emitting categories and products.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

He has spent about 20 years in supply chain and procurement, was involved in the sourcing of sustainable cocoa and confection for Unilever’s Ice cream brands and procured premium packaging and chemicals for Unilever’s Beauty and Wellbeing business. Risk mitigation requires strategic thought and conscious choices on sourcing.

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ivalua

JUNE 14, 2023

Change management plans should anticipate potential resistance and facilitate adoption by nurturing a culture of collaboration and buy-in. You can connect with Vishal on Linkedin You May Also Like Source to Pay (S2P) What is Source to Pay Best Practice? An Analysis by Ivalua Read More : What is Source to Pay Best Practice?

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

OECD Due Diligence Guidance (2011) covers responsible sourcing practices. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Section 1502 (2010) is a US law that requires companies listed on US stock exchanges to be diligent regarding the source of minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo and surrounding areas.

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Procurement Freelancers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Keeping a competitive edge in a fast-paced, globalized economy is crucial, and long lead times… The post How Strategic Purchasing Reduces Lead Times with Supplier Collaboration first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 6, 2025

Think of it as the centralized hub that simplifies engagement and empowers decision making for whatever it is youre seeking to address in the Source-to-Pay lifecycle. Here’s how: Unified access to data: Raindrop aggregates information from various sources, providing decision makers with a single source of truth.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 16, 2025

Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.

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ivalua

JUNE 11, 2023

Source Implications for Organizations Expanded Reporting Requirements: Under the CSRD, a broader range of companies will be obligated to report non-financial and sustainability information. By utilizing reliable data to generate emission baselines and collaborating with suppliers, the EIC is committed to creating a sustainable supply chain.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Innovation highlights included: Sub-tier supplier management, which greatly improves visibility and collaboration deep into the supply chain to identify supplier dependencies, areas of high risk or opportunities to drive innovation. Many other innovations spanning the Source-to-Pay process.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Thanks to the automation, transparency and seamless collaboration tools offered by Ivalua’s unified, cloud-based spend management platform, customers can improve profitability, drive innovation, improve ESG performance, and reduce risk. I’m sure that Ivalua will be a game-changing value addition in our offering for procurement businesses.”

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Enhancing Collaboration Capabilities Supply chain management is inherently collaborative, often requiring coordination between suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. MTSS platforms enhance collaboration capabilities by offering features such as group project modules, discussion forums, and peer review systems.

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ivalua

JULY 12, 2021

Just in the limited discussion above, we noted NMSDC, CAMSC, and Supply Nation as sources of data and certifications, and there are many more. As more and more countries implement diversity programs, these unique certifications and data sources will increase exponentially. Ethical Spend Toolset.

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