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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

Procurement differs from purchasing in a few key ways: Strategic focus : Procurement has a strategic, long-term focus on analyzing spend, reducing costs, managing supplier relationships, and mitigating risk. Purchasing is more transactional and tactical. Purchasing focuses specifically on the buying transaction.

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Democratising Supply Chain Training – Dr. Muddassir Ahmed from SCM Dojo

The Procuretech Podcast

FinTech content at the time was a lot more attractive: Punchy articles, simple “How To.” This takes consultation and a lot of time. And that's just too long, we need to get that time down – possibly on the software development side of things. If I'm a supply chain manager, I want to do everything on one platform. .

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

ivalua

According to the panelists, there are some key features and functionality that make best-in-class supply chain solutions a better choice for healthcare organizations: Guided procure-to-pay compliance: The concept of compliant purchasing in healthcare encompases the front-end user experience. Demand planning capabilities.