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The Contract Management Playbook: Strategies and Secrets for Total Control

World of Procurement blog

Introduction to Contract Management Contract management is the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution, and analysis to maximize operational and financial performance at an organization. Lease agreements - Contracts for renting equipment, real estate, vehicles, etc.

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4 smart technologies modernizing sourcing strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

For example, the IBM Sterling Transaction Manager automates manual transactions between businesses and suppliers. This helps reduce errors to improve data quality and response times to questions, which improves customer and supplier satisfaction. Try out cognitive intelligence free for 30-days.

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New Year Insights for the procurement solutions and services marketplace 2024: GEP

Spend Matters

AI can help create greater efficiency and value across all source-to-pay processes, including spend analysis, opportunity identification, sourcing and contract management, category management, supply relationship management and risk management.

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4 strategic sourcing use cases to strengthen your supply chain

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Near-sourcing, in addition to lowering emissions, also cuts transportation costs and delivery times. Technology that streamlines and automates transactions and contract management can significantly reduce these errors and expedite sourcing processes.

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Everything You Need to Know About Procurement Solutions

Pipefy

Because of this, carrying out its operations manually is time-consuming and incredibly expensive for businesses. Savvy leaders are quickly adopting e-procurement solutions to lower the time, costs, silos, and strained supplier relationships that plague manual operations.

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Believe It Or Not, Procurement Impacts Every Single Person

ivalua

For the longest time, leading Procurement technology providers in my experience just ignored this space. The goal being to build in best practices that we’ve seen across our Public Sector customers, so that they are able to deploy and get up and running faster, thereby drastically reducing time-to-value.

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The Role of Procurement Outsourcing Services in Global Business Operations

Empowering CPO

This is where managed procurement services come into the picture. Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment.