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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

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It also has an impact on procurement teams as they are responsible for managing supplier relationships, identifying opportunities for cost savings, and ensuring that goods and services are delivered on time and within budget.

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AI in procurement: How different industries are harnessing its power

Spend Matters

Across industries, AI is capable of reshaping procurement, making it smarter, more predictive and highly efficient. In this article we will highlight some of the key changes AI has made to procurement strategies in the following industries: manufacturing and industrials, life sciences and healthcare, and the public sector.

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Moving AI From Progressive Theory To Practical Procurement Utilization And Outcomes

Procurement Insights

Analyst Backgrounds Analyst Primary Focus Pieter den Hamer AI strategy, maturity models, governance, and enterprise-scale AI roadmaps. Hansen Procurement strategy, digital transformation, supplier management, sourcing, and ProcureTech evaluation. His practical tech insights (e.g.,

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Boost Vendor Relations with Procurement Management Software

TYA Suite

With automated systems, purchase orders can be generated based on predefined criteria, such as inventory levels or specific triggers, ensuring timely and accurate procurement. Real-time tracking and reporting capabilities allow organizations to monitor the status of purchase orders, deliveries, and payments.

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Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation: Roadmap for Efficiency and Resilience

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These four steps constitute the downstream procure-to-pay part of the process. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility.

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Let’s Get Digital: Introducing your Source-to-Pay Guide

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Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. ​ Source-to-Pay is typically broken into two parts – upstream and downstream. Downstream activities include e-procurement , purchase orders, invoice automation and accounts payable and payment processes.

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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. How is sourcing strategy different than procurement strategy?