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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

It involves identifying needs, sourcing potential vendors, obtaining quotes and proposals, negotiating contracts, selecting suppliers, managing relationships, and meeting obligations. Scope : Procurement spans the entire process from identifying requirements to contract closure. Purchasing is more transactional and tactical.

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13 Important Roles of Data Analytics in Supply Chain Optimization

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By analyzing supply chain data, businesses can detect anomalies, potential risks, and deviations from their standard operating procedures. By doing this, they can make corrections fastly which will help avoid costly disruptions and improve supply chain resilience.

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2021 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Trends

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Even now, the global GDP for 2020 contracted by an estimated 4.3% Resiliency is now the name of the game for supply chains. Let’s look at the impact of each of these trends and see how you can incorporate them into your supply chain for 2021. Supplier Diversification. Focus on eCommerce.