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The Contract Management Playbook: Strategies and Secrets for Total Control

World of Procurement blog

It helps reduce financial losses from poor contracts, improve vendor relationships through structured coordination, increase operational efficiency and cost savings, minimize revenue leakage, and ensure proper compliance. Lease agreements - Contracts for renting equipment, real estate, vehicles, etc.

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Advanced endpoint protection vs. risk-based application patching vs. laptop management: Similarities and differences

IBM Supply Chain Blog

These capabilities help identify and block advanced threats like ransomware and cyberattacks in real-time on any type of endpoint. The number of apps keeps increasing and makes it hard for the IT team to manage and protect, and this may lead to patching being a full-time job.

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Supply Chain Predictions!

Supply Chain Game Changer

These are the innovative technologies that I predict companies must use to undergo this transformation within their supply chains: Cloud-based technology deployments lower cost of ownership due to not having a large capital expenditure on hardware and upgrades.

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The Role of Procurement Outsourcing Services in Global Business Operations

Empowering CPO

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. This is where managed procurement services come into the picture.

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The Role of Managed Procurement Services in Global Business Operations

Empowering CPO

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. This is where managed procurement services come into the picture.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

However, only 3% of companies apply automated execution and 7% autonomous end to end planning. Intelligent IBP effectively combines human and machine strengths with good decision practices to consistently make timely, high-quality, horizon agnostic business decisions. 2% of managers apply best practice decision methods.

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10 CLM Platforms to Take Your Procurement Game to the Next Level

World of Procurement blog

With the right CLM solution in place, procurement can achieve end-to-end visibility into the contracting process, reduce cycle times, and eliminate inefficient manual tasks. Tracking and reporting - CLM platforms provide visibility into contract status, deadlines, obligations, and performance.

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