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ivalua
MAY 29, 2025
Procurement and supply chain management are often used interchangeably—but in practice, the lines between them can blur in ways that create real friction. Misaligned priorities, siloed systems, and unclear ownership can directly impact key performance indicators like cost savings percentage and procurement cycle time.
ivalua
MAY 21, 2025
Unfortunately, outdated tools and fragmented processes make it difficult to maintain visibility across the supply chain and adapt at the pace of business. Key Takeaways Legacy procurement processes limit scale, speed, and visibility, making it harder to manage risk, compliance, and costs.
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Skill Dynamics
JANUARY 7, 2025
Global conflicts, macroeconomic shocks, and shifting global trade routes are all combining to provide real challenges to modern supply chains, and are driving the uncertainty that organizations feel. A resilient supply chain safeguards against these risks and maintains a strong operational flow within your business.
SCMDOJO
JANUARY 29, 2025
Supply chain reports offer a comprehensive view of your entire supply chain operation. What are Supply Chain Reports? However, identifying and addressing slow-moving and obsolete inventory is necessary to prevent capital from being tied up in unproductive assets.
Spend Matters
MAY 27, 2025
Technology is a powerful enabler of finance-procurement collaboration, bridging gaps in spend visibility, cost control and data integration. Without the right tools, procurements contributions to financial strategy can remain disconnected from budgeting, forecasting and risk management.
Spend Matters
MAY 1, 2025
A well-structured transformation journey ensures organizations progress from basic digitalization to advanced AI-driven procurement, enabling smarter decision-making, better compliance and optimized supply chain performance. When procurement lacks visibility into budget constraints or supplier performance, inefficiencies arise.
Supply Chain Game Changer
JUNE 7, 2025
Subscribe The Supply Chain Renaissance Has Begun! This article depicts how innovative technology transforms supply chain operations. Supply Chain Management oversees the operational connection between businesses responsible for making and moving products through all distribution stages.
ivalua
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
ERP vs. Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? That’s the question we set out to answer in our recent panel discussion with Procurement and Supply Chain experts. The verdict?
ivalua
JUNE 5, 2025
Aligning procurement and purchasing ensures efficiency, cost control, and reduced risk across the organization. Technology unifies procurement and purchasing, improving visibility, compliance, and workflow automation. Learn how you can streamline procurement and purchasing to gain control, boost compliance, and cut costs.
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Supply Chain Game Changer
JUNE 5, 2025
Subscribe The Complexity of the Lego Supply Chain! Supply chains in the energy sector are among the most complex and capital-intensive in the world. Each of these actors introduces interdependencies, legal considerations, and transaction costs. It’s about capital flow, asset risk, and regulatory layering.
SCMDOJO
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
From rule-based systems to predictive analytics and the generative AI boom, businesses have leveraged these technologies to optimize operations, forecast trends, and create data-driven strategies. This leap in AI capabilities is revolutionizing industries, and AI-driven supply chain management is no exception.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 11, 2025
Supply chains are particularly vulnerable during recessions. Economic downturns can disrupt the flow of goods, increase operational costs, and reduce profit margins. Consequently, it is imperative to develop a recession-proof supply chain to make them more resilient and adaptable.
SCMDOJO
MAY 23, 2025
In an age where supply chains face persistent disruptionsfrom pandemics and trade wars to cyberattacks and climate volatilityresilience is no longer optional. This shift has pushed supply chain leadership to pivot from reactive management to proactive strategy built on data.
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Spend Matters
JUNE 2, 2025
While traditional KPIs often emphasize cost savings or budget control, aligned organizations take a more strategic approach, tracking performance indicators that reflect the joint impact of finance and procurement on business outcomes. Tracking performance over time is key to measuring the business value the collaboration is delivers.
Procurement Tactics
MAY 22, 2023
Additionally, we will tell you the advantages of having integrated logistics in your supply chain. Thus, this will enable you to implement it in your supply chain. Defining goals Defining your goals involves establishing clear targets for reducing costs, improving efficiency, and enhancing customer satisfaction.
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SCMDOJO
APRIL 15, 2025
Consider this your business suddenly faces a major supply chain disruption. Perhaps a critical supplier goes out of business, a natural disaster halts shipments, or new regulations are introduced that throw a wrench in your entire process. This nightmare becomes a reality for many businesses more often than wed like to admit.
Procurement Tactics
JUNE 19, 2023
AI systems are able to learn, recognize patterns, and make predictions by analyzing data with the use of algorithms and statistical models. AI in logistics refers to the use of AI-powered solutions to optimize supply chain management, improve decision-making and enhance customer experience.
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ivalua
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
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. Are you using any tools or solutions to help you manage your spend?
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Procurement Tactics
JANUARY 23, 2023
By collecting data on routes, stock levels, drivers’ availability, vehicle tracking, and other pertinent information, a transport management system accurately forecasts expected delivery times while efficiently scheduling drivers accordingly.
Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Visibility – An Overcomplicated Challenge! A recent Deloitte survey estimated only 15% of CPO’s have visibility beyond their tier one suppliers. I found this striking that there is so little multi-tier Supply Chain visibility.
SCMDOJO
MAY 7, 2024
Supply chains are vital to businesses, facilitating the movement of goods, services, financial flows, and information. Enhancing supply chain resilience as well as supply chain visibility is crucial in today’s interconnected world. However, they are also susceptible to disruptions and risks.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Today Tom Burke, Portfolio Product Manager at CargoWise Landside, joins me to talk all about how drayage rating and quoting best practices can improve supply chain management, visibility, and logistics execution. 32.52] How DrayMaster can help truckers to reduce quote turnaround times by up to a huge 95%.
Spend Matters
APRIL 29, 2025
The series follows the methodology described in our Aligning Finance and Procurement in-depth guide , which offers a practical, structured approach to enhancing cash flow visibility, optimizing payment timing, reducing working capital risk and improving liquidity outcomes through closer collaboration between finance and procurement.
SCMDOJO
MAY 6, 2022
Modern enterprises rely on supply chain software to track several activities, including manufacturing and distribution of goods. Many supply chain systems are closed-source, all-in-one, proprietary, expensive, and difficult to customize ( read Why ERP Sucks ). What are No-code Platforms? Benefits of No-code Platforms.
SCMDOJO
MARCH 19, 2024
Discover Ways to Boost Supply Chain Visibility through Digital Marketing Supply chain visibility is essential for providing a superior customer experience and sustaining customer loyalty over time. Each of these experiences damages the customer relationship.
Planergy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process. Why is Business Budgeting Important?
Procurement Tactics
MAY 16, 2023
Thus, you will know what operational model will work better for your supply chain. A fourth-party logistics , typically known as 4PL, is an operational model where a business outsources its entire supply chain and logistics to a single external provider. 4PL: What is it?
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ivalua
MAY 30, 2022
As the demands on supply chains continue to increase, so do the expectations of consumers. Supply chains are particularly affected by these changes, as well as other external influences that threaten to disrupt their daily operations, such as: extreme weather conditions, supply shortages, global health issues, and economic crises.
Spend Matters
APRIL 15, 2025
Manufacturing and industrials: Strengthening the supply chain backbone In the manufacturing world, procurement is about much more than just tracking spend its the heartbeat of supply chain management. Supply network modeling, now integrating large language models (LLMs), allows for precise tracking and material tracing.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
APRIL 17, 2025
The dawn of Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Business Networks (MESCBN) has ushered in a new era of interconnected commerce, transforming the customary supply chain landscape. Join us as we uncover the unprecedented potential that awaits in the realm of supply chain business networks, as reported by Yahoo Finance.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 4, 2023
If you’re in the business world, you’re probably always looking for ways to streamline your supply chain operations. Luckily, supply chain analytics is here to help! But like any new technology, there are hurdles to overcome when implementing supply chain analytics.
Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Big Data? The supply chain management industry has undergone many changes in recent years. This article will look at how edge computing is revolutionizing supply chain management. Introducing IoT Devices for Supply Chain Enhancement.
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MARCH 3, 2025
In a fast-paced world where efficient movement of goods is key, staying updated on the latest supply chain and logistics news is crucial. This week, from January 20th to January 23rd, Logistics Viewpoints brings you a complete insight into the dynamic world of supply chain management.
Skill Dynamics
APRIL 24, 2025
When you look behind the scenes of a global business operation, procurement strategy and supply chain management are usually top priorities, though theyre not always working in sync. This blog explores procurement vs supply chain strategy and looks at how aligning the two leads to operational excellence.
Procurement Insights
JUNE 3, 2025
Poll Time The following is a poll that was posted in the Global & Purchasing Supply Chain Professionals LinkedIn Group, which has over 164,000 members. Reality: No one invested time in proper training, and category managers are still relying on spreadsheets. What is the edge one driver has over another?
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Complete Source to Pay cycle and Strategic Sourcing Guide An optimized Source-to-Pay (S2P) process helps businesses enhance procurement efficiency, reduce costs, and improve supplier collaboration. A well-executed S2P strategy reduces costs, increases visibility, and ensures compliance.
Spend Matters
MAY 6, 2025
Optimizing the cost of capital to improve financial flexibility. Procurement’s cash flow priorities Procurement plays a vital role in cash flow management by: Strengthening supplier relationships to ensure resilience in the supply chain. Ensuring supplier financial health to prevent disruptions in critical supply chains.
Skill Dynamics
JANUARY 23, 2025
The supply chain management industry is growing and changing before our very eyes, and new technologies are at the very heart of that change. As globalization continues, companies will keep trying to develop their supply chains to be more and more efficient easier said than done when they span more countries than ever.
Jaggaer
APRIL 9, 2025
The Manufacturing Supply Chain Journey through AI and Automation Manufacturing Supply Chains Explained The manufacturing supply chain comprises all the processes a business uses to turn raw materials and components into final products that are ready to be sold to customers, whether these are consumers or other businesses.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 30, 2023
In the healthcare supply chain, there are three main challenges pharmacies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and patients are facing: shortages and delays; lack of convenient and cost-effective fulfillment options; and rising counterfeiting and regulatory changes, along with a persistent need for better drug cold chain management.
Jaggaer
APRIL 9, 2025
While many manufacturers rely on ERP systems for procurement, these platforms are designed for broad business management rather than the intricate demands of sourcing, supplier collaboration, and cost control in a manufacturing environment. This results in reduced carrying costs and improved order fulfillment rates.
SCMDOJO
APRIL 29, 2024
Are you interested in understanding how businesses effectively manage their supply chains? Look no further – this guide is here to help you grasp the fundamentals of supply chain management (SCM) and how it can lead to success. It encompasses activities such as procurement, supplier selection, and evaluation.
Jaggaer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Supplier Collaboration: Driving Innovation and Competitive Advantage In today’s hyper-connected global economy, where supply chains span continents, and industries are interlinked globally, supplier collaboration serves as the foundation to drive innovation and create a future-ready organization. What is supplier collaboration?
Planergy
MARCH 18, 2025
Download Free Copy Supply Chain Disruptions in Schools: Challenges and Solutions Category Inventory Written by Keith Murphy 17 min read Tags Education Risk Management Supply Chain Management Last edited March 18, 2025 Download PDF KEY TAKEAWAYS Efficient school supply chains are critical for maintaining consistent educational services.
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