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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

The aim is to select the supplier that represents the best value and fit for the specific procurement need. Contract Negotiation After selecting the best supplier, the procurement team negotiates final contract terms like pricing, service levels, delivery timelines, warranties, and other legal and commercial conditions.

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Technology Trends in Procurement

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Fully-automated spend categorization will boost visibility, free up time, supercharge advanced analytics, and improve decision-making. Importantly, technology can monitor contract expiry dates to prevent auto-renewals and provide the procurement team with an opportunity to reconsider or renegotiate the contract.

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The Supply Chain Workload Iceberg!

Supply Chain Game Changer

But too often the expected deliverables from Supply Chain professionals are established without a real understanding of the totality and breadth of actual tasks that must be performed underneath those high level expectations. With an iceberg it is said that only 10% of it is visible as the rest is under the water.