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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

The procurement team manages the order, monitors quality, ensures on-time delivery, processes invoices, and handles any issues that arise during fulfillment. Common procurement metrics include spend under management, savings targets, supplier lead time reduction, procurement process efficiency gains, sustainability metrics and more.

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The Future of Spend Analysis: Trends to Watch Out For

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From data-driven decision making to real-time spend visibility, predictive analytics, supplier collaboration, intelligent automation, and data security, we will explore each trend in depth, shedding light on their significance and potential impact on businesses.

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Supply Chain Collaboration – The New Way to Drive Value!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Supplier collaboration has always been a function of maintaining a delicate balance between demand and supply. For the most part, the primary focus of the supplier relationship is ensuring the right materials are available at the right time and location. Some collaborations promise equal benefits for both parties.

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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ERP solutions often lack robust capabilities around managing all of the data attributes for products and vendors, and cannot update them in real time or in an automated fashion. Demand planning capabilities. Demand planning is the ability to create forecasts that predict the future need for your products.