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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

Advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are also being leveraged to optimize decision-making in areas like demand forecasting, market intelligence, and supplier identification. This enhances the strategic value procurement can provide. Dual sourcing and supply chain digitization can help.

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

ivalua

A purpose-built solution can enforce proper governance and standards, automate master data optimization activities, identify product standardization opportunities, and automate category management for strategic sourcing in supply chain. Demand planning capabilities. Point-of-use data capture.