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The top capabilities of E-Procurement solutions

Spend Matters

E-procurement IT solutions improve process automation, increase spending under management, reduce maverick spend, improve cross-functional process/data integration (e.g., budget compliance and inventory availability), enable effective spend, preferred supplier and category management.

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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

Procurement differs from purchasing in a few key ways: Strategic focus : Procurement has a strategic, long-term focus on analyzing spend, reducing costs, managing supplier relationships, and mitigating risk. In summary, procurement is a strategic function focused on maximizing value, reducing costs, and building competitive advantage.

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Omnichannel order management: How it benefits retail businesses

Orderhive

As a consequence, if an order came into a warehouse and the item was housed in another one, the digital system couldn’t cope and everything had to be processed manually. As can be imagined, this added a lot of unnecessary time to the order fulfillment process. . What is omnichannel order management? Reduced costs.

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Platform or a Collection of Tools: Which One Do You Prefer for your Digital Transformation Efforts?

Solvoyo

Here are 4 distinct reasons why you should prefer a supply chain platform as opposed to a collection of supply chain tools to ensure success in your digital transformation journey: 1) A platform is a living ecosystem. With a toolset, you get the underlying technology to build a supply chain “something.”

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Niels van Hove from Supply Chain Trend interviewed a group of S&OP leaders. Supply Chain Trend will publish a weekly Q&A with these S&OP leaders. To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Supply Chain Trend interviewed a group of S&OP leaders.