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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

Value-add : Procurement aims to add value by optimizing processes, consolidating spend, and building supplier relationships. The procurement team manages the order, monitors quality, ensures on-time delivery, processes invoices, and handles any issues that arise during fulfillment. Purchasing's value-add is more limited.

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AI in commerce: Essential use cases for B2B and B2C

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Use case 1: AI for modernization and business model expansion AI-powered tools can be incredibly valuable in optimizing and modernizing business operations throughout the customer journey, but it is critical in the commerce continuum. This content includes product descriptions, images, videos and even interactive experiences.

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Predictive Procurement: Overcoming Challenges in Health and Pharma

Arkestro

The pandemic and resulting supply chain disruptions have added extreme pressure on the health and pharma sector to address shortages quickly and efficiently. Constrained supply chains and the associated shortages have resulted in mounting pressures for organizations to diversify their supplier bases.

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Why Predictive Procurement in Health and Pharma is the Future

Arkestro

From April 2021’s “ A New Paradigm For Procurement ”: “As enterprises increasingly depend on an expanding and evolving supplier ecosystem, better optimization of strategic planning and procurement is paramount. Procurement and sourcing teams worked tirelessly to find solutions to disrupted supply chains.