World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

Predicting future spend : By analyzing historical spend data, AI algorithms can create spending forecasts, predict seasonal demand changes, and model the impact of external factors on budgets. One of the biggest challenges in procurement has been gaining visibility into exactly where money is being spent across the organization.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 7, 2024

Supply chains are vital to businesses, facilitating the movement of goods, services, financial flows, and information. Enhancing supply chain resilience as well as supply chain visibility is crucial in today’s interconnected world. However, they are also susceptible to disruptions and risks.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

Contract Logistics is a critical aspect of the supply chain that often remains behind the scenes but plays a significant role in ensuring the efficient movement and management of goods. Contract logistics is a specialized service offered by third-party logistics (3PL) providers to manage supply chain operations on behalf of a company.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment. This is where managed procurement services come into the picture.

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Arkestro

JUNE 6, 2023

On the one side, finance is concerned with keeping the company budget in the black. On the other side, procurement is concerned with keeping company operations running smoothly and judicially making the most of budgets. Ultimately, both want the same goal — ensuring business outcomes are positive, timely, and on-budget.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Companies of all sizes have been capturing the value from Global Supply Chain to increase the economies of scale and scope for years. In this article, we will show you tips from worldwide experts that you can use to streamline your global supply chain operations. However, you may wonder what kind of practices really work.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment. This is where managed procurement services come into the picture.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS)! . Many years ago I started a Supply Chain Services business as a new service within the company. And they would not have the end to end supply chain visibility that can come with a TMS.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 30, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. But for those who are professionals working in the Supply Chain field there can be very unique distinctions in this terminology. Subscribe Here! Email Address. What’s the Difference Between Logistics and Distribution? What is Logistics Management?

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

What is Supply Chain Management (SCM) Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods, services, information and finances as they move from raw materials to final product, from manufacturer to consumer. The ultimate goal of SCM is to reduce costs while satisfying customer demands.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

However, only 3% of companies apply automated execution and 7% autonomous end to end planning. We will decide and response faster in our supply chain and make higher quality operational and strategic decisions. We’ve entered an AI era where 76% of work can be augmented or automated.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Many years ago I started a Supply Chain Services business as a new service within the company. The fundamental premise was that we had great Supply Chain expertise, tools, systems and processes which we could easily offer to customers. One of the services that was very compelling was our Freight Management service.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).

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Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 18, 2022

SRM is usually used by many supply chain professionals who constantly deal with suppliers in areas such as procurement, project management, and operations. . The SRM aims to ensure buying from reliable suppliers, bring end-to-end visibility of supplier collaboration workflow, and improve the resilience of the supply chain. .

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. preferred terms are negotiated in sourcing but only captured if purchased against) Invoicing: The most important part of the process for the supplier–getting paid. Purchasing is also where value is captured (i.e.,

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Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

Lavenir AI LavenirAI is a conversational AI-powered procurement negotiation training platform. Designed by procurement specialists, for procurement professionals, LavenirAI was developed to raise the bar for procurement negotiation. FRDM FRDM is a software company specialising in supply chain risk management.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 25, 2023

It’s a strategic function that requires careful planning, selection, and negotiation to ensure that businesses get the best value for their money. It’s a delicate balancing act, where businesses must juggle quality, cost, supplier relationships, and risk management, all while keeping an eye on their bottom line.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Workfellow offers a next-generation end-to-end visibility into workflows, systems usage, and tasks. These all help to drive supply chain impact. It aims to deliver a one truth approach, bringing real transparency to your costs and savings. DigiProc works by first analysing your spend data.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Procurement technology landscape Procurement technology is primarily designed to simplify procurement processes and reduce costs, but it’s grown to offer so many more benefits than that, with the greatest one being transforming procurement into a source of reliable strategic influence.

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Pipefy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The procurement process includes many steps, including: Sourcing suppliers Negotiating best value and terms Generating and submitting purchase orders Receiving deliveries Reconciling and matching invoices Issuing payment for goods, products, and/or services What is acquisition? Is acquisition part of procurement? In a word, yes!

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Pipefy

MAY 9, 2023

Effective modern procurement requires end-to-end process tracking to both view and control the costs, sourcing, quality, and delivery times associated with acquired goods and services. Supplier KPIs Suppliers, by definition, comprise a crucial link in your supply chain. Several things, as it turns out.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

And while enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates and manages all aspects of a business, BPM focuses on its individual functions—optimizing the organization’s existing, repeatable processes end-to-end. BPM can also provide real-time visibility into claim status and performance metrics.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Feature highlights include: Easy to use five-category classifications, best in class enterprise taxonomy, the ability to gain insights from trend analysis and organisation behaviours, 100% spend visibility and proprietary machine learning algorithms designed to deliver accuracy. M&A) The solution gives you full spend visibility.

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Pipefy

JUNE 15, 2023

This is especially true for leaders and teams wanting to become much more agile and resilient in light of the challenges created following recent supply chain disruptions. This end-to-end system’s built-in collaboration and data analysis tools eliminate process friction commonly created by manual or disjointed workflows.

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Pipefy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Procurement solutions encompass a wide range of specific functions due to the many aspects of the procurement process, including purchase requests centralization, procure-to-pay, sourcing, budget management, supplier management, and forecasting. What are e-procurement tools? The features of these solutions can vary widely.

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Procurement Software

JULY 4, 2023

It aims to make the procurement process more efficient, transparent, and cost-effective. It can help organisations reduce costs, optimise supplier relationships and increase compliance. It has become an essential tool for companies in today’s digital world to save time and reduce costs.

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Horizontal integration refers to a company expanding its operations by acquiring or merging with other companies operating at the same supply chain level.

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 23, 2024

End-to-end encryption provides a uniquely secure way to sign and store contracts, eliminating the need for dedicated servers and VPN connections. It supports them in budgeting, requesting, and ordering articles and services for their business, while benefiting from better purchasing conditions.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 5, 2023

Other motives for automating procurement include solving for high error rates, reducing manual work, and adding visibility to the different workflows and processes that fall under the procurement process umbrella. Containing costs. Enhancing visibility and control. Enhancing visibility and control.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 7, 2023

Industry jargon refers to sourcing and the negotiation of terms and conditions as the “upstream” part of the process. Improvements to end-to-end supply chain efficiency. Negotiation of terms and conditions, without the need to imminently issue a PO as is the case in more transactional processes.

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Procurement Software

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Industry jargon refers to sourcing and the negotiation of terms and conditions as the “upstream” part of the process. Competitive bidding, which optimises cost. Improvements to end-to-end supply chain efficiency. Price, terms and contract negotiation. What steps are involved in Source-to-Pay?

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