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Procurement vs Purchasing: Key Differences, Workflows, and Enterprise Risks

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Technology unifies procurement and purchasing, improving visibility, compliance, and workflow automation. Distinguishing the two helps enterprises optimize spend and strengthen supplier relationships. For enterprises, procurement and purchasing are closely linked but serve different roles in managing spend and supplier relationships.

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Agentic AI in Supply Chains: The Future of Decision Making

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Keelvar Keelvar specializes in autonomous procurement and supplier negotiations, making sourcing more efficient and cost-effective. Analyzes supplier performance, market trends, and contract terms. Provides end-to-end supply chain visibility and real-time insights.

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Navigating trade turbulence: What tariffs are really exposing in Procurement

Spend Matters

This kind of end-to-end tariff strategy demands visibility, coordination and scenario planning, which are capabilities that traditional procurement tools often lack. Supply chain visibility: The linchpin for tariff management If there is one lesson from recent disruptions, it is this: you cannot mitigate what you cannot see.

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Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation: Roadmap for Efficiency and Resilience

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Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. But digital transformation also has longer-term benefits for supplier collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility.

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Let’s Get Digital: Introducing your Source-to-Pay Guide

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Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. ​ The Source-to-Pay process itself is quite broad but it covers most if not all the aspects of a procurement organization, at least from a process and technology perspective.

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Procurement Tracking – Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

These tools allow for automated, integration to suppliers and visibility in procurement data at any time. In order to minimize possible supply chain disruptions, timely identification of supplier issues or interruptions can speed up the process by way of searching for alternate suppliers or amending terms and conditions.

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Spend Matters Future 5 2024 – Introducing COVALYZE

Spend Matters

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. Only since we have this end-to-end solution that optimized data input did customers gain the confidence in the developed data pipeline and the quality of the data.

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