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Digital Procurement for Enterprises: Key Challenges and Critical Capabilities

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Enterprise procurement teams face growing pressure to deliver strategic value – managing supplier risk, ensuring compliance, and supporting sustainability – all without sacrificing speed or control. They increase an organization’s efficiency during processes like sourcing, purchasing, supplier management, and spend analysis.

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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

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One way of doing this is by leveraging Source-to-Pay (S2P) solutions, which can provide procurement with the tools needed to manage their supplier relationships and identify opportunities for cost savings. Let’s explore further.

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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance

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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance Supplier relationships are at the heart of manufacturing performance. That’s why supplier collaboration—that consistent, trusted, and responsive interaction between supplier and manufacturer—is pivotal to manufacturing success.

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The Opportunity — and Challenges — for Digital Transformation in MENA

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The pandemic was a wake-up call for businesses worldwide, who struggled to overcome operational disruption — everything from the transition to remote working, to supply chain chaos. MENA countries import a lot of food; disrupted supply chains and price increases mean potential food shortages. Enter eProcurement.

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Essential Procurement Skills for the Leaders of Tomorrow

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Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Relationship Management Strategic sourcing skills are crucial for procurement professionals to effectively identify and then leverage opportunities within the supply base to create value. Strategic sourcing can also help reduce the overall risk in a given supply chain.

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The One Point Analysts Are Missing? Technology Is IRRELEVANT!

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Comprehensive eProcurement platforms were not yet prevalent. Significance : Baan’s software emphasized integration across the supply chain, including procurement processes. Manugistics : Focused on supply chain and logistics, Manugistics provided procurement tools to enhance sourcing and supplier management.

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How Modern Software Empowers Procurement with Agility and Resilience in Times of Crisis

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The pandemic wreaked havoc on businesses and their supply chains, but even in these trying times, there’s a silver lining. The job of sourcing professionals is to understand the risk in the supply chain and manage it so they can react quickly when a problem occurs.” Data silos also inhibit agility, Keeley said. “As