Jaggaer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In today’s dynamic market, procurement is far more than just a buying and purchasing center. Collaborative tools enable the integration of Engineering, R&D, Quality, Logistics, and Procurement from the initial design phases. Our latest e-book, “ Is Manufacturing Missing Out On Procurement’s Value Add?

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Spend Matters

JUNE 24, 2025

Behind every chatbot interface or AI-guided shopping experience, procurement still must: Enable compliant purchasing. Generate accurate purchase orders (POs). Maintain clean, governed procurement catalogs Reliable catalogs are the cornerstone of strategic purchasing only when they are accurate, current and policy-aligned.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

EDITOR’S NOTE: I have recently completed a preliminary analysis of Packaging & Container Companies’ challenges to enable greater supplier collaboration and automation around the purchase order process, including PO confirmations, shipment notices, and price/quantity changes.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 9, 2025

In the world of logistics, where timing, coordination, and precision are everything, documentation often operates behind the scenes—yet it holds the entire system together. As such, this article explores why accurate documentation is not just administrative busywork but the backbone of logistics operations.

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Procurement Templates

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Analyze Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Incorporate factors like lifecycle costs, maintenance, and disposal into purchasing decisions. SAP, Oracle) Procurement software (e.g., Coupa, Ariba) Data analytics tools (e.g., Master Budgeting: Practice building and managing procurement budgets aligned with organizational goals.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Pricing Structure Affordable pricing, with annual access to purchased courses and practical resources through Pro Plan. This learning platform covers every angle of supply chain management, from demand planning and inventory management to supplier relationship management, procurement, and logistics.

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

Here are some key distinctions to make between Procurement vs. Supply Chain Management: Procurement is responsible for identifying suppliers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring cost-effective, compliant purchases. It’s heavily tied to spend management, risk mitigation, and supplier performance.

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Procurement Software

JULY 6, 2025

Unlike our colleagues purchasing direct materials, measuring hard savings – i.e. those visible on the P&L statement – becomes a complex puzzle in the indirect space. How do you consistently generate measurable savings on categories that are purchased irregularly or have highly variable specifications?

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TYA Suite

OCTOBER 27, 2024

A well-integrated procurement management system facilitates the seamless execution of procurement activities, from requisition and purchase order creation to and payment. By streamlining the process of creating, approving, and monitoring purchase orders, this feature minimizes errors and human labor.

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Supply Chain Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

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The Network Effect

JULY 11, 2025

Skip to content The Network Effect Beyond Supply Chains Menu Home Business Networks Supply Chain Management Logistics Resilience AI About Submit a Post Rethinking Defense Supply Chains with Network-Based Command Centers July 11, 2025 Michael Bruens Defense , Supply Chain Management This post has already been read 125 times!

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

High-performing organizations prioritize which type of analysis directly supports specific business outcomes: Tail spend analysis helps identify low-value purchases that add up fast. For example, a healthcare organization may use quarterly spend trend analysis to adjust purchasing volumes and avoid year-end budget overruns.

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ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) Automation Automating the purchase-to-pay process is key to reducing manual errors, accelerating procurement cycles, and improving spend control. The solution also provides the transparency that prompts us to take actions and helps accelerate automation in purchasing.” View the full EnBW case study.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Big data and digital technologies support the aggregation of purchases across business units to improve performance, provide better spend analysis, and drive business value. eProcurement: Purchasing departments and individual users want an efficient and modern online shopping experience with the ability to view and compare items seamlessly.

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Map Current Procurement Processes and System Coverage Document how procurement process activities flow across sourcing, contract negotiation, purchasing, and invoicing. Examples include IT, logistics, and critical raw materials. Low-risk or low-spend categories may be better suited for guided buying or catalog-driven procurement.

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Jaggaer

MAY 8, 2025

How often do your purchase orders change? For example, if your supplier is on wafer-thin margins, it may be bulk purchasing in order to reduce costs, leaving it with excess stock. But we have seen other issues amplifying variability with a negative impact, especially in logistics. Do you give suppliers accurate forecasts?

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SCMDOJO

JULY 4, 2025

This would be a significant cost-saving and time-saving mechanism for both the shippers, carriers, and logistics providers. Invoice processing AI will integrate with procurement, logistics, and payment systems. As an example, new invoices can be compared with purchase orders and agreed rates using algorithms.

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TYA Suite

JUNE 12, 2025

Procurement orchestration vs Procurement intake: What’s the difference The initial step where purchase or sourcing requests are submitted by internal users. For example, it can automatically prevent unauthorized purchases, ensure suppliers have valid certifications, or block orders that exceed budget thresholds.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 3, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, December 3, 2024 – Arkestro is excited to announce its partnership with the Infor Marketplace , a powerful collaboration designed to enable AI-driven procurement, sourcing, purchasing, and supply chain management transformation for enterprise manufacturing teams worldwide.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Technological advances, sustainability goals, and stronger resilience plans emerge as central themes shaping the future of logistics. Platforms like Shopify Fulfillment Service are setting benchmarks by integrating advanced logistics tools with reliable scalability for growing e-commerce brands.

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Map Current Procurement Processes and System Coverage Document how procurement process activities flow across sourcing, contract negotiation, purchasing, and invoicing. Examples include IT, logistics, and critical raw materials. Low-risk or low-spend categories may be better suited for guided buying or catalog-driven procurement.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Takeaway for Procurement: AI can automate repetitive tasks, like processing purchase orders or evaluating supplier bids, freeing up teams to focus on strategic priorities. In fact, 36% of companies in the report are focusing their investments on AI, recognizing its potential to automate processes and improve decision-making.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MAY 19, 2025

With an extensive online portfolio valued for its depth and scope, ProcurementIQ equips procurement professionals with the insight necessary to make better, faster purchasing decisions. Lyle Dixon, Senior Vice President of Business Development.

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Supply Chain Dive

JUNE 23, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Operations Weekly Every Tuesday Procurement Weekly Every Thursday Logistics Weekly Every Wednesday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. By doubling down on socially responsible purchasing and sustainable sourcing. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

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Procurement Insights

JULY 1, 2025

He highlighted an example where a department’s isolated operations—such as filing purchasing forms late in the day—negatively impacted procurement outcomes despite automation improvements.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 28, 2025

Logistics companies use blockchain to monitor the whereabouts of items as they are transported. From the moment a product is made until purchased, every step is recorded safely, establishing an immutable record. For example, cryptocurrencies have boosted fan engagement in eSports. Thanks to the ease and security the system provides.

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TYA Suite

MAY 3, 2025

Back then, businesses relied on paper purchase ordersphysical forms filled out by hand, signed, mailed, or faxed to suppliers. This process was slow, subject to human error, and made tracking orders a logistical nightmare. What is a digital purchase order? How does a digital purchase order work?

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 22, 2025

Logistics Metrics KPIs are the hub of innovations. ” In this blog, we’ll explain how our logistics KPIs dashboard can help you improve your logistics performance. Muddassir Ahmed has created a sample Logic API dashboard showing the most frequently used logistics metrics KPIs.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic sourcing formalizes the gathering, analysis and application of information to align purchasing strategies with the organizations broader goals while securing the best possible overall value. cost, products, legal terms, logistics etc.) Which Suppliers Are Truly Strategic? Request proposals based on your specifications (e.g.

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Procurement Insights

JULY 2, 2025

Paul Nilsen, Purchasing Manager – Willis North America, New York, NY ** ** (NOTE: Yes, I do keep track of all the professionals who have interacted with Procurement Insights since the blog was launched in May 2007, as it provides a glimpse into how our industry has progressed over these many years.) Web Resources: [link] [link] [link].

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TYA Suite

JUNE 22, 2025

Procurement analytics is the process of gathering, examining, and interpreting information about a business's purchasing operations. This includes information from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, purchase orders, supplier invoices, , inventory databases, and supplier relationship management platforms.

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ivalua

JUNE 24, 2025

An ERP-based procurement process helps organizations manage the purchasing process with greater efficiency, accuracy, and control. Here’s a breakdown of the typical ERP procurement process flow: Requisition Creation and Approval: A department identifies a need for goods or services and submits a purchase requisition within the ERP system.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 27, 2025

Faxes, paper purchase orders, typewritten lists of anything and everything, memos, and on and on. Electronic systems are pervasive in manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, distribution, finance, inventory, I/T, and business in general. Then you want to get your logistics carriers, both inbound and outbound, on board.

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HICX

JUNE 9, 2025

Through machine learning , AI uncovers patterns that assist in cost control, logistics planning, and supplier performance assessment. In supply chain operations, AI delivers end-to-end visibility and agility by integrating data from logistics, inventory, production, and external sources into predictive models and real-time dashboards.

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TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

is the process of lowering the total amount a business spends on purchasing goods and serviceswithout affecting quality or performance.Its not just about choosing the cheapest option. When you spend less on purchasing, your profit increaseswithout needing to raise prices. Procurement often makes up a large part of business expenses.

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Supply Chain Dive

JUNE 23, 2025

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 8, 2025

Example During a port strike, agents reroute shipments via alternative suppliers/logistics partners. Handling Multi-Stakeholder Complexity Factor Agent-Based Model (Metaprise) Equation-Based Intake & Orchestration Interoperability Agents represent suppliers, buyers, and logistics providers, collaborating across ecosystems.

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