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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

The goal is to find suppliers capable of delivering based on specifications, pricing, quality, capacity, and other factors. Contract Negotiation After selecting the best supplier, the procurement team negotiates final contract terms like pricing, service levels, delivery timelines, warranties, and other legal and commercial conditions.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

Intelligent IBP effectively combines human and machine strengths with good decision practices to consistently make timely, high-quality, horizon agnostic business decisions. I think it is time to update the IBP belief sytem to be more reflective of current times, technology & ways of working, and create a modern IBP vision.

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The Reality of Automation in Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It helps bring predictability to Strategic Sourcing, automates Transactional Procurement (or P2P cycle), and enables proactive Supplier Risk Management. Collaborating with the suppliers without any systems would mean wasting time searching through voicemails, printed documents, and email threads to locate the needed information.

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The 10 Hottest German Procurement Startups

Procurement Software

At the same time, it also provides AI-powered management of contractual obligations and deliverables. Matchory Matchory is a German procurement startup offering a data-driven strategic sourcing solution. This collects supplier data from a range of sources, then applies machine learning and other technologies to analyse it.