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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

Key technologies changing the game in procurement include: E-Procurement Systems E-procurement software provides a centralized platform to manage the entire procurement process online. Buy fair trade, organic, and locally sourced goods whenever possible. Conduct supply chain audits and due diligence on high-risk categories.

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Strategic Procurement — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Strategic Sourcing Strategic sourcing assesses the patterns of business spending in order to find and choose the best suppliers that align with your business goals and objectives. Thus, integrating procurement software eliminates errors and improves productivity within procurement. What is a procurement strategy?

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How to be a better procurement manager in 2022: The latest updates on procurement digitization

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

Over the past two years, we’ve seen how supply chains are constantly changing and facing uncertainties. The latest updates can help you keep up with your industry competition, reduce costs and optimize your supply chain network to improve performance and mitigate risks. .

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Managed Procurement Services: A Strategic Approach to Cost Reduction

Empowering CPO

Modern procurement services encompass a wide range of activities such as strategic sourcing, category management, contract negotiation, risk management, and supplier relationship management. Moreover, procurement is often directly involved in achieving strategic business goals.

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Cost Avoidance: The Invisible Procurement Performance Metric

Procurement Software

In this post, we’re going to look at two areas where Procurement teams typically spend a lot of effort, but often struggle to get recognition: Cost avoidance (including price increase deferrals). Driving value through strategic sourcing and supplier collaboration. Procurement as a growth partner to the business.

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Cost Avoidance: The Invisible Procurement Performance Metric

Procurement Software

In this post, we’re going to look at two areas where Procurement teams typically spend a lot of effort, but often struggle to get recognition: Cost avoidance (including price increase deferrals). Driving value through strategic sourcing and supplier collaboration. Procurement as a growth partner to the business.

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How effective Tail Spend Management can drive cost savings

Procurement Software

What many companies don’t realise though is that direct materials have been negotiated to death. Old school, pure-play price negotiations don’t work, especially in an inflationary market. Direct materials that go into the production process are strategically sourced. 3) Vendors not actively managed.