Arkestro

MARCH 8, 2024

Resources / Blog / Inspiring Inclusion: The Transformative Role of Women in Procurement Inspiring Inclusion: The Transformative Role of Women in Procurement As we celebrate International Women’s Month 2024 , the spotlight shines on the progress toward equality and the continued journey for inclusive growth within the professional sphere.

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Planergy

AUGUST 18, 2023

Clients and results More Customers We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with Planergy. It includes overseeing scheduling, planning, organizing, staffing, budgeting, communication, and problem-solving tasks.

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Planergy

AUGUST 18, 2023

Clients and results More Customers We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with Planergy. It includes overseeing scheduling, planning, organizing, staffing, budgeting, communication, and problem-solving tasks.

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Procurement Software

JULY 11, 2023

The sad fact is that we often don’t seem to be natural allies. What’s more, we often end up having a fractious relationship with one another. So, with that in mind, I took to my collective hive mind that is my LinkedIn network and the following question why this is the case, and how we can improve it.

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Procurement Software

JULY 25, 2023

Digital Procurement Transformation: why you may fail In this piece, we focus on the 10 main reasons why a digital procurement transformation may fail. Digital Procurement Transformation: why you may fail In this piece, we focus on the 10 main reasons why a digital procurement transformation may fail. Well, not quite.

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The Thomas Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Chances are you’re already using LinkedIn to keep an up-to-date roster of contacts, check out what connections are up to, scout out potential hires, and send messages. There are a few steps for you to benefit from using LinkedIn to connect with people in their industry, so we wanted to lay out a few tips on how to get started.

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Una

JANUARY 9, 2023

Some procurement departments use the 80/20 Pareto principle to focus on the large (80 percent) clients and contracts where supposedly greater savings can be realized, choosing to ignore the smaller 20 percent. Managing Tail Spend to Avoid "Porcelain Dalmatians". By Eric Edwards | January 10, 2023.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 27, 2022

Strategic brand management is a combination of techniques used to support companies in building brand recognition, increasing revenue, and accomplishing their long-term business objectives. For im-a-puzzle.com , a popular jigsaw puzzle website, its purpose is tied to its name and brand: to satisfy your need to solve puzzles.

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The use of HR help desk platforms is on the rise, ushering in a new system by which employees get the help they need, every issue gets addressed on time, and HR teams are given back several hours per week to solve problems of greater impact and urgency. Encouraging news is on the horizon. What is an HR help desk?

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In both our professional and personal lives, we all have methods we use to get tasks done. Businesses use workflows to complete most tasks, from entering a purchase order to manufacturing goods and delivering a service. Accountability clarifies the parts everyone plays in a workflow.

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The Thomas Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

While your specific business goals might be different than your competitors or the thousands of other manufactures out there, everyone wants to bring on new customers. Here are a few things to keep in mind if you're a manufacturer looking for more customers: Optimize Your Website To Convert New Customers. What markets do you serve?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As such we have focussed on curating a wide range of content and resources that will have relevance to anyone at anytime no matter what their needs may be. We began our Seasoned Leadership in Action™ Interview series in support of our objective to share experiences and expertise. Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 8, 2021

We have had the opportunity to publish dozens of interviews with tremendous leaders as a part of our Seasoned Leadership in Action Interview series. With literally a millennium of collective career experience these leaders have selflessly shared their thoughts, expertise and advice, including their career advice, with us. Be curious.

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HICX

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For this episode of the Supplier Experience Live Podcast, we were joined by David Yarkin , Founder and CEO of Procurated , and a former CPO. He explains, “One thing we really struggled with, like every government struggles with, was around the way in which we selected our suppliers on the basis of their past performance.” .

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. He tackled every problem and systematically turned the situation around.

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Pipefy

JULY 12, 2023

Back office operations are invisible to customers, but they’re an essential part of all businesses. They serve a supporting role, allowing front office departments to function at optimal productivity. In the current age of digital transformation, back office solutions can be the key to reducing operating costs and adding value.

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Una

JANUARY 8, 2024

Boosting Business Growth With the Help of a Group Purchasing Organization A playbook for boosting business growth, moving beyond the outdated perceptions of procurement, and turning it into one of your organization’s most important sources of value. DOWNLOAD PLAYBOOK Table of Contents Introduction What Exactly *Is* Value Creation? Let’s do it.

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The Good Spending

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Just as it happens with many other aspects of Agile, it is easy to just throw a statement that teams must be independent, flexible, and accountable. Just as it happens with many other aspects of Agile, it is easy to just throw a statement that teams must be independent, flexible, and accountable.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

I’m sure we can all relate to some or all of these statements. The specific lack of communication I am referring to in this case is the complexity with which we as process gurus capture business processes and the language we choose to depict it. Subscribe Here! Email Address. at [link]. I call it a failure to communicate.

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Procurement Zen

JANUARY 5, 2020

After reading a lot of them, here are the 7 best negotiation books for me. Here is what makes these books special: Each best books on negotiation is very hands-on. All author's offer approaches you can apply right away. This makes the books very practical. But each book has at least one unique angle to it. What I like and don't like about the books.

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The Thomas Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Ensure your marketing goals are realistic and all your efforts are aligned to the same goal to convert your website traffic to leads using the framework below. Ensure your marketing goals are realistic and all your efforts are aligned to the same goal to convert your website traffic to leads using the framework below.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 30, 2023

Bonus PDF: 51 ChatGPT Prompts to 10X Your Productivity in Procurement Download 51 Prompts →  Or receive our famous weekly newsletter 10 Corporate Gift Suppliers in the US — Pricing and Quality Reviews Every company has its own tradition, practices, shared values, and goals. Thus, it boils down to one thing, company culture.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Change isn’t easy, especially when it comes to transforming how Procurement operates in an enterprise governmental agency or organization. For example, we were able to talk to the Commonwealth of Virginia, a pioneer in Procurement. The interview has been condensed and edited for the purpose of this blog post.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 20, 2023

C ould you tell us a bit about your background? People that choose supply chain love challenges, and love to be about making a difference, so to be recognised is great, but to me, it is always around what we can do next. We have a lot of folks who are really focused on fulfilling our mission of protecting those who protect us.

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Claritum

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This article provides some useful tips and recommendations to aid in the analysis and selection of a procurement platform that will address Indirect Spend categories. It should be an intuitive and ready-to-use solution. It should be just as easy to use in a central location as it is locally. User Interface / Experience.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Stakeholders, including internal teams and external auditors, can use these reports to assess if the guidelines are being followed, encouraging a culture of accountability and integrity. Join us on this exploration as we uncover the definitions hidden within the realm of procurement reports and access free sample reports!

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Procurement Tactics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In this article, we will comprehensively tackle what negotiation is. We will go through the process and how you can negotiate effectively with another party. Negotiation in a Professional Setting Negotiation in a professional setting is a discussion used to settle conflicts and reach agreements between two or more sides.

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Pipefy

AUGUST 30, 2023

Continuously monitoring the performance of processes and workflows is necessary to identify and resolve potential bottlenecks and issues before they can balloon into more significant problems. We often underestimate the impact small changes have and overestimate the impact of implementing a large change. What is the purpose of CPI?

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ivalua

MARCH 11, 2020

As we entered the new year, many of us no doubt set personal resolutions (64.6% We do the same at work, typically in the form of MBOs. At a personal and professional level, this is all well meaning and generally useful. But such goals have a problem. That problem is a typical lack of ambition, a missed opportunity.

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Finale Inventory

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Many companies use programs like an inventory management system to keep records of their stocks, while others prefer basic counting systems. We’ve put together this guide to inventory accuracy to help. We’ve put together this guide to inventory accuracy to help. What Is Inventory Accuracy?

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Pipefy

AUGUST 31, 2023

We’ll also show you some of the tactics companies use to successfully reach the point of operational excellence. Operational excellence is one of the most important (and confusing) terms in the business world. Every company wants to achieve it, but what does that really look like? What are the tactics? And most importantly, what happens next?

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These start-ups are taking technology further to address problems not previously solved, or are introducing a new category of automation that tackles new challenges in interesting ways. We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 5, 2018

In our household we love our Google Home. My girls use it continuously to play music, ask silly questions, jokes, do calculations and spell difficult words amongst other things. I use it to voice command my shopping list, set a timer and book meetings in my agenda. Vision: systems that recognize objects based in visual input.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

And since one of the major drivers of resiliency is visibility, you can see where this problem takes root. If you don’t have transparency into all of those variables as they happen, problems are bound to occur that will end up costing your business profits and creating unhappy trading partners.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here we have compiled a list of must-listen supply chain podcasts for people who are interested in knowing everything about the industry. Easy Understanding: Jargon-Free Learning Forget complex jargon. Get ready to enhance your skills, gain new perspectives, and stay ahead in this ever-evolving industry.

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World of Procurement podcast

JANUARY 17, 2022

We like that a lot. I’m sure all of you reading this right now have encountered a Procurement tool that promises the world but when you use it, it looks awful. If we want to get even nerdier here, this is great for any audits that you may have that look into your organisational control measures such as ISO or SOC2. To awesome.

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World of Procurement podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Natasha is incredible, she gets it and it’s clear that she is in the business of solving business problems first and foremost. I’ve pulled a technical extract from their website below so that you can get an idea of what the platform is. It just happens that these sit within the realms of procurement. You’re going to love this one.

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