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Here’s a comprehensive list of the top 100 skills that a Procurement Manager should master

Procurement Templates

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Procurement vs Purchasing: Key Differences, Workflows, and Enterprise Risks

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For enterprises, procurement and purchasing are closely linked but serve different roles in managing spend and supplier relationships. Procurement is a strategic function focused on selecting suppliers, negotiating contracts, managing supply chain risk, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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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. This blog explores the most common challenges in digital procurement and the capabilities that matter most.

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New Year Insights for the procurement solutions and services marketplace 2024: Fairmarkit

Spend Matters

2023 proved to be another challenging year for procurement professionals. With the geopolitical environment continuing its downward pressure on global supply chains, the economic volatility further cemented any cost-cutting measures that were already in place. For example, imagine you’re looking for a fence repair.

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The Relationship Between1998 RAM’s Agent-Based Model And 2025’s Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Procurement Insights

How Procurement Professionals Use or Interact with Model Context Protocol (MCP) Procurement professionals interact with AI models that utilize Model Context Protocol (MCP) in various ways, especially within digital procurement platforms, supplier management systems, and spend analytics tools.

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10 Digital Procurement Quick Wins

Procurement Software

Reduction in Admin Tasks and Data Entry Operational procurement processes require extensive administrative work, from entering supplier details in an ERP system, to processing purchase orders and reconciling invoices. Digital procurement solutions provide built-in analytics and reporting tools that simplify KPI measurement.

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468: Make Intelligent Purchases Driven by Data, with ProcurementIQ

Let's Talk Supply Chain

Lyle will be sharing his journey as one of the co-founders of ProcurementIQ, and Anthony will be giving his perspective on why, after many years in the industry, he decided to go to school for supply chain. Its making it much harder to plan and strategize for de-risking supply chains.