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Procurement Strategies and Innovation – A CPO treasure chest

Spend Matters

At Spend Matters, it’s as important for us to get to know the requirements and opinions of the procurement community of practitioners as it is for us to understand the world of tech solutions and their providers. So it was good to see a nice mix of both presenting at Procurement Strategies and Innovation (PSI) last week.

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Episode 137: Using Visibility to Combat Supply Chain Abstraction with Frank Kenney

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EPISODE 137 Using Visibility to Combat Supply Chain Abstraction with Frank Kenney By Kelly Barner | October 18, 2023 In the race to build global empires of data and digital systems, today’s businesses must not risk forgetting what all of those zeroes and ones mean.

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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

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It also has an impact on procurement teams as they are responsible for managing supplier relationships, identifying opportunities for cost savings, and ensuring that goods and services are delivered on time and within budget. This helps ensure your contracts remain favorable and that all stakeholders comply with the negotiated terms.

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4 smart technologies modernizing sourcing strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

This helps reduce errors to improve data quality and response times to questions, which improves customer and supplier satisfaction. The ability to make these sourcing decisions in real-time can help increase profits during peak demand periods and better meet customer expectations.

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Integrated Logistics — What You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

The goal of integrated logistics is to optimize the entire supply chain by minimizing costs, improving efficiency, and ensuring timely delivery of products to customers. Negotiation Course for Procurement Learn from industry experts who negotiated billion $ deals 2. CERTIFICATE COURSES Related courses about this subject 1.

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Supplier Order Management Software – Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Procurement Strategy Take the lead with our proven 5-step procurement strategy 3. Sustainable Procurement Maintain high profitability while moving toward sustainability 4. ChatGPT & AI Use ChatGPT to automate procurement processes 5. Establishing this system may require your time and effort.

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AI in Logistics – The Ultimate Guide

Procurement Tactics

Artificial intelligence is being used to automate routine and time-consuming work in warehouses such as packing and sorting of goods which helps to improve efficiency, reduce errors and costs. It is also used to improve the accuracy of demand forecasting, inventory management , and transportation planning.

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