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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.

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Aligning Finance and Procurement for cash flow optimization and liquidity — Phase 1: Understanding the foundations

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Optimizing the cost of capital to improve financial flexibility. Procurement’s cash flow priorities Procurement plays a vital role in cash flow management by: Strengthening supplier relationships to ensure resilience in the supply chain.

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Integrated Logistics — What You Should Know

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Additionally, we will tell you the advantages of having integrated logistics in your supply chain. Thus, this will enable you to implement it in your supply chain. Negotiation Course for Procurement Learn from industry experts who negotiated billion $ deals 2. What is Integrated Logistics?

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Aligning Finance and Procurement – Phase 5: Sustaining alignment success with shared KPIs

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Achieving true alignment between finance and procurement goes beyond initial collaboration it requires ongoing monitoring and measurement of shared objectives. Tracking performance over time is key to measuring the business value the collaboration is delivers. Category-based budgeting should align with corporate financial strategies.

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Strengthening cash flow management and liquidity: A Finance–Procurement alignment approach — Executive Summary

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The series follows the methodology described in our Aligning Finance and Procurement in-depth guide , which offers a practical, structured approach to enhancing cash flow visibility, optimizing payment timing, reducing working capital risk and improving liquidity outcomes through closer collaboration between finance and procurement.

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Fourth Party Logistics — Everything You Should Know

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Thus, you will know what operational model will work better for your supply chain. A fourth-party logistics , typically known as 4PL, is an operational model where a business outsources its entire supply chain and logistics to a single external provider. 4PL: What is it?

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AI in procurement: How different industries are harnessing its power

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In this article we will highlight some of the key changes AI has made to procurement strategies in the following industries: manufacturing and industrials, life sciences and healthcare, and the public sector. Supply network modeling, now integrating large language models (LLMs), allows for precise tracking and material tracing.