Supply Chain Dive

JANUARY 16, 2025

The ocean carrier used Craft's supply chain intelligence platform to help navigate last fall's East and Gulf Coast port strike.

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ivalua

JUNE 17, 2025

In a world of ever-growing economic uncertainty, procurement is at the heart of organizations’ aim to drive efficiency and cost savings. This blog provides an overview of the most significant insights and best practices to make your procurement teams future ready.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Automates repetitive, rules-based tasks such as invoice processing, purchase order generation, and data entry, freeing procurement teams for more strategic work. These technologies work in concert to enable AI-driven procurement, which, in turn, leads to faster, smarter, and more efficient operations.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Automates repetitive, rules-based tasks such as invoice processing, purchase order generation, and data entry, freeing procurement teams for more strategic work. These technologies work in concert to enable AI-driven procurement, which, in turn, leads to faster, smarter, and more efficient operations.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Innovative Solutions: Enhancing Procurement Efficiency While strategic sourcing focuses on supplier relationships and long-term goals, innovative solutions bring technology-driven efficiency and insight to procurement processes. Moreover, early warnings allow procurement teams to take pre-emptive actions, ensuring continuity of supply.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 10, 2025

Supply chains are more complex than ever, stakeholder expectations are soaring and the sheer volume of data that procurement teams must sift through is overwhelming. For years, procurement teams have been expected to do more with less while working with the same (or even fewer) resources.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ongoing training is important for procurement teams to keep up with the constantly evolving and advancing procurement tech and services landscape, specifically in niche areas such as category management, supplier management, negotiation and strategic sourcing and in the broader areas of change management and leadership.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By automating routine tasks, procurement teams can focus on strategic initiatives, which appeals to CFOs and finance teams. Customers use Onventis to consolidate suppliers and negotiate better terms. Risk reduction: The platforms compliance features (e.g., GDPR alignment, secure data storage) reduce organizational risk.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 13, 2025

Procurement teams must not wait to ramp up capabilities It is less of an if or what question than one of when. That being said and considering the renewed and focused attention on tariffs, we want to use tariffs as a sort of case study to illustrate what procurement teams can do and how technology can support them.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 9, 2025

How customers justify procuretech investment to stakeholders When procurement teams talk to stakeholders about investing in technology, they often highlight how it can save money and reduce risks. Partnering with a comprehensive provider like SAP can help ease many common issues procurement teams face.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 17, 2025

Level 2: The smart optimizations Medium-effort AI for deeper insights Once the basics are in place, procurement teams can move up the AI ladder to more sophisticated use cases. From there, procurement teams can gradually scale up to more complex applications that drive deeper insights and business transformation.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

How Inflation Impacts Procurement Inflation affects a number of aspects of a business, including its ability to compete in the market, financial performance, and overall strategy. The key for procurement teams is to stay ahead of inflationary trends so they can anticipate needs and adjust accordingly before problems arise.

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ProcurePort

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Such circumstances make it important for procurement teams […]. First, suppliers can eliminate competition by applying a loss-leadership strategy that drives other companies out of business. • In other cases, demand far outweighs supply, making it hard for buyers to negotiate.

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ProcurePort

AUGUST 31, 2021

With the increasing adoption of technology in procurement, many Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), accounts payable teams, and suppliers are turning to electronic invoicing as a viable solution to the issue of invoicing in a digital era. Digital transformation is taking center stage as procurement teams look […].

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 14, 2025

The solution needs to provide flexibility for each team to customize their own workflows, making their work easier and smoother rather than forcing them to compromise their needs, while enabling the overall organization to maintain a centralized process.

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ivalua

JUNE 5, 2025

For more on how these functions fit into broader sourcing models, explore our guide on source-to-pay vs. procure-to-pay. Procurement vs Purchasing – Why the Distinction Matters for Enterprise Procurement Teams At the enterprise level, understanding the difference between procurement and purchasing is essential to operational success.

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ivalua

JANUARY 8, 2023

For procurement organizations, the German Supply Chain Act presents both challenges and opportunities. The new set of regulations add an additional layer of compliance and risk management to the procurement process. The post What does the German Supply Chain Act Mean for Procurement?

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ivalua

MAY 31, 2022

Reviewing pandemic responses and strategies, some CPOs and Procurement teams managed a bit better than their peers as uncertainty and change mounted. These teams were able to quickly communicate and negotiate with their key suppliers to establish a “supplier of choice” solution. . Why is Supplier Information so important?

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Enterprise procurement teams face growing pressure to deliver strategic value – managing supplier risk, ensuring compliance, and supporting sustainability – all without sacrificing speed or control. Procurement Teams Digital technology empowers procurement teams with efficiency and control.

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RPF360

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Does your procurement team take requests? Listening to and serving stakeholders is a big part of creating a successful procurement team. Fortunately, a procurement request form makes it easy for stakeholders to initiate a project and engage with procurement.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 8, 2025

As procurement becomes increasingly strategic and digital, intake and orchestration processes require intricate coordination across various departments, tools and data sources. Zips value proposition is to provide requesters and stakeholders with an intelligent, intuitive front-end to their ERP or P2P.

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

Despite investments in tools and data, most procurement teams struggle to scale their efforts beyond one-off reports or limited categories. This fragmentation leads to inconsistencies that undermine trust and force procurement teams to chase data instead of analyzing it. The culprit?

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ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

AI, automation, and generative tools are redefining efficiency, allowing procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive decision-making. Scalability, integration, and flexibility are critical when choosing a platform, ensuring long-term value and the ability to adapt as procurement needs evolve.

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ABC of Procurement

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

However, I rarely find remote procurement teams. The post Remote work in Procurement first appeared on ABC of Procurement. We live in an era of Remote work. Is there a real reason for it?

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Procurement Heads

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The importance of the procurement team is more clearly recognised in some organisations and less so in others. Get an understanding of the perception of procurement and its engagement throughout the business.

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Spend Matters

MAY 14, 2025

The product (Guided Strategy Creation ) gives procurement teams a consistent way to define category strategies, document risks and objectives, and track results. It also helps procurement teams make the case for their work not just in savings, but in alignment, risk reduction and business impact. What is Cirtuo?

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

By understanding the S&OP process, procurement teams can make more informed decisions, improve supplier relationships, and support overall business growth. For example, below are 5 reasons why procurement folks should attend S&OP Reviews.

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RPF360

AUGUST 25, 2022

How do you measure the success of your procurement team? Procurement KPIs quantify, capture and report the efficiency and effectiveness of the department. The post Procurement KPIs: How to quantify value and measure success appeared first on RFP360. By establishing key performance indicators.

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RPF360

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Cost savings and cost avoidance are important strategies for procurement teams. Explore how you can differentiate between cost savings vs cost avoidance and see how you can reduce spend using both along with examples. The post Cost savings vs cost avoidance: What’s the difference? appeared first on RFP360.

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ivalua

JUNE 3, 2025

As Procurement teams are tasked to do more with less in an increasingly complex and uncertain market, digitization has become a must. Procurement leaders have increasingly turned to Spend and Supplier Management platforms to improve decision-making, efficiency and collaboration.

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Spend Matters

MAY 1, 2025

Key steps for e-procurement transformation Step 1: Strengthening procurement processes before automation Automation is only as effective as the processes it supports. Many organizations attempt to digitize broken procurement workflows, which only accelerates inefficiencies.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 25, 2025

Identifying key stakeholders Procurement operates within a complex ecosystem where multiple internal and external stakeholders hold different levels of influence. Internally, procurement teams must collaborate closely with finance, IT, legal and operational leadership, each with distinct priorities and decision-making authority.

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Skill Dynamics

JANUARY 14, 2025

Procurement is often an overlooked area within organizations, working behind the scenes to ensure businesses have the goods and services they need to operate at their best. Considering its importance, it makes sense that modern procurement teams have a structured approach to developing essential skills and capabilities.

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Spend Matters

MAY 13, 2025

Yet within many procurement functions, a fundamental question persists: Are we truly prepared to lead in this AI-powered future? To address this shift, ProcureAbility has partnered with dSilo.AI to co-author our latest Insights whitepaper, The Future of AI in Procurement.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 23, 2025

Their hands-on experience ensures that everything described here comes directly from people in the trenches procurement professionals facing these challenges daily. So our journey began with a pressing question: How should procurement teams digitally transform?

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As many procurement professionals have discovered, transforming your processes to meet todays challenges in an effective manner is not as simple as writing a new mission statement. The success of the Procurement team at Utz Brands, Inc. ,

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