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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Spend Matters

APRIL 15, 2025

Modern procurement needs have far surpassed transaction management; procurement is now a critical component in driving strategic value across businesses and AI has become a key tool in procurement teams back pockets. Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) is also benefiting from AI.

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Real-time Visibility Procurement e2e Supply Chain Efficiency 72

Skill Dynamics

APRIL 24, 2025

When you look behind the scenes of a global business operation, procurement strategy and supply chain management are usually top priorities, though theyre not always working in sync. This blog explores procurement vs supply chain strategy and looks at how aligning the two leads to operational excellence.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Impact on Procurement: Gen AI leverages vast datasets to generate actionable insights, helping procurement teams predict future trends, such as market shifts, supplier performance, and demand fluctuations. How JAGGAER Helps JAGGAERs ESG solutions help procurement teams integrate sustainability into their sourcing strategies.

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Planergy

MAY 8, 2025

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. 4][5] Supplier Portals Enhance Collaboration: Digital supplier portals are now in use across 35% of procurement platforms.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Complete Source to Pay cycle and Strategic Sourcing Guide An optimized Source-to-Pay (S2P) process helps businesses enhance procurement efficiency, reduce costs, and improve supplier collaboration. It includes sourcing and supplier management, contract management, and procure-to-pay (P2P) functions.

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 3, 2025

Poll Time The following is a poll that was posted in the Global & Purchasing Supply Chain Professionals LinkedIn Group, which has over 164,000 members. Blame Game: The team complains the platform is too complex or not intuitive enough. What is the edge one driver has over another? Use this link to check out the group.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 7, 2025

Why Modernizing Government Procurement Matters Government procurement is a complex process, often involving multiple stakeholders, large-scale budgets, and stringent regulatory requirements. Traditional procurement methods can lead to inefficiencies, delays, and cost overruns.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 30, 2025

The modern procurement leader must manage risk, drive ESG, deliver cost savings and enable innovation often without additional headcount or budget. Against this backdrop, a new model is emerging: procurement as Orchestrator of Value. From there, workflows adapt in real time. AI suggests actions.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 16, 2025

Digital procurement tools offer both immediate benefits and long-term returns. While full-scale digital transformation certainly takes time, organisations can see rapid improvements in efficiency, collaboration, and data accuracy right from the outset. As a result of better data, procurement teams gain a whole range of benefits.

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Planergy

MARCH 18, 2025

Download Free Copy Supply Chain Disruptions in Schools: Challenges and Solutions Category Inventory Written by Keith Murphy 17 min read Tags Education Risk Management Supply Chain Management Last edited March 18, 2025 Download PDF KEY TAKEAWAYS Efficient school supply chains are critical for maintaining consistent educational services.

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TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

While it may not seem as strategic or high-profile as long-term sourcing deals, operational procurement is essential. It ensures that every team has the right resources at the right time, without delays or extra costs. What is the goal of operational procurement? is made after the necessity has been determined.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 21, 2025

QUESTION 1: How does Hansen’s Metaprise Model address the following CPO concerns: Budget Constraints, Process and System Alignment, Technology Gaps, Challenging Market Dynamics, Difficulty Engaging Stakeholders? tariffs, port strikes), reducing costs by 2030% (DND case study). Heres how it tackles each challenge: 1.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Here’s a breakdown of the shifts over this period: 2011: Procurement as a Tactical Function Primary Focus on Cost Savings : In 2011, CFOs largely viewed procurement as a cost-control function , tasked with negotiating contracts, reducing spend, and maintaining compliance with budgets.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration for Agility Your world is characterized by dynamic market conditions, shifting customer demands, new technologies, rapidly changing regulations, and frequent supply chain disruptions. In times of pressure and crisis , highly responsive and trustworthy suppliers make agility possible.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How Inflation Impacts Procurement Inflation affects a number of aspects within the Manufacturing supply chain, including the ability to compete in the market, financial performance, and overall strategy. Manufacturers, take charge of your supply chain!

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Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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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TYA Suite

OCTOBER 27, 2024

With automated systems, purchase orders can be generated based on predefined criteria, such as inventory levels or specific triggers, ensuring timely and accurate procurement. Real-time tracking and reporting capabilities allow organizations to monitor the status of purchase orders, deliveries, and payments.

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Procurement software tends to fall into one of three categories. There are enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which are complex systems designed to help companies manage all ends of the supply chain. What is Procurement Software? How Does Procurement Management Software Work? Improved cost control.

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TYA Suite

JUNE 2, 2025

But purchasing is more than just placing orders, it's a structured process that ensures the right items are bought, from the right sources, at the right price, and at the right time. It follows defined steps to reduce waste, control costs, avoid delays, and ensure quality.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 20, 2023

The supplier order management software integrates with other systems such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Supply Chain Management (SCM) to ensure a seamless flow of information across different departments. Establishing this system may require your time and effort.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. These four steps constitute the downstream procure-to-pay part of the process. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration.

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Procurement Templates

JUNE 18, 2023

ChatGPT Inflation refers to the general increase in prices of goods and services in an economy over time, resulting in a decrease in the purchasing power of money. Inflation occurs when there is an imbalance between the supply and demand of money and goods. What is inflation?

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Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Indirect Procurement Indirect procurement covers support services and materials that enable institutional operations. This includes maintenance supplies, janitorial services, office equipment, utilities, and administrative resources. Strategic Procurement Strategic procurement goes beyond transactional purchasing.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 6, 2025

By adopting these technologies, public sector procurement teams can increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve accountability. However, it is incumbent upon public sector procurement leaders to measure and demonstrate return on investment.

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TYA Suite

MAY 23, 2025

The answer often lies in disconnected systems, manual workflows, and a lack of visibility between procurement and finance teams. Procure to pay automation addresses these issues by digitizing and streamlining the entire cycle, from to invoice payment.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 22, 2025

AI-First Automation: AI is built into every step, simplifying workflows, automating processes, and delivering real-time insights for compliance, onboarding, KYC/AML, contract management, and ESG initiatives. Real-Time, Data-Driven Insights AI analyzes live and historical data, providing actionable risk and compliance intelligence.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

By gaining visibility into spending patterns, demand, supplier performance, and supply markets–opportunities will be uncovered. Spend under management: S2P software can help procurement teams better manage the percentage of company spend that is under contract and under management.

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TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

Is your procurement process draining your budget? In many organizations, procurement is one of the largest areas of spendingbut its also where hidden savings often go unnoticed. This is why procurement cost reduction is not just an option; its a necessity. Chances are, thats why you landed here. The result?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 14, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Procurement and Sustainability are your business’ Yin and Yang. Procurement and Sustainability are two disciplines and business functions that exist in a perfectly harmonious contradiction. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

The Promise of AI for Procurement Teams Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform and revolutionize procurement processes. One of the biggest challenges in procurement has been gaining visibility into exactly where money is being spent across the organization. This enables more accurate planning.

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Una

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Procurement professionals are now celebrated for their innovation, creativity, agility, and cost-saving initiatives. And let’s not forget the crucial role they play in driving diversity and sustainability within the supply chain. 8 Steps to Improve Procurement Efficiency. Consolidate your supplier lists.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In this age of supply chain disruptions that hold the power to upend entire industries, strength and resilience across the entire value chain is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s a survival tactic. They also factor in how a strong partnership could reduce supply chain risk and advance sustainability.

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ivalua

MAY 6, 2021

The past few years have been a boon for procurement, which has become increasingly strategic and critical to business. The pandemic has accelerated this trend, with the Procurement function front and center in the fight to ensure supply chain resilience and continuity, reduce costs and protect the bottom line.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Try this as a tongue twister: “Tripping through tantalizing TikTokers, tenfold to transform your tangled supply chain!” In our digital age, where viral trends dominate, TikTok’s influence now extends to supply chain management. Discover the Top 10 TikTokers reshaping how you view supply chains.

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In this article, we’ll go over a few ways to improve the process: education, gaining spend visibility , categorizing spend by supplier or department, etc. Understanding these categories is the first step toward better visibility, smarter procurement processes, and tighter budget control.

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TYA Suite

MAY 3, 2025

This integration simplifies workflows and reduces manual data entry, increasing operational efficiency. Another feature to prioritize is real-time data analytics and reporting. Using NetSharx's approach, I've seen businesses save up to 30% on network and technology costs by utilizing proactive analytics.

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