HICX

JUNE 9, 2025

This capability reduces reliance on single sources and strengthens supply chain resilience. Generative AI automates the creation of essential procurement documents like purchase orders, invoices, and contracts. Its role in predicting risks and forecasting demands strengthens supply chain resilience.

Suppliers

The Network Effect

JULY 11, 2025

A New Business and Deployment Model Traditionally, supply chain software requires organizations to purchase licenses, pay for consulting and customization, and commit to ongoing maintenance—all at high and rising costs.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

TYA Suite

JUNE 22, 2025

Procurement analytics is the process of gathering, examining, and interpreting information about a business's purchasing operations. This includes information from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, purchase orders, supplier invoices, , inventory databases, and supplier relationship management platforms.

Procurement

Jaggaer

APRIL 16, 2025

These could be service requests, inquiries, demand planning, or purchase needs. Many procurement teams are being asked to deliver value beyond savings alone , strengthening supply chain resilience, reducing compliance risk, and advancing ESG and sustainability goals, at greater speed and without headcount increases.

Procurement

Planergy

MAY 8, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. These portals improve real-time visibility into purchase orders, payment timelines, and dispute resolution, directly enhancing vendor satisfaction. [5] What's PLANERGY? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software.

Strategy

Barkers Procurement

MAY 7, 2025

In a world where geopolitical uncertainty is becoming commonplace, and retailers must stay resilient, leaders would be wise to apply a lesson from the past: make visibility an absolute priority. When Covid-19 first hit five years ago, retailers experienced the need for supply chain resilience.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Future Purchasing

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This challenge is exacerbated by a lack of visibility in government supply chains, which hinders risk management and makes it difficult to build a resilient supply chain. Organisational Challenges Skills shortages The procurement industry is experiencing significant skills shortages.

Innovation

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Targeted Learning: SCMDOJO offers a range of courses and learning paths focusing on specific procurement areas, such as e-auctions, contract negotiation, cost optimization, and supply chain resilience. This allows you to tailor your learning to your particular needs.

Procurement

Supply Chain Dive

JUNE 23, 2025

That’s why supply chain resilience has become a strategic priority. By investing in collaborative tools and processes today, companies can build a foundation for long-term success—one that’s resilient, responsive and ready for whatever comes next. Now comes the difficult part.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

TYA Suite

MAY 23, 2025

Collaborative efforts can also identify cost-saving opportunities, such as bulk purchasing or optimized logistics, resulting in overall cost reductions for both parties. Improved efficiency and cost reduction A company's operations, efficiency, and lead times can be greatly improved via strong cooperation with its suppliers.

supply chain software solutions

Finale Inventory

JULY 18, 2025

While the reorder point triggers a purchase order, the reorder quantity—often calculated using economic order quantity principles—determines the optimal amount to order. Supply Chain Resilience Recent global disruptions have taught inventory planners to build additional buffer into their calculations.

Inventory

SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

However, being cautious when extending payment terms to suppliers is extremely importantdelaying payments may relieve short-term cash pressure but can jeopardize supplier relationships or trigger broader supply chain failures. Consider alternative financial arrangements, such as risk-sharing agreements or advance purchasing contracts.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Dive

JULY 21, 2025

But while the global trade environment continues to challenge supply chain agility, businesses are not helpless. Savvy companies are fighting back with creative strategies to mitigate the impact of tariffs – and in many cases, to build long-term supply chain resiliency in the process. By Philip Neuffer • Jan.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Finale Inventory

JULY 18, 2025

The system's ability to create appropriate safety stock buffers proves especially valuable during high-demand periods like Prime Day or Black Friday, when many businesses struggle with the most common supply chain issues including allocation decisions and fulfillment prioritization. "We

supply chain software solutions

Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Reference to Triple Bottom Line post Consumer decision-making regarding ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) goals is influenced by several concerns, which can either encourage or hinder their commitment to purchasing products and services that align with ESG principles.

Chief Procurement Officer

Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Reduced inventory: A manufacturing execution system updates inventory records with new production so that purchasing, shipping, and planning departments always know exactly what material is available. Increased uptime: MES monitors machine performance and preventive maintenance schedules, reducing unplanned downtime.

Supply Chain Efficiency

SCMDOJO

MAY 23, 2025

They also reduce cost by minimizing waste, downtime, and overproductionturning resilience into a competitive advantage. Not sure where your supply chain stands? SCMDOJOs Supply Chain Resilience Self-Assessment Tool enables businesses to evaluate their current resilience posture and identify key vulnerabilities.

Leadership

Procurement Insights

APRIL 18, 2025

Many vendors and buyers have accelerated purchases to get ahead of these tariffs, causing temporary price drops followed by sharp increases once tariffs take effect 1 4 5 6. Tariffs and Trade Policy: New and proposed tariffs (up to 60% on Chinese imports) are expected to directly impact hardware prices in 2025 and beyond.

Price

Planergy

MARCH 12, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Lets look at a comparison of business benefits: Cost Efficiency: Savings on shipping and reduced supply chain risk can help offset the higher labor expenses associated with reshoring. What's PLANERGY?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

TYA Suite

MAY 3, 2025

Automate and Plan the Purchase Process In my experience as the CEO of NetSharx Technology Partners, one of the primary features businesses should look for in procurement systems integration capability. Automation is another crucial feature, from generating purchase orders and managing approval workflows to automating invoice processing.

supply chain software solutions

Planergy

MARCH 18, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Common disruptions such as economic instability, vendor delays, natural disasters, and supply shortages uniquely challenge schools due to tight budgets and rigid schedules. What's PLANERGY? directly impact procurement budgets.

supply chain budgeting

Jaggaer

JUNE 25, 2025

It can also be used to analyze purchase history, behavior, and preferences to suggest product customizations before the customer even asks. GenAI will also enable manufacturers to increase supply chain resilience while reducing costs. style, size, function).

Supply Chain Efficiency

ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ivalua Blog [ivory-search] Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience February 8, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley In the face of an unprecedented global crisis, Procurement stepped up to become a crucial driving force for business continuity. Create speed and transparency.

Supply chain resilience

ivalua

JULY 11, 2022

Automated Bid & Buy: Empower users to conduct simple and automated spot bids from within a purchase requisition. The post Ivalua Launches Collaboration and AI-Powered Innovations to Help Organizations Improve Supply Chain Resilience and Profitability appeared first on Ivalua. Procure-to-Pay. 212-239-8594. ivalua.com.

Supply chain resilience

ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Customers can now ensure greater supply chain resilience through improved supplier discovery and collaboration, increase efficiency across each step of the source-to-pay process and better understand and optimize cost drivers for goods and services purchased. Learn more at www.ivalua.com. Media Contact. Michael Gallo.

Supply chain resilience

ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Finally, Ivalua’s eProcurement solution enables users to create purchase orders quickly and accurately while providing visibility into status updates along each step of the procurement process. This helps ensure your contracts remain favorable and that all stakeholders comply with the negotiated terms.

Price

IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Supply chain pundits from industry and academia point out that it is possible for businesses to strike a balance between just in time and just in case. In this blog, let’s explore best practices that drive supply chain resiliency with this definition at the core. Why is supply chain resiliency important?

Supply chain resilience

ivalua

MAY 31, 2022

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is not limited to transactional information (number of purchase orders, number of catalog items, number of supplier invoices ) or legal/contractual requirements. Learn to manage and control your suppliers to improve your purchasing efficiency and expand your supplier base. .

Suppliers

ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

According to the panelists, there are some key features and functionality that make best-in-class supply chain solutions a better choice for healthcare organizations: Guided procure-to-pay compliance: The concept of compliant purchasing in healthcare encompases the front-end user experience. Efficient warehouse management.

supply chain budgeting

Strategic Sourceror

JULY 24, 2022

A Blog for Procurement, Supply Chain and Purchasing Professionals, sponsored by Corcentric , a leading Procurement Service Provider, specializing in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Resources and Procurement Advisory. " Time will tell if the world is back on track but, for the moment, the signs are encouraging.

Supply chain resilience

ivalua

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The eProcurement solution enables users to create purchase orders quickly and accurately while providing visibility into status updates along each step of the procurement process. In addition, our Contract Management module helps Manufacturers to easily track milestones and consumption in real time across multiple agreements.

Procurement

Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The complexity of today’s supply chain makes it more prone to severe impacts from disruptions, just like what happened at the start of the pandemic. . Due to this, many organizations have put supply chain resilience as a top priority.

Collaboration

Strategic Sourceror

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Shoring up staff is a good way to increase supply chain resiliency, which companies are trying to do more of today to ensure theirs has what it takes to stay together when it's taxed in the future. Brought to you by the StrategicSourceror.

Collaboration

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

These healthcare industry supply chain issues are equally urgent, and each require immediate attention. The good news is, it’s possible to alleviate these perilous pain points by building healthcare supply chain resilience. Doing so streamlines purchasing power and optimizes inventory management.

Supply Chain Efficiency

ivalua

DECEMBER 14, 2020

What we learned about agility and resilience can be applied to future-proof the source-to-pay (S2P) process and help organizations meet any new challenge with confidence. Resilience and that ability to react quickly to change makes Procurement a much more strategic part of the organization, than if they focus only on reducing costs,” he said.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 15, 2020

The inner ring & central focus areas being: Strategic Sourcing Contract Management Requisitioning Purchasing/Spot Buys Payment Spend Analysis. These are definitely some tools that you should have in place to keep the backbone of your purchasing data-driven & keep your suppliers’ invoices paid in full. Publications.

Procurement

Procurement Templates

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For example, a product with a lower purchase price may have higher long-term operational and disposal costs. Risk Management : Supply Chain Resilience : Evaluate suppliers’ strategies for mitigating risks related to environmental disruptions, such as natural disasters or resource scarcity.

Sustainability