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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

The procurement team manages the order, monitors quality, ensures on-time delivery, processes invoices, and handles any issues that arise during fulfillment. The key elements of procurement strategy include: Aligning with Corporate Strategy Procurement strategy starts with understanding the overall corporate strategy and business objectives.

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The Impact of Digital Transformation on Spend Analysis

Empowering CPO

Traditional approaches to spend analysis relied heavily on manual processes and limited data visibility. Understanding Digital Transformation in Procurement Digital transformation in procurement refers to the comprehensive integration of digital technologies, data analytics, and automation into procurement processes and strategies.

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Innovative Procurement Models: Exploring Different Approaches

Empowering CPO

It is a strategic process that involves identifying business needs, sourcing suppliers, negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products or services. It also facilitates data collection, which can be used for analytics and strategic decision-making.

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Supply Chain Risks: Different Types and How To Mitigate Them

Planergy

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. Project Organization Risk Also considered a planning risk, this occurs because you don’t have the right staff or tools in the right place at the correct time.

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? What are the pros and cons, and what supply chain strategy will pave the way to higher margins, improved supply chain risk management in healthcare and improved patient care?