Future Purchasing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The real value is spending some quality time with your stakeholders to discuss potential categories to focus on and identify resources required to make the cross-functional working more effective. Procurement teams clearly appreciate why strategic alignment planning activity is such an important activity.

Category management 52

Category management Collaboration Real-time Visibility Management 52

ivalua

MARCH 28, 2019

The huge growth in the use of technology has been the most visible part of that developing picture. I first saw this term used a few years ago by Philip Ideson, as a title for his website and excellent series of podcasts, and it feels like this may be an idea whose time has come.

Procurement 167

Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain Real-time Visibility Innovation 167

Empowering CPO

JULY 2, 2023

In essence, it’s a critical business function that ensures the right goods and services are available at the right time, in the right quantities, at the right price. It plays a vital role in ensuring smooth operational continuity by securing the required resources and managing the supply chain effectively.

Management 40

Management Supplier relationship management Procurement Strategic sourcing 40

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

By gaining visibility into spending patterns, demand, supplier performance, and supply markets–opportunities will be uncovered. Supplier on-boarding time: S2P can significantly reduce the time it takes to on-board new suppliers.

Sourcing 130

Sourcing Real-time Visibility e2e supply chain software solutions 130

HICX

AUGUST 4, 2022

Furthermore, failure to tackle data quality issues created in the past will hamper the ability to obtain full visibility, thus creating even more ambiguity. This results in higher costs for the supplier as must devote more staff time to addressing these requests and this in turn inevitably leads to costs being passed on to the customer.

Suppliers 52

Suppliers e2e Real-time Visibility Collaboration 52