NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Consider these courses and resources from NLPA: 14 Procurement Best Practices Intelligent Procurement: How Can AI Expand Value? Automation increases efficiency and reduces errors, leading to faster and more accurate procurement cycles. The Drive to an Automated World: Is it the End of the Road for Procurement?

Procurement 52

Procurement Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Value Match

JUNE 20, 2022

Categories. Resourcing. Training Resources. The Scottish Government hopes the new policies will cut waste, preserve precious and natural resources, and increase reuse and recycling rates. Best Practice Guides. Bid Management. Case Study. Circular Economy. Community Story. Contract for Change. Environment and Climate.

Procurement strategies 52

Procurement strategies Sustainability Bidding Procurement 52

Claritum

JANUARY 8, 2017

We’ve compiled a list of some of the best must read procurement white papers and analyst reports (in no particular order of importance or preference) covering a variety of topics such as supply chain management, tail spend and the future and digitization of procurement.  The Digital Supply Network.  by.

Procurement 39

Procurement Supply chain management Supply chain management Networking 39

Procurement Software

MARCH 19, 2024

Generative AI’s current impact in procurement is best illustrated by tech-savvy procurement category managers leveraging apps like ChatGPT and Bard to streamline the execution of routine tasks. Category Management AI will increasingly be used to help to write and generate category strategies. Let’s look at each one separately.

Procurement 52

Procurement Category management supply chain software solutions Data 52

Claritum

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Resources. There are unique challenges and opportunities presented by complex, frequently ordered categories of Indirect expenditure, such as marketing services, print, packaging, uniforms & apparel, office supplies and related products and services. 6 Resources. Download the full White Paper. Technology Hype.

Real-time Visibility 36

Real-time Visibility Spend management Management Eprocurement 36

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

JULY 24, 2021

The 4-50 rule is a powerful variation of the 80-20 rule that enables procurement departments to laser-focus their competencies, assets, and resources. However, most performance measurements fall into four categories: Cost. One or two measurements for each of the four categories is plenty. The Power of Laser Focusing.

Supply management 52

Supply management Management Supply Suppliers 52

The Procuretech Podcast

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If AI is able to do the lion's share of the 80%, this then allows strategic resources to be freed up to focus on more value-added activities which can actually implement the changes and the projects to drive the costs down, or reduce the supply chain vulnerability, or whatever the higher goal of the activity may be. Forrester White Paper .

Data 52

Data supply chain software solutions Agile and Lean Supply Chain Category management 52

Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The feeling of overwhelm stems from having to deliver more results and perform a higher workload, often with fewer resources. PO and invoice approvals : can be done via a mobile app rather than in ERP Category strategies : can be executed using best-in-class software rather than fiddling around with graphs and text boxes in Power Point.

Management 59

Management Procurement supply chain software solutions Supply chain 59

Claritum

JULY 16, 2019

Indirect spend can cover areas such as marketing goods, uniforms, apparels, office furniture, temporary labour, services, utilities or paper. Applying procurement resources to establish suitable contracts. White Paper Download: 7 ways to transform eProcurement adoption. The straight answer is no. Contact Us.

Procurement 32

Procurement Purchasing Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility 32

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

JANUARY 14, 2022

The 6 Steps of Supplier Development: Identify categories for supplier development. Identify categories for supplier development: It’s not uncommon for an organization that spends $2 billion on “stuff” to have 8,000 suppliers. If you break that into categories, it’s in the hundreds of categories.

Suppliers 52

Suppliers Supply Project management Contract management 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Simply type in a category you’re interested in and see what people are promoting through ads. Alibaba is a great resource for finding a wholesaler that is overseas. Choose a Seller Category. Choose a seller category based on the size of your business. Be Aware of Category Restrictions. Categories.

Export 43

Export Price Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Optimization 43

Empowering CPO

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Commodity markets like paper, sugar, chemicals, metals, or any other segment like energy are highly volatile in terms of prices and demand / supply gaps. Category Dashboards are an important tool to track these price fluctuations and supply / demand gap of specific commodities or a related category.

Risk 52

Risk Raw materials Price Supply 52

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In many sectors procurement cards or p-cards have become the norm for purchases up to a certain value and certain categories of spend. Read about how to get greater transparency over indirect spend in our white paper. They became mainstream more than a decade ago and bring a number of additional advantages. Adapt and Overcome.

Eprocurement 52

Eprocurement Buyers Purchase orders Purchasing 52

Jaggaer

JULY 28, 2020

It can be divided into categories of works, services or goods (lots), and these may include the size of a contract or the geographical area of contract delivery. This also means it is easier for SMEs, which have fewer administrative resources, to compete for business. Suppliers can apply to single or multiple lots within a DPS.

Procurement 75

Procurement Buyers Contract Purchasing 75

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

An in-house on-prem tool requires extensive investments in hardware, IT infrastructure, personnel support, implementation resources and upgradation. Support for internal tools requires additional resource allocation while organizations can benefit from SaaS provider’s dedicated support available 24×7, in most cases. User Experience –.

Procurement 40

Procurement Budget Cost of ownership Buying process 40

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Reports were on green bar paper and forklifts were everywhere. Another thing I had to learn to appreciate was that every report printed out on these big papers that had “green bars” on them. Augmented Reality enables transformational change! When I started in the distribution space, I was told “…business is simple…cases in, cases out.”

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 68

Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 68

Claritum

MARCH 29, 2019

Because this frees up Procurement resources to focus on how they can impact P&L and raise the social profile of the organisation. Placing some of the more complex indirect spend categories into cloud-based systems may allow an organisation to focus their other system/s on core capabilities and basic processes. . CASE STUDIES.

Eprocurement 40

Eprocurement Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions 40

The Procuretech Podcast

APRIL 19, 2022

This is an approach for the brave / well resourced IT departments, but advantage of this strategy is that each "module" can easily be exchanged. Gone are the days where half an FTE manages digital transformation along with their regular day job as IT Category Manager or Centre of Excellence Leader. There is some up-skilling required.

Innovation 52

Innovation Procurement Category management Price 52

Procurement Zen

MARCH 16, 2020

So I cover lots of reframing tactics in this category. Black and White. Black and white here refer to contrast. The color white is powerful when it’s in contrast to black. Why is it in the anchoring and framing category? Sorry, but you know, we’re not that big, so I do not have 10 resources to deliver.

Negotiation 52

Negotiation Price Import Influencing 52