Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Utzs Procurement team had never focused on influencing budget owners in the corporate services area to strategically source their categories. The team launched many new sourcing opportunities and engaged with stakeholders in different ways resulting in other positive impacts for the company.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 16, 2023

An S2P suite automates spend/supply management processes primarily in procurement, accounts payable and inbound supply chain management, but also other areas within Legal (e.g., contract management), Finance (e.g, working capital management, treasury and FP&A), R&D (e.g.,

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Categories: Cost Management , Procurement Strategy & Planning , Sourcing , Spend Analysis Tags: PRO In this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis we give an update of LevaData, a solution built to support the sourcing process for direct materials. That is what LevaData’s supply management platform is all about.

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Spend Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Categories: Sourcing , Sponsored Article , Supply Management Tags: Sponsored Article When it comes to wildfire risk, sourcing can play a key role in mitigating potential disasters. Utilizes vegetation management, transmission pole replacement, overhead system hardening and other projects to optimize costs.

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CPO Rising

DECEMBER 4, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 3, 2025

Sourcing Innovation Launch Date: June 2006 Overview: Authored by Michael Lamoureux, a Computer Science PhD, Sourcing Innovation focuses on procurement technology, strategic sourcing, and supply chain management. AI, e-sourcing), spend analytics, and best practices.

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CPO Rising

OCTOBER 30, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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CPO Rising

MAY 14, 2025

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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CPO Rising

APRIL 30, 2025

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 25, 2022

Omid has also been asked to be an exclusive guest speaker at Harvard University’s prestigious graduate school of supply chain management. . He is well-known with the Institute for Supply Management, publishing a multitude of articles in their global journals and holding many highly successful speaking engagements for them. .

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CPO Rising

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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CPO Rising

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Ardent Partners believes that there are “four pillars” that should serve as the foundation for any strategic sourcing program.

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CPO Rising

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We are happy to announce the official launch of Ardent Partners’ 2024 Strategic Sourcing Technology Advisor report.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 4, 2025

3 ISM Annual Conference ISM offers a broad supply management perspective, blending procurement practices with supply chain trends. silent theaters, idea labs) and supplier showcases provide practical tools for procurement and supply chain professionals, though its wider scope (e.g., Its balance of innovation (e.g.,

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CPO Rising

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Join Ardent Partners and Market Dojo on September 26th (2 PM ET) for a discussion on Sprint to Sourcing Gold: Optimize Your Procurement Strategy.

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Una

APRIL 18, 2023

” In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes Mark Trowbridge. Mark is an experienced procurement leader with a broad area of focus including sourcing, supply management, contracts management, supplier relationship management, risk management, and inventory management.

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CPO Rising

APRIL 9, 2025

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Essential Guide to Source to Pay, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay Whether youre new to the world of procurement and supply chain management, or a seasoned veteran; whether you work in a major manufacturing industry, a university, or a medium-sized clinical research organization, you may find procurement jargon rather confusing.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Strategies for Building Resilient Supply Chains Recurring disturbances in recent years have highlighted the need for manufacturers and contract manufacturers to build resilience into their supply chains. That makes agility a foundational part of your manufacturing strategy.

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Spend Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Categories: Procurement Strategy & Planning , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Solution Providers , Source to Pay , Spend Management , Supply Management , Technology Tags: PRO I attended Coupa’s annual Inspire conference this year and was excited to finally attend a large event rather than just small meetings with clients and colleagues.

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CPO Rising

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help… The post CPO Rising Listicle: 8 Reasons Why a CPO Needs a Strong Strategic Sourcing Operation appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the procurement industry is consistently evolving and shifting, supply management professionals across the globe have had to quickly prepare for change and innovation in technology, business regulations, and the general speed of commerce. . From Ivalua’s standpoint, we’re starting to see a shift in the Source-to-Pay spectrum.

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World of Procurement podcast

AUGUST 8, 2021

Fairmarkit is the intelligent sourcing platform and they automate sourcing events for enterprise clients so they can work on more interesting things. Why Sourcing and why automation in enterprise. Sourcing has been a quiet back-office function pre-covid to one of the most important functions of any business.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Source-to-Pay (S2P) are two terms often used within the software industry to describe digital solutions that create efficiencies within procurement. Source-to-Pay includes all of what P2P has to offer, and expands capabilities to include the “sourcing” of products and services.

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Purchasing Sourcing Real-time Visibility Budget 49

Jaggaer

JANUARY 28, 2025

Technology Optimization: 2018 Perspective: The focus was on adopting eProcurement systems, electronic sourcing, contract management, and total supply management to automate functions and create efficiencies. Here is an evaluation of each trend discussed in the article: 1.

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Procurement Eprocurement Contract management Sustainability 52

Una

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes Juliette Rowsell. Juliette is a reporter at Supply Management magazine, the hard copy publication from CIPS. In the April-June 2022 edition, she wrote an article titled, What happens when politics snares supply? Juliette Rowsell on LinkedIn.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

In short, demand latency has increased because supply chains have become more fragmented, buffered, and risk-averse while real consumer demand has grown more volatile and less visible to upstream partners. What are the challenges and where do they arise from sourcing through manufacturing and delivery?

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What’s your Greatest Supply Management Challenge Today? In May 2022, Ivalua commissioned Forrester to survey over 400 procurement leaders across the globe to ask how they plan to minimize the frequency and impact of supply disruptions. Map Your Sub-tier Supply Chain. That visibility must be as deep as it is wide.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 27, 2025

So, who is more accurate in their assessment?

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 3, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, December 3, 2024 – Arkestro is excited to announce its partnership with the Infor Marketplace , a powerful collaboration designed to enable AI-driven procurement, sourcing, purchasing, and supply chain management transformation for enterprise manufacturing teams worldwide.

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The Good Spending

JANUARY 4, 2023

Its two dimensions suggest the flat Earth approach with insufficient room to cater to the complexities of modern category management and strategic sourcing situations. The Strategic Sourcing Matrix Let’s start with the classical view, which is the adapted Strategic Sourcing matrix. Project procurement should be fast!

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CPO Rising

DECEMBER 23, 2024

.… The post Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays Navigating the Raw Essentials: A Primer on Direct Materials appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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CPO Rising

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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CPO Rising

JANUARY 10, 2025

The role of… The post Best of 2024: Procurement Embraces Its Workforce Strategy Role appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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CPO Rising

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams… The post CPO Rising Listicle: AI in Action Procurement, Part 2 appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT.

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Spend Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Categories: Solution Providers , Spend Management , Supply Management , Technology Tags: Coupa Inspire , EU , supply We are witnessing a pivotal change in the market for some of the big source-to-pay (S2P) suite players (like Coupa, SAP and their peers) as they move toward a broader platform and ecosystem approach.

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CPO Rising

OCTOBER 25, 2023

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up Series returns today with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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