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Analyst eye on how purchasing must really become supply management

Spend Matters

Forty years ago, the Harvard Business review published Peter Kraljic’s article ‘ Purchasing Must Become Supply Management ,’ which debuted the supplier segmenting method that we now know as the Kraljic matrix. For this, you really need supply management.

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Strategic sourcing solutions: Wildfire mitigation

Spend Matters

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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LevaData: Vendor Analysis — Direct materials sourcing solution overview, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary

Spend Matters

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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Why Sourcing and Why Automation?

World of Procurement podcast

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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Episode 111: Taking Intelligent Risks with Mark Trowbridge

Una

” 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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Source to Pay… The Real Value for Purchasing

Jaggaer

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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Procurement Experts on CPO Rising (A Modern Approach to Source-to-Pay)

CPO Rising

The site tagline then (and now) was (and is) straight and to the point – “The Site for Chief Procurement Officers and Supply Management Leaders.” On January 4, 2010, Ardent Partners launched CPO Rising as a new resource to procurement leaders around the world.