Procurement Insights

APRIL 14, 2025

This approach has encouraged procurement professionals to focus on solving underlying problems through comprehensive analysis and stakeholder engagement, leading to more sustainable and effective procurement solutions. For example, AI and automation are being deployed to augmentnot replacehuman decision-making.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 5, 2025

How CRM Can Help Supply Chain Companies! If you are in the manufacturing industry, managing your supply chain is crucial for success. In this blog post, we will discuss why having a CRM system in place is necessary for successful supply chain management within the manufacturing sector. What is a CRM?

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Procurement Insights

MAY 21, 2025

Summary: Video Case Studys Impact on CPO Concerns CPO Concern Metaprise Solution (Video Example) Outcome Budget Constraints Dynamic pricing, error reduction, customs automation 23% cost reduction over 7 years Process/System Alignment API-first integration, self-learning algorithms 97.3% There is more to e-procurement than software!

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Future Purchasing

JULY 2, 2025

The speakers: Rachel Repper Amazon Rachel is a leader in Amazon Business, transforming procurement spend with digital solutions. She has previously held the roles of Vice President, Director of Procurement, Trading Director and Sales Director within DHL, NHS Supply Chain and NYK Logistics.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 20, 2025

These Learning Management System tools are software applications that automate training delivery and centralize an organization’s learning and development function. Integrating learning analytics infrastructure, which is accessible through a variety of dependable cloud-based software applications available online, makes this possible.

Management

SCMDOJO

APRIL 26, 2023

Category Management Software What is Category Management in Procurement? Using category management software is ideal as it creates visibility and efficient management. To have an efficient supply chain system, category management through efficient supplier management is important to achieving this objective.

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SupplyShift

JANUARY 26, 2023

SupplyShift has recently updated and relaunched our Human Rights Compliance Assessment to ensure alignment with the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act. This package includes embedded risk screen data from Verisk Maplecroft, grievance mechanism software with our partners at Ulula, and implementation support. 1 of the Act.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A procurement strategy allows an organization to navigate an increasingly complex global supply chain, adapt swiftly to market fluctuations, and achieve cost optimization, operational efficiency and growth. Engage stakeholders Identify and collaborate with internal departments, suppliers and all those who may be impacted by the plan.

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The Good Spending

AUGUST 23, 2022

Value creation as the result of stakeholder engagement The authors of Stakeholder Salience model built their work around the process of value creation. Procurement must work closely with the supply chain to optimize depreciation exposure to sell or dispose of slow-moving or obsolete inventories. Moderation.

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The Procuretech Podcast

OCTOBER 12, 2022

From CPO to Advising Startups - Joanna Martinez from Supply Chain Advisors. Her mission is to help individuals and businesses understand technology, improve processes and align with stakeholders. She spent the first third of her career in supply chain roles for Johnson and Johnson. That's the Holy Grail, isn't it?

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 19, 2016

To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Niels van Hove founder of Supply Chain Trend, interviewed a group of S&OP leaders. Supply Chain Trend will publish a weekly Q&A with these S&OP leaders. 64% think there is not enough coordinated innovation in S&OP processes.

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The Procuretech Podcast

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Throughout the episode, the importance of effective change management and stakeholder engagement in procurement is underscored, emphasising the need for improved strategies and communication in the field. 00:25:48] Boom in sustainability and supply chain transparency reporting software. Stay in touch!

Stakeholder engagement

Una

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This can include implementing a formal Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) program, sharing your strategy with key suppliers, collaborating on cost-saving initiatives, and ensuring a reliable and efficient supply chain. Collaborate with these stakeholders to understand their needs, priorities, and expectations.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

An observability solution offers valuable insights to multiple stakeholders engaged in software development and operations, with benefits that extend to developers, operations teams, product managers and even business stakeholders.

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Empowering CPO

MAY 4, 2023

By effectively managing the purchasing process, companies can better control their expenditures and optimize their supply chain, ensuring the availability of the right products and services at the right time. e-Procurement platforms: Comprehensive solutions that automate the entire procurement process, from requisition to payment.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Key technologies changing the game in procurement include: E-Procurement Systems E-procurement software provides a centralized platform to manage the entire procurement process online. Conduct supply chain audits and due diligence on high-risk categories. Dual sourcing and supply chain digitization can help.

Strategic sourcing

Claritum

JUNE 13, 2019

To my mind, your challenges depend on where you are in transformational change within your organisation, the scope of your function within Procurement and the nature of the organisation’s supply chain. For example, is your focus on strategic long-term supply relationships to support your manufactured product? Resourcing.

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Procurement Software

APRIL 9, 2024

While on the other hand we must equip our teams to tackle sustainability, geopolitical instability and ensuing supply chain disruptions. Like it or not, part of a successful stakeholder engagement strategy is marketing. We need to clean our supplier data and have some P2P software in place. What do you think?

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 26, 2023

Fragmented Supply Chains: The healthcare supply chain is complex and often fragmented, involving multiple stakeholders such as manufacturers, distributors, and group purchasing organizations (GPOs). Understand their needs, expectations, and concerns to tailor communication and engagement efforts accordingly.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Employee referral software: Enable employees to refer potential candidates and track the status of their referrals. Internal stakeholder engagement: Engage with internal stakeholders, including senior leadership, human resource management and hiring managers, to gather insights into the effectiveness of the talent acquisition strategy.

Strategy

Empowering CPO

JUNE 27, 2023

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Digital platforms and cloud-based solutions facilitate collaboration among procurement teams, suppliers, and other stakeholders. In the context of spend analysis, IoT can provide real-time data on inventory levels, consumption patterns, and supply chain activities.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This last requirement may be rather technical, but the enabled capabilities allow for earlier, deeper and tailored stakeholder engagement to provide better experience/satisfaction, adoption — which, ironically, is a characteristic that Coupa has continually held as the North Star — spend compliance and influence on pre-sourced spend.

Sustainability

SCMDOJO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Embarking on a supply chain career offers exciting opportunities, but success requires understanding the diverse roles and specializations within the field. Mid-Level Opportunities Mid-level roles, like supply chain analysts and procurement specialists, involve process evaluation, supplier negotiations, and team supervision.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 8, 2025

1999 – I introduced the Metaprise model (RAM) 2007 – In Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part7) , I write about the Metaprise in greater detail, including the results of its implementation in a production environment (Department of National Defence). JAGGAER Industry-specific solutions leveraging AI for supplier collaboration.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 11, 2025

Needs of the Procurement Industry and Practitioners in 2025 Procurement professionals today face complex challenges: Tariff Mitigation and Supply Chain Disruptions: With ongoing U.S.-China Gartner serves 14,000 enterprises globally, including procurement and supply chain leaders. billion in Q1 2025.

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