ProcurePort

MAY 10, 2023

• Improved Cost Efficiency: Strategic sourcing software enables businesses to analyze and optimize their procurement processes, resulting in significant cost reductions and improved supplier negotiation outcomes.

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ProcurePort

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Strategic sourcing involves optimizing a school’s overall spending with few suppliers, going through the process of establishing contracts as a university or as one educational institution, as opposed to every department or school having to go through this process themselves.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Simplified: Best Practices for Maximizing Value Strategic sourcing goes beyond cost savings its about making informed decisions that drive long-term value. Now well dive into best practices in these critical areas to ensure a more effective and resilient sourcing strategy.

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ProcurePort

MARCH 16, 2022

A strategic sourcing consultant is a person that helps other businesses to find the right suppliers for the items they need. In most cases, companies will engage a strategic sourcing consultant when sourcing from another country. It leads […]. It leads […].

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ProcurePort

JULY 13, 2022

• The quest for efficiency and agility in supply chains has led companies to develop relationships with suppliers from all over the world. Companies cannot limit themselves to only sourcing from one supplier or market when value opportunities abound elsewhere.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

So what does “good” strategic sourcing look like? The primary difference between Strategic Sourcing and “good” Strategic Sourcing is contextualized flexibility. If Procurement follows a Strategic Sourcing process flow like a checklist, then all Strategic Sourcing projects will start and end in the same way.

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Procurement Templates

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here’s a detailed guide to enhance procurement capabilities across various domains: Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management Actionable Steps: Analyze Spend Data: Use spend analysis tools to identify areas where costs can be reduced or efficiencies improved. Resources: Online courses on strategic sourcing (e.g.,

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ProcurePort

APRIL 13, 2021

Two of the most common supplier-management strategies in the history of procurement are category management and strategic sourcing. The post Category Management vs Strategic Sourcing – Breaking Down the Differences appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. Both are valid options of developing […].

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Una

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Benefits of Strategic Sourcing and Best Practices. These “back-office” workers were seen primarily as clerical support, entering and tracking purchase orders and researching suppliers. Strategic sourcing best practices. Here are four best practices for strategic sourcing: 1. Looking beyond cost.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With new teams and processes to be integrated in the future, Crelan required a platform that would help structure a more complex Procurement organization while remaining EBA and NBB compliant throughout every step of the Sourcing and Supplier Relationship Management journey.

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Procurement Templates

MARCH 3, 2024

I asked my assistant to help me mock up a strategic sourcing framework and she did a fairly good job but made a few mistakes. Market Research : Conducting research on available suppliers, products, and market trends is essential for making informed procurement decisions. Can you spot the mistakes!

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ivalua

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that bol.com, the largest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium, has selected Ivalua’s solution to digitalize its indirect Source-to-Contract (S2C) processes. The project has been delivered in partnership with Accenture. Learn more at www.ivalua.com. Follow us at @Ivalua.

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ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Massy, France 18 March , 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, and CKS BeNeLux today announced that Punch Powertrain has successfully deployed Ivalua’s platform to support the digital transformation of the strategic sourcing process. Please visit our website: www.cks-consulting.com/en.

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Procurement Freelancers

JUNE 10, 2023

To optimise an organisation’s supplier base, procurement experts employ strategic sourcing, a methodical, data-driven strategy.… … The post An Insight Into Strategic Sourcing first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Spend analytics is crucial for procurement teams as it provides valuable insights into the organization’s spending patterns, supplier performance and potential cost-saving opportunities. Additionally, it can model and marry a variety of data alongside the spend, from contracts to risk.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ongoing training is important for procurement teams to keep up with the constantly evolving and advancing procurement tech and services landscape, specifically in niche areas such as category management, supplier management, negotiation and strategic sourcing and in the broader areas of change management and leadership.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Blog » Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium June 26, 2023 | | Thought Leadership by Eloise Barnum As businesses navigate through supply chain disruptions, high inflation, and sustainability initiatives, procurement, and supplier management has taken center stage in driving change. See you soon!

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Procurement Templates

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strategic Objectives Cost Savings: Achieve cost reduction targets through effective supplier negotiations and strategic sourcing. Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong supplier partnerships to ensure long-term business value. Savings can be cashable or non cashable i.e. cost avoidance.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

That system could tell you, for example, that the company had spent $XX million with a supplier on a particular ingredient or package. But to make its potato chips, Utz buys many different materials from many different suppliers, and Procurement needed greater data granularity.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 10, 2025

The days of relying solely on traditional processes to manage suppliers, contracts and spend are quickly fading. AI is the game-changer that allows procurement professionals to escape the cycle of transactional work and focus on what really moves the needle: strategic sourcing, supplier collaboration, and advanced analytics.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance Supplier relationships are at the heart of manufacturing performance. That’s why supplier collaboration—that consistent, trusted, and responsive interaction between supplier and manufacturer—is pivotal to manufacturing success.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For sourcing teams, that means pivoting their mindset around selecting suppliers from a tactical, lowest-cost-above-all approach to a strategic one. Where tactical sourcing is a short-term strategy, strategic sourcing is for long-term business goals.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today please get to know True ValueHub From our recent analyst-written Vendor Analysis : Here’s why True ValueHub matters: To the market — True ValueHub offers deep parts analysis (price/cost-focused) for direct materials using AI and deep supplier insights. What is the road ahead for True ValueHub? “We

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 23, 2025

This, given the productivity constraints of modern strategic sourcing teams, means that they often must choose between refining the assumptions and calculations in their model and doing other things, like studying the broader market, building supplier relationships or solving tactical challenges like shortages.

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Spend Matters

MAY 1, 2025

It is now a strategic enabler of operational efficiency, cost savings and supplier innovation. Heres where e-procurement processes often break down: Fragmented catalog and supplier management: Inconsistent supplier onboarding and unstructured catalogs result in pricing discrepancies and procurement delays.

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ivalua

AUGUST 16, 2021

A checklist guide to getting the most out of your supplier risk management program. The wave of globalization has made businesses more reliant upon their suppliers than ever before. This reliance can increase supplier risk or uncover a large source of value and supplier innovation for organizations. .

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Building Stronger Relationship s : Effective Approaches to Multi-Tier Supplier Collaboration A chain is only as strong as its weakest link—but what if you can’t evaluate the entire chain? Tier 1 suppliers and their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers—make up an organization’s multi-tier supply chain.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 2, 2025

In this fast-paced economic landscape, the importance of strategic supplier relationship management cannot be overstated. Join ‍us as we delve into the world of Supplier Relationship Management, unlocking the secrets to success in the face ‍of tariff uncertainty.

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Spend Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Strategic sourcing, by contrast, is more tactical. It is about running an RFx or finding new suppliers in response to a trigger, like a contract expiry, a supply issue or a cost-cutting initiative. Category management defines the conditions under which those sourcing decisions happen. That includes Coupa itself.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2019

Supplier information is typically viewed by procurement organizations as one of two things. It is either a data input, such as what we gather and use in spend analysis, or it is a process by-product, such as the information we gather from prospective suppliers during strategic sourcing.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Offering customers a market leading source-to-pay platform coupled with powerful supplier discovery, diversity and data enrichment from Tealbook. the ‘Trusted Source of Supplier Data’ today announced a new partnership to provide a seamless experience between Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay Platform and Tealbook’s Supplier Intelligence Platform.

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Procurement Tactics

MARCH 16, 2023

Additionally, it involves a careful analysis of supplier selection, payment terms, contract negotiation, and acquisition of goods. Strategic procurement is data-driven and uses a combination of tools and techniques that go far beyond unit price reduction. It enables the company to foster a deeper collaboration with its suppliers.

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Procurement Heads

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We have three key areas: strategic sourcing, category management and vendor management, which is the onboarding and management of our suppliers and so on. We have 11 people in the function across strategic sourcing and vendor management, mainly based across two locations: London and Sofia in Bulgaria.

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 16, 2022

Supplier Management — The Ultimate Guide of 2022. Supplier management is crucial for organizations that have many vendors or suppliers. They need to manage their supplier to maintain the relationship that they have built. For this article, we will discuss what supplier management is. What is Supplier Management?

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Spend Matters

APRIL 10, 2024

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis gives an overview of Matchory, a solution built to simplify and accelerate the supplier discovery process. In times when nearshoring and ally-shoring are at the top of the agenda of many procurement professionals, supplier scouting is making a comeback as an essential capability.

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Procurement Tactics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Additionally, it should not be confused with strategic sourcing which is more focused on the long-term approach. Strategic sourcing promotes the timely supply of goods or services that are needed to meet the objectives of an organization. . Selecting a supplier that best suits you. Order Monitoring.

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Spend Matters

MAY 13, 2025

Traditional procurement teams continue to grapple with familiar, persistent challenges, such as manual data entry, siloed systems, outdated tools and limited visibility into spend categories or supplier performance.

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