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What Makes a Supplier Strategic?

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We need to focus on those that are critical for maintaining a reliable supply chain, optimizing costs, driving innovation, improving efficiency , and supporting strategic objectives. The focus for these items is usually on building strong relationships with suppliers and ensuring a stable supply chain.

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Managed Procurement Services: A Strategic Approach to Cost Reduction

Empowering CPO

This approach allows businesses to leverage the expertise of procurement specialists to streamline operations, optimize supplier relationships, and most importantly, reduce costs. It plays a vital role in ensuring smooth operational continuity by securing the required resources and managing the supply chain effectively.

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Purchasing problems: 10 common challenges every purchasing manager faces

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Although this is still an important part of their job, strictly working with low-cost suppliers isn’t always the best way to manage spending. Companies that adapt to supply chain volatility can swim against the tide. . With the current state of supply chains, purchasing managers need transparent market and supplier intelligence.

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Time to Look into the Future of Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It is defined as: “A disciplined, systematic process for reducing the total costs of externally purchased materials, products and services while maintaining or improving levels of quality, service and technology”. The Strategic Sourcing approach is designed to: Drive reduction in total cost of acquisition of goods and services.

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Category Management in Procurement: A Comprehensive Overview & Best Practices

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Category Management as a Strategic Procurement Function Category management is regarded as a strategic procurement function as it helps drive value for the organization, such as reduced prices and costs, supply chain risks and timescales and focusing on building supplier relationships.

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Let’s Get Digital: Introducing your Source-to-Pay Guide

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By gaining visibility into spending patterns, demand, supplier performance, and supply markets–opportunities will be uncovered. As an industry analyst, he researched and advised organizations in various industries​ on best ​and innovative practices, digitization and optimization.

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SAP Spend Connect – See the bigger picture

Spend Matters

Beroe for supply market intelligence) that’s woven into the solutions to enhance better decision making. The 2024 roadmap does however have some interesting focus beyond GenAI to also include spend channel optimization, exception handling (with feedback/learning) and other areas. using RAG ).