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Unlocking Success: Why Strategic Sourcing Is Important for Your Company

Precoro

To enhance their competitive edge, companies across industries are adopting a key tactic: strategic sourcing. Strategic sourcing is a holistic approach to supply chain management that includes tactics for optimizing the total cost of ownership, improving supplier relationships, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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Restoring Control Over Strategic Sourcing and Inventory Management

Supply Chain Brain

To be able to respond quickly to future supply chain disruptions, companies need to embrace strategic sourcing and inventory management.

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What Does “Good” Look Like: Strategic Sourcing

ivalua

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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Successful Strategic Sourcing Engagement? What’s Next?

QAD

I caught up with a former colleague recently to discuss her procurement project which comprised a year-long strategic sourcing engagement. Although she and her team had delivered on a number of procurement objectives through strategic sourcing, she was uncertain where efforts on the supply base should focus next.

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Four Key Strategic Sourcing Benefits

QAD

This is certainly true in the area of strategic sourcing where procurement teams rely heavily on manually intensive efforts to identify and select suppliers. Cost savings is certainly an important benefit, if not the most important benefit derived from strategic sourcing efforts.

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Contract Compliance and Strategic Sourcing

EC Sourcing Group

Contract Compliance and Strategic Sourcing. Contract sourcing and strategic sourcing are two different strategies that ensure you are able to get the best deals from your suppliers while still adhering to company policy. The two must work together to keep the source-to-contract process flow working effectively.

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Strategic Sourcing Solutions to Enhance Your Bottom Line

EC Sourcing Group

Strategic Sourcing Solutions to Enhance Your Bottom Line. Strategic sourcing is vital to procurement and the supply chain overall, as it allows companies to gain the lowest cost of a good or service while minimizing supply chain risk. What Is Strategic Sourcing?