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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

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Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. There are different tools, goals, and market dynamics. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. One master of freight procurement is Kyle Masters.

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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

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Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application.

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Procurement Rising – The Time is Now

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Procurement’s stature has grown during the COVID-19 crisis as costs, cash flow and supply continuity quickly became top boardroom priorities and homepage news. Across the world, procurement leaders have risen to the challenge. Examples abound. People should be thankful, and procurement practitioners proud.

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What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

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What does Procurement mean? An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis.

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Retail Recovery: 4 Ways Procurement Can Unlock Savings and Add Value

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During the pandemic, Procurement flexed its muscle, helping to mitigate supply chain disruptions and enable new channels for engaging with customers and fulfilling orders. Here are four ways leading Procurement organizations can influence retail recovery in 2021 and beyond: 1. Decentralize Procurement. Rethink What’s Normal.

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Procurement Digitization: The Key To Price Transparency And Healthcare Transformation

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Healthcare continues to be a source of major concern in the United States, with recent polling indicating it is the number one issue to voters in the 2020 elections. For example, approximately 85 percent of upstate New York hospitals operate at a loss. Availability and cost, which are closely related, are the key reasons for this.

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2020 Challenges and Solutions for HVAC Distributors

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Plus HVAC equipment is also being adopted more and more by consumers due to technological innovations and climate change driving both affordability and demand respectively. An obvious example: air conditioning units are a hot commodity in the summer while demand for devices and units for heating is reserved for the cooler months.