ivalua

JUNE 5, 2025

Procurement and purchasing are often used interchangeably, but they serve distinct roles within any successful organization.While both involve acquiring goods and services, their workflows, objectives, and impact on enterprise risk management differ significantly. Procurement vs. Purchasing: What’s the Difference? What is Procurement?

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

Procurement and supply chain management are often used interchangeably—but in practice, the lines between them can blur in ways that create real friction. Misaligned priorities, siloed systems, and unclear ownership can directly impact key performance indicators like cost savings percentage and procurement cycle time.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Enterprise procurement teams face growing pressure to deliver strategic value – managing supplier risk, ensuring compliance, and supporting sustainability – all without sacrificing speed or control. This blog explores the most common challenges in digital procurement and the capabilities that matter most.

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ivalua

JUNE 9, 2025

In this type of environment, traditional procurement software and manual processes are insufficient – and many procurement teams are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) for answers. Key Takeaways Understand the potential impact of AI – including Generative AI & AI Agents – in procurement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This is the largest area of investment for the company outside of ERP. While SAP has had procurement analytics solutions, last year at Spend Connect Live, SAP announced the Spend Control Tower. Daniel Chapman, the senior director of process transformation for procure to pay at Warner Music, was a keynote speaker.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Home Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses. Ready to Transform Your Freight Operations?

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ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

Enterprise procurement leaders are under more pressure than ever—juggling cost control, compliance, supplier risk, and internal complexity, all while trying to modernize outdated systems. AI, automation, and generative tools are redefining efficiency, allowing procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive decision-making.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

They noted the fact that companies whose leaders had supply chain experience took a more proactive approach to addressing potential supply-chain challenges, and in leveraging the supply-chain function to generate new business opportunities. This means involving procurement in the highest levels of strategic planning and decision-making.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2025

Supply chain sustainability is increasingly important for companies facing expectations from investors, regulators, customers, and employees. Without verification, companies can inadvertently rely on inaccurate supplier claims. Companies also face internal coordination issues.

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Precoro

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Traditionally, procurement has been a process weighed down by manual tasks, fragmented systems, and endless paperwork. Today, procurement is undergoing a transformation. While procurement teams have long worked to add strategic value, Artificial Intelligence (AI) amplifies their impact.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Strategic sourcing and innovative solutions are often viewed as two distinct procurement tools, but they should not be seen in isolation. Think of them as apples and gearseach essential and effective on its own, yet when combined; they create a formidable mechanism for achieving procurement excellence. Click here!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping supply chain operations by enabling predictive planning, allowing companies to anticipate disruptions before they occur and adjust operations accordingly. Companies must react after the fact, often incurring higher costs and reduced service levels.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Procurement People should learn the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Process. Procurement professionals can contribute significantly to the S&OP process by providing valuable insights into supply chain dynamics, identifying potential risks, and optimizing sourcing strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In an era of endless voluntary disclosures and increasing emissions reporting regulations arising across the globe, international companies are playing regulatory twister. This discussion illuminated the tough reality that many companies are currently navigating a regulatory maze.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. Transportation procurement needs to support both customer service and a company’s internal supply chain goals. One master of freight procurement is Kyle Masters. Almost all companies will say that “service” is important.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As an E2open forecasting benchmarking report pointed out, “for companies trying to predict demand in March of 2020 as the world was descending into lockdown and everything was being turned upside down, what happened in March of 2019 had little to no relevance.”. A company can go bankrupt, and a machine could be programmed to understand that.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2025

The DOE is still issuing large federal loans to startup companies, Novonix a synthetic graphite startup just received a $755 million loan to support its mission and reach its goal of producing 31,500 metric tonnes of synthetic graphite. Despite recognizing these risks, only two companies have comprehensive traceability commitments.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2025

Companies that fail to modernize face supply shortages, revenue loss, and regulatory risks. Just-in-time (JIT) inventory models, lean supplier networks, and offshore manufacturing reduced expenses but left companies exposed to disruptions. The companies investing in these technologies are gaining measurable operational advantages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This includes the evolution of schema-on-read architectures and the use of advanced sensing and network automation as companies work through endless cycles of legacy technology like ERP and APS. The issue is that most companies are using new forms of technology to make bad decisions faster. The reason? Clarity on Value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

Resilience is the ability to respond to disruption while maintaining core operations, and more companies are shifting their strategies accordingly. First, overreliance on a narrow group of suppliersespecially those in politically sensitive regionsexposes companies to risk when trade relationships shift.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 7, 2025

Here I define value as improving market capitalization/employee for a public company. For example, if I improve the cost structure in transportation, procurement, manufacturing and sales independently, what decision support framework decides the right trade-offs? I believe we need to rethink supply chain processes to focus on value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

When you talk to companies that have implemented enterprise or supply chain applications, executives will usually admit that they have under-invested in training and preparing users to use the new technology. Molex is a private company headquartered in Lisle, IL in the US. The company uses a process monitoring tool called Celonis.

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Kinaxis

MAY 16, 2025

What food and beverage companies need to know about tariffs: Lessons from Canada sharkins Fri, 05/16/2025 - 09:53 Tariffs have been a constant threat since the beginning of 2025, but one sector has felt the impact more immediately than most: consumer packaged goods. goods were “ rapidly dropping.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Digital Twin Screen Shot and Architecture The most comprehensive form of planning that companies engage in is integrated business planning. Executives came to understand that IBP should not constrain a companys ability to react to what was happening in the market. IBP balances what can be produced against projected demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 15, 2023

When I use the research, I keep the information on the respondent–name, company, title, and individual comments–confidential. One of the alignment gaps that is growing and is unfortunate is the gap between procurement and manufacturing. The metrics defining success in manufacturing and procurement do not align.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Trade policies are constantly evolving, forcing companies to assess how these changes impact customer demand, supply networks, fulfillment strategies, and cost to serve. Theres no shortage of commentary on how companies should respond move production, shift suppliers, and reconfigure operations are just a few common recommendations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The company aims to change this with the expansion of its data fabric portfolio. When you combine the volume, complexity, and speed with which decisions need to be made and executed, the current way companies manage this is unsustainable. A supply chain data fabric can help companies augment their supply chain processes.

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ivalua

JUNE 3, 2025

As Procurement teams are tasked to do more with less in an increasingly complex and uncertain market, digitization has become a must. Procurement leaders have increasingly turned to Spend and Supplier Management platforms to improve decision-making, efficiency and collaboration. Payback in under 6 months.

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

If you’re evaluating procurement technology or exploring ways to drive more value from existing systems, chances are you’re looking beyond tactical fixes – you want a smarter, scalable strategy. Misaligned priorities across finance, legal, and procurement create friction that delays decision-making and reduces impact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Set for full enforcement starting December 14, 2027, it requires companies to ensure that all stages of their supply chains are free from forced labor. Businesses will need to ensure accurate data reporting across core operations such as sourcing, procurement, and transactions. Adding to the uncertainty, recent comments from a new U.S.

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