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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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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. What’s Next?

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Four Key Strategic Sourcing Benefits

QAD

Recent business turbulence has increased the awareness among manufacturers for improved communication and collaboration with suppliers. This is certainly true in the area of strategic sourcing where procurement teams rely heavily on manually intensive efforts to identify and select suppliers. Boost Long-term Supplier Relationships.

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Elevating Inventory Management with Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization

Logility

They include costs, demand signals, supply volatility, and sourcing. P lan: Road map your future-state MEIO capabilities – including processes, technology, and organizational structures – to give your supply chain team the tools and resources they need to succeed. Ready to Right-Size Your Inventory?

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What is Supply Chain Management? A Guide to Success

SCMDOJO

From sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, and storage, to transportation and distribution, SCM ensures efficiency and cost-effectiveness throughout the entire journey. Sourcing: Sourcing is all about finding reliable suppliers, negotiating contracts, and managing relationships.

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Measuring Adoption to Drive Sourcing Value

Supply Chain Network

Everyone has bad habits, but for procurement, bad habits can put a major dent it in the ROI of your sourcing tools. That’s because strategic sourcing is complex and challenging – success requires more than fancy software purchases. At 30,000 feet, answer these questions to drive improved adoption: • Have we trained everyone?

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Supply Chain Department – A Typical Structure

SCMDOJO

This data can be used to identify areas for improvement and make informed decisions about sourcing, production, and distribution. Procurement Procurement involves sourcing and acquiring the materials or products needed for production. Procurement Specialist/Buyer Source and acquire materials or products needed for production.