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Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management

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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.

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Supplier Onboarding is Core to a Digital Supply Chain Transformation

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But change management is significantly more difficult when the technology deployed is used not just internally, but also by key trading partners. With PO collaboration, buyers send digital purchase orders over the network to suppliers or other trading partners. There were 65 material managers included in the initial rollout.

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Developing Agile Procurement Strategies: Thriving Amid Global Trade Disruptions

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Theyre feeling the heat most, as sudden trade policy curveballs throw procurement plans into chaos. Traditional procurement, with its long-term contracts and rigid supplier ties, just isnt cutting it anymore. Traditional procurement, with its long-term contracts and rigid supplier ties, just isnt cutting it anymore.

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Direct Spend Management: A Checklist for Enabling Shared Value with Direct Suppliers

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Treating suppliers as essential partners in the field of direct spend management—almost like customers—can be a key component of a successful company strategy. For instance, suppliers may have strong Vendor Management process expertise that will help reduce working capital.

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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? The paper highlights real-world examples and use cases that demonstrate generative AI's transformative effects on operational efficiency, risk management, and cost reduction.

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Reimagining Transportation Procurement: Leveraging Data and Technology for Smarter Freight Decisions

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In a survey we conducted in October 2020, 91% of our Indago supply chain research community members, who are all supply chain executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies, either Agreed or Strongly Agreed that the time had come to transform the traditional transportation procurement process.

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How to Build a Successful Procurement Strategy in 2025

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Fragmented systems, rising cost pressures, and shifting risk profiles are making it harder than ever to manage procurement effectively. But what does it actually take to regain control and build a procurement strategy that’s both resilient and scalable? How do you begin developing a procurement strategy?

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How Hellenic Bank Transformed Its Indirect Procurement Operations With GEP Software

Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Procurement Is Navigating a Tech Tsunami (and It’s Upending How You Work)

Procurement is in the middle of a tech tsunami. Autonomous procurement. These innovations are converging and transforming how procurement teams operate. The GEP 2025 Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report breaks it all down. Agentic AI. Unified source-to-pay ecosystems.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains.

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Procurement: 5 Tips to Deliver Value Beyond Savings

Now is the time for procurement teams to redefine themselves – from buyers to strategic partners across the supply chain. Discover five tips for delivering procurement value beyond savings. Take the first step today.

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Is Digital Procurement Transformation Delivering on the Promise?

Is your digital transformation working, or is it still a work in progress? Download this report, from a GEP-sponsored survey from ISM, to check your performance and see how your peers are reaching their transformation goals.

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How One Manufacturer Used GEP SOFTWARE To Save $45M in Direct Material Sourcing

For global manufacturers, managing direct and indirect material spend can get very complicated very quickly. Multiple legacy systems prevent procurement from standardizing processes and tracking what they’re spending with each supplier.

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

A Fortune 500 CPG company partnered with GEP to improve end-to-end category management, optimize direct spend categories, and increase strategic focus on tail spend. The result was a year-over-year savings of more than 3%. This is essential reading for all procurement and supply chain leaders.