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ESG-Driven Supply Chains: Moving Beyond Compliance Toward Proactive Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

While past efforts focused on meeting compliance requirements, organizations are now working to proactively embed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles into their sourcing, production, and distribution activities. Legacy procurement systems pose challenges, as they were not designed to capture and manage ESG-related data.

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Procurement vs. Supply Chain Management: Differences, Challenges & Solutions

ivalua

Procurement plays a critical role in managing supplier relationships—not just by executing purchases, but by shaping the long-term value those relationships deliver. At the enterprise level, this means developing structured supplier management programs that go beyond transactional buying.

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How Supply Chain Innovation Propels Startups to Unicorn Status!

Supply Chain Game Changer

How Startups Are Innovating Across the Supply Chain Startups are innovating across the end-to-end supply chain, leveraging emerging technologies and agile processes: Sourcing and Supplier Management Supplier onboarding – Digitizing and automating onboarding using cloud-based platforms improves efficiency.

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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance

Jaggaer

End-to-end planning : The ability to rapidly assemble cross-functional teams from sales and operations to supplier management and procurement empowers you to prepare your supply chain for immediate action in a crisis. Enterprise-wide data sharing capabilities help you distribute vital information quickly.

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Breaking Down Supply Chain Optimization: Turning Data Into Actionable Insights

RFgen

Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide critical insights into supplier reliability, quality standards, and delivery times, ultimately helping you optimize vendor relationships.

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How Spare Parts Management Software Reduces Downtime?

ThroughPut

Supplier Evaluation AI assesses supplier performance and analyzes reliability, lead times, quality, and cost efficiency, to make informed decisions about supplier management and improve the spare parts procurement process.

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Jaggaer Accelerates Cosentino’s Digital Transformation With New Procurement Features

Jaggaer

This includes negotiations, supplier management, and handling of non-conformities. Administrative tasks have also been significantly reduced: for instance, in its Procurement Board, the workload of managing up to 1,700 Excel sheets per year, equivalent to more than 700 man-hours in total, has now been eliminated.