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Your Guide to FlexRFP eSourcing

EC Sourcing Group

A Request for Proposal (or RFP as it is more commonly known) is one of the most important pieces in sourcing and procurement and the overall supply chain. However, this can be a tedious process if you’re still sourcing using spreadsheets or haven’t made your procurement process digital quite yet. Ocean freight.

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How Can Advanced Sourcing Help Your Business?

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There are many terms when it comes to all levels of procurement management, which is a smaller part of the overall supply chain. Sourcing is the term used when the purchasing department is searching for the right supplier (or group of suppliers) to fill a particular need, typically a good or service, to fulfill a purchasing order.

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Top 4 Considerations for Supplier Management Software Solutions

EC Sourcing Group

Effectively managing your suppliers is an integral part of the procurement process (and important to the entire supply chain as well). Without goods and services, nothing can be produced, which would make procurement impossible. It makes global sourcing in supply chain management more possible and efficient.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. So, I thought why not pick his brains and demystify this space.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. 9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. So, I thought why not pick his brains and demystify this space.

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How Supply Chain Management Can Mitigate the Effects of Inflation

EC Sourcing Group

A critical aspect of the following supply chain best practices is to have intuitive procurement software that provides insights and analytics to help navigate the uncertainty and make the best decisions for the future. Supply Chain Best Practices : The Effect of Inflation on Procurement & the Supply Chain.

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How to Build an Ideal Supplier Scorecard

EC Sourcing Group

Identify your data sources that can help identify supplier performance. Some of the most common invoice errors include charging the wrong item price or for the wrong quantity, or charging freight which is not contractually allowed. Update the data frequently because interactions and transactions with the supplier change often.