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At St. Luke’s, Supply Chain Excellence Depends Upon Doctor Involvement

Logistics Viewpoints

Procurement became a logical place for leading healthcare systems to focus. As vice president of supply chain and procurement, Mr. Wengert was brought in to drive change. Hospital chains’ approach to procurement lagged far behind the practices employed by manufacturers, retailers, and distributors. “We

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AI in procurement: Applications, Challenges, and Mitigation Strategies

Precoro

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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Get Ready for Success! 4 Critical Workstreams for Successful Procurement Implementation

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We recommend leveraging these workstreams, based on Gartner’s 4 Workstreams for Successful Implementation of Any Procurement Application to maximize the impact of your next large-scale procurement implementation: 1. Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Get Ready for Success!

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Ivalua NOW Virtual Event to Showcase the Role of Procurement In Meeting Today’s Business Challenges

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Premier event for procurement & supply chain practitioners will showcase latest technological innovations and extensive line-up of industry leaders. How to manage today’s crisis, and prepare for the next? Registration is free for procurement, finance and supply chain practitioners and can be done online at Ivalua’s website.

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How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform

How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.

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How to Build a Smarter Supply Chain: Lessons from the 2025 NA Gartner Supply Chain Symposium|Xpo™

Logility

Companies need a comprehensive view of their supply chain network to understand how every change impacts procurement, production, and distribution. Many attendees also shared that their current networksoften shaped by mergers and acquisitionsarent being fully leveraged.

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Digital Procurement Training for Technological Transformation

Procurement Academy

Just as technology has the potential to transform other major industries, its also having a major impact on procurement. One thing that is often overlooked in procurement, however, is the need to develop staff that are capable of using these technologies. Digital contract management Procurement contracts can be complex.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. “What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy.

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GEP Outlook 2022

Supply Chain & Procurement: Key Trends, Challenges and Opportunities. Supply chain and procurement leaders need to know how to navigate an altered playing field and rethink their approach in 2022 in a never-normal world.

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Five Best Practices for Balancing Costs, Risks, and Sustainability

In the face of volatile macroeconomic conditions and other complex challenges, supply chain and procurement pros must strike a tough balance between seemingly contradictory demands: boosting performance and sustaining and extending business operations, all while meeting customers’ needs.

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Learn How to Transform Procurement with Team Procure Cloud

Learn how Team Procure is helping companies streamline their procurement by implementing a cloud-based procurement platform across their organization. One of the key features of the platform is the custom approval workflows, which are tailored to each department within an organization.

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The Five Worst Practices in Procurement

The GEP white paper lists 5 common mistakes that impede the success of procurement professionals. Learn from industry veteran Bill Huber about the wrong and right ways to approach a procurement mandate and why just saving money isn’t enough. Download this report now to learn how to avoid the worst procurement practices.

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The Pandemic Crisis Management Handbook for Procurement Managers

At these uncertain times, the c-suite alone cannot prepare an organization for this pandemic, there is much that procurement leaders can do to lessen the impact.

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2023 Procurement Planning: How Shippers Can Navigate Disruption With More Agile Strategies

Establishing a resilient supply chain network design will require an agile procurement strategy—one that’s cost effective and unrestricted, and allows shippers to toggle their resources to address freight market issues impacting their network.

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How to Prepare Your Supply Chain for Chip Shortages

TadaNow has helped many customers with short-term and long-term planning to prepare them for supply chain shortages and procure needed electronics components in the most efficient way possible. It will have a long-term impact on all industries, even those that don’t directly relate to the chip manufacturers.