ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

Procurement and supply chain management are often used interchangeably—but in practice, the lines between them can blur in ways that create real friction. Misaligned priorities, siloed systems, and unclear ownership can directly impact key performance indicators like cost savings percentage and procurement cycle time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2025

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. Building supplier capabilities while maintaining sourcing flexibility requires additional investment.

Supply Chain Design Software 241

Supply Chain Design Software Optimal Sourcing Sustainability Resource Reduction 241

Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

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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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Home Meet Freightos Procure: The Next Evolution of SHIPSTA Freightos Procure rebrands SHIPSTA, enhancing procurement with market intelligence and seamless booking within the Freightos Enterprise suite, empowering shippers to manage the entire freight lifecycle efficiently. Were raising the bar.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Access to Unique Process and Asset Capabilities: Some suppliers offer unique skills, technologies, or processes that are not available in-house or through other sources. This means involving procurement in the highest levels of strategic planning and decision-making. Moreover, this solution offers substantial value for suppliers.

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ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

Enterprise procurement leaders are under more pressure than ever—juggling cost control, compliance, supplier risk, and internal complexity, all while trying to modernize outdated systems. AI, automation, and generative tools are redefining efficiency, allowing procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive decision-making.

Procurement Solutions 130

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Enterprise procurement teams face growing pressure to deliver strategic value – managing supplier risk, ensuring compliance, and supporting sustainability – all without sacrificing speed or control. This blog explores the most common challenges in digital procurement and the capabilities that matter most.

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ivalua

JUNE 17, 2025

In a world of ever-growing economic uncertainty, procurement is at the heart of organizations’ aim to drive efficiency and cost savings. As more and more companies invest in S2P technology, Ivalua has commissioned a survey and report on “The State of Source-to-Pay Digitization 2025” from trusted research and advisory firm Ardent Partners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Direct Procurement : Milk is collected directly from farmers at the village level. Another e-initiative provides farmers access to information related to the dairy sector (markets/technologies etc.) Amul has also implemented a Geographical Information System (GIS) at both ends of the supply chain (milk procurement and marketing).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Executives are left making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information. This enables companies to adjust sourcing, production, and logistics well in advance of potential disruptions. AI-driven procurement tools analyze pricing trends and supplier performance to negotiate better contract terms.

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Precoro

DECEMBER 24, 2024

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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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Procurement People should learn the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Process. Procurement professionals can contribute significantly to the S&OP process by providing valuable insights into supply chain dynamics, identifying potential risks, and optimizing sourcing strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2025

The sides have been informally discussing the issues, and there is hope for a new agreement or another extension to prevent further disruptions. BSR Releases Their Future of Supply Chains 2025 Outlook The Future of Supply Chains 2025 primer by BSR outlines key procurement priorities and forces of change that will shape supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing geopolitical shifts demonstrated the risks of relying on single-source suppliers and minimal inventory buffers. AI-driven analytics, machine learning, and robotics are improving procurement, inventory management, logistics, and supplier negotiations. Resilience is now taking precedence.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

In a previous post , I made a case for how the Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) are smarter together. Accordingly Supply Chain and Procurement will need continuous collaboration. Such sourcing events can be in the context of direct materials or logistics capacity.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Home Meet Freightos Procure: The Next Evolution of SHIPSTA Freightos Procure rebrands SHIPSTA, enhancing procurement with market intelligence and seamless booking within the Freightos Enterprise suite, empowering shippers to manage the entire freight lifecycle efficiently. Were raising the bar.

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Optimal Sourcing Procurement Meeting Sourcing Strategies 250

ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

If you’re evaluating procurement technology or exploring ways to drive more value from existing systems, chances are you’re looking beyond tactical fixes – you want a smarter, scalable strategy. Misaligned priorities across finance, legal, and procurement create friction that delays decision-making and reduces impact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

Reducing cost was the primary objective, and most operational decisionsfrom sourcing to fulfillmentreflected that mindset. Sudden tariff increases can quickly make a cost-optimized procurement strategy untenable, leaving companies scrambling to adjust. Procurement is another area seeing change.

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ivalua

JUNE 3, 2025

As Procurement teams are tasked to do more with less in an increasingly complex and uncertain market, digitization has become a must. Procurement leaders have increasingly turned to Spend and Supplier Management platforms to improve decision-making, efficiency and collaboration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Companies find it difficult to fully trust the data from suppliers, complicating efforts to ensure product authenticity, safety, and ethical sourcing. FDAs Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and global standards like ISO 20400 for sustainable procurement are driving companies to adopt blockchain for improved compliance and accountability.

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ivalua

JANUARY 8, 2023

What Lieferkettengesetz Means for Procurement? The act was established to address issues of sustainability and ethical conduct in global supply chains, and has significant implications for companies and procurement organizations operating in Germany. By Jan-Hendrik Sohn. Fines of up to €8 million .

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

The days of quarterly reviews and annual procurement cycles are giving way to a much more dynamic, responsive approach to supply chain management. Having everything connected from market intelligence to tender procurement to actual bookings transforms how shippers operate. However, this specialization has created its own challenges.

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ivalua

JUNE 11, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Navigating CSRD Regulation: What Procurement, Supply Chain, and Finance Leaders Need to Know June 12, 2023 | | Sustainability by Vishal Patel In an effort to drive sustainability and combat climate change, the European Union has introduced the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

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ivalua

JUNE 14, 2023

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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Optimal Sourcing Procurement Sourcing Strategies Resource Reduction 239

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Is Strategic Sourcing? A Complete Guide Strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. It is called strategic because it replaces traditional ad hoc approaches to sourcing, which were almost entirely focused on cost savings, item by item.

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Bristlecone

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In today’s interconnected world, ethical sourcing has transitioned from a “nice-to-have” to a critical imperative for businesses across all sectors. This heightened awareness places a significant responsibility on procurement professionals to ensure that their supply chains align with ethical and environmental standards.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Businesses will need to ensure accurate data reporting across core operations such as sourcing, procurement, and transactions. Big data sources, including bills of lading and other trade documents, are becoming increasingly crucial as proof points that sub-tier suppliers are not bad actors. from Canada and Mexico.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A seller, from the moment they engage with a customer, and all the way through the sales process, can get whatever information they need to communicate with a buyer on what we have available, and what the lead times are, and other similar information. It’s really reduced a lot of sales friction. I’ll give you an example.

Supply Chain Planning Software 283

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Simplified: Best Practices for Maximizing Value Strategic sourcing goes beyond cost savings its about making informed decisions that drive long-term value. Now well dive into best practices in these critical areas to ensure a more effective and resilient sourcing strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Procurement solutions are often updated with purchased information.

Supply Chain Network Software 310

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

They also used these technologies to build healthcare information systems and have achieved considerable success in that industry. That supply planning application needs to be integrated into an array of internal systems ERP, transportation management, warehouse management, procurement, and other applications.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Procurement and Supply Chain Management are essential functions that can help companies navigate these challenges, but they are often siloed and operate in separate departments. Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services.

Optimal Sourcing 246

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 3, 2025

Below are the individual web links and prime takeaway messages from each of our prior postings: Part One : Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in legacy software design. Data and information flow has the context of outside in and inside out.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In 2017, a strategy consultant was hired to do a top-to-bottom assessment of the Boston University procurement program. Randall Moore was hired as the new chief procurement officer in May. Facilities sourcing and construction contracting were centralized in the procurement department. There was also a realignment.

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QAD

APRIL 3, 2025

Supplier Management solutions have garnered significant recognition in the procurement industry for their innovative approach and substantial business benefits. This recognition underscores QADs growing influence and effectiveness in addressing the complex needs of todays procurement professionals.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 3, 2025

Before digital tools entered the scene, thats almost exactly what procurement used to feel like. AI in Procurement Estimates: Explore the ways in which predictive analytics provide tailored insights for better decision-making. Thats the whole new level of precision you can enjoy in procurement, with the assistance of AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2022

Many factors need to align for an organization to be able to source materials, produce a product and put it in the hands of customers. The pandemic has exposed flaws in business practices across industries, which have been acutely felt in their supply chain and procurement operations. Gap between supply chain and procurement.

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