ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

This blog offers a clear, practical overview of what spend analysis is, how it supports strategic sourcing, and why it matters for both direct and indirect procurement. We’ll walk through key benefits, types of spend analysis, steps to get started, and metrics to track—backed by lessons learned from real-world implementations.

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

At a high level, procurement focuses on sourcing the goods and services an organization needs, while supply chain management oversees the broader flow of those goods, from raw materials to end customers. Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves orchestrating a product’s or service’s entire lifecycle, from sourcing and production to delivery.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

It creates a single source of truth for your rate management, automating RFQs and streamlining the entire procurement process. billion rate data points monthly to provide the most comprehensive view of the market, helping you identify savings opportunities and make data-driven decisions.

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Descartes

JUNE 4, 2025

About Descartes Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, security and sustainability of logistics-intensive businesses. An archived replay of the webcast will be available at www.descartes.com/descartes/investor-relations.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It’s the key to transforming your supply chain from a source of frustration into a well-oiled, profit-generating machine. Implementing Data Analytics for Supply Chain Success Data analytics transforms supply chains with precise insights and real-time monitoring by bringing together multiple data sources. The result?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 25, 2016

3 Key Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction. 10 Soft Metric Considerations in Measuring Supply Chain Performance. As the ability to see more clearly and deeper into supply chains improves, supply chains will become safer and more secure. Read more. . Read More. . Read more. .

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Tracking the Metrics that Matter. While Ardent expects Procurement to rise to and tackle these challenges, tracking the metrics that matter will help them stay focused for full recovery. Inflation Metrics. Savings from Sourcing: In 2021, competitive sourcing projects generated an average of 7.7% Risk Metrics.

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Kinaxis

JULY 18, 2014

Even if you’re not you should check out Supply Chain Insights, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Think about those design, sourcing and delivery challenges. I always thought getting through security these days was complex. by Bill DuBois. Are you looking for some reading material to pass the time on your next flight?

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Digital procurement streamlines workflows and unifies data, enabling faster sourcing, better collaboration, and improved accuracy. Digital procurement is the use of digital technologies to enhance, automate, and optimize procurement processes across the entire source-to-pay (S2P) lifecycle.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These systems also support phased implementation, allowing you to start with high-priority processes, train staff during regular work hours, deploy your wireless infrastructure before software rollout, maintain parallel systems during the initial transition, and closely monitor performance metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. The company is piloting secure lockers for stock at their major sites. In the annual report where they report on their key performance indicators (KPIs), they don’t just report on core financial metrics and the NPS, they also have people metrics.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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. Discuss bottlenecks in the supply of raw materials or alternate sources to procure balance and level production plans.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

Canada 98

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ivalua

JUNE 14, 2023

The sponsor ensures the implementation is aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives and secures buy-in from other stakeholders. They work closely with IT to address technical challenges, ensure seamless integration, and maintain data security and integrity.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

This extensive connectivity has resulted in impressive metrics: 1.2 These agents serve as a means to “connect seamlessly with existing systems” as part of project44’s API-first architecture, gathering data from sources that might otherwise be disconnected. A key differentiator is Movement’s approach to data quality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. Descartes provides multi-tenant, cloud-based solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance, and security of logistics-intensive businesses.

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Precoro

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To enhance their competitive edge, companies across industries are adopting a key tactic: strategic sourcing. Strategic sourcing is a holistic approach to supply chain management that includes tactics for optimizing the total cost of ownership, improving supplier relationships, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The implementation of control towers lack a dial tone giving business leaders a false sense of security. The focus of planning is volume not value, and leaders struggle to change and embrace bi-directional orchestration to capture the price/volume trade-offs between source, make, deliver and plan. This is unprecedented time.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In logistics, they come from sources like freight associations, warehouse management publications, and reputable local directories. Partnerships and sponsorships are very effective ways of securing vital high-quality links. Another ranking factor is the use of HTTPS secure encryption. It also signals issues with performance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Their metrics are often misaligned as well – supply chain focuses on service and procurement focuses on the cost of acquiring materials and services. Optimize sourcing: Focus on optimizing sourcing spend across all categories of products. This approach results in inefficiencies, higher costs, and missed opportunities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Supply chains must be connected and collaborative so all links can align to business strategy and oriented toward a common set of the most important metrics (and not functional metrics that drive siloed behavior). But to operate at the board level we need to be able to speak the CFO’s language. Spike up to protect against attack.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. Beyond the promotion of ethical sourcing, it’s also about “how we can extend the life of products,” Balaam says.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 7, 2013

Interesting point is that Apple Inc has to make the pre-payments to some suppliers to secure the strategic raw materials. Apple Inc purchases raw materials from various sources then get them shipped to an assembling plant in China. Some components are currently obtained from the single or limited sources. Inventory Turnover.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

IT systems must be properly supported by vendors and continuously updated with the latest security patches. Cloud and software-as-a-service providers must take cyber security seriously, proving they’re investing the time, money, and resources to develop, deploy and maintain security processes and systems to best industry practices.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Webinars Watch: An Alternative to Traditional Battery-Making Technology for EVs Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Watch: Getting Ahead of Customs Compliance Violations Regulation & Compliance Five Ways AI-Enabled Digital Twins Will Shape the Future of Supply Chains Technology Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

For smaller fashion brands, as highlighted by Glossy , the financial burden of tariffs can be especially acute, often forcing them to absorb higher costs or shift their sourcing strategies entirely. Supply Chain Finance & Revenue Management Lawyer for 737 Crash Victim Families Slams DOJ Deal with Boeing Quality & Metrics U.S.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 24, 2025

Introduction Gardner, (1954) and Huntzinger, (2007) define Purchase price variance (PPV) as a metric used to measure the effectiveness of cost-saving efforts by calculating the difference between the planned cost (standard pricing) allocated for purchasing activities and the actual cost incurred. per unit, reducing the actual cost to $90,000.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning. in 2021 compared to the year before.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Increased costs due to emergency sourcing. A well-defined procurement strategy doesnt just mitigate risksit adds significant value to your organization : Cost Savings: Strategic sourcing and supplier negotiations reduce procurement costs. Regulatory Compliance: Ensures adherence to industry laws, ESG policies, and ethical sourcing.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 15, 2017

In order to make the improvement process a constant activity and in order to fix the achievements from development, your team must adopt the representative metrics, key performance indicators , and benchmarking items. There are numerous tools in place to assist in diagnosing the logistics problems and solutions found.

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Logility

OCTOBER 6, 2023

And those that leverage on-demand services provide secure access to scalable, high-performance environments available around the globe. Enhanced security – cloud provides robust security measures and can help you better protect your supply chain data and systems.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 6, 2025

Blockchain Technology: Blockchain ensures transparency, security, and traceability in procurement transactions. Modern procurement technology will enable public sector entities to secure maximum benefits by simplifying compliance and freeing procurement professionals to focus on strategic initiatives.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 27, 2021

Currently, most driverless opportunities are limited to secure private zones or closed environments, such as warehouses, campus environments or last mile runs from depot to front door. Our mission and core values are the foundation of our culture and guiding source in our interactions. The Curious Case of the Headless Driver.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2017

Managers can control the operation efficiently as the relevant information comes from different sources, timely and all the members have access to its current updates. The cloud-based logistics has lots of metric tools. The increase of security level for such systems is expected. A Better Communication Model.

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Silvon Software

APRIL 16, 2025

Available to Promise (ATP) Available to Promise (ATP) is a real-time inventory management metric that tells you how much of a product you can promise to customers without overcommitting. Weve even included some examples of these KPIs using pre-built views for inventory reporting from our Stratum business intelligence solution.

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