Procurement Academy

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This wider focus is known as ESG , environmental, social, and governance, and for procurement and supply chain functions, ESG’s wider focus brings challenges. How should a procurement function regard a supplier with fewer green credentials, but a better performance when it comes to social responsibility? Choices, choices, choices.

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Jaggaer

MAY 12, 2020

In five to ten years, procurement in many of the world’s leading companies will be “truly digital”. They will have succeeded in transforming their procurement organizations to leverage artificial intelligence-based technologies to achieve autonomous procurement. Autonomous Procurement: The Reality versus the Hype.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Leverage your supplier management for maximum benefit with the white paper: How to Achieve Holistic Supplier Management. You cannot manufacture cars with 99% of the components, and if you do not have an immediate alternative source of supply for the other 1%, you could soon be in trouble. Strategic Supplier Management.

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 4, 2020

?. Public sector procurement is stuck in limbo – frequently the differences between public and private sector seem enormous, but they’re of te n exaggerated or misunderstood. Find out more about public procurement strategies in our new white paper, Going Digital in Public Sector Procurement. .

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QAD

AUGUST 17, 2023

Our Delivering on the Promise of Delivery white paper that discusses our vision, “The 24 Essential Supply Chain Processes,” is just as good poolside as it is at your desk! In this episode, Phil discusses what can happen when an organization starts thinking about procurement as a strategic function rather than a simple transaction.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 22, 2019

and the European Union and examines how procurement organisations can best prepare in the new year. With Brexit looming and the possibility of World Trade Organisation rules coming into effect in UK/EU trade, the European procurement and supply chain markets look unsteady. With it comes a number of other questions.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Download White Paper. The same source also informed that the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) Risk Index of 2016 was the highest since records have begun in 1995. GET YOUR COPY HERE.

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Logility

APRIL 2, 2020

Phone * Company * Job Title * Zip Code * Source Asset Source Download ID. 2 Identify and get access to the right data sources. If you use data quality tools, monitor the amount of clean-up needed and work hard to improve the quality in source data systems. Featured Download. First Name * Last Name * Email *.

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HICX Solutions

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In fact, according to a survey carried out by PayStream Advisors , 39% of enterprise-level (companies with revenues greater than $2bn) procurement and sourcing professionals listed ‘increasing supply chain efficiency’ as their main aim when it comes to managing suppliers.

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HICX Solutions

JULY 25, 2019

Spend Matters defines a Procurement Centre of Excellence as “an internal entity that performs internally facing knowledge-based services on a one-to-many basis to procurement (and to broader stakeholders) in order to drive scale, repeatability, and best practice.” Establishing a CoE central management team.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 7, 2018

Therefore, having an indisputable source of information, such as blockchain technology, may be used to develop consistency and clarity in managing supply chain SLAs. GET YOUR FREE WHITE PAPER. DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPER. Such information may be defined within individual SLAs.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 3, 2018

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Download white paper. Source ] Blockchain can help mitigate these losses and their associated disputes. Outcomes: reduction in delays/human error in paperwork, visibility into procurement, international compliance.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 2, 2020

The latest Supply Chain Resilience Report published by the Business Continuity Institute in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) provides some fascinating insights. The report’s author highlights a disconnect between actual disruptions and what procurement professionals spend their time worrying about.

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

So far in this series on Avoiding Procurement Malpractice, we’ve examined spend visibility and analysis as critical elements of best-in-class procurement practices. The good news is that it doesn’t take a lot to have a big impact on the effectiveness of your sourcing strategy and there’s nothing to be lost by getting started now.

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Bristlecone

JANUARY 21, 2021

HOW PROCUREMENT IS DELIVERING VALUE BEYOND SAVINGS. When procurement teams embrace innovative and sustainable ideas and technologies and align operations to customer requirements, procurement evolves from cost center to profit center. This Spend Matters article explores how procurement delivers value beyond savings.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 22, 2022

Outsourcing takes place in every service, so much so that the retailers or businesses are not aware from whom a specific part of the product is procured. NFTs supply a sole source of truth. Streamlining Procurement Operations. You can find more about procurement here. Better Supply Chain Collaborations.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 28, 2019

As we’ve explored in our last two blog posts, economists are predicting a decline in global economic growth due to policy and trade issues both in the United States and the European Union , bringing an increased risk to supply chains and procurement organizations.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

I recently completed a study of 25 CPO’s, each providing their view of what procurement will look like in 2025. Procurement has a history that is linked in the core concepts of centralization, volume leveraging, and cost reduction. You can download the full report at this link.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Journal report makes reference to a white paper published in 2001 penned by a then Boeing aerospace engineer. This paper: “ warned colleagues of the risks of the subcontracting strategy, especially if Boeing outsourced too much work and didn’t provide sufficient on-site quality and technical support to its suppliers.”

Alaska 52

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GlobalTranz

JULY 30, 2018

GET YOUR FREE WHITE PAPER. DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPER. Blockchain is entering a phase of development that will affect every aspect of supply chain and logistics management, ranging from procurement to forward logistics and beyond.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 3, 2023

In partnership with Reuters Events, Blue Yonder has published a new white paper, “Supply Chain Resilience: Planning and Disruption Management in an Ever-Changing Landscape,” that focuses on this issue. This could be activating alternative sources, increasing inventory for contingency, or finding extra labor,” he notes.

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Logility

MARCH 19, 2018

Supply planning enables you to profitably satisfy market demand through dynamically sourcing materials, optimizing production and manufacturing plans, reducing distribution costs and slashing lead times. White Paper: Food & Drink Customer Centricity. White Paper: Supply Chain Planning in the Food and Beverage Industries.

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HICX Solutions

MARCH 17, 2020

The continued growth in the adoption of procurement-to-pay (P2P) or source-to-settle (S2S) suites in the last few years is testament to the significant value they deliver to procurement teams in businesses of all sizes. It’s not a mistake that many procurement leaders make twice.

Supplier Management 40

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 25, 2020

Now this idea of augmented procurement – and eventually autonomous procurement – has surfaced , and many are asking when the change will happen, and more importantly what it means for them. . Now, just imagine that technology specifically tailored to procurement. What is Augmented Procurement? . Download it now.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2017

Reasonable linking of various data sources (= intelligent integration) in order to have continuously-updated data with high significance and quality instead of fragmented and isolated information. It’s about creating a common cross-company basis that integrates all participants on a procurement or distribution level. Share processes.

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Arena Solutions

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

To support sourcing and order fulfillment on a global scale, they must change how they interact with their suppliers and partners. If you identify the need to find alternate sources for certain parts and services or if you identify quality issues, address it with your supplier. components, subassemblies, sourcing, shipping, etc.).

Supply Chain Design Software 78

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Bristlecone

APRIL 30, 2020

RAPID SOURCING SOLUTION. Combines procurement tools and deployment expertise to improve sourcing processes (includes limited-time SAP Ariba offer). Improves operational and procurement planning by making effective use of SAP functionalities (zero investment). Read White Paper. Learn More. Learn More.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

All too often, Invoice-to-Pay is seen as an isolated process, sitting on its own at the end of a procurement journey. The result of bringing these three steps together with data from the whole procurement journey is a seamless and almost touchless workflow that transforms accounts payable. What Are The Benefits of Invoice-to-Pay?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2016

Author’s Note: Below is an excerpt from Moving Up the Supply Chain Maturity Curve: The Process Industry Executive Agenda for 2016 and Beyond , a white paper recently published by Elemica with research conducted by Adelante SCM. Step 2 – Develop Metrics and Data Sources. Which metrics are the right ones?

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Claritum

MARCH 29, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Crazy World of Procurement. Assessing procurement automation solutions and service providers often includes comparison of features and functions, with weighting being given to those systems that have more features. 2 Crazy World of Procurement. Introduction. Further Reading.

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SCM Research

MAY 15, 2017

Regarding the strategic PSM tasks, looking at the source-to-contract process, the critical question for the future is how technology will enable different ways of working, e.g. by application of big data analytics. For more information, see the full Project PERFECT Intellectual Output 2 White Paper.

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Procurement solutions for contracts and commerce automation. Sourcing, e-auction and supply chain collaboration rollouts. Read White Paper. Recent highlights include: Go-lives across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. New client engagements in life sciences, hi-tech and manufacturing.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 29, 2017

IBM’s new white paper “Making Blockchain Ready for Business”, in which they conducted a roundtable with a number of executives provides some important clues as to how the technology will unfold in the next few years. Only 5%% of payments are made by procurement cards – and 34% are made by ACH Credits!

Vendor Strategies 40

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DynaSys

JANUARY 21, 2020

By utilizing optimization techniques, we have sought to minimize procurement costs absorbing larger order quantities and longer lead-times; we plan for longer manufacturing runs to drive a higher return on assets and full-container load land and marine freight to reduce transportation unit costs. FROM VISIBILITY TO ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 25, 2021

Practice Responsible Sourcing With their unique position of leverage and direct lines of communication with suppliers, procurement teams are especially well primed to drive meaningful change. Procurement changes like these are the first steps toward creating larger change within your industry network.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 25, 2021

Practice Responsible Sourcing. With their unique position of leverage and direct lines of communication with suppliers, procurement teams are especially well primed to drive meaningful change. Procurement changes like these are the first steps toward creating larger change within your industry network.

Sustainability 52

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Jaggaer

JULY 21, 2020

Many tasks in procurement are repetitive, tedious, time-consuming and, when performed by humans, highly error prone. They absorb precious time – time that could be spent on more important strategic tasks that add value to the organization and make work more satisfying and rewarding for a procurement professional. Download it now.

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