SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Keelvar Keelvar specializes in autonomous procurement and supplier negotiations, making sourcing more efficient and cost-effective. Analyzes supplier performance, market trends, and contract terms. Identifies bottlenecks and suggests alternative shipping routes. Communicates with port authorities to minimize delays.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Together, they enable procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive, optimizing sourcing strategies, improving supplier negotiations, and ensuring more accurate, real-time decision-making. Predictive AI, on the other hand, uses historical data to forecast potential disruptions, price changes, and supply chain risks.

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Exiger Perspectives

MARCH 10, 2025

The new Gartner report, “Benchmarking CSCO Perspectives on the Shifting Tariff and Trade Environment,” breaks down how 79% of CSCOs feel prepared for tariff volatility and the steps theyre taking to stabilize operations, manage costs, and keep supply chains moving. Get your copy today.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Heres how: Diversifying the Supplier Base to Reduce Dependency Risks Implementing Risk Assessment & Contingency Planning Balancing Cost Optimization with Resilience Strengthening Supplier Relationships & Collaboration Leveraging Technology & Data-Driven Procurement What Are the Benefits of Refining Your Procurement Strategy?

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ivalua

JUNE 9, 2025

This statement holds even more weight when you consider the remarkable advantages AI brings to procurement teams today: Cost Savings: AI helps reduce procurement costs by identifying spend inefficiencies, supporting dynamic pricing, and strengthening supplier negotiations.

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

Here are some key distinctions to make between Procurement vs. Supply Chain Management: Procurement is responsible for identifying suppliers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring cost-effective, compliant purchases. It’s heavily tied to spend management, risk mitigation, and supplier performance.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

As they receive new information, they can adjust their actions to outcomes for things like supplier negotiations, risk management, and spend analysis. On the other hand, AI agents can analyze data, detect patterns, predict outcomes, and make recommendations in real time. And they don’t require constant human intervention.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

As they receive new information, they can adjust their actions to outcomes for things like supplier negotiations, risk management, and spend analysis. On the other hand, AI agents can analyze data, detect patterns, predict outcomes, and make recommendations in real time. And they don’t require constant human intervention.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 13, 2013

tel: 617-252-6965 Filed under: Security , Uncategorized Tagged: price negotiations , procurement , procurement professionals , product prices , purchasing , supplier goodwill , supplier negotiations , supply chain collaboration. Bruce Arntzen, Executive Director, SCM Program, MIT CTL, email: barntzen@mit.edu.,

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 12, 2025

Evaluating dependency levels, such as the percentage of business a supplier relies on, can determine how much leverage each side holds. Compromising negotiation is a strategy where both parties make concessions to reach a mutually acceptable solution.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

indicates cost inefficiency, signaling a need for supplier negotiations or alternative sourcing strategies. Example: If a company planned to procure materials worth $100,000 but ended up spending $120,000. The CPI calculation would be: CPI =100,000/120,000 = 0.83. A CPI of 0.83 Struggling to develop an appropriate procurement strategy?

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Whether its predicting equipment failures, improving product quality, or strengthening supplier relationships, AI is helping your business work faster, smarter, and more strategically. Embracing the Future: How Manufacturing 4.0 is Transforming Industry Smart factories, real-time data, AI-powered systemsManufacturing 4.0

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QAD

JANUARY 16, 2025

Efficiency Gains 90% Reduction in RFQ Creation Time: The time required to create an RFQ dropped from several hours to just minutes, freeing resources for strategic activities like supplier negotiations. Streamlined Sourcing: The improved workflows enabled the team to focus on cost-saving negotiations rather than administrative tasks.

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Precoro

DECEMBER 24, 2024

AI can process large amounts of historical supplier performance data across multiple metrics, allowing procurement teams to make more informed, data-driven decisions instead of relying solely on anecdotal evidence or subjective evaluations. Detecting unusual or fraudulent behavior patterns in supplier transactions.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 1, 2023

This past February we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies — “Is your company using Artificial Intelligence in its supply chain or logistics operations?”

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In addition, management commitment, and continuous improvement that includes process optimization, digitalization, supplier negotiation, and customer feedback can reap the rewards. Resource Management Cost efficiency focuses on resource management such as inventory controls, supplier negotiation, staff training, and development.

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Exiger Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Artificial intelligence is making it so that we can bridge that skills gap.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Navigating Complex Negotiations: When the intricacies of supplier negotiations become overwhelming, a sourcing agency can be your strategic ally. Sourcing agencies bring to the table a set of finely honed negotiation skills that can make a substantial difference in the financial aspect of procurement.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rather than relying on store managers to navigate local purchases, Procurement can add value by organizing the effort, evaluating and sourcing local suppliers, negotiating best pricing and delivery options, and automating the process by using technology to simplify inventory management at the local level. Attack GNFR Spend.

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Requis

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is essential for managing equipment flow, selecting suppliers, negotiating contracts, and mitigating risks. Data has long been a problem for procurement, with 97% of Dun and Bradstreet survey respondents indicating that supplier data management is an area of struggle for their teams.

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QAD

APRIL 3, 2025

Cost Reduction: By streamlining procurement processes and improving supplier negotiations, e-sourcing applications help organizations achieve substantial cost savings. The ability to compare multiple supplier bids in real-time, coupled with advanced analytics, allows businesses to make more informed, cost-effective decisions.

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Procurement Academy

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

These can take many forms, for example implementing a new process or tool that will help with supplier negotiations, being involved earlier by the stakeholder in an RFP process, or using total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to select a supplier.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Mid-Level Opportunities Mid-level roles, like supply chain analysts and procurement specialists, involve process evaluation, supplier negotiations, and team supervision. Leadership and advanced analytical skills are vital for cost optimization and efficiency improvements.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. It starts with identifying the right suppliers for a need, sharing requirements and evaluating supplier offers, selecting the most appropriate supplier, negotiating terms and contracting with them to receive goods and/or services.

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LevaData

JANUARY 20, 2022

Our revolutionary, AI-powered integrated supply management platform features one-of-a-kind solutions like Cost Optimizer, with capabilities like eBenchmark that are designed to take the guesswork out of supplier negotiations.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Beyond internal data, AI incorporates external factors such as regulatory changes and market risks to provide a comprehensive assessment of supplier stability. With agentic AI, systems will increasingly handle risk mitigation autonomously, flagging concerns and even initiating supplier negotiations.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA) will streamline and automate routine tasks such as invoice processing and contract management, while artificial intelligence can provide support for non-routine tasks such as supplier negotiations.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 20, 2023

A procurement manager is deeply involved in identifying the procurement needs of the organization, researching potential suppliers, negotiating contracts, managing relationships with suppliers, and ensuring that procurement needs are met in a timely and cost-effective manner.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 5, 2013

During the discussion, we spent a good deal of time discussing should-cost analysis as a tool to drive supplier negotiations, and establish a basis for building long-term contracts.

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QAD

JANUARY 19, 2023

Sourcing manages the electronic request for quote (RFQ) process with suppliers, from recording requirements to the RFI, contracts, and orders. More specifically, it identifies and qualifies suppliers, negotiates best-value agreements, streamlines processes, and manages sourcing knowledge.

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EC Sourcing Group

JUNE 14, 2022

The righ t software can h elp you identify potential risks before supplier negotiations. Since you are dependent on your suppliers, you want to mitigate any potential risk before making decisions. Risk Management. Spend analysis software helps you keep track of vendor compliance, reliability, and past transactions.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 28, 2024

Many organizations lack automation in strategic areas such as supplier negotiations (58%), sourcing (44%), contract management (38%), and supplier identification and selection (37%).

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CormSquare

JANUARY 11, 2017

Supplier negotiations can be a tough topic to deal with. When suppliers eliminate competition by minimizing prices or creating technology interferes with competitors, it often seems like companies are forced to accept the prices of the goods. By utilizing following steps, you can do supplier negotiations like never before.

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EC Sourcing Group

MAY 17, 2023

By classifying goods and services into logical groups, procurement professionals can streamline the eSourcing process, facilitating easier identification and comparison of suppliers, negotiating favorable contracts, and expediting the sourcing cycle.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 16, 2019

From one company to the next, from one industry to the next, and certainly from one individual to the next, Suppliers are viewed and managed differently. At its most basic level Suppliers are considered transactional. Companies find suppliers, negotiate prices and terms, place purchase orders and Suppliers fill those orders.

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KEPLER Consulting

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Through this data driven approach, an exhaustive search can be conducted and result in a shortlist of screened suppliers to conduct RFI, RFQ/RFP, or on-site qualification. By outsourcing this process to a global team, with resources where the suppliers are located, the client can focus on keeping the lines running.?.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Supply Chain Opz defines Procurement as follows: “ Procurement refers to the participation in the development of requirements and their specifications; managing value analysis activities; conducting supply market research; managing supplier negotiations; conducting traditional buying activities; administering purchase contracts; managing supplier (..)

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