ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

Additionally, Intalere was looking for a trusted partner to capture cost savings and mitigate supply chain risks across its broad and diverse membership. Established in 2007, Consus is a leading procurement services provider operating across 9 countries. Our partnership with Ivalua & Consus really is a win-win.” About Consus.

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ivalua

JANUARY 15, 2020

Our complete, unified platform empowers businesses to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, lowering risk and improving employee productivity. Learn more at www.ivalua.com. Follow us at @Ivalua. About OJC Consulting.

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Spend management Contract management Procurement Suppliers 133

ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Additionally, the company was looking for a trusted partner to capture cost savings and reduce supply chain risks. “As Established in 2007, Consus is a leading Procurement services provider and procurement systems integrator, operating across 9 countries. About Consus.

Sourcing 100

Sourcing Supply Chain Efficiency Chief Procurement Officer Supply Chain Optimization 100

Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As one of the first procurement industry bloggers, if you told me on May 18th, 2007, that in December 2023, I would still be penning my thoughts on the Procurement Insights blog, I probably would not have believed you. Here Here is the link to my very first post: Welcome to Procurement Insights. The Top 3 Posts Ref.

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Supply chain Procurement Purchasing Risk 81

ivalua

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It covers spend analysis, sourcing, contract management and supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), similar in scope to Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Application Suites Magic Quadrant. The second, authored by Andrew Bartels and published on December 18, is The Forrester Wave™: Source-To-Contract Suites, Q4 2019.

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Eprocurement Sourcing Contract Suppliers 147

Supply Chain Opz

MAY 28, 2013

5) Supply Chain Risk Mapping. One of the most popular supply chain risk case study is " Ericssons serious sub-supplier accident ". This paper explains the concept of risk mapping as below, Supply Chain Risk Mapping. Before using this matrix, you need to identify type of risk related to your supply chain.

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Supply chain Supply Supply chain management Supply chain management 70

ivalua

MAY 6, 2020

It covers spend analysis , sourcing, contract management and supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), similar in scope to Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Application Suites Magic Quadrant. The second, authored by Andrew Bartels and published on December 18, is The Forrester Wave : Source-To-Contract Suites, Q4 2019.

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Sourcing Eprocurement Contract Suppliers 130

Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The issue at hand is AI governance and risk – and so at least the CPOs I talked to are considering make vs buy and in some cases taking a dual path of experimenting with both. However, this risk of having your company powered externally hosted GenAI in one that is a big driver of this thought process.

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Risk Supply Chain Efficiency Price Procurement 52

Vested Way

MAY 28, 2024

In 2007 Dell participated in UT’s research on Vested outsourcing. Dell and GENCO ultimately agreed to move forward with the goal to create a new Vested agreement with a commitment to include a new attitude and approach toward risk and reward sharing.

Supply chain 52

Supply chain Supply Contract Logistics 52

Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2023

When I started writing this blog in May 2007, one of the reasons was to provide unknown companies such as Coupa, Zycus, and others with a venue through which they could connect with a wider and more direct audience. Ensuring they are best placed to reduce costs, manage risk and increase their efficiency, helping to maximise margins.”

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Raw materials Price supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency 72

Procurement Insights

AUGUST 14, 2024

Meanwhile, Coupa – who was one of this blog’s first sponsors in 2007 makes me wonder, “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? (For added emphasis, I have been covering Zycus since 2009 and Ivalua since 2017 following their big Arizona win. You can read my Coupa archive using the following link.) Choose wisely.

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Procurement Vendor relationships Innovation Leadership 98

SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Accordingly, if organizations want to succeed and grow in the long-term, they need to cooperate, organize, and manage their logistics very wisely and mitigate its problems and risks simultaneously. They can save corporate capital on expenses and give customers much speedier services due to their connections and incentives (Li, 2007).

Logistics 98

Logistics Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Negotiation 98

Procurement Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

The following is a comment from a Procurement Director regarding yesterday’s post – Why Procurement Associations Are At Risk In 2025. Check out my profile, and you can read the audience reviews dating back to 2007 when I joined LinkedIn. My reply follows. Sanitizing Truth? Business Partnering | Change Mgmt.

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Supply chain Procurement Sustainability Risk 52

Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Survey results indicate that many core supplier management functions, including risk management, relationship management, performance management, innovation management, and CSR/Sustainability management, are still supported by generic applications such as Excel, SharePoint, and Teams or by no system at all.

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Suppliers Buyers Risk management Supply Chain Optimization 72

Procurement Heads

JULY 5, 2023

You clearly place a lot of value on Continued Professional Development, having completed MCIPS in 2007, a Master’s degree in Global Supply Chain from the University of Southampton and then an Executive Certificate in Advanced Sustainability from New York University. Do you think the desire to learn is a key facet of being a successful CPO?

Chief Procurement Officer 130

Chief Procurement Officer Sustainability Supply chain Procurement 130

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 30, 2022

In the USA, the experience of using mobile banking is more extensive — some banks offered it to customers back in 2007. It not only considers the basic risk parameters but also forms predictive models. It received payments via phones in 2010 for $2 billion, which is three times more than a year earlier. Final Thoughts.

supply chain software solutions 89

supply chain software solutions Agile and Lean Supply Chain Cost of ownership Supply Chain Efficiency 89

Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Improved Compliance and Risk Management: AI agents can monitor compliance with procurement policies and identify potential risks, ensuring adherence to regulations and mitigating supply chain disruptions.

Supply Chain Efficiency 59

Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply chain Supplier relationship management 59

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The rule proposal would require US publicly traded companies to disclose annually how their businesses are assessing, measuring and managing climate-related risks. This would include disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions as a measure of exposure to climate-related risk.

Risk 56

Risk Sustainability Data Management 56

Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Also, AI can locate potential risks in the supply chain, such as disruptions due to weather events or geopolitical factors.” As an introduction or lead-in to that old post, I want to share the following excerpt from an article written in June 2023 responding to the question – What is AI in supply chain in 2023?

Buyers 75

Buyers supply chain software solutions Bidding Quality 75

Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 27, 2022

I mentor diverse-owned companies (2006 – present), and as a consultant have the rare privilege to collaborate with fortune 100 companies where my impact was shown just a year after our engagement.Each step of my journey has expanded my knowledge, folding in expertise across the entire supplier lifecycle (procurement, diversity, risk, etc.)

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 115

Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain software solutions Supply chain Supply 115

Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

However, I also understood the risks of using algorithms to search, sort, and control the dissemination of information. The one advantage I have is that I have been on LinkedIn since May 2007 and have worked very, very hard to build a community of purposeful dialogue versus likes alone.

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Data Influencing Sourcing Import 52

EazyStock

MARCH 14, 2023

What the last recession taught us An article from McKinsey & Company (2022) analyzed the performance of about 40 publicly traded distribution companies during the 2007-2009 recession. Eliminating unnecessary inventory costs paves the way for removing risks and frees up working capital for other strategic priorities.

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Strategy Supply Chain Optimization Inventory supply chain software solutions 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I launched my second business, a strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm in 2007. We are also preparing to launch ONBOARD (supplier on-boarding) to reduce efforts, costs and risks involved with supplier on-boarding. Ask questions about actions taken to drive change and tolerance for risk associated with innovation.

Leadership 50

Leadership Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Supply chain 50

Pipefy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, a case manager will often return to the planning phase when a new problem arises during implementation; they should already know of the case and its associated risks. Risk evaluation Once the case has been assessed, the manager evaluates its risks. Learn more: What Is Workflow Automation?

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Management Quality Collaboration Risk 52

Procurement Insights

MAY 16, 2024

Yale.edu Nov 14, 2023 In 2007, I wrote a white paper titled “The Greening of Procurement.” Based on my industry research, one of the most common recommendations stresses the importance of evaluating each provider’s approach, whether risk-based or balanced.

Leadership 40

Leadership Procurement Sourcing Supply chain 40

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2018

Of those companies, 62 percent said they would invest in technology updates, and 59 percent would pursue short-term, low-risk investments such as Treasury bills and money market funds. Van Gundy believes the corporate landscape is different from what it was in the early 2000s and during the Great Recession of 2007-2008.

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Consumer demands Demand Inventory Risk 40

Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The S&OP process should have an executive overview meeting summarizing each cycle’s backwards looking KPI trends, achievements and failures with lessons learned, forward-looking opportunities, risks, potential barriers, and support require to achieve the defined objectives.

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supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain 90

The Procuretech Podcast

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This was around 2007. And there's not really anyone better positioned than procurement professionals to understand how to structure those relationships, how to engage suppliers, how to coordinate that and manage those risks. This was around 2007. When someone in the media world said “why don't you start a blog?”,

Procurement 40

Procurement supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Buyers 40

Procurement Insights

MAY 29, 2024

Warning: Dr E is doing a deep dive into risk management solutions this quarter to see if they will be eliminated from the next iteration of her map. Why waste time and money on a CLM to integrate multiple contracts across the database (contract analytics) when CLM providers have failed miserably at this?

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Risk management Risk Management Contract 40

Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 26, 2023

For anyone following this blog since its first post in May 2007, this will sound like a “broken record” – the key to successful digital transformation is to use an agent-based versus equation-based model. The real difference is in the “technology first” risk.

Leadership 72

Leadership Supply Chain Optimization Inventory Procurement 72

Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Below is Part 6 of the 7-Part Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series , where I provide an extensive breakdown of the ISM, CAPS, and AT Kearney report originally released in May 2007. What is the old saying about big ships turning slowly? This perhaps explains the somewhat equal distribution of proponents both for and against either approach.

Procurement 80

Procurement supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 80

Procurement Insights

JANUARY 24, 2025

A Little History Lesson Take a few moments to read the following Procurement Insights post: Revised Forrester Wave Report confirms what I have been saying since 2007. Factoring in eVAs supplier fees and its operational savings to local governments, eVA would have significantly lower costs and lower risks.

Procurement 52

Procurement Risk Suppliers Business procurement 52

Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 16, 2018

The Eurozone , only recently in danger of becoming a basket case, is experiencing its strongest growth since 2007. Behravesh identified a number of risks that could accelerate that transition. Growth in this country should be in the range of 3 percent this year and next, said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist with IHS Markit.

Sustainability 40

Sustainability Risk Management Supply Chain Optimization 40