ivalua

JANUARY 15, 2020

With Ivalua, Laerdal will also improve transparency and track supplier performance and certifications. Ivalua will enable us to better track the compliance of our suppliers and our organisation, which is extremely valuable to us as we are operating in the medical field which is a highly regulated industry.” Follow us at @Ivalua.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How do technologies impact the relationships between customers and suppliers? The Inspiration For This Post I recently read a post on LinkedIn talking about “the power of trust” between buyer and supplier. Note that they represented the supplier side interests.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 19, 2025

Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc Andy Shigo, Head of Procurement at Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc, highlighted the flexibility of ORO’s solution in managing procurement processes, including new procurement requests, supplier onboarding, and compliance checks. Smart procurement workflows 2. Smart procurement workflows 3. CPOstrategy 4.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Shortly after launching the Procurement Insights blog in May 2007, I was contacted by Ariba, asking if I would like to interview them about their latest contract win in the Healthcare sector. I then asked the follow-up question, Why is procuretech solution provider SAP Ariba likely to struggle in 2025?

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 10, 2022

During the session, we will discuss the evolution of buyer-supplier relationships over the past five decades and where they are heading for all stakeholders in the post-pandemic world. The timing of this webinar precedes the release of the results from the seminal “Voice of the Supplier” survey by HICX in early September.

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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. A single platform for customers, one for financials, one for suppliers, etc. S2P integration matters because it improves automation (ex.

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ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Established in 2007, Consus is a leading Procurement services provider and procurement systems integrator, operating across 9 countries. “Ivalua is proud to provide the technology to empower Procurement leaders at Pacific Drilling and hundreds of other global companies to deliver ever greater value to their organizations.”. About Consus.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

Established in 2007, Consus is a leading procurement services provider operating across 9 countries. Our complete, unified platform empowers businesses to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, lowering risk and improving employee productivity. About Consus.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In the year prior to eVA’s launch, between 5,000 and 6,000 of the 20,000 registered suppliers received orders. In 2006, 14,371 of the 34,000 suppliers received orders. From this standpoint, the recent digital developments – including the use of AI to provide suppliers with a seamless onboarding process, are very impressive.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Adapted from Ehrlich (2002); Stamatis (2002); George (2003); Bendell (2006); Bhuiyan et.al, (2006); Andersson et.al, (2006); Arnheiter and Maleyeff (2005); Nonthaleerak (2005); Kumar (2007); Magnusson et.al, (2003) Read more on Top 15 Lean Six Sigma Books to Level Up Your Continuous Improvement Efforts & Strategy on our website SCMDOJO!

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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. A single platform for customers, one for financials, one for suppliers, etc.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 18, 2023

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is my response to a post on LinkedIn regarding suppliers using ChatGPT (and other AI tools) to respond to RFPs. Here is the tie-in to ChatGPT bid submissions – like automating RFP, automation may accelerate the ease and speed of supplier responses. How well did automating the RFP process work?

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

Established in 2007, Consus is a leading procurement services provider operating across 9 countries. Our complete, unified platform empowers businesses to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, lowering risk and improving employee productivity. About Consus.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 19, 2023

” In July 2007, I wrote the article “ Public Sector Procurement and the Walmart Effect. ” Besides providing in-depth and compelling industry stats regarding the predatory buying practices of the retail giant, the Vlasic Pickles story perfectly illustrates the consequences of unbalanced power in buyer-supplier relationships.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

FIRST, SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION In August 2007, I wrote an article titled “Procurement’s Expanding Role and the Executive of the Future.” They said that out of his organization’s 20,000 suppliers, only a few (i.e., 2007 – Commonwealth of Virginia ’s eVA – Yes, Virginia!

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ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Established in 2007, Consus is a leading Procurement services provider and procurement systems integrator, operating across 9 countries. “Ivalua is proud to provide the technology to empower Procurement leaders at Pacific Drilling and hundreds of other global companies to deliver ever greater value to their organizations.”. About Consus.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2023

(In fact, it’s the lack of Big Data leading to so many failures … but that’s a different rant …)” – Michael Lamoureux, LinkedIn (September 2023) Michael Lamoureux , your post reminded me of a 2007 post on Double Marginalization.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Procurement teams use Fairmarkit to manage 10x the events per FTE and uncover $40k savings per buyer per week, using Fairmarkit’s AI-powered supplier recommendations. Questions What are the differences between the 2003 and 2023 case references? What are the common denominators?

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 3, 2024

Here are a few examples of the breadth of the challenges in the retail world: 2007 – Double Marginalization and the Decentralized Supply Chain 2022 – Where’s The Beef! But how do retailers navigate this complex terrain? Why Would You Attend ? Here is what I wrote in the comment section of the Webinar post on LinkedIn.

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Procurement Heads

JULY 5, 2023

It’s where I fell in love with the idea of negotiation, bringing stuff to fruition, bringing it from the idea, with the supplier and seeing it become the end product. I believe it gives us a platform to continue to talk to our top suppliers and our wider supply chain in a credible manner.

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 11, 2024

A tremendous number of their suppliers are Mintec customers. Unilever is certainly one of them and states: “ Mintec is widely used in the industry, so it is accepted by our suppliers as a source of truth. billion dollars. (20% 20% of $24.53

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

based customers who have contracted vendors, 33 percent of all purchases were from non-contract suppliers. ” It was the recognition that the prescribed policies regarding the suppliers they could deal with contradicted best-value decision-making. According to their research, of the 45 percent of “their membership’s U.S.-based

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Great article , Elvire Regnier ! Governance is THE key to cluster development and the globalized supply base.

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Is a service that offers companies to delegate or hire third-party companies to complete tasks in their supply chain whereas the fourth-party logistics, or 4PL, is a logistics model in which producers’ offload all their logistics and SCM to a single outsourcing supplier (Callarman, 2020). link] Retrieved from [link] Kennedy, A. 2020, 03 02).

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“AI assesses supplier performance data, quality records, and market intelligence to revamp supplier selection and management. The suppliers would then respond within the appointed time with their bid. Also, AI can locate potential risks in the supply chain, such as disruptions due to weather events or geopolitical factors.”

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In short, by focusing on savings, the wrong practices and buyer behaviors were rewarded, e.g., beating down suppliers, vendor rationalization etc. What is worth noting is that back in 2007, the executive participants in a CPO Agenda Roundtable said that one strategic sourcing professional is worth ten run-of-the-mill buyers.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 11, 2024

Stephany Lapierre , this will read well in a brochure: “We could have used other technologies to deliver answers back to users but customers liked the conversational and contextual UX and the addition of agentic search capabilities to provide more context on suppliers (as long as we can expose provenance).”

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Vested Way

MAY 28, 2024

In 2007 Dell participated in UT’s research on Vested outsourcing. In 2011 they moved forward to convert their existing strategic supplier to a Vested business model – using UT’s Vested courseware combined with support from a Vested Center of Excellence.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

Stephane Morel – Procurement Director | People & Projects | Strategy & Transformation | Processes & Digitization | Capability Development | Category & Supplier Mgmt. Check out my profile, and you can read the audience reviews dating back to 2007 when I joined LinkedIn. Business Partnering | Change Mgmt.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The July 20, 2007, Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “A Key Strategy of Japan’s Car Makers Backfires,” which begins: For want of a piston ring costing $1.50, nearly 70 percent of Japan’s auto production has been temporarily paralyzed this week. .” In turn, this might cause ripple effects downstream.)

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Procurement Insights

MAY 14, 2024

What do the numbers say about external stakeholder retention, e.g., suppliers? In 2007, 80% to 90% of the total identified spend was processed through the eVA initiative. In the year prior to eVA’s launch between 5,000 and 6,000 of the 20,000 registered suppliers received orders. Yes, Virginia!

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 28, 2013

For example, if you still select supplier based on the lowest cost, no matter how long the lead-time is, no matter how raw material will be used, you really need this matrix. One of the most popular supply chain risk case study is " Ericssons serious sub-supplier accident ". Fisher Supply Chain Matrix. 4) Global Supply Chain Matrix.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 12, 2023

Despite these hurdles, between 2007 and today, the Commonwealth of Virginia ‘s eVA program was and continues to be the beacon of effective and proficient digital transformation. He said that “these apps need time to collect and synthesize data from multiple sources – even those unaffected by the exception at hand.”

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Strategic Focus: With AI agents handling low-value, repetitive tasks, procurement teams can redirect their efforts toward strategic initiatives, such as supplier relationship management and category strategy development. 2023 – Are you chasing solutions or solving problems?

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 27, 2022

The premise for the company was working with local companies across Alabama, Georgia, and Northern Florida developing tools to provide more visibility into their suppliers across their supply chain. Later in my career (2006-2007) my boss became my mentor. while addressing ancilliary processes (tax, legal, change management, etc.)

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Procurement Insights

MAY 21, 2024

I then began my research, including a review of the July 13th, 2012, white paper SpendMatters / Achilles White Paper: Is Your Supplier Qualification Process a Competitive Disadvantage? To those who have been following my blog since 2007, would you really expect any less from me?

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 26, 2024

For example—and I find it interesting that I reference them more today than I did back then—the Commonwealth of Virginia’s eVA initiative began with an early 2007 post titled “Yes, Virginia, there is more to eProcurement than software.” Another question is how SOVRA will earn supplier trust, starting with MERX.

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