Procurement Heads

JANUARY 25, 2023

I went to university planning to become a Diplomat, then in the second year I found myself in supply chain work, and I just fell in love with it, especially contracts negotiation. Back then I was responsible for a large portfolio of international suppliers and it was fascinating to me.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 14, 2023

Public procurement regulations can be restrictive at times but the principles around openness, transparency and equal treatment are the right ones. We have made lots of progress and this has been recognised in our efficiency and effectiveness benchmarking, as well as much improved feedback from the business.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 5, 2023

Today I’m joined by Logward , an exciting tech brand with a vision of a future where supply chain departments lead the transformation of their industries, instead of simply transporting it. 41.10] What does and doesn’t work when it comes to digitizing supply chains in the real world. You avoid that by listening properly.”

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Value Match

AUGUST 4, 2022

The human right and modern slavery abuses go back further, with reports as far back as 2014 outlining employees of the Leicester textile sector earning just £3 an hour! Recently Missguided went into administration with considerable debts owed to suppliers, including Leicester based manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 21, 2015

Inbound Logistics’ Annual List of the Best Supply Chain Logistics Solution Providers Includes the Emerging Industry Leader. The full list will be published in the April 2014 issue. Mike Sadowski, CTO at UltraShipTMS says his organization is very proud of its consistent appearance on this particular list.

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Procurify

JUNE 8, 2022

As businesses grow and scale, oftentimes, so does their supply base and the number of suppliers they work with. As you grow, you want to optimize your supply base. According to Industry Star, most businesses spend 80 percent of their cost of goods sold (COGS) with just 20 percent of their suppliers. . Last PO issue date

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 26, 2024

On a personal note, one of the best honors I received was being given an American Flag that was flown over the State’s capital building regarding my session at the 2014 Public Procurement Forum on “Bridging the Disconnect Between Finance and Purchasing.” In the U.S.,

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Barkers Procurement

JULY 12, 2023

Measurement of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across The Supply Chain It will be insufficient for water companies to simply understand their own carbon impact as an organisation, they will also need to focus on their scope 3 emissions. To accurately report on such data, it is likely that water companies will require specialist support.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 21, 2023

With over $8 billion of product sourced, nearly 1 million RFQ’s and over 50,000 buyers and suppliers involved, they are the world’s largest manufacturing marketplace. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Kress served as Chief Operating Officer then President at Open English, an online education platform. Today I’m joined by MFG.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How To Differentiate With A Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Program! Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Subscribe Here! What is IWAY?

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The Good Spending

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Selecting suppliers by cost-only criteria (even as sophisticated as the TCO) contradicts procurement ambition to become the contributors of a value. Lowest bid Supplier selection by the lowest bid is still the dominant approach in many companies, especially public ones. Getting to measuring the TCO was a giant leap, but not anymore.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the end, IBP is a philosophy, or belief system that strives for transparency, near perfect integration and alignment, both horizontal (between functions, BUs, even companies) and vertical (between strategy, planning and execution). These are ideas of enhancement, evolution, not replacement. So, there are many possible approaches.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

MARCH 25, 2021

Having mandated it many years ago (as early as 2014), the American and European markets were the early adopters and have a higher adoption rate by now. Electronic invoicing (e-Invoicing) is the invoice document exchange between a supplier and a buyer in an integrated electronic format. Better Visibility and Transparency.

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Claritum

JANUARY 8, 2020

By orchestrated, we mean that the process of establishing and managing suppliers within the Marketplace is totally under the control of the organisation’s Procurement team. Although the suppliers can make changes, they do so with the approval of the Procurement team. 3 Procurement’s influence with an orchestrated Marketplace.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Furthermore, the guidelines spelled out in IWAY established a new normal for the future of Ikea’s requirements on suppliers. What is IWAY?

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Positive Purchasing

JANUARY 11, 2024

Take waste management – yes, we could negotiate a cheaper contract with improved efficiencies, but can the winning contractor offer opportunities to young people to build new skills and in doing so increase their life chances. Suppliers who want to work with the public sector need to start thinking long-term.

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Claritum

APRIL 25, 2018

In many companies problems can arise when promotional goods are by inexperienced buyers from unapproved suppliers. A lot of time and energy can be spent inefficiently sourcing the goods, which can be bought from a huge variety of suppliers at vastly differing prices and quality. 2014 – $20.0 2015 – $20.8

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Claritum

JANUARY 8, 2020

managing suppliers within the Marketplace is totally under the control. Although the suppliers can make. If your systems, processes and procedures help these people or groups to do their job more efficiently and effectively, then these people are on your side and there is no barrier. chains or user selection of products.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Founded by Jason Busch in 2004, they were the first of the major procurement and supply chain blogs. Their focus on procurement software solutions began in earnest in 2014, when they first published the 50 To Know and 50 To Watch lists. Credit to Spend Matters here on their transparency and making that clear on their website.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Founded by Jason Busch in 2004, they were the first of the major procurement and supply chain blogs. Their focus on procurement software solutions began in earnest in 2014, when they first published the 50 To Know and 50 To Watch lists. Credit to Spend Matters here on their transparency and making that clear on their website.

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World of Procurement podcast

JANUARY 17, 2022

This could be an RFP exercise, a contract review or consolidation of your supply chain. And then I went freelance in 2014. For everything, everyone else, I guess the stakeholders and suppliers, but by reducing down the time it takes to run a process. It could go into supply chain, you could do other things.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 12, 2025

acceptance that extended beyond the simplistic and largely inaccurate bolt-on moniker that had historically been assigned to solutions that fell outside of the traditional ERP-centric architecture that had for years dominated the supply chain software landscape.” supplier interactions, cost savings) rather than a single task.

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