NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As 2025 approaches, its time to look back at what worked well and how we can build on those successes for the year ahead. In 2024, procurement leaders leaned heavily on data to fine-tune their procurement strategies, uncover hidden opportunities for savings, and improve supplier performance. Want to stay ahead in 2025?

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 4, 2025

Paul Nilsen, Purchasing Manager Willis North America (New York, NY) My Response In Part 4 of my Changing Face of Procurement Conference Series titled Winning Strategies for Vendor Engagement, I briefly discuss an M&A case reference involving organizations within the confection or candy industry.

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Planergy

MARCH 12, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Nearshoring: How to Choose the Best Fit for Your Business Selecting the Optimal Approach for Your Supply Chain Todays businesses must remain flexible and adaptable if they wish to survive. What's PLANERGY?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 24, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic! Companies rely on supply chain management to reduce costs and increase their production cycle. These developments, combined with the US-China trade war, found the supply chains experiencing unique hurdles.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 22, 2019

Technologies Reshaping the Global Digital Supply Chain! Imagine what the future will look like in Supply Chain! There are articles which describe what the future of Supply Chain will be like in 2020, 0r 2025, or even 2030. So how can all of this be used to shape what happens in Supply Chain?

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Procurement Tactics

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Dwindling natural resources, climate change, and increasing demands on energy and food supply are disrupting business operations and supply chains in various ways many professionals do not expect. . Orsted has achieved its goal of sustainability by encouraging its supply chain ecosystem to align.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 14, 2023

If you know the regulations well and you can think strategically, you can still be agile, innovative and drive value for money. I also brought in some new people into my national team and changed the culture to be more agile and service-orientated. This took time and required a company-wide change.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

and add-ons by September 2025. This collaboration equips customers with an industry-leading asset management system from IBM, supported by the scale, agility and cost-efficiency of AWS. ICCA for your AWS Cloud automates many modernization tasks, reducing complexity while increasing the speed and business agility.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

These insights enable data-driven decision-making, negotiation strategies, and risk mitigation, leading to more informed procurement choices. Procurement teams equipped with risk management tools can ensure business continuity and minimize potential negative impacts.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Understanding P2P: The Core of Effective Procurement The procure -to-pay (P2P) process drives purchasing efficiency for organizations of all sizes, covering every stage from initial requisition to final payment. In a manufacturing company, for example, operations might request a fresh supply of components or materials.

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Positive Purchasing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Written by Jonathan O’Brien, leading procurement expert and CEO of Positive Purchasing Ltd. Inevitably, there are some supply chains that are riskier than others. We have also looked into shortening supply chains by going to the source, then we pass the resulting cost efficiency savings on to our customers.

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Arkestro

JUNE 20, 2023

Research-backed procurement strategies can help CFOs achieve their goals while minimizing risk exposure across global supply chains. In fact, according to Gartner®, “by 2025 50% of FP&A leaders will have enterprise-wide data strategy as a key responsibility.” With 36% of leaders prioritizing AI implementation in finance [1].

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

According to a Gartner report (link resides outside ibm.com), almost two-thirds (65.9%) of enterprise IT spending will go toward Software-as-a-Service in 2025, up from 57.7% Ease of set up: Quickly spin up new servers or other resources without purchasing hardware or configuring physical infrastructure. Google Workspace, Salesforce).

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If we look back over the history of supply-chain planning, we can properly say we are in the third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software (Van Hove, 2019). To become autonomous, supply chains require the new technology of Wave 3 planning systems, which we think of as systems of intelligence.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. But, when my mom was buying a new vehicle, she didn’t decide to scrap the vehicle from 1993 and purchase one from 1995. Initiatives are being put in place to make these statements a reality, but are these organizations agile enough to shift strategies, process and operations — for real?

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Una

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Here’s a hint: one is mainly about boosting CSR, while the other is about reducing the risk of supply chain disruption. Supplier diversity relates to boosting CSR while supplier diversification is geared towards reducing the risk of supply chain disruptions. over the past five years to 15% by fiscal year 2025.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 13, 2025

Ivalua NOW EMEA 2025 took place earlier this week, March 11-12, at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, bringing together procurement, supply chain and finance professionals under the theme Innovate to Elevate. The agenda reflected the evolving priorities in procurement and supply chain management.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 9, 2025

In readiness for our Q1 2025 theme of Procurement Transformation, which will include how to even start your digital journey, how to make the case for it, how to shape your digital roadmap and how to survive it, we have received input from some solution providers on their own customers journeys.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 3, 2025

Over the past two days, I have had the opportunity to talk with the innovators – or disruptive innovators- of three uniquely different but relational solution providers that are worth tracking in 2025 and beyond. These insights are based on their general focus areas within the ProcureTech and supply chain optimization space.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Hansens concept of “Velocity Procurement” is a modern evolution of his earlier work in supply chain and procurement optimization, reflecting his decades of experience streamlining processes for organizations like the Canadian Department of National Defence and the New York City Transit Authority. 8,000 now, 2,000 later).

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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.” “ So, what is a ProcureTech bolt-on solution? .”

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Instead, his contributions are more broadly tied to practical applications of algorithmic thinking in supply chain and procurement optimization. The core idea was linking disparate data streamsor “strands”to optimize purchasing decisions, a concept he termed “strand commonality” in a 2024 reflection.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The supply chain trends of 2024 have reshaped how businesses navigate challenges and embrace opportunities. As we wrap up the year, it’s clear the supply chain world isn’t slowing down. These supply chain trends will continue to evolve as geopolitical uncertainties persist into 2025.

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Planergy

MARCH 12, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Retail Cross-Border Payments Retail cross-border payments focus on smaller-scale transactions, such as individual remittances or eCommerce purchases. What's PLANERGY? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

He’s predicting that 75% of AI (procurement tech) solution providers today will be gone by the end of 2025. The new procurement tech players: agile and configurable My prediction is most of the solutions that disappear will be replaced on a one-to-one ratio by new market entrants. That’s a pretty bold statement.

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Positive Purchasing

MARCH 28, 2025

The original article is one of the most read on our website, so it seemed a good idea to update it for 2025. It will require a different set of skills, a new type of agility and a new mindset regarding what procurement is and how it operates. My how things have changed since then!

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