Procurement Insights

MARCH 16, 2025

Improved Outcome: Procurement teams get context-aware supplier suggestions , reducing risk and improving supplier relationships. Contextualized Spend Analysis & Cost Optimization AI models use MCP to remember previous spend categories, budget constraints, and organizational purchasing behavior.

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Planergy

MARCH 19, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Schools rely on vendors for everythingtextbooks and classroom supplies, technology, food services, and maintenance. However, budget restrictions and transparency requirements present challenges. What's PLANERGY?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 20, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. billion by 2025, and businesses can save millions of dollars if reverse logistics management is implemented and done properly. Clearly, more companies need to go back to basics and ask what is reverse logistics’ role in the top trends of the supply chain? Subscribe Here!

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Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Procurement in education is far more than simple purchasing. Procurement touches every aspect of an educational institution’s operational ecosystem, from textbooks and technology to laboratory equipment and cafeteria supplies.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 15, 2025

Jon Hansen, Procurement Insights (1998 to 2025) Context: DND Implementation and Self-Learning Algorithms DND Background: Hansens DND project (1998-2005) transformed procurement for Canadas Department of National Defence, streamlining purchasing (e.g., MRO products) amid bureaucratic silos, legacy systems, and strict compliance needs.

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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. Subscribe Here! Email Address. The global chip shortage is here to stay?

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.

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Procurement Tactics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Of course, there are companies that have already adopted sustainability in their supply chain. . Additionally, we will show you some companies that have embraced sustainability in their supply chain. . This will allow you to evaluate if it is now the time to switch to a sustainable supply chain.

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Arkestro

AUGUST 22, 2023

Resources / Blog / The Power of Predictive Procurement Orchestration for Food & Beverage Supply Chain The Power of Predictive Procurement Orchestration for Food & Beverage Supply Chain Food and beverage procurement professionals have had their work cut out for them during the last few years.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 9, 2024

So, here is my question: Do you see the parallel between the video on integration from more than a decade ago and the integration of AI-based solutions, which is likely to increase significantly with the AI Bubble bursts in 2025? Cost & Supply Chain Management ! The company was founded in 1979 by Gideon Gartner. .

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 14, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 5 Impacts of Autonomous Trucking on Supply Chain! I don’t hold that point of view, but I do not believe there is a realistic scenario that Road Ready occurs before 2025 and most likely not until 2030. So if the autonomous truck is Road Ready (2025 or 2030?).

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Arkestro

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Getting a Thanksgiving dinner from farm to table is an intricately complex affair for food and beverage procurement teams, with supply chain shortages, inflation, and rising food costs affecting consumer decisions all playing a part. Most Thanksgiving food purchases will be made the week prior to and the week of Thanksgiving.

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Arkestro

JUNE 20, 2023

You may face challenges such as choosing reliable suppliers, controlling costs, and managing orders. Research-backed procurement strategies can help CFOs achieve their goals while minimizing risk exposure across global supply chains. With 36% of leaders prioritizing AI implementation in finance [1].

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This results in better negotiation outcomes, improved quality, reduced costs, and enhanced overall value delivery. Procurement teams equipped with risk management tools can ensure business continuity and minimize potential negative impacts.

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Una

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This is similar to what fourth-party logistics (4PL) does for your business in the realm of supply chain management. In simple terms, fourth-party logistics (4PL) refers to outsourcing your logistics operations to a single partner who manages and optimizes the entire supply chain. But is 4PL right for your organization?

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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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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. TVO differs from TCO because it is not solely focused on cost, but several dimensions of ‘total value’, such as societal, environmental and also financial aspects.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

The Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) market has experienced significant growth in recent years, with even greater potential ahead. SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. Let’s delve into this emerging concept.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In an excerpt from Linda Brigg’s article, Rick Grimm (who is CEO of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing), made the following statement; “as is true of any technology, the push for an e-procurement solution typically comes from one or more tech-savvy leaders within a school district.”

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 2, 2025

Its stated goal is positive adjusted EBITDA in 2025, signaling a push toward operational profitability. million cost of sales. Optimizing supplier agreements or bulk purchasing could reduce costs by 5-10% ($0.8M-$1.6M), lifting gross margin to 79-80% and directly cutting the loss. in 2023 to $71.3M

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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.

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Planergy

MARCH 12, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. High costs, slow processing, and regulatory hurdles pose challenges, but fintech and blockchain solutions help streamline transactions. Reduced Costs By reducing the need for correspondent banks, businesses enjoy lower fees.

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Positive Purchasing

APRIL 3, 2025

Post pandemic, we all realized how fragile our supply chains had become. Add to that, wars and geopolitical instability, and distance sources of supply have become more problematic than promising. However, there is more to this than shoring up supply chains in the US.

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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 example I will hold up here is the one of Agentic AI, which I tackled in my podcast covering 2025 predictions. The Head of Procurement isn’t going to have his / her own software budget : let’s be frank.

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