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Strategic Procurement — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Category Management Category management sorts your spending into areas with the same supplier markets. Supplier Management Supplier management involves the handling of relationships between suppliers and the company. It can also help you with contract management and compliance processes.

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The Complete Guide to Source-to-Pay (S2P) and Strategic Sourcing

Jaggaer

It includes sourcing and supplier management, contract management, and procure-to-pay (P2P) functions. Key elements include total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, supplier relationship management, and category management.

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The Rise of Women in Supply Chain: Career Choice

SCMDOJO

In recent years, there has been a significant shift in the supply chain industry as more and more women are choosing careers in this traditionally male-dominated field. This rise of women in the supply chain is not only breaking gender barriers but also bringing a fresh perspective and new ideas to the table.

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Is the role of Procurement Category Manager dead?

Procurement Software

The Procurement Category Manager role has been the backbone of the procurement profession over the past 20 years. In addition, supply chains and risk management have become more complex, requiring a less siloed and more joined-up approach to managing strategic suppliers. And herein lies the problem.

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The Big Interview with Lorna Baker

Procurement Heads

We’re a centralised indirects procurement team with category management being introduced where it can in order to support the parts of the business where we need subject specialism. Procurement at Futures involves negotiating and renegotiating contracts for all goods, works and services.

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The Big Interview with Rebecca Howard

Procurement Heads

As a Buyer at British Airways, I bought a range of different categories from engineering spares to airport services. I joined KPMG in their supply chain practice and spend the next 16 years on consulting assignments in a smaller firm. Our organisation has adopted agile ways of working.

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Strategic Sourcing Success – Techniques Deployed by Leaders in S2P

Jaggaer

It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. We also now break down the negotiation stage into sourcing and final negotiation of contracts.