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Supply Chain Innovation + Automation: How Körber is Positioning Procurement for the Future

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Learn how Körber leveraged Ivalua’s software tools to automate and streamline tactical activities while keeping strategy front and center. The global supply chain is undergoing an incredible transformation that will change the way we do business. 5 BU’s: Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain, Tissue, and Tobacco.

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Maximizing Cost Savings Through Strategic Supplier Collaboration

Jaggaer

Maximizing Cost Savings Through Strategic Supplier Collaboration With the growing emphasis on long-term value creation, Chief Procurement Officers are increasingly turning to supplier collaboration as a cornerstone of cost reduction. What is Cost Saving in Supply Chain Management?

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Is the role of Procurement Category Manager dead?

Procurement Software

At the same time, procurement technology has become more affordable and easier to use. The number of procurement tools on the market has of course multiplied too, especially in the last 5 or so years. In manufacturing businesses, it also often deals with operational issues in supply chain and logistics management.

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Moving Beyond Procurement Cost Savings to Driving Value

Procurement Software

It includes strategies like procurement cost reduction strategies, streamlining purchase processes, and enhancing efficiency across the procurement lifecycle. These can include negotiating contracts that prevent price increases or optimizing the supply chain to avoid rushed shipping fees.

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Procurement Strategies for CFOs: Driving Cost Savings and Efficiency

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Research-backed procurement strategies can help CFOs achieve their goals while minimizing risk exposure across global supply chains. This blog will cover the current challenges facing CFOs and procurement teams and several strategies that can be implemented to drive cost savings and increase efficiency.

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Next-Gen Procurement: Changing priorities, time for CPOs to evolve to Chief Cognitive Procurement Officers

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

Once upon a time, a Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) may have been able to make decisions by relying on his instinct, which is simply based on years of distilled experience. Data-driven procurement can help leaders keep up pace with the much-needed agility. 96% of the leaders believe that this a long-term trend.

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The Road to a Stronger Business is through Procurement

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What did exist was Procurement, a function that did worked with all suppliers, albeit in one area: transactions. So, management ended the search and tasked Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) with this added job. To do it, CPOs quickly applied ‘point’ solutions, software that can deal with given use cases.