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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

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Inflationary pressures can cause frustration levels among suppliers due to increased costs or reduced demand from customers, particularly when it comes to repeated orders or fixed pricing contracts. This could include negotiating more favorable terms with suppliers or renegotiating existing contracts to ensure that prices remain competitive.

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Navigating Tariff Turbulence: A Practical Guide for Supply Chain Leaders

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Global trade is complex, and supply chains are intertwined and interconnected. Supply chain leaders must adapt and use smart strategies to remain competitive. This article explains how to understand US tariffs and lessen their impact on supply chains. Can you increase prices for customers?

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Why should-cost models aren’t sufficient to drive market-competitive cost structures

Spend Matters

This article will outline those limitations and propose that invoking competitive negotiations with machine learning solutions such as Arkestro is the optimal way to evaluate the market competitiveness of price quotes. Thus, should-cost models often misrepresent what constitutes a good price. supplier count, event size).

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Strategic Sourcing Best Practices – Proven Strategies for Procurement Success

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A successful approach requires careful assessment of supplier bids, followed by structured onboarding, continuous monitoring, and performance measurement. When assessing bids following an eAuction, the process typically involves a combination of automated tools and human decision-making, especially when evaluating factors beyond just price.

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Freight Mode Optimization

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Freight mode optimization article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Robinson at FreightWaves.com. The ability to unlock freight optimization and gain meaningful insights to monitor, measure and improve supply chain management is more critical than ever.

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The Relationship Between1998 RAM’s Agent-Based Model And 2025’s Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Procurement Insights

Contextualized Spend Analysis & Cost Optimization AI models use MCP to remember previous spend categories, budget constraints, and organizational purchasing behavior. MCP ensures that AI remembers preferred bid evaluation metrics , supplier preferences, and prior negotiations. compliance violations, cost overruns).

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Get Out of the “Bad Habits” of Traditional Procurement by Leveraging 21st Century Technology

Arkestro

Historically, the focus has been on optimizing portfolios of spend—prioritizing what to address, defer, or ignore—using well-known frameworks such as the Kraljic Matrix and the Pareto Principle. Pricing in these catalogs can quickly become stale, as it is not updated regularly to reflect market changes.