Arkestro

MARCH 27, 2024

Resources / Blog / Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role Buyers have always played an important role in the procurement industry, helping organizations obtain goods and maintain a careful balance of speed, cost-efficiency, and quality.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 2, 2023

To continue to optimize procurement processes, implement these lessons in future job orders. Improved Supplier-Buyer Relationships Transparent relations with suppliers are also facilitated by clear and detailed job orders. Procurify Procurify is equipped with a variety of tools that optimize procurement tasks.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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. But today this is largely executed electronically, for example by eSourcing events and with sourcing optimization software.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Travel and Expense management leveraging SAP Concur is an easy plug in for travel spend management and all spend flowing through expense reporting. SAP’s advancements in guided buying capability were generally a continuation of previous efforts and SAP currently partners with Zip for intake management.

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Una

MAY 23, 2023

Group purchasing and indirect spend Indirect Spend, with her diverse and multifaceted nature, longed for a Sourcing Hero to swoop in and optimize her procurement processes. Along came Group Purchasing, the dashing protagonist with an unparalleled ability to unite like-minded buyers and channel their collective strength.

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Spend Matters

JULY 10, 2024

AP Automation and Invoice-to-Pay LSQ offers a suite of working capital management solutions, including accounts payable, financing and dynamic discounting, to streamline payment processes for both buyers and suppliers.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Contract Management: The piece that connects the upstream and the downstream, where value starts being captured. The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay. Also included: supplier improvement plans, innovation plans and overall supplier collaboration.

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TYA Suite

JANUARY 27, 2025

This comprehensive solution streamlines procurement activities, improves and provides transparency across the entire supply chain. Understanding Procurement Management in Real Estate Procurement in real estate involves acquiring goods, services, and works necessary for the development and maintenance of properties.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Essential Guide to Source to Pay, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay Whether youre new to the world of procurement and supply chain management, or a seasoned veteran; whether you work in a major manufacturing industry, a university, or a medium-sized clinical research organization, you may find procurement jargon rather confusing.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the 2024 State of Procurement Data Report by Amazon Business, 95% of decision-makers surveyed acknowledge that there’s room for procurement optimization. Teams will need to rely on greater investments in the right tools and technology to make these optimizations, from no-code automation to AI and data analytics. Purchase orders.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

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Una

MAY 23, 2023

Group purchasing and indirect spend Indirect Spend, with her diverse and multifaceted nature, longed for a Sourcing Hero to swoop in and optimize her procurement processes. Along came Group Purchasing, the dashing protagonist with an unparalleled ability to unite like-minded buyers and channel their collective strength.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Optimizing cost, in the order of a 20-25% reduction on the current situation, is therefore a must in order to survive. Spend management and procurement will play a key role in enabling banks to achieve their efficiency targets while managing supply chain risks,” he added.

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Jaggaer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Balancing Cost, Resiliency, and Sustainability in Procurement: Insights from Georg Roesch Procurement professionals across industries and markets are struggling to keep their supply chains agile in a world of constant disruptions. View transcript Michael Hello and welcome to today’s supply Chain Management Review podcast.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

Raindrop Raindrop is one of a number of US procurement startups offering enterprise-level spend management platforms. Raindrop has also been recognised as a cloud-enabled procurement focused Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) application. FRDM FRDM is a software company specialising in supply chain risk management.

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Planergy

JANUARY 18, 2024

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficiently by automating purchasing and invoice processing. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. What's Planergy?

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Procurement Software

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The experience of COVID-19 also showed that poorly managed vendor master data contributed to some of the delivery delays and supply chain disruption. The tight margins and the need to optimize costs in these fields led to a more structured approach to procurement departments and more relevance in their organizations.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 14, 2020

Whether your organization is purchasing raw steel, injection molded plastics, or fully finished office supplies and IT equipment, a st reamlined P2P system can be a game changer. By optimizing the areas where you spend the most, your compan y and organization can drive significant savings in your supply chain.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 13, 2023

It serves the needs of purchasing managers, procurement professionals and senior buyers. It enables users to allocate, manage and monitor budgets. Curtis Fitch holds ISO 27001:2013 certification for Information Security Management, as certified by the globally recognised BSI.

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Procurement Software

JULY 9, 2024

Procurement tools for direct spend need to be tailored to work with your supply chain, quality and production teams. Indirect procurement software, however, centres around purchase order management , expense tracking, and vendor management for non-production items.

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Planergy

JANUARY 19, 2023

Additionally, since it requires minimal effort and resources compared to other cost analysis methods, it has become a popular choice among many businesses looking for ways to optimize their budgeting process. How Pareto Analysis Helps Your Procurement Strategy? Download PDF What’s your goal today?

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Procurify

JUNE 21, 2022

The global supply chain took a massive hit during the Covid-19 pandemic, and its effects on organizations continue to this day. In fact, 75 percent of companies claim the supply chain disruptions have had negative or strongly negative impacts on their businesses. Written by: Ruya Yonak. Let’s get to it.

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Pipefy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

According to Amazon’s 2024 State of Procurement report, 95% of decision makers believe that procurement has room for optimization. In fact, 98% have plans for investments or upgrades in analytics and insights tools, automation, and AI-driven optimization of purchasing decisions. This requires continuous process improvement.

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 10, 2022

No matter the size of your company, how you structure your purchase process has a direct impact on your company’s ability to control costs, manage risks, and maintain process resilience as supply chains evolve. Likewise, delays can cause the buyer to miss out on discounts available for paying invoices early or within terms.

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Planergy

JULY 21, 2023

This contingent labor allows you to optimize your marketing without fully engaging an internal marketing department or marketing agency. You don’t pay for the service if no content needs to be created, so there’s no need to keep a retainer or spend money on unused services, allowing for better control over spend management.

Management 52

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Claritum

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Today, Claritum’s cloud based spend management platform streamlines the buying and selling of products and services. Optimizing Spend Visibility, Control, Cost Savings and process Efficiencies. Over 150,000 users in 35 countries rely on Claritum to deliver significant, measurable and sustainable savings.

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Una

JANUARY 1, 2024

Resources to help: 8 Benefits of Reducing Maverick Spend How to Optimize Your Spend with a Strategic Sourcing Process 6 Ways to Manage Maverick Spend How to Control Your Wildest Maverick Spenders 3. Fix these problems, and watch your mavericks disappear.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

JANUARY 31, 2023

By engaging in SRM practices, businesses can identify the best suppliers from which to source materials and services, optimize costs, mitigate risk, explore new opportunities for top-line growth through supplier innovation, streamline operational processes and receive preferential treatment as a customer of choice.

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Pipefy

MAY 23, 2023

Below we’ll cover digital procurement solutions, essential features, and their benefits for optimized digital procurement workflows. Supplier relationship management Tension is never pleasant, but only those procurement professionals who pinpoint lacking supplier relationships can evaluate and rectify the situation. Risk reduction.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 19, 2025

Significance : Baan’s software emphasized integration across the supply chain, including procurement processes. Notable among these were: Ariba Buyer : Ariba was a leading provider of e-procurement solutions, offering platforms that enabled organizations to manage their procurement processes efficiently.

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Jaggaer

JANUARY 14, 2025

With its enterprise platform for both direct and indirect spend, JAGGAER offers solutions to streamline and optimize spend analytics, category management, supplier management, sourcing, contract life-cycle management, procurement, invoice automation, inventory, and payment.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 8, 2025

1999 – I introduced the Metaprise model (RAM) 2007 – In Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part7) , I write about the Metaprise in greater detail, including the results of its implementation in a production environment (Department of National Defence). JAGGAER Industry-specific solutions leveraging AI for supplier collaboration.

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