Remove Category management Remove Demand Planning Remove Purchasing
article thumbnail

ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

ivalua

According to the panelists, there are some key features and functionality that make best-in-class supply chain solutions a better choice for healthcare organizations: Guided procure-to-pay compliance: The concept of compliant purchasing in healthcare encompases the front-end user experience. Demand planning capabilities.

article thumbnail

Critical differences between IT procurement and legacy sourcing

The Good Spending

A few years ago, companies purchased printers, consumables, and technical support as separate products and services to support printing. Therefore, there are very few commodity categories in IT procurement (e.g., Even IT hardware is now being purchased not as a physical object. Let's give a simple example.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

4 Predictions on Procurement’s Top Trends in 2023

Arkestro

Companies Will Scale Their Procurement Knowledge Base and Enablement Programs To Attract and Retain A New Profile of Category Management Talent. As the average tenure of a category manager continues to plummet, companies are investing to document best practices and enable faster onboarding cycles for new generations of hires.

article thumbnail

The Supply Chain Gender Pay Gap is Narrowing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Anecdotally, this is a bit lower in Canada, except for particular functions with very strong starting compensation like Demand Planning. Source ,” which includes Buyers, Category Managers, Commodity Managers, Procurement Specialists, Purchasing Managers and Sourcing Managers.

article thumbnail

How Supply Chain Can Make or Break a High Growth Company!

Supply Chain Game Changer

A while ago, we blogged about how more Startups are looking to Supply Chain Management to boost their productivity as they scale. Rather than taming out-of-control spend later , they’re maximizing profitability by being strategic about the company-wide spend now , by hiring a team of Procurement category managers.

article thumbnail

Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

SCMDOJO

Expertise: Process improvement, support for procurement capabilities, purchasing management, Procurement Management Consulting, Procurement Strategy, and Procurement Conference Speaker James Meads is an independent consultant and advisor that focuses on working with mid-market companies and startups in the procurement technology space.

article thumbnail

Walmart Supply Chain: Building a Successful Integrated Supply Chain for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SCMDOJO

By sharing real-time sales data and demand information, CPFR enables accurate forecasting and demand planning, minimizing information distortion, and promoting synchronized inventory replenishment. Walmart’s emphasis on direct procurement is further bolstered by the use of technology and information systems.