Procurement Heads

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

From then, seeking a new challenge, I moved to LV= to IT procurement a couple of years later and didn’t look back until earlier this year when I was presented with a great opportunity to head up the non-Claims Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) team here at Allianz Holdings, after first TUPE’ing across at the start of 2020.

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Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We have also seen a need for change in category management, which was also ranked among the top drivers of digital transformation in procurement. Additionally, nearly a third view category management as the top technological trend to implement in the coming year. Many thanks to SAP.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration vs. Supplier Relationship Management What good is having the best suppliers if you can’t communicate well enough to leverage their products and skills? The primary goals of SRM are to foster hand-in-glove supplier relationships, manage risk, and optimize the value chain.

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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. We normally now refer to the first step as spend management and we use spend analytics technology to aggregate and explore spend data.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These start-ups are taking technology further than most to address problems not previously solved, or are introducing a new category of automation that tackles new challenges in interesting ways. We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

AI can help create greater efficiency and value across all source-to-pay processes, including spend analysis, opportunity identification, sourcing and contract management, category management, supply relationship management and risk management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Lack of Visibility Beyond Tier 1. According to the 2021 Deloitte Chief Procurement Officer Survey, “Around 70% of CPOs felt that they had good visibility on the risks that existed in their direct (tier 1) suppliers. And, only 15% had visibility into tier 2 or beyond. Change requires Change Management.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. akirolabs is a category strategy management solution that aims to support procurement’s transformation from being a purely tactical function to an orchestrator of value. What is akirolabs?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 16, 2019

Shortly after I joined the Commodity/Category Management Procurement organization I was invited to attend the annual Strategic Supplier Awards event. Prior to joining the Procurement team I had neither understood nor appreciated the importance of Supplier Relationship management. Subscribe Here! Email Address. DO’s.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 22, 2022

One thing led to another and I joined a company to help set up their supply chain from scratch in terms of claims, claims management and how to service customers. I really started to cut my teeth on the whole end-to-end category management and the industry as a whole, the progression was natural for me.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 26, 2024

Set Realistic Career Goals To build a successful career, establish achievable goals aligned with your aspirations, such as becoming a supply chain manager, logistics director, or category manager. When I aimed to transition from a demand planner to a supply chain manager, I developed a five-year plan.

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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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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A Source-to-Pay cycle is a holistic approach that covers end-to-end procurement lifecycle. And the S2P software enables multiple activities such as auctions, spend analysis, purchasing categories management, purchase requisitions, sourcing events, billing and vendor relations within the same solution.

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Claritum

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The Category Manager needs to become more integrated into key business processes and more consultative in nature. For example in the Retail Sector, The Category Manager is moving to be an “In-store expert” in the visual merchandising, pricing, management, and sales of a certain group or type of products and not just a buyer.

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Procurement Software

MAY 14, 2024

Intake and procurement process orchestration is all about managing stakeholders as they navigate through the procurement process. By meticulously handling the procurement intake, businesses lay the foundation for better end user adherence to procurement policies. What is procurement intake?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 28, 2020

At this basic level your team performs the traditional Procurement functions of finding suppliers, getting quotes, negotiating prices and terms, putting contracts in place, placing purchase orders, and managing day to day issues. It tends to be a more reactive organization focussed on managing day to day tasks and fires.

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Procurement Software

JULY 4, 2023

Ultimately, digital procurement enables organisations to enhance the overall procurement experience, as well as increase efficiencies and transform their end-to-end procurement function. Blockchain can be used across various industries, including both finance and end-to-end supply chain management.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

Enhancing contract management : Natural language processing enables AI to extract key data from contracts. Spend Analysis and Classification with AI AI and machine learning are transforming spend analysis and classification, providing procurement teams with unprecedented visibility into organizational spending.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The Hackett Group summarises this well“The leadership and management challenges to create awareness, get support, and galvanize all the necessary stakeholders required to shape a winning team for this multi-disciplined sport of procurement are daunting. Securing competitive suppliers for Indirect Spend categories. Managing money well.

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Procurement Software

JULY 25, 2023

Plus, we can also perform the entire end-to-end research, due diligence and hold your hand during the sourcing process for your procurement software. Not a Category Manager you’re going to reward with a “development opportunity”. It doesn’t start with the RFI and finish at the end of the hyper care period.

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Claritum

AUGUST 4, 2020

Financial management within Procurement is therefore of critical importance. The Hackett Group summarises this well: "The leadership and management challenges to create awareness, get support, and galvanize all the. The following diagram shows the relationships that should exist between suppliers, users and Category Managers.

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