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Supply Chain Visibility Has Never Been More Important!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic the need for complete, end to end Supply Chain visibility has never been more important! The necessity for visibility started with store shelves being emptied of toilet paper , food, and various household items. Supply Chain visibility and the Digital Supply Chain has never been more important!

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What is eProcurement?

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– Spend control through real-time visibility into budget consumption, negotiated prices, preferred suppliers, engagement channels. Also, an eprocurement solution provides you with clean spend data, which is the basis for a sound spend analysis and eventually relevant category management.

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

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ERP solutions often lack robust capabilities around managing all of the data attributes for products and vendors, and cannot update them in real time or in an automated fashion. Best-in-class solutions do a better job of capturing usage data for healthcare products at the time of patient use. Demand planning capabilities.

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Spend Matters Future 5 2024 – Introducing True ValueHub

Spend Matters

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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Category management will fail if procurement and business stakeholders do not collaborate to agree a pipeline of projects

Future Purchasing

In our recently published FP Category Management Leadership Report 2021-22, 51% of respondents agreed an annual plan of category management projects with their relevant business stakeholders, compared to 39% in 2019-20. The importance of strategic alignment. There are a number of critical elements to consider.

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The Science and the Art of Procurement

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The huge growth in the use of technology has been the most visible part of that developing picture. Outside the technology field, we have also seen “science” come to the fore in terms of codifying processes such as Category Management.

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Spend Management — The Ultimate Guide of 2023

Procurement Tactics

What is Spend Management? In the past, many businesses relied on tools like spreadsheets to manage their spending. However, these manual processes are ineffective and cost a lot of effort, time, and money. Spend management refers to the management and the continuous improvement of the company’s spending.