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Navigating the Top 3 Procurement Challenges in 2025

Jaggaer

Procurement Priorities for 2025 and Beyond The manufacturing industry is evolving rapidly, leaving Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) grappling with challenges that could make or break their organizations. Solutions: Strategic Sourcing: Move beyond transactional purchasing and embrace strategic sourcing.

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Data in Procurement and the Supply Chain

Positive Purchasing

Kris describes himself as a “seeker of truth”, and here he takes a look at the tech landscape in procurement – and in particular, data. When it comes to buying data and digital solutions, the best approach to take is the same you’d use for basic change management. Who’s watching those settings?

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What is Source to Pay? Steps, Benefits, and Best Practices

Jaggaer

And if your organization is big enough to need a Chief Procurement Officer , that person is directly or indirectly responsible for every stage of that journey. Rather than treat procurement as a series of disparate tasks, global organizations in all sectors implement efficiency across the source-to-pay journey.

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Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation: Roadmap for Efficiency and Resilience

Jaggaer

Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. These four steps constitute the downstream procure-to-pay part of the process. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration.

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Are absolute statements like this reckless or responsible?

Procurement Insights

Therefore, the assertion that 80% of all procurement roles will be gone by 2035 appears to be an overestimation based on current data and projections. Scottish Water 9bn procurement process could create 4,000 jobs – thetimes.co.uk What do my 40-plus years of high-tech and procurement experience indicate?

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How to Win at ESG by Empowering Suppliers

HICX

By Costas Xyloyiannis, CEO of HICX Good supplier data is a function of good supplier engagement. In the early 2000s I was a recent software engineering graduate. The CEO, who had just signed up to the UN Global Compact, needed to know how sustainable their supply chain was. Back then already, supplier data was a struggle.

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Following the Road to a Stronger Business with Procurement

HICX

What did exist was Procurement, a function that did worked with all suppliers, albeit in one area: transactions. So, management ended the search and tasked Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) with this added job. To do it, CPOs quickly applied ‘point’ solutions, software that can deal with given use cases.